My Card!
My Ball!
Happy Birthday to me I'm a hundred and three!
Hi Folks,
Susan and I journeyed this morning to Port Arthur and dropped off Agnes for a day at the historic site. We then headed to Hobart to the Salamanca Markets for our day off to enjoy my birthday. After a bit of a wrestle to find a park we strolled to the markets. We walked up and down enjoying a good variety of stalls with many different wares.
There were some unique items on display and Susan chose one for my birthday present. It is a sphere resembling a soccer ball made of segments of native Tasmanian timber. The sections are pentagon and hexagon shapes. The construction is quite elegant since the segments must also taper towards the centre. It takes 3 days labour spread over 6 weeks to make one. As I said a special gift.
We had some lunch and toodled back to Nubeena pausing to pick up Agnes and detour to Remarkable Cave.
After catching up with events of the day we settled down for a community dinner. The Birthday surprises came thick and fast, a home made card, a present and a cake preceeded and followed by happy birthday renditions. It was a great finish to the day with much happy banter and frivolity. It is nice to work with such a good bunch of people.
Before retiring to our unit I had to do a bit of chemical treatment on the pool and sauna and backwashing the filters after the days excesses of the guests especially the children. Water everywhere, swimming goggles in the spa pump etc. People having fun! We have a full house tonight and Susan has 9 rooms to clean tomorrow so it will be a busy day.
It was a good day!
Night folks
Simon
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