Tuesday 23rd October
Happy birthday to my sister Jacqui!
Born in 1956, 56 today, and as beautiful as ever!
Not only beautiful but also still bravely teaching, spending many lunchtimes in Detention with BadBoys who can only be pacified with fascinating internet research on giant, hairy spiders.
She is also a recent hero/survivor of World Challenge in Vietnam. They trekked in the highlands, slept in Hmong huts, travelled many hours on narrow metal bunks in uncomfortable sleepertrains, surrounded all the while by cheery, restless teenage students.
She truly deserves a memorable birthday celebration!
On Sunday we went to visit 2XS, all lonely and abandoned in Prince of Wales Bay marina. It had been a very changeable day, with brief bursts of sunshine, wind, a bit of a downpour. A BIG bit of a downpour! When we stepped up onto the deck we found 2XS gaily decorated with hailstones!
It was cold but relatively dry when we got there, and we breathed the fresh, cool air appreciatively as we counted hailstones. Our friend Kerry Dillon has just got back from a month in China. Not sure if he had a good time or not… He told Pete, in a long phone conversation, that the pollution was extraordinary. Heavy, poisonous, menacing. No blue sky above the cities, ever.
So…we looked around dear little Prince of Wales Bay, which is zoned Light Industrial. The marina is right next to the giant Incat sheds, where they make the catamarans, and not a hundred metres from the Zinc Works, one of Tasmania’s biggest industrial sites. And the air is fresh and clear, the birds are singing, seals are frolicking right up against the walls of the factory.
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