Today, 12th September, has been a very windy day, just like yesterday. It was nearly a case of putting a return address on your items of washing before pegging them onto the clothesline! I suspect almost everyone had surfaced for the day before 7.30am and the kitchen and dining room was filled with the aroma of bacon and eggs for some time. The riders who became the cooks for the morning seemed to appreciate the chance to do something different for a change!
The washing machines – 3 of them – worked overtime for a couple of hours and the clothes line was filled with blue and yellow and many other colours besides. Because this place was once a hostel for school children, it is well set up for groups such as ourselves. It is such a shame that the place is currently unused and up for sale. In its heyday, it was home for up to 60 children and young adults.
I have spent the greater part of the day trying to set up suitably sized photo files to be copied onto DVD for all the riders and roadies. There are so many people these days with high megapixil cameras and who take a million photos and save them onto large capacity picture cards, that it has become very difficult to cull the files sufficiently to fit onto one DVD. I confess I am struggling with the difficulty of it these days as compared with 5 or 6 years ago when it was easy.
Tomorrow we head off to Leeton, a town in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA). We are seeking to take the back roads as much as possible in order to get away from some of the traffic, especially the big trucks. We will need to be on the road quite early because it is the best part of 170km.
The washing machines – 3 of them – worked overtime for a couple of hours and the clothes line was filled with blue and yellow and many other colours besides. Because this place was once a hostel for school children, it is well set up for groups such as ourselves. It is such a shame that the place is currently unused and up for sale. In its heyday, it was home for up to 60 children and young adults.
I have spent the greater part of the day trying to set up suitably sized photo files to be copied onto DVD for all the riders and roadies. There are so many people these days with high megapixil cameras and who take a million photos and save them onto large capacity picture cards, that it has become very difficult to cull the files sufficiently to fit onto one DVD. I confess I am struggling with the difficulty of it these days as compared with 5 or 6 years ago when it was easy.
Tomorrow we head off to Leeton, a town in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA). We are seeking to take the back roads as much as possible in order to get away from some of the traffic, especially the big trucks. We will need to be on the road quite early because it is the best part of 170km.
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