Sunday 28th December
Today Hobart
turned on the works. Blazing sunshine, 25 degrees, blue sky, rolling white clouds and a spectacular line honours win in the Sydney
Hobart Yacht Race.
We went and sat on
the grassy knoll at Alexandra Battery and peacefully contemplated the gun
emplacements, never used in anger, but built to repel the French, and then the
Russians. Just beyond the grassy knoll –
the sparkling Derwent, with a swathe of white froth, churned up by the many
boats waiting for Wild Oats 11 to come storming home.
There were
hundreds of people on the Battery, enjoying the view. In the midst of them, fortuitously, our friends Jo and
Malcolm, who live near Eden and who are on their way, in a campervan, to the Falls Festival.
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| Malcolm and Jo |
They had been to
dinner the night before, with their three daughters plus one boyfriend.
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| Andrew deserves a photo fo his very own - he is the one who came up with iMazing |
Perfect dinner guests, really… Jo and Malcolm
are delightful in their own right but…they came with The Young, who were able
to team up and fix my iPad/iPod/Bose/Bluetooth problem which has had me tearing
my hair for many days. Well, I just had
to install iMazing (who knew??) and all my problems would evaporate into clear
thin air. We can now listen to music on
the very small Bose speaker, which produces beautiful LOUD sound at the touch
of a switch. (Well…now it does, thanks
to Andrew, Charlotte, Chloe and Kate!!)
Come again, Malcolm and Jo, and bring your young!!
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| Charlotte, Kate, Chloe (2011, on 2XS) |
John and Catherine
came too – the first time I have seen them since Borneo. Always nice to see them, here or there.
And they too value-added to their visit by
bringing us a whopping great can crusher, which can do ten cans at a time. Nifty!
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| John and Catherine in Sandakan |
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