A Screw Loose
I closed the car door before I pulled my head in properly when we were out shopping yesterday. My glasses fell off. Luckily they fell inside the car, but they felt loose and wobbly when I put them back on. I popped in to the Optometrist and asked if they could be tightened. “I think I have a screw loose,” I said. He did it free of charge.
At least it wasn’t as bad as the time I got my head stuck above the car door. The car was parked too close to the wall of the garage. So I wriggled between the car and the wall. I had to step on a ledge, which made my head higher than the car door and slid down into the car. But my head got caught above the door as my body was dropping down. As I hung there, my mobile phone which was out of reach, started to ring.
I don’t know how I get into such predicaments. The other night the shower screen jammed and I had to crawl through a tiny space. And today the zipper on my handback got stuck when I was trying to take out my purse.
But I think the worst was the day I accidently put the leg of a chair on my foot, then sat down on the chair!
Its a shame I don’t write more often, because so far it has been an eventful month. It would be so much easier to write about things as they happen.
Here’s a bit of an update…
Tsunami alert
The entire coast of Eastern Australia was on Tsnami alert at the beginning of the month. I don’t think it has ever happened here, before. Beaches were closed. My elderly neighbour was feeling panicky. “I don’t know how I’ll get out of the house in time if it comes,” she said. “But you are already in a highset house on one of the highest points in the area,” I told her. We were quite safe – nothing happened here, but the Solomon Islands copped it!
Dreamworld
tiredtigers
Mum and I like them too. Such beautiful majestic animals! The tigers have been trained (for a reward) to leap and climb trees on cue. But they are never forced to do anything they don’t want to. One of them just lies motionless during the entire performance. The audience is instructed to clap and cheer if he happens to twitch his tail or roll over, because that is all he will ever do!
Easter
Our World Vision Club had a Street Stall the day before Easter. I was exhausted & did nothing the next day. Had lunch at Spinnikers with my sister Jan on Saturday.
Church on Easter Sunday. Our Sudanese friends sang during the service. It was wonderful! Joel & Frances brought the kids for Sunday dinner. The kids enjoyed an Easter egg hunt. Hayley insisted on hiding the eggs over & over again until they had melted out of shape & our hands were covered in choclolate.
On Easter Monday I went to the movies with a friend to see “Freedom Fighters.” We both enjoyed it.
Bus Trip
visited Ettamogah Pub and the Ginger Factory at Yandina. The Ginger Spread I bought is delicious on toast.
Pot Luck Dinner
mummies
Toastmasters
I won the Area Interpretive Reading Contest! We had a Tall Tales contest recently, too. First time we’ve done it. You can read my tall tale if you like.
