New Skills - you are never too old to learn.

Now that we have developed a taste for all things Japanese Ken decided we should really 'get with it' and use chopsticks as we were going Japanese eating last night!

He downloaded a five page screed from the Internet (in funny Japanese English) (isn't the web wonderful) and maybe he downloaded the chopsticks as well, they were funny Siamese type chopsticks i.e. stuck together, anyway I am digressing. So we cut up an apple and after a lot of manoevering (i.e. fiddling about) I managed to eat my half, I wouldn't say it was easy, and I wouldn't say it was fast, but I did it to his satisfaction AND I managed to get a few photos to prove it.

We went to Tokyo and Seoul, a Japanese Eatery in Sandy Bay and I managed my chopsticks for the first half but resorted to a fork for the rice, it is a bit tedious eating rice grain by grain!! (and it takes forever)

Heidi's Spider Web

No credit for this one, Heidi sent it to me recently. She has the same camera as mine and is as pleased with it as I am.

Actually I didn't mean to upload this one, it was a mistake, but I think you will agree - a nice mistake, thank you Heidi for sharing it with us.

Children (and Birds) the world over.

How many times do you go to the Supermarket and witness kids being horrible! Wanting this, wanting that, throwing a tantrum! Sometimes you feel sorry for the mother, sometimes not.

Well, the other morning on the beach I saw just the same thing happening with the birds. A Juvenile Kelp Gull was really putting on a show over something that had washed up on the beach. He wanted it, and his mother said he couldn't have it. He really squarked, and she squarked back (good for her)

I'm not sure who won in the end but I got some good pictures.

Good Night!!

Tell its late, I can't spell.

Anbd thats it for tonight folks.

I have to be up bright and early in the morning, I am going birding!!

Old Golfers never die, they just lose their balls!

Balls or no balls, it is a beautiful Golf Course, one of best in Australia but soon to be superceded by an even more spectacular one just down the road, the land owned by the same rich potato grower! Yes that is right, before it was a Golf Course of International repute it was a Potato Field. Golfers come from far and wide to tread the hallowed turf (and get away from the wife!)

Unfortunately they were burning off in Victoria and the smoke drifted right across the Bass Strait and spoilt the clarity of my photos but I think you can get the general idea.

We made this trip up because when Ken's brother was here recently (he plays Golf) they had thought of going up there for a game but I doubt whether he would have been so keen when he found out what it would cost, about $100 for a round of 18 holes (cheaper if you are a Tasmanian)

The Batman Bridge

To get from one side of the river Tamar to the other you have to cross the Batman Bridge!! Makes sense! It is quite a spectacular Bridge and I risked life and limb to stand in the middle of the road to get the third photo. Under the Bridge is a Recreational area which is an offroad (so free) overnight stop for caravans and travellers in general. Quite a pleasant picnic spot for us on our way to Bridport.