2017 July

Left: the kids climb a curly fig looking tree at Balmoral Beach

Julia came over from WA to say hi to the cousins and hang out for a while. At Balmoral, we wandered around, then had some lunch, then off to work for me. Nice to see you again Julia!





Right: selfie Ted, Ceal, Julia and Marie











Left: standing room only at a Beaches Link information session organised by the Castlecrag Tunnel Group. The guy who organised it will be having a tunnel right under his home. It will be 6 lanes, and I bet he will be able to feel the tunnelling machines, maybe the traffic itself. I don't trust the RMS one tiny bit when they say don't worry about it.


Right: at the same meeting news of flooding in Japan. A new 6 lane motorway under the north shore is like a carbon bomb - releasing more CO2 with more cars, affecting the weather, bringing floods here.








Left: and at the same meeting, news on the TV of drought affecting multiple countries across the horn of Africa. Climate is changing and has changed dramatically bringing more droughts and flooding. It hasn't stopped us bringing more roads that will lock in high CO2 output for transport.




Right: the mad hatters tea party.
The boys discuss life in general.

To say farewell to Alice, Ellen and Jean Claude had a lunch in their back yard. With the sun shining, it was really perfect. It's awesome to see how Frenchies take advantage of sunshine, green spaces, and food, to get some people around.


Left: the new coffee pot - courtesy of Stephane and Catherine.








Right: Marie organised an alco tasting evening for my birthday. Stephane and Meredith came along as the mystery French kind of guests. We tried out Absynthe, Rin Quin Quin, French whiskey, Armangac and others I can't remember, especially since I drank half of Marie's as well. We went to the standard Bay Thinh afterwood in Marickville.



Left: more protesting action at the Lantern Parade. I made up a traffic toilet that the kids loved amazingly enough. It now hangs proudly in their room.











Right: Louis at the Traffic Jam with the Traffic Toilet.



















Right: adventure cat. The cat is exploring outside. Not for very long! She generally sprints inside after around 10 minutes. Not sure what is spooking her out.












Left: stunt cat gets off the fence. Not much space for stuffing it up here. Nice work cat!