Dylan.

Our first cyclone of the season. We're on the friendly side of its track so I'm not doing any panicking about Dylan, It's just managed to gather itself together into a cat 1.

Anniversary.

Olivia has just advised me that today is also the anniversary of when we first contacted each other.
It's been a very long year for my new love and I but the internet keeps us in contact and we both long for when we can be together again, for some reason immigration just keep all spouse visa applications in a holding pattern until madness sets in, hmmm maybe that's the reason. The USA people would be able to protest that but we don't have any rules against cruel and unusual punishment.
I may have posted this pic before but this eatery was great and they have plenty of them around Philippines, pity things were so hectic on my visit that it's a pity I didn't eat like this more, I wasn't brave enough to try eating at one without my mate and guide. The prices are down to my level.

From the past.

It's dear old Grace's birthday today, but she's not here any more to enjoy it.
There was a time years ago we would travel and see places, hopefully soon I'll be doing that again while I still can.
Some people may recognise the unusual building behind Grace.

New clock.

This was reduced to $5.80 at Overflow, the price was right but I had plenty of trepidation as I find clocks can be too loud, they have a habit of ticking every second, happily this one is silent from a few millimetres distance.
Why buy? O.H will be Olivia's initials when she can finally be with me and properly become my wife, it's way too awkward for her to adopt a married name yet, and Alemania is a bit too long for Jimmy to consider.

Unusual in these parts.

I spotted this bumper sticker today after shopping, the car's owner arrived just as I took this photo, I mentioned it was most unusual, she said her neighbour thought she was brave, she however thought she was intelligent.
I suppose I am fairly dumb too often.

Another lesson for Jimmy.

The glow indicator on Cubby's battery never glows green any more, I suspected the fluid level may have been down a bit but like many these days this battery was sealed up tight.
I thought the cover plate might just pop off but it's actually sealed with adhesive, bugger.
Anyway it wasn't really low on acid, the makers of them seem quite justified to seal them now. I made up bungs to reseal the filler holes out of curtain rod and rubber from an inner tube but I think I shall buy another and use this one for my low voltage house supply.
I seem to learn a lot of lessons from mistakes.

26th January.

Today is Australia Day, the plus side being a public holiday for most workers to be taken on Monday.
This day has been pushed down our throats for many years and they even took the guaranteed long weekend off the workers in the late 1980s, and even a day off when it sadly falls on a Saturday.
In reality the true Australia Day is the 1st of January, the anniversary of when our lovely country was created.
Today is not a day the native people will ever take to heart because despite many gains from settlement their own sovereignty was lost.
So for a real celebration it's Joan Leslie's birthday today with the piccie from the movie Sergeant York 1941, with June Lockhart (yes the mother in Lost in Space)  and Walter Brennan, who always looked old. How times change, back then a lass her age was considered old enough to marry in a movie but now an actress her age would be told on-screen that she's grounded for life if she as much as looks at a boy.
She's now one of the few survivors from one of the best movies ever made, Yankee Doodle Dandy, the lovely Joyce Reynolds being about the only other of note, a crying shame they didn't make it in colour but 1942 wasn't a great year for colour films.
It's a good day for birthdays Some Canadians may have heard of an ice hockey player named Wayne Gretzky, Former Aussie cricket captain Kim Hughes turns 60, despite history perhaps not being kind to him he was a very fine batsman who rose to captain at a time of great turmoil.
So the day's not a total loss.