With the final dreadlock now removed, the ceremonial weighing of the dreadlocks could be undertaken.
They didn’t even tip the scales at 400 grams! I’m thinking I may have to do a reweigh on a set of scales that were made some time after 1930.
We prepare the whale for our alpine whaling expedition at Mount Stirling.
We have a whale. His name is William the Third. Also known as Willie the Whale.
We take the whale down some gentle slopes. Getting the correct balance takes a bit of practise.
Then we take the whale on some steeper slopes. He gets up quite some speed, and the foot braking mechanism can lead to tumbling falls if misapplied.
Now whaling off into the sunset.
The things you find when you clean out your cupboards. Why I have five opened and partially used containers of peanut butter is anybody’s guess.
Yesterday I spent nine hours in airports and aeroplanes. For the sake of flying from Melbourne to Canberra in the morning, and back again in the evening. The first culprit was the ice. As we sat in the plane at 0730 we waited for the de-icing equipment (a man with a ladder, a bucket of warm water and a credit card) along with a lot of other planes. Then came the good news! Thanks to a security breach (some contractor passed their keys around the security barrier) the entire domestic terminal was being cleared. Including us lucky folk already on planes. We all had to file out to wait to go through security again, while staff wandered around poking things in shops in the secure area with sticks.
After passing through security again at 0930 and finally boarding, we naturally once more experienced the joy of queuing as our plane waited to be allowed to take off. This required some waiting, and some manoeuvring of other planes which had arrived but had not been allowed to disembark.
[insert fun part of the day where I ride around Canberra on my bike visiting people]And then I checked in and found out my flight back to Melbourne was pushed from 2030 to 2200, no wait, make that 2235, and I’d just missed being bumped to the earlier Melbourne flight. *mutter*
