Sunset Walk

Keeping the tradition of leaving at 4 on Fridays, my team and I left at 4 and caught a tram out to St Kilda Friday afternoon. Went to a vegetarian restaurant on the beach and had a couple of drinks, then one of my colleagues and I decided to go for a walk. It was really a beautiful evening, sunny and warm walking along the beach at sunset, so nice we ended up walking all the way to Port Melbourne.

Daylight Savings is great but

it takes about a week to adjust... it's quarter to 11 (quarter to 10 if not daylight savings) and I'm wide awake. I have a 9am meeting in another building which means I must be up at 6:30, thanks to my new alarm clock that climbs all over me and stares at me purring loudly and willing me awake at the crack of dawn, I have been managing 6:30 the last few weeks, but 6:30 is really like 5:30 for the first week.

Yes the all of a sudden longer days are an exciting sign that it's halfway to summer but how does one just switch their clock forward one hour and start going to bed an hour earlier.

And one does not really feel summer coming on when the forecast is a top of 14 with rain, hail, thunderstorms and possibly lightning for the next two - three days.

Gardening

Spent 6 hours working on my backyard yesterday, relocating herbs, planting new ones and covering the backyard with mulch. My soil if you can call it that is dense clay, the top couple of inches look better after 6 months of applying gypsom and clay breaker and I think a year of two of mulching will improve it further. In the meantime, digging to plant anything is back breaking work. I went to get out of bed this morning and realised I could barely move. I'm chilling in front of the tv for a bit before I go back out to finish this weekend's jobs. Gotta get things done before it's too hot to get out there.

Oh and I've covered the pergola with solar powered fairy lights, they are so pretty and it makes me feel like Christmas.

I shall take some after photos when I'm done.

I'm on facebook

Yes, no longer am I the only person I know who is not on facebook. I signed up so I could follow a friend on her travels. Yesterday I started by adding 2 people, that then multiplied to 5, today it's multiplied to 10. Unfortunately one of them is into online gaming so I am getting constant posts about their game scores. Really, who cares?

Only thing is I used my real name so I really gotta sensor myself.