Since I got back from the Blue Mountains I haven’t been up to much and life has returned to the monochrome, to a holding pattern until the next phase begins. In just over six weeks time the next round of school holidays begins and I will hopefully set off on a few adventures then.
Over the past few weekends I’ve caught up with folk and gone for a few bushwalks which have been grand but I’m still starved of the adventure I seek. I have spent many hours researching next year’s trip, where I wish to go to Japan and then onto Egypt via the moon and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the cost of some of the airfares, they still seem to be affordable.
Ideally the house would sell and then I can head off for a few months and on my return head north and buy a new place, unless of course I find myself finding a piece of paradise in some far off distant land…….Which is a possibility 🙂
As I write this I am listening to the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on the BBC, definitely worth a listen if you have never checked it out.
This weekend had been pencilled in as, “The Ipswich Air show” but on Sunday evening I got a message to tell me that it had been cancelled because the parking area was too soggy for the expected amount of visitors. We have had a lot of rain for weeks and yes everything is a bit soggy, however the sun has shone this week and the UV has been so strong it would cut you in two if you did not have protection.
By Saturday morning the parks near me seem to be rather solid and the area near the Air force base is one of the hottest places in the district and I can only surmise that the fields there would be in a similar state or even better. I think the decision to cancel was the wrong one and I would think that many of the folk organising this event would have the same thoughts. I can understand if the weather was not conducive to the event; however the blue skies that we have had for the last two days are here to stay for a bit longer.
The only inconvenience I have suffered is the disappointment in not being able to go, I’m a local, what about the folk that have booked hotels and flights and made the trek from interstate to attend this once in a decade event………will they get any expenses reimbursed or compensation for a bad decision? 20.000 people were expected to attend, that’s how many tickets were sold and I don’t think that they would all be local.
Every day on the media we hear how the cost of living is rising for everyone. Events such as the air show are cheap, $8 a ticket, almost everyone can afford to go for a great day out and of course the community as a whole would welcome the influx of visitors in such trying times to boost the bottom line and so I really feel that whoever made the decision to cancel was short sighted and they have fucked up massively.
Surely if the field were a little bit soggy a plan B could have been put into place, don’t all the defence forces have plan B’s or is a sign of the times that at the first hurdle we just all collapse and give up. What happened to the never say die attitude?
On the flip side I still have my long weekend and so that’s good. Today (Saturday) I have done very little apart from finishing another book “The Gathering Dark” by James Oswald. First time I have read this Scottish author. For the last few months I have done very little around the house because I have been reading books, all of which have been Scottish authors. I find it rather enjoyable to read in the vernacular and in a style I feel is natural even although many of the books are set in Edinburgh where as we know its all fur coat and nae knickers country and they do talk rather strange.
The local library only has a few of Oswald’s books and the one I read is the 8th in the Inspector McLean series, I’ll hopefully source the previous ones at some stage. The library has a copy of the next one which is called “Cold as the Grave”……….I’ll go and get that tomorrow.
And so I think it’s time for food. It’s hot outside and I have closed the house up and stuck the air con on and its way more pleasant……………….