The weather yesterday was too good to be wasted indoors under the shadows of columns of packing cartons and empty built in robes.  

Channeling Pharell.

So after a spot of housework, Toddler SSG and I drove to our favourite park and managed to score a prime parking spot just across the road from its entrance.

There’s a lot to be said for simply standing in a wide open space with the blue sky above you, the sun on your face and the rustle of a gentle breeze through the trees around you.

After a quick circuit of the play equipment, we took our shadows for a few gentle laps of the soccer field – stopping every so often for some giggles / breath catching.

One of the first things we’ll have to do in the new ‘hood will be to explore any parks within walking distance of our house.

There has been so much confronting and depressing news making the headlines (that’s hopefully been making us all think, feel and act) of late so it’s been lovely to discover a few things that have made me smile as well.

www.goldgenie.com

First up, the new iPhones.  Yes, I’ll be pre-ordering sometime after 5.01pm on Saturday 12/9/15 (Toddler SSG willing).  I’m thinking of going large and going gold with the 6s Plus.  Probably not as blinged up as the phone in this photo but gold all the same.  I just can’t decide if I should get a flip open case or not….

The specifics of Apple’s cutting edge, ground breaking new technology aren’t the primary reason motivating my pre-order, I just want a phone that will turn off, be in the right time zone and have adjustable volume for the youTube clips I’ve been watching as I shuffle through this house move.

Speaking of youTube clips, I have more fun from the goldmine that is US night time talk shows.

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake performing another installment of their ‘History of Rap’ series.  Just in time for the Friday wind down and to get you in the mood for the drive home to R’n’B Friday on the radio if you’re an East Coast reader.

A lot of adult colouring in for mindfulness has been going down during Move-tember.

Often, a little precariously, whilst being put on hold during move related phone calls.

Unfortunately, disaster struck the other day when I managed to lose a black pencil.  Which required me to make an emergency trip to Big W for a replacement.  At least I managed to get a rare as hen’s teeth gold pencil in amongst the 11 other pencils so it wasn’t a complete double up of all the colours I already own.

On the subject of adults meddling in what are traditionally ‘children’s’ interests, us older generation have created all kinds of Australian shortages in things.  Nutella is in short supply due to our obsession with donuts and artery clogging drinks that use it as a key ingredient.  And now, it seems, we’ve stuffed up the nation’s supply of 36 – 48 shade sets of coloured pencils.  The displays instore and online at numerous outlets all say the same thing ‘Out Of Stock’.  If you head to Ebay, prices are in the $30 range for them.  It’s ridiculous but the adult colouring inners who might be reading (rather than colouring) right now, you’ll understand that it’s a price worth paying.

And that’s a wrap from me this afternoon.  After a busy week, I’m hoping for an early and quiet start to the weekend.

Take care and enjoy the flowers that are blooming all over the city right now.  Blooming everywhere, though accurate, just didn’t seem to sound that good for that last sentence.

Signing off without my auto signature because I lost it while trying to paste in the Jimmy Fallon clip.

SSG xxx