Off to Canberra!

Going in a plane today means I need to get some exercise in to cleanse the lungs. Rode my trusted Batavus pushbike up the hill and back at 615am. Most people who know me will not believe I was up tht early! Spotted this shed up the top, on the corner of Waverly and Lodder Road. Sheep and native hens are not easily seen on the photo, but they were nice.

Last Chance!

If you don't sponsor anyone this month you will turn into a frog. This is a manager from Bunnings in Launceston who forgot to donate. I saw him this week hanging around the tomatoe stakes in the plants area of Bunnings. I recognised him by his croak.

Click this link <HERE> for your last chance to donate for MOvember in benefit of the Prostrate Cancer Foundation and Beyond Blue. I hope you have by now sponsored someone, if not then sponsor me now!

Discovering Grey

Thanks Movember. Now that I am photographing myself I discover grey in my beard. Took 43 years to discover it! Remember: Click this link <HERE> to donate for MOvember in benefit of the Prostrate Cancer Foundation and Beyond Blue.

Movember

To donate to my Mo you can either:Click this link <HERE> and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account, or Write a cheque payable to ‘Movember Foundation', referencing my Registration Number 1801571 and mailing it to:Movember Foundation, PO Box 292, Prahran VIC 3181.

Wobbly damage

Katherine had planted a stack of little vegie plants, but the wobblies (wallabies) are eating them. She has bought some fencing and plugged up all the wholes so we now have an 'enclosed' backyard!

Tasmanian Salmon

Bazza the neighbour showed up with buckets of salmon. Wanted me to take two. Between us we'd only eat one. So here is K cutting the sushi!


Was in Harvey Norman looking at TVs and saw my own DVD on their screens running as a demo! They ought to sell them...

Garbage!

Here is a refreshing photo of our curb-side recycling and garbage, indicative of a spring clean...

Every wednesday morning we put our own bin out with our recycling in the black plastic bucket and a box with paper for recycling. I am always amazed how the wind doesn't blow this recycling everywhere all the time. Seems really odd to put it out in the rain and wind like this without a cover. Now there is talk about stopping the curb-side recycling in Devonport! The garbage bins  are not council property, us residents have to buy these for ourselves. So what are our ever-increasing council rates used for instead??

Spring is happening

Getting warmer every day now. Katherine is planting vegies and brushing the spiderwebs of the fence. Here are some pretty flowers we saw on our walk up Kelcey Tier this morning.

Graffiti in Devonport

Devonport City Council has adopted a Graffiti Management Policy and Plan last year which sees a whole of community approach to tackling this issue. It must be working as I don't often see much graffiti around - apart from the odd defaced signs! Today I ran around the Don path and found heaps of broken glass on the track just above the pool, complete with a (used) condom. This piece of nice graffiti was found at 41°10'42.29"S 146°19'27.91"E in case you like to visit it. Hopefully it wont last long with people riding and walking over it.

So should I walk over to the council and tell them? Wished they had email!

Enhanced Senseo Sensation

The eBay purchased Senseo accessories arrived via mail from Germany! Super quick delivery too! 

By now we are a little tired of the Senseo's choice of coffee. You really need to use two senseo coffee pads to make one half decent cuppa, and these pods are expensive! You buy them in packets of 18 pods for about $7, so if you think about it that is only 9 good cups - compared to a kilogram of beans which makes 324816754 cups for about $20.

So we now have two good alternative options. One is the coffeeduck (see above) a little basket that holds coffee, and the other one is a set of 5 refillable ecopads (see below), plastic pods. Both work fine, and both give you a good cup of coffee with your own choice of coffee! 

I prefer the Ecopad refillable Coffeepods as you can fill all 5 and use them conveniently. The Coffeeduck is a bit more clumsy as you have to rinse and re-fill in between each cup. Anyway, we are much happier with the Senseo now and do not feel pressured into buying a new e$$pre$$o ma$$ino!

If you have a Senseo I would highly reccomend you click Der Auctionator's store on eBay and order one for yourself:  <click here>.

...We are getting quotes for a new kitchen, but it is pretty expensive I think. Maybe we can do it after Christmas, but the other option is to leave the kitchen for now and get a garage and convert to gas hot-water/heating - about the same price as a kitchen renovation.... Choices...