Lazy lazy me

Ok, so once again I've been thinking of all these great posts and witty observations and completely failing to make them. What can I say other than sorry? The last couple of weeks have been quite good actually. We've settled quite well into our new abode and it's really feeling like home now. Graham recently took me to a shop that they have here in Cairns, it's only a little shop and it's irritatingly named (for crying out loud Australia, it's quite simple - if it's on a stick, it's a lolly. If it's not, its a sweet. It's not difficult!) but it's heaven for an ex-pat like me. I refer, of course, to the British Lolly Shop (see what I mean). I was so happy I didn't know where to start! I was amazed and overjoyed to find that you could buy redcurrant jelly there (and I made Graham go out and buy a lamb roast for dinner just so I could have some) and I got some aniseed balls and proper fudge. They were all out of prawn cocktail crisps but the lovely lady assured me that they would get some in in the next delivery so I feel another trip coming on soon! I also had a bit of a nostalgia dvd weekend (while Graham was away of course, he would never have put up with it if he were there!) a little while ago because I was just killing time in Sanity (sort of like HMV) waiting for keys to be cut when I spotted High Society for only $10.00. And then I spotted The Sound of Music for $20.00. Bargain! Consequently, that particular Sunday was spent cleaning the house with The Sound of Music on. I'm sure my neighbours loved my singing... It was Australia Day long weekend this weekend just gone and Graham dragged me out in the boat at some awful hour of the morning - mind you, it does mean I get fantastic sunrise pictures so I can't complain too much! In compensation for this, on Sunday we drove to Cape Tribulation for a day out. I've been wanting to do this for a while as it's a lovely drive and there are all sorts of things that you can do. Not that we really did any of them, mind you, but we know we want to go back when we've got a boat and spend the weekend fishing and maybe do the odd crocodile spotting trip. I had a lovely moment though when we were driving down one of the few straight spots on the road, deliberately made windy so that people don't drive so fast, when the van infront of us stopped and we could see, crossing in front of a car coming the other way, was a cassowary and its chick. It's the first one I've ever seen and it's a big bird! Unfortunately the van infront was full of backpackers and despite the fact they had all the time when it walked in front of them to take pictures, they stayed there until it had disappeared into the bush so I only got a really dark picture of it. It made me rethink bushwalking though, you would not see the thing until it was nigh on top of you and you really do not want to be on foot in close vicinity to a cassowary in a bad mood! We also went to Mossman Gorge which doesn't really give much impression of being a gorge but was very pretty nontheless. Finally, because I have to get back to work, the last bit of excitement in our life recently was Cyclone Charlotte crossing the coast up on the other side of Cape York* and dumped a whole heap of rain down on us which, happily, coincided with the king tides for the year so our little village of Yorkeys Knob (yes, it's true) was flooded in for a whole day. Ooh excitement! It did mean, however, that I got some quite good pictures of waves and stuff :) *for those of you interested, it crossed near Kowanyama from the Gulf of Carpenteria which is not, in any way shape or form 'near Cairns' as apparently reported by the Guardian at the time - that made us chuckle