Back to Winter

 We are having some wild and wet weather again today, luckily it was dry  this morning when the man came with his large truck to pump out the septic tank which hadn't been done for quite some years. Do his friend call him "the shit stirrer"? Their trucks have been going up and down our road constantly since this prolonged wet weather. Aldinga and Sellicks hill would be finding it hard to drain off their effluent, the place being so flat. The euphemistically called "wet lands" are at the end of our road where they process all this waste. All we have to do now is wait for a new pump to be fitted and that won't be for a week or so.
The gardening man couldn't come this morning so after Brian came back from the doctor, I suggested I make sandwiches and a thermos and drive to Carrickalinga in the campervan and have our lunch overlooking the bay. We went via the back roads and the Reservoir road, getting nearly blown away crossing some of the gullies. The Second valley hills were totally obscured by the low cloud and later the heavy rains, the sea a raging crossed mass of waves dumping their white foam along the beach. We watched a couple of crows delving into the rubbish bin as the lid had blown open, coming out with the odd chip and flying with it onto the ground, there to find a way of reducing it enough for them to swallow. Of course they  scattered bits of plastic and paper to the winds, they are not concerned with being environmentally responsible.....