Monday, 14 June Queen's Birthday Holiday
Thankfully I'm not an avid football (round ball, soccer) fan. The gnashing of teeth and wailing over the Socceroos' 4-nil loss to Germany would be just about enough to make you want to go for a ride and get away from any form of current media- so we did.
After sleeping in and not needing to arise for work (Queen's Birthday holiday- thank you Your Majesty) Dee baked bread, we had multiple cups of coffee and then we pottered in the yard tending to some rather neglected garden beds and shrubs.
A couple of checks on the online news showed that nothing else in the world had transpired other than the Australian soccer team was thrashed by Germany.
That's a bit unfair- we did manage to find out that Heinrich Haussler won a Stage of the Tour de Suisse and eventually tracked down that Jo Kiesanowski (NZL) of Team TIBCO had placed second in the GP in Gatineau Quebec behind Joelle Numainville (CAN).
Just after lunch we headed off to drop off a video and then a spin to the dam. Now I don't want to brag about how good the weather is because- oh never mind. It's "winter" here and at midday in brilliant blue skies it was 26C and about 55% humidity with light winds at 19km/hr. I think that would constitute a beautiful mid-summer day back in the old country.
Brilliant- absolutely brilliant. And after returning home we did a few more garden chores- planting roses, watering, etc and have now made fresh pasta. Just soul destroying I tell ya.........oh bother- my wine glass needs attention.
Cheers- ride safe
BoaB
4 comments:
I'm raising a glass of red with you - albeit in celebration of Germany's win. I'm glad they won because I mouthed off quite a bit in the office last Friday and I would have never heard the end of it, had Australia won. :-)
Sounds like you had a magical weekend!
I suspect you'll be in the bad books for Germany's win around your office. Here's hoping the Aussies can come up with a win to redeem themselves.
Oh, I so want to move there...
-B
You know B, I think at times that moving to Oz was better than winning 6/49.....
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