Season's Greetings.

Be happy everyone.

89 years ago today.

My grandparents were married. The marriage ran out of puff after only 70 years though but it was still a good run.
There may have been a fee for smiling in those days as my granddad was the only one game to give it a go.

Getting closer.

Faded flowers.

I noticed Grace's flowers had faded a bit too much for my taste when I visited a few days ago, this spurred me to advance my plan to replace them on her birthday.
Happily for us we had a surprise visit from my Dad. so I dragged him dawn to Grace's grave and he took these photos after much prodding from me.

I should rethink my schedule after this.

It's beginning to look a lot like xmas.

The last two for me have been sad non-events but Olivia has brightened up the house, and myself.
Xmas can be a quite rotten time for some people, everything is shut thanks to a colonial age government, and there's no sport played, so for a few men with no family who never have the wish to cook it's not a time for cheer.

Pointless widened ditch

Plenty of  money was poured into expanding the drain across the road from us, pity it'll be a total waste unless they clear the Herbert river, although it's possible they may have done some work on it secretly. When we flood it's water backing up from the Herbert  that causes our angst, this drain has always been a non-issue.

Tripod spider.

I felt sorry for this poor bugger but I did the same to it as I do to every other spider I see, I left it alone.