The Weekend

The weekend was taken up with rugby, table tennis, auskick, basketball and one game of footy, all in that order.

The number of kids attending Auskick at various parks and ovals around Melbourne is truly amazing. Auskick is the hub of community activity on Saturday mornings and the involvement of all those Dads is fabulous. In having said that, the weather on Saturday was glorious, with blue skies and sunshine; It is not nearly as much fun in the depths of a cold and wet winter. Unfortunately, the weekend finished with consoling hugs to a disappointed 6 year old Tiger fan!!

Thats Footy.

The Voice

Everyone is busy watching The Voice , so there is no conversation to be had. Watching TV is tedious. All you do is sit and sit and sit , with one show leading into another. It is a lot like surfing the net or perusing ebay, you just get sucked into the vortex of time wasting.

Washing Basket

This washing basket……has a massive work load and is paid no where near enough for what it does. As you can see it is well and truly tired, tired and tired of doing what it does. Time for a holiday!

Easter Sunday

Lunch at the pub on Easter Sunday….nothing flash at all, but clearly this chap enjoyed being with his family and his family clearly enjoyed the fact this chap could be with them for the day.

A Car Day

Table Tennis first thing Saturday Morning.

In fact the whole day was spent driving; home, city, home, traffic, South Yarra, traffic, home, more traffic, Northcote, traffic, Richmond, traffic, detour, traffic, then home at four…….. for a kip.

Vic Roads…Burwood

All government departments have the same feel.

They are always busy with people processing forms, people waiting in queues, and people sitting around on plastic seating waiting for their number to light up on the screen. People upset and annoyed with what seems to them, to be inefficient service and delays; people upset because they haven’t brought in the right form or for having filled in the form incorrectly.

Whilst I waited for my son to do his Hazard Perception Test (a virtual driving test on a screen) I chatted with a lady who was waiting for her son who was doing the test to get his Learners license. She was waiting anxiously. I’m not sure how he went, he was still in there when I left.

My son scraped through his test with 61%. He had been well prepared in that we did not have to line up in any queue, he had booked and paid online. We did not have to take a number, we did not have to talk to anyone except the anxious lady and  there were no forms to process at one of these desks.

For that I was glad!