We ventured out this morning taking Bluey to the HOTA markets. It was drizzling but too hot to wear our raincoats. We parked on Chevron Island and walked across the Green Bridge. He was trembling when I lifted him out of the car because we were near the grooming salon that he really doesn’t like.
It was too unpleasant to sit outside, so we bought takeaways coffees from the Bonsai cafe and retreated to our air-conditioned abode.
I wasn’t prepared to do anything outside, so sat down to do more research for our trip. Yesterday I pulled out our overseas electrical plugs from our travel drawer and discovered the outside rubber on our Qantas luggage tags had deteriorated. The resulting mess has to be cleaned off with methylated spirits.
Today I made a similar discovery in our gloves and beanies drawer – the rubberised palms on two pairs of gloves had also disintegrated, leaving lots of small pieces of black tar-like goo. That drawer will need to be emptied and cleaned, but first, I will have to lay a tarpaulin on the floor before removing any clothing.
Fortunately we could spend time watching the cricket. Bluey had a quick walk to the park, but wasn’t keen to linger. Our friend sent this photo of Bluey “wearing” his water bowl at breakfast yesterday.
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