Today I am in Blackall, a wool town, its water supply is from the Great Artesian Basin and the water is hot. People get their hot water from the cold tap and their cold water from the hot water tank (where hopefully it cools down). Saves a fortune in electric/gas bills. Other towns have cooling ponds for this but not Blackall for some reason. BTW the water furs up your electric jug and smells of sulphur
Drove from Winton today:
On the map you can see Windorah and Stonehenge which was the way I wanted to come but alas, the floods and subsequent road damage put paid to that.
On the bright side I was able to get in lots of practice for driving on French or USA roads.
macywack
There is a good reason for those long straight roads . It is so Kangaroos can see motorists from a long way off and get out of the vehicles path. This is why you don’t see one in the picture Bruce just put up.
Have you noticed Kangaroos no longer hitch hike either?
The Sun is up and the sky is blue. Some rain is heading our way at the end of the week according to the forecast, so I’ll be out there making the most of the Sun. We really need some rain. My newly planted hedge and plants are doing well but it will be a relief not to have to keep watering them.
Supermarket shopping this morning. Maybe a walk in the woods this afternoon.
Morning all- sunny start to the day although rain is forecast for later
WARNING – received an email stating my Vehicle Tax had expired – this is a scam, please don’t click on it! The email did not contain my name, the make of my car or the registration number. If you are unsure whether your Vehicle Tax is up to date check the official site. I have reported the email.
I will try to start a thread about this for those who don’t read the Good Morning thread (if I am allowed!)
Meeting a friend today for coffee and catch up. She lives in the next county so we don’t see each other very often – that will take up most of the day!
It’s great fun, I can drive down the right hand side or the left hand side, down the shoulder or do a bit of off road and don’t have to worry about speed limits, if no one sees me speeding did it really happen? it is all very zen, can you do that on the M62?
Not sure what’s happening today. “Mrs G” had a load of parcels arrive with new dresses and shoes ready for our cruise next month and spent most of yesterday trying them all on and deciding what is being sent back - gone are the days of fitting rooms in shops. Today its parcelling up all the things she doesn’t want and getting it all picked up.
As for me, time to look at our back garden and decide if I have enough energy to cut the grass, or maybe wash the car. I will let my cup of coffee decide.
If that was true it is not working, just missed a Wedgetail Eagle feasting off a dead kangaroo, in fact I saw about 40 kangaroos today, only one was alive, oh… and two Emus both looking well in a paddock.
Kangaroos feed at dawn and dusk that’s when they get hit by vehicles, during the day they stick to the shade you rarely see them near the road in daylight.
What you do see is a lot of birds feeding off their remains, from crows to eagles. The latter are the ones I worry about they are very heavy after eating and slow to get airborne often to just about windscreen height as you approach, the idea of filling your car with the bloody remains of a large eagle does not appeal.
A lovely sunny one this morning in West Sussex. No mega plans for today. I’ll be going for a walk around the local mill pond with Chilli jnr, I might even wear my shorts!
We’ll be checking out our favourite blackberry patch, far too early for the fruit of course but we like to see how prolifically the bushes are flowering. If we don’t start getting some rain the berries are likely to be small, tough and not very succulent.
Anyway, it’s high time we assembled and tested our new walking sticks. I’m quite pleased with the cork handles
Good morning everyone, cloudy again today, after yesterday’s sunshine. I new it was too good to be true. My son and I are planning to visit my daughter at the weekend, in Verona, but guess what? A train strike!!! We already have the tickets, what rotten luck. I haven’t been on a train journey for years as we always travelled everywhere by car with my husband. Just as I had finally decided to take a train trip, “Murphy’s law” pays me a visit! I’m considering whether to change the travel dates or just risk it, apparently our long-distance to Bologna is guaranteed but the regional train from there on is not!!! That would mean getting a coach, which I really don’t like much, I’ll have to think about it.
I’m sorry to read of the bad news regarding the train journey Rose, it must be very disappointing
No consolation I’m sure but the standard of service on the trains here is pretty grim all things considered. I’m just a stones throw from Gatwick Airport and use that particular station on a regular basis. I sometimes dread to think what visitors to our country make of the situation!
Good Morning Everyone…From Foxy’s world…
Quite a pleasant morning with cloud giving way to bright sunshine and clear skies.
I’m still wearing gloves though on my early morning walks, circulation is rubbish!
Stuck a few fast sprints in and caught an old bloke up who was jogging along the towpath. We walked and talked for a while and then he ran off…I decided to let him go…Hadn’t got my breath back yet…
The reason why there are no dead animals on the M62 @macywack is because you very rarely see any traffic moving on there…I used to hate getting jobs that involved driving on it when I was a courier…
I’m enjoying hearing about your travels @Bruce and I would love to have driven those roads, they look very inviting to me.
Thanks for the warning @SheilaP I’ll watch out for that email. There seems to be a very bad element of people using the technology to steal our money, at least they had to knock you over the head in the old days and then try and out run a marathon runner…
We already have the tickets, what rotten luck. I haven’t been on a train journey for years as we always travelled everywhere by car with my husband. Just as I had finally decided to take a train trip, “Murphy’s law” pays me a visit! 
I’m considering whether to change the travel dates or just risk it, apparently our long-distance to Bologna is guaranteed but the regional train from there on is not!!! That would mean getting a coach, which I really don’t like much, I’ll have to think about it. 
