One Man Band

A couple of weeks back Dan Burt was entertaining at the Westlakes Carols. This photo was taken at the Oakbank Races earlier this year; Dan certainly gets around.

He has been performing for nearly 30 years; truly a colourful character!

What's the time?

The annual clock setting task; each rear in October we wind our clocks forward one hour for daylight saving. This year for the first time South Australia has joined the eastern states by doing this on the first Sunday in October. Western Australia doesn't change until the end of the month.

During daylight saving Adelaide is GMT +10.5 hours. The eastern states are GMT +11, while Western Australia is GMT + 9 hours; at present it is still GMT +8 hours; 3 hours behind the eastern states.

Do I need to know all this? Not very often as I rarely need to contact people in the other states during business hours.

Did my computers know? Yes both my Windows XP computer and my Mac did the trick; thanks Microsoft and Apple. Oh I nearly forgot; Ubuntu Linux did the honours too.

Model railway display

The Kangaroo and Cockatoo Railway layout was one of about ten on display at a local multi gauge model railway show this weekend. It is a G gauge layout, which has a 1:22.5 scale.

This particular layout featured lots of very detailed objects; birds, animals and people - very Australian and a credit to its creator; most objects were hand made. Here's a close up of two bush walkers soaking their tired feet in a pool.

We took our granddaughters along and they were enthralled by the whole event; but the Kangaroo and Cockatoo Railway kept them occupied for quite a while trying to find about 20 objects on a list that they were given. At one display they were able to control a train and at another, select which of about a dozen trains they wanted to see running.

Now I think the pressure might be on their father to resurrect his layout; in storage in my shed!

ABC Wednesday - A for arduous

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Today I went with a group of cycling friends to watch the 2nd stage of the Tour Down Under. We took a short cut along an arduous bush track to get to the Mylor road to see the race. We are not competitive cyclists in lycra; just a group enjoying the fresh air and exercise. For some of us it was a training day for the Challenge Tour on Friday.

From Mylor we rode into Hahndorf to see the riders again; then a few kilometres out of town to a vantage point to see them on a couple more laps and then back to Hahndorf to see the final sprint to the finish line. The town was decorated in purple.

To find out more about ABC Wednesdays go to mrs nesbitts place.