Haircut Day

Bluey had a quick early morning walk in light rain. He ate his breakfast ignorant of his 8.30 grooming appointment. He might be getting used to Hollywoof as he only trembled a little once inside the building as he was being handed to one of the workers. When I pick him up, he is very excited and has forgotten that I was the meanie who left him there! He looks and feels lovely, showing off his recently cleaned teeth.

I needed a couple of inches cut from my hair. At Trim Time at Southport, I had to buy a ticket from a machine using a $5 and $10 note. I watched a man have his hair trimmed with clippers. The hairdresser used a vacuum hidden behind cupboards. The brush end looked like a vacuum cleaner attachment, connected to a length of swimming pool hose. This was very similar to my workshop vacuum setup!

My trim was simple with loose hair being blown away with a hair-dryer. When the hairdresser swept hair on the floor, he guided it to a hole in the wall at floor level, where it was sucked in by the unseen vacuum cleaner.

Anita had a more conventional haircut with the lovely Stuart on Chevron Island. Unfortunately, she got soaked walking a few metres back to the car!

I spotted interesting murals in the back streets of Southport Chinatown.

Our housekeeper arrived after working at a nearby residence. She was affected by the heat and humidity, so I gave her large glasses of iced water. She had to raise the height of fences to keep her cats from wandering, but one is persistently noisy, interrupting her sleep. At least Tilly doesn’t do that – she just walks on me when I am sleeping and leaves toys on the floor for us to trip over!

I spent an hour in my study updating the log of trips completed with our Bushtracker this year. Since 2017, we have towed the van 131, 656 kms, or over 20,000 kms per year.

The rain reminded me this rust problem on our carport needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. It has been caused by a small section of lightweight clear roofing we had installed. It was replaced by the original installer, but the problems were not rectified.