Life gets back to normal and Helen's Pets

First Helen's pets.   When Helen was staying with me she was continually looking for an animal which she said that she wanted as a pet to take back to South Australia.  Her first real opportunity came on our Coast And Cruise excursion when she met one of K and S's old friends but he had other ideas and went and hid.

This Goanna was about two metres long.

Then just before she went home my friend B and I were walking our dogs through the local park and stumbled upon the ideal pet.  I went and dragged Helen to look at it but as it was resting after a feed we let it alone.

This was a Diamond Headed Python and about four metres long  around the back the coils were 150mm thick and a couple of bulges showed that she had recently eaten. 

In the end Helen went home without a new pet.

Since then I have been battling a heavy cold but it finally appears to have cleared up.   In spite of this I have been busy with MOW.  I managed to get a miracle spray to prevent my nose from running and with much hand washing and the use of disposable gloves managed to complete rounds on Thursday, Friday and Monday.  We were four drivers short due to a spate of colds and early flu.

I have also been busy at my computer club.  I am spreading the message that there are other operating systems than Microsoft Windows.  I use several versions of Linux at home and I am using Linux Mint 11 on this laptop.  I have accumulated three laptops and three older tower systems so have plenty of hardware to try things out on.  We have a weekly Linux goup meet at Buderim each week and help others to install various versions of Linux on their computers.

I have also managed to go on a Cycling Club Ride last Saturday.  These are nice social rides and I enjoy the company.

We are now officially in winter and as it is fine today I am off to tidy up my garden.