Post Party Asian

We went to "Sangs East Asian Cuisine".

It hit the mark for me.  A big variety ordered. I cherry picked the beef and the sauce from The massaman curry.  It had chillie in it which combined with some veggies that also seemed to have chillie made for a nice tasty meal. 

No wine. Just water. Very refreshing. 

Afterwards next door to the gelate shop. In my opinion a bit sub par. Very sweet and not so smooth. Almost like the different I've creams had different colours but sweetness overwhelmed the flavour. Except this expression is contradicted by one of the flavours that Phoebe got that she tried to palm off to me and it was a very strong flavour that I didn't like and can't describe.  A bit like those yellow banana lollies.

Aunty Margaret 100 Birthday Party

Phoebe and Jemma and I stayed over night at Graham and Mels and then attended the Party. 

Good afternoon all and happy Birthday aunty marg. 

I understand it's customary to reach back and remember key moments in the intersection between my life and the Birthday girls life 

It's these stories that knit us together with a shared family history 

however my memory is crap and as you know Margaret's memory is the keeper of the family story so I should just defer to her.  

In the mean time I've referred to my brothers for memory assistance. 

Three memories. All of which highlight Margaret's wonderful hospitality. 

1 CANBERRA 

The first is from when I was very young. We spent a night or so in her house in Canberra. Following advice from Lewis it was apparently so Henry could be born. I recall aunty marg getting us turning boiled eggs over and with great hilarity claiming they were empty. 

2 DADS DEATH

The next is a thank you to her and uncle Eric for the huge support 50 years ago in 1976 after my dad died when we stayed in her families beds At her house. And I learned recently that Andrew stayed over night with Dads body. Shows that her spirit flowed to her children. 

3 NOW FISH CHIPS

The third item is much more recent where Phoebe Jemma, myself and my dog Magnus have visited and been hosted by aunty marg at Penny's Sea food where there's lots of hilarity and they would point out the special Margaret ramp for her wheelie walker.

PHOTOS

As you are surrounded by photos we are giving you a card featuring my brothers and I and their families.

And a present of a photo frame with mummy brothers and I.

SOCIAL SUPPORT PERSON

We had a great "speech" from a person who drives her around. 

She's got a great bond with her support workers.  

Brightwater Park Run

Dieting, Weights, Running and Erg.  It all gets better together. 

Brightwater parkrun results for event #572. Your time was 00:35:40.Congratulations on completing your 72nd parkrun and your 1st at Brightwater parkrun today. You finished in 266th place out of a field of 344 parkrunners. You were the 149th male and came 14th in your age category VM60-64.We have set this as your PB.

If you look closely, Somewhere in the photo, you will see Graham and Mel.

Maroochydore Dawn

Fri night family Maroochydore

DIET

Skipped both breakfast and lunch so I guess about 20+ hr fast. 

Then had fish, chips, beer, wine, cheesecake. Did not sleep well. 

Erg #1

Well it's erg time again. The grammarians are trying a different process for selecting crews this year that is only partially influenced by erg times.  Other things like age are part of it. It's unlikely that my erg time will make any difference to whatever crew I end up in but I am still using it as motivation for exercise. 

This afternoon was my first erg in ages so my main objective was to just do 5km and not stop and not worry about the time.  Not stopping is a very important thing.  Can not let the brain ever get the idea that one can stop while rowing just because one's body is crying "stop".

0.5% Pasito

One of the side effects of this dieting thing is to look at the back of the label. As I read it, Pasito has 0.5% passionfruit and therefore 99.5% not passionfruit.  

One may ask how did I come so close to a bottle of Pasito and to clear my name, its on the lunch table at work.

Did not drink any!

Interesting to note that sugar is turf 2nd ingredient which i believe it is the second most common. Then we've got the 0.5% passionfruit followed by the various artificial additives. Presumably all in very small quantities and yet even with such small percentage they have an effect. 

Dinner

SATURDAY 11 APRIL 

DINNER

We'd felt tired during the day.  Possibly early rise, park run and some St Lucia moving. 

Snooze on the couches. 

We'd discussed a BBQ for dinner with sausages Phoebe had bought earlier. 

I went shopping for:

-Halumi 

-Tomatoes 

-Cucumber 

-Tin beetroot 

-Iceberg 

-Red wine

Mostly no carb but the wine included as a trade off between mental and physical health. 

She carried it down to the table in the front yard. It was very relaxing. 

GC Park Run

This week Phoebe Antonieff Mitchell and I headed down to the Gold Coast to do park run and give mags an off lead run on the beach and of course a swim in the ocean. 

As we lined up and started, mags seemed more animated and enthusiastic to gallop off. I was in for the long haul. My current objective is to get back to being able to run the whole 5k's. So we began dodging and weaving and me hauling mags back. 

Main Beach park run has a lovely course through shaded area with gravel path a few mild hills which give wonderful recovery on the down hill. 

By the half way, mags had stopped pulling which was a welcome relief. At about 3.5k's, I was done. I was hoping mags would need a toilet stop. Unfortunately not too be. Eventually with no way to assign blame, I had change to walk-run mode. 

As I entered the final straight, an over enthusiastic young lady began cheering. She needs an award. Mags and I lifted. Then crashed on the grass. 

After regaining life we cheered Phoebe over the line. 

Main Beach parkrun results for event #728. Your time was 00:38:48.

Congratulations on completing your 71st parkrun and your 8th at Main Beach parkrun today. You finished in 232nd place out of a field of 294 parkrunners.

Family Dinner

Kids coming for dinner - Shepherds pie. Potato for the traditionalists and pumpkin with egg plant between the pumpkin and mince for those being watched by foxy eyes.

Frank Phoebe Fletch

Max Jemma Chris 

A small bag of potatoes 2kg?

Half a pumpkin

2kg mince although we made about 6 Chinese takeaway containers for later. 

The glass dish was good for 6

We had peas and corn. 

Red wine. 

Beer.

Water and sparkling water.