SKI Wednesday

Mid week energy low. The"kids" are wanting a short day. Maybe night skiing was too much ha ha.  Chris has taken the day off.  He

Agreed to sleep in until 7:30 which was about right. 

Chris drove us to Bullocks Flat and is taking the car for a day of touring. 

I think we were on a 9:20 train. 

Jemma and Max are heading for Pretty Valley.

10:00 and Phoebe and I having coffee in the coffee shop above the ski tube at Perisher. 

Phoebe commented my face is getting thinner. 

Compare to last year in Turkey:

2026 SKI Accommodation

This year's hut at Jindabyne "discovery" caravan park below par as set by last year's offing.  

Note to self:  carefully check floor space sizing. 

It's much smaller and poor layout.

Nowhere to put anything. 

KITCHEN

Only one person at a time. 

The layout means you can't have one person at the stove and a different person at the sink. 

Even though the place sleeps 5 and we've paid for 5, only 3 bowls,  4 wine glasses.

Morgan came to the party with:

Tongs, a one person coffee plunger and 4 bowls. 

BATHROOM

Ok

Ski Tuesday

Normal Skiing fishes

4:30 

Night skiing is 6-8:30pm

Ski tube each hour from 6:34… 

Options:

Ski until 7 or 8.

TUESDAY 

Got up a little late around 6:20.

My breaky was oats & nuts microwaved then added yoghurt.

After we arrived at Perisher, Chris went and joined James and Henry and Frank & Phoebe went upstairs at the Ski tube terminal for a coffee and chat. 

Phoebe and Frank did a run down front valley before venturing off on an expedition that included the Wentworth and then the Lawson T-Bar and the Leichart chair lift. 

Lunch in the sun sharing a table with Cas and Olive. Outside Jax looking up front valley. 

Frank then went off on search of J H C and located them at mid station. A couple of runs round to the Leichhardt chair.  Joined by Morgan and Joan. 

Back to the centre and Phoebe and I did a couple of runs before heading in. Phoebe and I had two Aperol Spritz. Jemma and Max joined us for two bowls of Nachos.

NIGHT SKI

https://youtu.be/M4zaSf92Bsg?si=W32HRzBHvG9vH_N-

https://youtu.be/M4zaSf92Bsg?si=W32HRzBHvG9vH_N-

Ski MONDAY

Video 

Jemma & Max dinner

Drinks on the deck at Blue Cow 

Morgan & Joan dinner. 

Spag bog. 

https://youtu.be/bgq1b0nLOPc?si=-CGJ7K_YLdZQkyEb

SUN CBR->JINDY

HENRYS

A pretty relaxed start to the day.  Breakfast was very individual. Chris put some muslie in a bowl with water and heated it.  I had a crumpet toasted with butter followed by a second one. 

9:50

We drove out 

Need

Bags to carry boots and helmets.

$30 day entry get boots and

Lunches wraps Jindabyne 

Decide 5th day epic pass

LUNCHES

Wraps

Lettuce

Tabouleh 

Sao

Peanut butter

Smith crisps

SUN: Chris Chicken & Tarizo Carbonara.

MON J&M out

TUE

WED Henry & James.

THU

FRI On road. Need shoes.

Burley Griffin ParkRun

Burley Griffin parkrun results for event #486. Your time was 00:37:12. Two minutes off your 17mile rocks pb but acceptable given you were coughing up phlegm.

Congratulations on completing your 78th parkrun and your 1st at Burley Griffin parkrun today. You finished in 252nd place, just after a little kid and a grandma, way behind your brothers James Von Stieglitz and Henry Thomson out of a field of 352 parkrunners. You were the 136th male and came 8th in your age category VM60-64. 

Phoebe Antonieff Mitchell took awsome photos.

Tidbinbilla

Henry drove us to Tidbinbilla.

There was a strong video presence on Artimus. It was made before the recent flight but it got me thinking I need to brush up on the current status of space flight and the various launch vehicles. 

This is a monunent to Voyager.

We went to the visitor centre. 

Henry:

BNE->CBR

2026 SKI JULY

T-Minus

4:00 rise and shine

4:30 Depart Fairfield 

5:00 Arr Airport

6:00 Boarding

6:20 Depart

Fletch drove Phoebe and I to the airport.

After bag drop, we joined a huge queue for security. A very officus woman was giving weird and loud  instructions to the crowd and her work mates. Lots of eye rolling.

In the queue we chatted by phone with Graham and Mel, who were at the virgin end of they'd terminal and eventually gave up on the idea of meeting for coffee. 

Gate 1 has it seems, a better than average support presence - It had three Qantas staff manning a [help?] desk, a newsagent and coffee shop. No queue. 

After a black coffee which I found refreshing but was not too Phoebe's liking, we queued for a bus. In such situations I imagine the bus going rogue and just driving us to Canberra. 

Alas it was straight to the plane. 

On board experience was on par with expectations.  

There's always a catch when you get something really cheap. 

Had to work to fly.

a lovely chat with the pilot.  He's based in Brisbane and this is a lifestyle job. Today only a down and back. 

SKI 2026 July

2026 JULY

T-Minus

4:30 Depart Fairfield 

5:00 Arr Airport

6:00 Boarding

6:20 Depart BNE for CBR

PACKING LIST

Torch

Phone charger & 2m lead

4 way Power board.

3m extension lead.

Nikko & stickers.

TODO LIST

Accommodation- Booked & Paid

Henry car

Ski hire

Epic pass w ski tube.

Roof rack issue

sick

TUESDAY

I've taken the day off work. 

Runny nose,  mild headache, sore throat. 

Monday AM I went to the doc.  He ordered a chest x-ray and this showed i didn't have pneumonia. 

I bought a 4 in 1 RAT test. 

I don't seem to have any of the viruses it tests for. 

I asked chatGPT  to make me a "Man Flu" RAT test

Sunday

Sunday began with coffee and crumpets (toasted with butter and golden syrup) 

Followed by church at Tarragindi uniting. It's now part of a thing called "southside uniting Church".  We chose this because Phoebe used to attend years ago.   Saw a few old friends I knew. Saw Don R.  Derek was doing the live stream.  Phoebe caught up with people she hadn't seen in years. 

The rest of the day was consumed fixing the window mechanism on Phoebe's car. This necessitated not one but two trips to bunnings to buy tools.  Phoebe reclined keeping an eye on things and playing solitaire.

The day concluded sitting round the fire in the front yard eating steak and drinking wine and the final [sinful 🤣] act - ice cream in the form of mini boysenberry choctops. 

Dualas Window

Phoebe's Nissan Daulis Drivers Window is no longer winding up and down. 

I assumed the [mechanical] wire had broken the way it used to on both the Ute and the Vito so I had a look on line and purchased that part of the mechanism. 

Watched a YouTube video. 

Began to dismantle. 

Pried the cover off the handle using a flat blade at the bottom. 

per the video the top screw is posi and the bottom is Torx. In my case the bottom screw had been gronched by a previous fixer.   Two trip to bunnings to buy torx.  The second set I could hammer it in. 

The connectors have a little tit. To remove the connector,  use a small flat blade to push the lug back toward the body of the connector. 

By Good luck the window had gotten stuck at the position it needs to be to unscrew the glass from the mechanism. 

next unscrew the plate. 

Then one bolt that holds the door opener. Slide it and move it.  Behind it is a bolt that connects to the top of one of the slides. To the right is the other bolt. 

Remove 3 screws (self tappers) that hold the motor in place. 

Motor

The three slots in it motor should link with three lugs in it mechanism but they were sheered off.

Old and new side by side

One of the pop rivits still had the steel shaft making it difficult to drill. 

Cut away with the dremmel and then ripped it out with pliers from the other side. 

Phoebe kept a eye on things just to make sure.....