Category: Pets

Random Musings

January 6, 2012

Today is Bernards birthday, and we went to see War Horse. It’s a shmaltzy film about the brotherhood between a horse and a man. Although expertly dialed-in by Spielberg, we all found it quite enjoyable 🙂

Later on we had a lovely meal of Chinese food.

For the rest of this post, some random images collected throughout the trip so far…

That sign is for a restaurant in Sydney. Look’s a bit dodgy doesn’t it?

Two different bread products. Note the last sentence on the rightmost one.

This is a child’s toy vehicle believe it or not! It’s about 4 foot tall in total.

The selection of fresh hound food in grocery stores is impressive. Some of it looks good enough for men.

Beautiful stencil graffiti seen in Mayfield.

I’ll keep you guessing about this last one 🙂

Hot Hot Hot

January 4, 2012

That fellow is a three legged dog, who is probably called Dog-emi. The hand patting him is attached to SMC, and it was with she that I walked the entire Fernleigh Track from Kotara to Bellmont today.

It was very hot today, 37 actually, and the 20+ km walk took us about four hours. I had considered initially walking back again, but that was quickly dismissed as madness. Both Sue and I were well and truly knackered by the time we reached Belmont. A handy KFC provided lunch and a spot to recuperate while we waited for a lift 🙂

That’s Sue! She’s exhausted!

And that’s me! I’m opening a 4711 refreshing towellete! Although it can’t really be seen in this shot, I was sweating like a dog 🙂

As for the track, it’s very good and highly recommended (especially if the weather is cooler). The new section passes through a swamp and part of it is on a raised track above the water. On this particular leg we saw this fellow in a tree:

Look at him! A big goanna, about 1 m long. Everyone in Australia is quite used to these common guys (as once was I) but I find it quite novel now.

After getting back home I just lay around like a zombie for hours. The rest of the day was uneventful, filled with such curiosities as the following:

Yep, a peppermint Magnum. It was actually a bit too rich.

Lucky says “Goodnight”!

Dog Lovers

January 1, 2012

Last night we went to Wentworth Park, to watch the puppies run.

The races started at 6:45 and ran till 10 pm, 10 in total. We had no form or foreknowledge, and picked out dogs mostly randomly. And they ran like their tails were on fire!

The dogs are greyhounds and they chase a ‘rabbit’ (the orange thing that runs along the rail in front of them). Here’s a shot of one of the beasts as he was paraded before the race.

That’s Bernard placing a bet right there. And here’s the betting results:

RS: Bet $6 total, won $6.45 total (4 wins)
BS: Bet $103 total, won $10+? total (2 wins) {he has one ticket yet to cash}
AW: Bet $100 total, won $61 total (4 wins)
MB: unknown {we think he broke even}

Obviously I was the winner here. I attribute that to my natural affinity with hounds.

The dogs got faster when the sun went down. I got tired!

Probably because of my epic walk earlier in the day, when we finally got home I was knackered. I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

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