Counting down the days

It’s December and it doesn’t bloody well feel like it! Somehow Christmas parties in shorts don’t seem right. I can cope with the sun and the light evenings though, getting dark after eight means time after work to do stuff, including an ever regular walk around Red Hill. I went there in the week and it was as relaxing as ever… I even explored a new bit just a bit further south to vary it up.





It was a tough old week at work cramming everything in to four days, as Friday was our all day Christmas party. Apart from a torrential storm for an hour just as we were about to have a BBQ, it was a great day. In the end we had our barbie, just a little later than planned and undercover. Here’s the family shot!

Day soon turned into night and night into the next day and somehow on Saturday I was a bit tired. However, a lunch of BBQ leftovers gave me enough energy to go chill out beside the Murrumbidgee River, just on the western outskirts of Canberra. There are a few pools and swimming holes here and, despite looking very brown, the water’s quite nice to cool off in. That evening and it was another BBQ, for which there were more leftovers for Sunday lunch. Sunday dinnertime is now approaching and I’m just gonna have a nice salad or something, no more barbies!!

The rest of Sunday was generally a day doing chores but also arranging my Christmas holiday and a road trip up to Queensland and back down to Sydney for New Year. Christmas on the beach and New Year on the harbour. Worth counting down the days!