Photo #1

The banana tree was also blown down (partially) yesterday by the freak winds.



I've had this since 2000 when it was a present from a friend of a friend. I am going to have to hack big chunks of this away before I can hang the washing out again.

Photo #2

As I walked to the Auchmuty Library I saw a post-it note floating above the walkway. Somehow it had been caught by a spider web. A close inspection (see insert) showed that it was a listing of a class later that day.

Photo #3

If I'm going to the uni four days a week, I can't afford to buy my lunch every day, so the practical thing to do is to pack a lunch instead. I discovered this morning as I tried to do just such, that my lunch box (which I've had since 2007) was missing. I suspect it went with a number of K & M's things. Anyway, that made it difficult to pack a lunch without something to put it in. I know from experience that sandwiches in a zip-lock bag end up mush when you take them out to eat. I had a very late "breakfast" at NUSA and decided to buy a lunch box on the way home. This is what I ended up getting:

The plastic container in front is just the right size for two rounds of sandwiches and fits in either of the two soft lunch boxes. The pink one will also fit an apple and an orange in it, whereas the larger one with the carry handle has an upper compartment, and I'll use that one for a larger lunch, or when I'm not taking a backpack. Both designed for kids, but so what?

I fussed a lot over selecting these. The reject shop had a variety of  lunch boxes but I got these at K-Mart. Before buying them, I bought an apple, orange, and a oaf of bread, and put them in the boxes and containers to see if there was enought room (five slices of break to simulate two rounds).  It worked, and I can eat the apple and orange tomorrow.

Photo #4

Every since I've moved to Rainbow Haven, I've had wind chimes and whirligigs here. However the pups last year destroyed the thin metal pole I had the last whilygig on, and it's only been now I got around to replacing that.

I bought this at ALDI for when I would put one up. Happened to go into Bunnings today (to buy an indoor/outdoor thermometer) and bought a bundle of bamboo sticks for $3.50 - just right for putting a whirligig on! When it cam to putting the thing together it seemed obvious that either something was missing (I thought I'd bough a Beetle one instead) or I really didn't understand the design at all. Didn't matter because when I tried to adjust it it broke. Undeterred, I got a plastic covered metal spike from some garden thing I had and twisted it into shape.

It works, but with the winds out here I'll wait and see how long it lasts.