Q Ride

My Q Ride test day has arrived and I'm feeling a little nervous to say the least.
Hopefully the next thing I get to write about is to say, 'I've got it.'

Bikes, Ukuleles and Lettuce.

Mmmm, well I see it's Sunday again. Another week done.

There's been plenty to keep me busy, I had another riding lesson on Monday and was taught a thing called counter steering. Way too hard to explain but very interesting just the same.

Best photo I have.

The rest of the week was taken up with ukulele practice. The Toowoomba Ukulele Group were invited to play a small three song set as a part of a fund raising concert on Saturday the 9th. All the practice seemed to pay off as we went over well with the crowd. I was even roped into an impromptu interview with the host for the day and answered some questions about the group and the ukulele as well. Not the best photo but that was the group on the day with two missing but the addition of Brendon Walmsley (check shirt) the feature artist for the day and all round good guy. And I'm the bearded one on the far left.

Next big thing on the horizon will be my Q Ride test coming up this Sunday (the 17th). I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas to arrive. It seems to be taking forever. But if everything goes well by this time next Sunday I should have my motor bike licence and will be chomping at the bit to take my bike out for it's first ride. It's taken from the 17th of Dec 2012 until now the get on the road so that might explain why it feels like it's taking forever.

Cheers for now,

Stewart.

P.S. The weather is cooling off a bit so I've been thinking of planting some lettuce. Fingers crossed we don't get another heat wave.

WWOOFing stories please.

Good news year.

My bike has arrived finally (that's a story in itself) and we've had inches and inches of rain so it's full steam ahead here.

1st though I have a favour to ask. My idea has been to do some WWOOFing and now that I have my bike I'm going to be able to get around an do some of these things, so what I'd like is all your WWOOFing stories. The good, the bad and the ugly.

If you can pop them into the comments box I love to read them and find out more from you.

Cheers

Stewart

Thank-you Santa

What's happening in the veggie garden?  
Absolutely nothing. I've quit!! I'm tired of throwing good water onto a garden when all mother nature can help me out with is a few 10mm falls since the end of June. It was 39c yesterday and not much better today. When or if I start to get some help from the heavens above then I start planting again.

 On a brighter note I went a saw my local Kawasaki dealer this morning and made me an offer on a KLR650 that I've been saving all year and it was too good to refuse.
So all things being equal, by the end of the week I should have a brand new shinny Candy Lime Green machine in my garage.

Thank-you Santa

Cheers
Stewart.

I love a sunburnt country (not),

So much for the rain huh? I'm still watering veggies and kicking up dust. This is getting as bad as before the floods.

I love a sunburnt country (not),
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains (tell me about it).
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me(meh! may-be)!

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain.....

Cheers
Stewart

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.

Just in case you've been wondering, no, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.
What is happening is that it has been a very dry start to the season so I've been keeping my planting to a minimum, though I have been planting somethings.

Secondly I've been driving the wheels off the Taxi trying to reach a long held goal of buying a motorbike.

This has been made all the harder by me because of another decision to never buy anything ever on HP of by a Bank Loan (any sort of credit) so I've been saving like crazy and if all my cards fall right I should have my bike for Christmas.
So, not much veggie gardening but I have managed to get some things growing. From seed I have cucumber, squash, beans (bush and climbing) zucchini, a couple of chillies and today I sowed some Chinese cabbage, beetroot, bok choy and a punnet of yatesdale lettuce.

I hope to have another couple of hours in the veggie garden this coming Tuesday and I might plant some more seeds but mainly maintenance I think, it's still very dry here atm.

Something like this is what I'm after.



Cheers.