August 31, 2012

  • Friday 31st August 2012

    Friday Morning: It rained a little yesterday evening and there was thunder and lightning, but the storm passed to the west of us more inland and later another front passed to the east out to sea..... We woke up today to a cool 20C, nice..... it's still about 27C inside though.

    On Monday we had our first real rain since Febuary,  we got over 50mm in 30 minutes, I had to go and help a couple of plants that were just colapsing under the weight of the water, I was up to my ancles in water becasue it couldn't flow away fast enough. The driveway was scoured out and you can see the stoney remains of small "rivers" all across the road. It may have just happened in time, so many almond trees looked really sick.

    I noticed the grapes     looked really plump too, and when I tried one it was so juicy and so very clean and fresh in it's flavour, it just exploded in my mouth.  I can honestly say these are the best grapes I have ever tasted in my life!

    We bought a tablet PC the other day, it's only a cheaper version, not an IPod or a Samsung, but it does what I wanted it for. It has a front and back camera which can also be used to take video, I have installed additional memory which has all my favorite music video's, .my Disney classic movies and all the pictures from my xanga folders since 2005, I will also add some music today. It hooks up to the TV with a mini HDMI and the quality of the video playback is stunning.

    I intend to carry this with me when we go out, probably in a small satchel which extra pockets for phone etc, it only needs to be slightly bigger than the shoulder bag I always carry now. Funny a few years ago I wouldn't be seen dead even holding a "handbag", but these days with all the documents, cards, phone, camera, etc I feel naked when I go out without my bag!