Yesterday I missed out on watching “Russian Ark”. I remember that I have seen it a few years ago in a cinema. But I am sure it would be interesting to watch it again. Peter did watch it yesterday online while I was fiddling around with lots and lots of YouTube items about music and dancing with flash mobs in different cities. While I was doing this, I also came to notice videos about the dancing of some people in their 90s! I thought this was really quite remarkable. Anyhow I took to publishing some of the videos. I started with this one about a flash mob in Amsterdam that happened on Feb 29, 2016: In the write-up about this video it says:”More than 250 people participated in a ‘feelgood’ stunt this morning during rush hour at the Central Station in Antwerp, Belgium. Grease, the Musical opens in Antwerp on March 4th. This is how we drew attention to the opening week. Grease is definitely still the word!”https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=s_hlvRNgGOQ
A pair of red glasses, a pair of green glasses and a pair of black glasses: These are the glasses that I chose last week to be fitted with different lenses to help me cope with my deteriorating eyesight. I am so looking forward to be picking them up some time this week or early next week!
Peter and I watched the new series MYSTERY ROAD on ABC last night. I just noticed in THE GUARDIAN a very interesting write up about MYSTERY ROAD:
I forgot what time of the day it was when I took the following pictures on one of my little walks. But I can see it was a sunny day. I always think it is delightful to see the sun-rays shining through the various trees and plants.
Today, on the 26th of May, we spend the afternoon with two of our friends in the Dapto Leagues Club after having had Lunch with them at the club’s Treasure Court Restaurant.
After lunch we had afternoon coffee and cake and a glass of wine. Both Peter and friend Klaus had had their birthday this month. Being club members, they had received vouchers for drinks, coffee and cake as well as for an ice-cream birthday cake at the Treasure Court Restaurant. For lunch I chose again small prawns in curry/vegetable sauce with boiled rice, Tilde had the same, Klaus chose chicken schnitzel and chips, and Peter had beef, vegetables and boiled rice. As entree we had mini vegetable spring rolls, and all of us had also Chinese tea. We thought it was a very satisfying lunch.
We have known Tilde and Klaus since 1959. All of us had come as migrants to Australia on a huge ocean liner, the P & O Straithaird. We are always happy when we can see each other from time to time.
Today Peter and I walked along this path. There was a lot of work for the Blue Mile Project going on. So this path did lead us to the Continental Pool where it did not go any further. We noticed on the board that the water temperature was 18 Degrees Celsius. Since it was a clear sunny day with no wind at all, I thought a swim in the water would just be wonderful. A few people were actually in the water! I was quite envious of them.
From the following link you may get an idea what the Blue Mile Project is all about. It is really one more undertaking to make living in Wollongong or visiting Wollongong even more attractive. Walking along the foreshore of Wollongong Harbour is a great experience. One can never get too much of it. We finished our little excursion with a bite at this kiosk:
Levendi Wollongong Harbour, Wollongong, New South Wales. Located at the heart of the iconic Wollongong Harbour. Specialising in fish & chips,…
We had fish & chips as well as some fruit salad. Then we went home by bus to where we had our car parked in Dapto. We picked up a few things in Dapto shopping centre. Arriving home we had some filtered coffee and a sour dough bread roll with some butter. We were happy that we had gone out to spend todays beautiful mild late autumn weather near Wollongong Harbour.
Today is Peter’s 83rd Birthday. For lunch at home we created our own Cheese platter and had it with quite a lot of wine. Delicious! Tonight we’ll go out with Monika and Mark to the Treasure Court Restaurant at the Dapto Leagues Club.
While we had lunch we were listening to Peter’s new CD:
skinnyfishmusic.com.au
GURRUMUL
DJARIMIRRI – Child of the Rainbow
This is beautiful music and wonderful music to dance to!!
A couple of hours ago I looked at some “Nuclear News” and copied and published some of it. Should I not take notice of any “Nuclear News” because these news tend to sicken me immensely?
Under the above definition about “ostrich” I found the following:
“Origin of ostrich
from the erroneous belief that an ostrich buries its head in the sand when in danger
a person who tries to avoid difficult or dangerous situations by refusing to confront them”
So, do I wish to avoid to confront this dangerous situation? If all this nuclear news bothers me continuously, should I not stop to read about it? No, I don’t think so. Is it possible that a lot of people just do not want to be informed truthfully because the truth would upset them too much. Instead they rather believe lies. Believing in what are obviously lies is somehow more soothing to them than being confronted with the truth. Has “believing” in lies some survival value? Maybe. – Maybe Orwell in his story “1984” did see it this way?
However, today I do not want to dwell on this “nuclear business” for too long. Instead, I want to think back on what a wonderful day Mothers’ Day 2018 turned out to be for our family.
As I said in another post, we were expecting our family to turn up at our place in the afternoon for coffee and cake. And so it happened. The guests arrived right on time, among them were three mothers and I was the fourth one.
My two daughters were among the guests. My son had given me a ring from Victoria a bit earlier to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day and telling me the news about Benalla and his family and asking me about it how I was going to spend my Mother’s Day.
I did get some lovely flowers from my daughters:
I asked Caroline and Matthew to fill the glasses with a welcome drink.
These are just some of the welcome drinks.
So there were my daughters with their partners as well as two grand-daughters and two grandsons, two of my great-grandchildren, son-in-law’s mother, grandson’s wife (mother of the two great-grandsons that were present) and the other grandson’s girl-friend. So quite a lot of the family were able to come along for a little Mothers’ Day celebration. Peter and I were very happy about this!
This is one of the potato pan-cakes we had today for lunch.
Peter baked a cake with almond-meal for tomorrow, the 13th of May (Mothers’ Day). He used apricot jam for the outside and finished it off with a cover of dark chocolate.
It was cold and windy today. But I still went for a little walk in the afternonn and took the above pictures.
I just love my early morning walks in Lakelands Park. I usually walk just across the grassy soccer fields.
I am always so happy when I get up very early in the morning and see the sun gradually coming up.
When we have an outing, it usually takes me quite some time to get ready, even though I don’t normally bother about any make-up. I think the most time is taken up just packing my boobs into some bra. It is such a strenuous job! Peter takes less than half the time to get ready for going out.
We feel that our weeks are very, very busy these days. And getting busier by the minute! Apart from doctor’s appointments and shopping trips there are now Tai Chi classes on Monday, Yoga classes on Tuesday, and I continue to go to the slow movement exercise classes for seniors on Thursdays. On Friday I continue to have a games afternoon with my friends.
Today I missed out on my seniors’ class. I felt I needed a break. Watching the German news in the morning we found out that it is a holiday today in Germany: It is the Thursday ten days before Pentecost Sunday. This Thursday is a public holiday in Germany as well as so called Fathers’ Day. On this day all fathers in Germany are bound to have a day out on their own without wives or kids! This is tradition. This day out is very much enjoyed by the fathers.
Peter and I pretended we have a ‘holiday’ today too, enjoying it with a lovely glass of chilled white wine for lunch. At around 2,30 pm we expect our daughter Monika to come for a visit together with her grandson Carter, who is now a very enjoyable one and a half.
We went with Carter to the Playground at Lakelands Park when they came for a visit two weeks ago.
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