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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
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Well that's another school holidays over for me. For Emma and Brad it just keeps on getting better as they are in Queensland with their mother this week. Emma sent me a photo of the view from their penthouse apartment at Caloundra and it looks awesome. Whilst they were with me we went fishing twice. The first time we went down to Southport for lunch on the beach. Southport has to be one of the prettiest places in Tassie and the weather was beautiful. Mel was at a loose end so we took her along for the ride. She enjoyed my BBQ vegetable cob loaf thingy that I built, but bagged me out for not bringing any wine. E & B had a go at fishing from the beach with no luck so we moved onto the long jetty at the Dover pub only to find it locked up. As a kid I remember tying up there in our old boat and going ashore to get ice and beer, but that obviously isn't the done thing these days. We drove around to the fishermans wharf but we still didn't catch anything. There was a bogun guy there with his kids and he had about six big flathead alive in a bucket so we knew they were about. We went back another day but still didn't catch anything. You have no idea how much pressure I'm under to buy a boat now! We had dinner at Jon and Debbie's one night. It was just a catch up, but Jon did have a Birthday to celebrate as well. I mentioned that my knees have been shot ever since we did the South Coast track walk and so Jon told me about the wonder drug that he has been taking for a while. Given that he won the 60 metre gold medal at the national masters championships in a State record time I figure there might be something in it so I bough a heap of them a few days ago. It was quite funny. I was in the Chemist Warehouse (which is wall to wall drugs as far as the eye can see) checking them out when this old lady pushed in front and grabbed a bottle of the same things off the shelf. She was quite sprightly, so perhaps they really will work! They are called Glucosamine and are intended for people with arthritis. I know that young people suffer from Osteoathritis as well, but it kinda makes me feel a bit old to be taking arthritis tables! The doc told me years ago that I don't have athritis, just mild crepitus, but from what I've read crepitus describes the noise made by an athritic joint! The stuff is made from ground up crab, lobster or shrimp shells, so at least I'm getting some seafood despite our pathetic fishing attempts!
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