Mornings are getting warmer.

Below: North Americans going feral, Cairns or bust, setting out after a car service at K Mart. Surf boards in tow. I guess that surfers get well informed about the best surfing destinations for while classic waves are found all along the north coast, I don't know about the far north tropics and Cairns, but there, the Barrier Reef islands and the lifestyle is sweet. Summer is the rainy season. 

This is a simple photo largely of the art work on the van- probably one of the oldest these kids have ever driven. I hope they keep the oil and water well topped up even when Toyota is very reliable. Total milage is most telling. 

Add engine oil? On the early models this means clearing the passenger seats and the space behind, some feat, undoing the locks on the seat, raising and tilting it back, finding a handy little strap with a certain clasp that holds the seat suspended while you peer down to find the dip stick and so on. Easy enough for a truckie.

Motor homes: a location that looks perfect also needs to be level parking, an incline makes quite a difference. Small and lower vehicles have far more options when it comes to city parking stations or any overhangs.

Hunter Street Newcastle where the biggest KFC in Australia is under construction. This is handy to the health facilities on the other corner! KFC is expanding in Mayfield.  The Palais was once on the Hunter street site.

Here is one solution to the city's old fig tree problem!  (From the garden of a south coast non-conformist).

If a so-called unsophisticated tourist goes hiking in Europe or roams in a camper-van do they risk expulsion, mistaken for a gypsy?  At least safe on one score while ever we don't cover up in middle eastern clothing.
All the same, motor homes have difficulty finding legal yet casual parking on most of our vast coast line. Regulations rule the day.
My gross weight: 81.5kg -still the same!

Celestial figures, cosmology, IMAX, 3D - it's out of this world, it's a knock-out! Space ship - yes, but the footage of deep outer space is somewhat limited.

The second coming - Oprah in Australia. The things we do for the tourist dollar.
Better still, as well, bring us Colbert or Stewart for their (un)balanced insighful vision!  Or on ABC 2.

Newcastle to Sydney service.
Defence Force Air Show is on Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 Sep 2010 at Williamtown.

Area Health management has changed the work rosters for nurses who are not entirely happy according to media. Nurses who need to look after family at home need concessions, shift work must be very difficult.  From my observation continunity of care is an important consideration. Helps save 'reinventing the wheel' each and every shift. The actual art of care is aided by continunity, old fashioned redundant as it is. It means we are treated with more comfortable predictable targeted care. Old folk and young folk have an unwritten medical history from as long ago as the day before which provides a background and a context and details for the very work at hand. Rostering could aid familarity. Failing that the documented history is available for reference!
Professionals take the good with the bad. Health care staff : a lot should be done for them but without it being a case of the 'tail wagging the dog'.

My gross weight: 81.5kg, (minus .5kg. is this drop real?)

Admire native and exotic orchids on 18th - 19th September 2010 at Hunter Wetlands Centre - a haven for wildlife and people.

Native orchid

Good milk shakes are found at some cafes. Not the thick shake variety in luminous colour. The Ritz Cafe, Adamstown is one source. Another is Jim's Dairy Delight and Milk Bar, Hamilton, years old, where the array of chocolates and sweets is much much smaller now and some unusual incidents involved the owner in the past. 

As an occasional drink, the milk shake is rather good, even better malted, but the quality varies. Sometimes they are lastly topped up with additional milk which defeats the purpose and ends up with a massive amount of drink. According to one cafe it is best to use day-old milk because it whips-up better. Skim milk is an option! And maybe malt is a wholesome addition.