Earlier last week the Weather Forecasters we saying that the Sunshine Coast was heading for its driest January ever as we had had less than 5mm of rain to date. Then on Tuesday Oswald arrived over the horizon - well actually in Far North Queensland. Oswald was a Tropical Cyclone which after crossing the Gulf of Carpentaria hit the pointy north bit of Queensland where hardly anybody lives and faded out to an intense low pressure system and headed south.
This where the "fun" started. It has caused extensive flooding as it made its way slowly south. The highway to Cairns and Townsville has been cut and there has been major flooding. Oswald has been having so much fun that he hasn't stopped. It has just devastated Bundaberg about 200km north of here and is forming tornadoes as it travels south.
In Tewantin it started raining Friday morning and hasn't stopped since. We have had about 150mm of rain and have been promised another 300mm over the next couple of days with local flooding. All outside Australia Day Activities were cancelled, all the Sunshine Coast Beaches are closed and I am sharing my big armchair with a wet Louis. As I have nothing else to do I might as well update my blog.
After the demise of my old shopping bike I went in search of a new one. My local bike shop promised delivery in a few days of a suitable bike but this then turned out to be two months. I did a Google search and found a similar bike available in Maroochydore about 40Km away and drove down to try it out. It was perfect.
Those of us blessed with the genes passed down from our Welsh grand parents will appreciate the maker.
I spent a few days converting it for shopping and it now looks like this.
I have used it for all my shopping over the last week but even with mud guards it will be staying in the garage for the next few days.
I was asked to give a talk at my local computer club a couple of weeks ago and decided to demonstrate a program called The Gimp which is similar to PhotoShop but free. The talk was to show a few tricks to repair old damaged black and white photographs. Some time ago one of you, I think Alan, sent me the following photo of our mother.
Needless to say like most image manipulation programs the result is all fake but fun to do.
After the talk to mainly elderly ladies they said that they prefered the original as it had more charm. I shall print both and mount them side by side.
Now it is time to check around the house and garden as we have just had a huge gale.
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