Since my last blog I have been quite busy. I have made a few extra MOW deliveries, been riding my bicycle with my club and doing my shopping and also giving talks at my computer club. I appear to have completely filled up my week!
One thing that I have done is book myself for a supported bicycle tour around the Adelaide hills in October. It is a nine day ride, camping each night but having our gear carried from campsite to campsite. All meals are also provided. I have ridden in the Adelaide hills over many years so it will be nice to go back a visit old cycling memories. The tour is being organized by my old cycling club, Bicycle SA . In the 1990s I helped organize several of theit Annual Tours but things have grown a bit since then. A brif description of the ride is at http://www.bikesa.asn.au/RideGuides_Tours_AnnualTour_RideInformation .
Another big event is that Helen is paying me a visit but she got off to a bad start. I drove down to Brisbane Airport on Wednesday 4th May to pick her up but the plane arrived without her! I phoned Anne who said that Helen had been dropped off at Adelaide Airport 90 minutes before her flight. The airline would not tell me if she had booked in and missed boarding of if there was another problem. It was only after a a couple of hours that they told me that she was not booked on any flight to Brisbane that day! I phoned Anne back and she started looking for Helen and reported her a missing person. I drove home and finally, at 3.30pm, Helen phone Anne from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital which is close to the Airport. Helen had last been seen by Anne at 7.30am. It appears that she had checked in and gone outside for a cigarette before going back to the departure lounge. She collapsed back in the lounge and the Airline called an Ambulance, took her of the flight list, recovered her luggage and refused to let either Anne or I know about her predicament. Helen had been unconcious until 2.30pm and I think that she just checked herself out of hospital as she had no sign out instructions. I called her when she got back home and she asked me to book her on another flight on Thursday morning which I did and she arrived safely at 9.15am. She is going to see Margaret's Doctor next Wednesday to determine the cause of her collapse.
We have been taking it easy since she arrived but today is Mother's Day in Australia and Helen wants to float a couple of flowers in the Noosa River where we scattered Margaret's ashes nearly six month ago.
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