Tuesday 27 August to Saturday 31 August 2024

The Autumn seems to have arrived with cooler nights and mornings and a bit of light rain. Then the sun comes out and it’s hot again. Strange sort of cusp of the season stuff. The days here at LPR have been spent catching up on admin, budget planning and completing the last tasks around the estate that have earnt us the free accommodation.

We are also packing for Spain, as the big road trip is coming up in two weeks. Flashy’s ‘Keen’ boots, purchased in Australia at considerable expense, have begun to fall apart. Well, bits and pieces of the knobby sole are detaching.

A whole tube of shoe repair glue has given him a bit of a reprieve but we fear that it is a repeat of ‘Daintree shoe cancer.’ No boots, no matter what brand, survive two seasons in the tropics. The soles simple detach. Looks like we have a similar problem here. Apart from his old Army boots but he doesn’t have them here, does he?

The Keens have done their job I suppose. They took him about in comfort in the rugged Scandi, -15c winter. A cheaper version will be purchased when we return from Portugal and head into winter in more refined places.

There has been much debate on how much soil we need to fill up the dip where the lawn meets the lip of the pool deck. As you can imagine, Flashy measured the lineal meterage x the depth needed x the width to batter it back to the lawn x 0.5 (a triangle, you see) to get the volume. Just less than 1 cubic metre. Fabrice, the diggerman has ordered 5 cubic metres. It arrives Saturday. Should be interesting.

Delicious pizza Friday night.