Wednesday

We had a lovely long lunch with the McDonalds on Monday. In the end, we decided on Sean's Kitchen (https://www.adelaidecasino.com.au/restaurants/seans-kitchen/). Sean Connolly is a bit of a celebrity TV chef, with restaurants under his name in various cities, including Sydney, Auckland and Byron Bay, as well as Adelaide. There's a price tag goes with that of course, but it was very good and we had a nice time catching up with John and Lorraine, finishing the afternoon off with a couple of beers at Clever Little Tailor.

The heat of the weekend had gone and it has been relatively cool since - low to mid 20's. Isn't it funny how easy the body adjusts to the local temperature? Back home we'd be saying it's too hot, but once you've experienced a few days of temperature in the mid-high 30's, and then suddenly drop by 10 C, then you quickly notice the difference.

I went for another short game of pitch and putt yesterday - I'm not ready for proper golf yet. Still doing my daily knee exercises - it'll only be a couple of weeks till my next physio appointment. I cycled there with a 9-iron and a putter strapped to the crossbar, while Jo stayed in Derby St, catching up with the backlog washing after the weekend. I wasn't gone long and was back in time for us to walk along to the local cinema and see La La Land. I enjoyed it as a spectacle, but Jo couldn't empathise with the characters.

We did the shopping then prepared tea - or at least Jo did. Hamburgers from the local butcher were good.

Miller and Asher seemed to have a good first day at their new child care yesterday (http://faithmontessori.education/) - they both arrived home last night in good spirits.

I completed my next radio show for RDR last night and hopefully it will start broadcasting this Saturday. My 12 chosen tracks of Aussie Rock were:

• Easybeats - Friday on my mind
• Saints - Stranded
• Midnight Oil - Beds are burning
• Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
• Wolfmother - Woman
• Little River Band - Reminiscing
• Divinyls - I touch myself
• INXS - Never tear us apart
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Red right hand
• Crowded House - Weather with you
• Men at Work - Who can it be now?
• AC/DC - Whole lotta Rosie

You don't have to wait for River Dee Radio's transmission, however, as it can be heard or downloaded directly from my Dropbox at https://www.dropbox.com/s/mat6alr3043soav/Aussie%202.mp3?dl=0

 

I'm now on to my 4th book of the holidays. I finally finished the very difficult read of the Man Booker prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, then the much simpler trawls through of Bob Harris' and Eric Burdon's biographies and now I'm starting an Irish crime novel written - surprisingly - by Graham Norton.

Today, Chris is off work and has taken Miller to the movies to see Sing!, whilst Jo and I look after Asher this morning. Not sure about this afternoon yet, although I do have to pick up my reading glasses from the cinema - I dropped them there yesterday.