We have now recovered from our hike and had planned to start today with a walk. On this trip it is our intention to do the Cradle Mountain Overland hike for 8 days, but we have realised that we are not fit enough for that yet, so our training regime commenced yesterday with a 40 minute walk before breakfast. Today's was cancelled on account of the weather a force 9 gale with non stop rain. Thanks SA for sharing!
Simon has been out of sorts all day, because he had to have toast for breakfast. He is back on soy milk but the last carton was found to be opened and put back on the pantry shelf. Heeding my food safety advice he did not try it, so he missed his daily 7 weetbix with brown sugar! He is such a creature of habit.....
Today's special projects jobs assigned to Simon and Giacomo were not able to be done due to the weather, so Simon pottered about for most of the day achieving not much at all while I worked like a trojan cleaning rooms and finishing the office paint job. Simon and UK Ben were on dinner duty (only 9 tonight) Ben and Jiwon had a visit from a friend and went walk about for awhile so Simon commenced food preparation early. I did take the afternoon off and had hot chocolate and marshmallows while watching a movie and skyping with my girls.
Simon has had his new boots for a week or so now and was polishing them up yesterday and cursing that they are scratched already! At the Mountain Designs shop I remarked that he has had several pairs of boots and my original Hitec boots are still going strong after 10 years, that was until I looked down and noticed they have both come away from the soles!! Still they do as work boots.
At one of the camping shops I happened to overhear a conversation between a sales assistant an customer about tying laces, she had suggested looping over and down on the second to top lug to anchor the laces. I have done this each day since and it works a treat and have not had to retie my laces since. This got us talking about laces and in true Simon form he Googled and found Ians shoe lace site who would think there was so much to know about laces, its worth a look.
Below are some variations on the usual lace pattern.
Ohh I should add tea was excellent - baked fish with butter, garlic, paprika, parsley and lemon, roast sweet potato and pumpkin and steamed peas and corn.
Living well :-)
Susan
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