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Did a mock trial this morning at my club, dog working very nice, doing all the turns sits stands & drops but too soon, ran off to do a pee then ran out the ring & across the next one. I got her and shoved her in her crate until the stays (1 min sit stay, 3 min drop stay) which she did very nicely.
I read (“How to train a Superdog” which I bought a few weeks ago) and realised Demi is underexercised: so today after I finished stewarding at the trial took off for Bridgewater and the last bit of the Pioneer Womens Trail. got lost of course, walked quite a few KM of the Heysen Trail (incl a wrong turn that likely added 2Km to the walk )Not sure that was the Pioneer Womens trail tho, so bit of research and another walk perhaps.
This year not a good one for long walks, a LOT wetter and colder than last year and as trainee instructor by the time lunch time comes around going for a big walk is the last thing on my mind! But I will have to drag my ancient carcass along for a long walk nevertheless I guess.
Relaxing now with a pint of Samuel Smith “Old Brewery Pale Ale.”
I tell you what, taking the dog for walks like today, even when it is along roads, like unfortunately today was, you do see parts of the countryside and vistas you just do not see any other way. Unfortunately I left the camera in the car this afternoon.
Today I walked past Hills properties that I don’t think were working or hobby farms but were still huge parcels of land, with sweeping long driveways, dams etc and huge areas of what I can only call parkland.
In one walk last year I got to a point where I could look along the whole Adelaide hills face, quite a spectacular sight. This used to be called the “Adelaide Tiers.”
Since the weather will warm up soon and snakes come out of hibernation i don’t think I will make too many more Hills walks. But I might make that particular walk again.
Another walk, had lost the Pioneer Women’s Trail and got to a point where i was standing at the top of a steep hillside (not quite a cliff) looking at cars apparently rushing to destruction by pranging into the hillside but of course actually going into the Heysen Tunnels on the SE freeway here in Adelaide. Want to get there again and take a movie of it on my digicam. Very emotive at first until I got used to the sight.
I’m doing an experiment to see if, were I to bludge on the internet all day long, I might be able to a) change the future so I don’t have to move out of my super nice house into a really bad house next saturday and b) if that fails, my packing does itself so I can maintain the pretense that my own personal London nakba is not going to happen in less than a week…
so far it’s 11am. The crappy house is now 2 hours closer than it was when I got up, and the experiment hasn’t worked yet. I have friends coming over at 7pm. 8 hours to make it happen…
I had a rather sedate weekend and went to the country. I don’t ordinarily like the country, but this place is my exception, and I spent a lot of time outside staring into space thinking about a very dear person who changed my life, and who died last week. She was 90, with Alzheimer’s disease, and I lived with her for quite some time and cared for her a few years ago, and recently I returned to stay with her (she lived in England), and I got to say my final goodbyes just before she left this world (for the second time… Alzheimer’s and all). So, all in all, my weekend’s been one of staring and thinking about how she changed me, and why I was brought into her life and she into mine.
It was another deeply boring day again today,I need new accommodation,it certainly doesn’t seem to be out here.I could of counted my farts all day,but that would of kept me awake.I think I need to see new land forms regularly.And am waiting to open up my mobile phone and thus scare myself again in the limited use of it….at this time.A do nothing day,and very frosty this morning.
This happened yesterday,but,I was dogged by a personal moroseness.I read that Michael Jackson’s hair was going to be turned into diamonds.Pity the poor motorist dependent on spark plugs that carbonise,and no-one is committed to turning the spark plug into a diamond faceted ,reuseable spark plug !This morning Monday, I waxed eloquently to myself,if this carbon could be turned into diamond,I speculated that the edge of the little rocks, would allow the spark plug to be more effective as a tool for what it does now.Then if somehow because the gap of a spark plug and the material background interfacing with the spark was crystalline in form,say like piezo-electrical phenomena then the resultant sparking process,would essentially mean a different type of spark.I think, spark plugs could become both fashion items,and highly practical tools with some experimental science to the cause.Giving someone a spark plug with the gap encrusted in diamonds altering the sparking pathway ,maybe,a gift that has deep meanings, and significant uses.Women should be interested in spark plugs,otherwise when they disappear,their own chance at innovation even of an artistic type will be lost.Keep Spark Plugs interesting,before it is too late.Anyone know how this carbonisation of hair will lead to diamonds!?
Spent an awful lot of Saturday on- line – on LP, on a history blog, sending e-mails ettc etc. Also did a bit of note-taking from David Hackett Fuscher’s Paul Revere’s Ride. (Only 75 pages to go.) Read Grace Karsken’s The Colony. This new book on earliest colonial Australia is magnificent – a great social history. I found the section on James Ruse and the Hwakesbury settlers rivetting. And highly amusing. Whatever gave the early colonial governors the illusion they could control that lot, I don’t know. So far, a chapter and a half to go, this book can hardly be faulted. If anyone’s looking for a good history to read, go for it.
Sunday, mostly doing research, reading – not as much time on line. Insiders – boring. Discovered I have a few minor revisions for ch. 1 of my book. Will probably do them today. Enjoyed the doco on Rushdie on Compass.
Spent Sunday in Ireland (still), in the company of a beautiful Hungarian, and being pursued by a busload of Japanese tourists.
The Hungarian works for the Japanese Government, strangely enough…