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End of December
2009 departed
Heathrow on a foggy cold morning accompanied by the first snow
showers of the winter.
Duly arrived Phuket for a congenial Christmas with family members
normally resident in Australia and Phuket - included 3 Grand
Children - 1 brand new. Much rejoicing - extreme
satisfaction all round
Phuket
good fun - sea and pool swimming (water temp almost blood heat),
lightest of light clothes, beer (lots), touristy things on island,
real Thai food, inconclusive and unprofitable experience with
pirate DVDs.
Slight hiccough - retired to hospital for 3 days over Christmas to
get over personal import of heavy English type chest/sinus
infection/cold. Hospital great, super personal concert of
Christmas Carols in room on Christmas afternoon given by local
Christian Girls Group. Lurgy duly cured -
Grandchildren, including the brand new one, did not catch it,
travel insurance paid bill.
Congenial
Hogmanay - finishing with fireworks -very effectively home
initiated, - dispatched Chinese lanterns to and around the
Asian Rim.
Full
life during the holiday precluded staying up after 00.01hrs on
1/1/2010.
On to Western
Australia in first week of January. Bliss!!!
Happy month in WA amongst family and
friends. Swimming, more swimming, socialising
("oh! are you back?"), walking, enjoying life in that
fabulous country - particularly Australia Day, and the Australian
Open Tennis (on TV), sympathizing with residents in UK suffering
that dreadful winter of snow and ice (but not too much) and ending
up with all aches and pains in undercarriage and elsewhere (dare I
chance fortune by saying it) gone.
Love these
"sculptures" (sheet and bar steel) - very Australian,
just erected without explanation between "E" Shed and
the quay in Fremantle Port for the visitor to enjoy - this one
did, and love going back each year for another look .
To enjoy the photos, blow them up. Just left click on
each one, there is far more to them than the little thumbnails
show, but not well photographed - very much against the
light.
Early
April. I
have just checked these, and other, pictures included in recent
logs on my "other" computer - (a much larger machine,
with a much superior screen, but oh so slow, heavy, and
old). It looks very much as though I am doing too much
to my pictures, resulting - among other things - in the little
thumb-nails appearing blurred, with a halo around the main items
in the image. The blown up images appear fine and
sharp, however, and the banners as well, on this computer
(small, fairly new, but with a dreadful little
screen)! I will be careful, in future, but I don't
think they warrant a re-edit now - 4 days before setting out for
Albert.
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Piper
in Fremantel
It
really was that hot
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