Monthly Archives: February 2013

Rain

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We live in the driest inhabited continent. Over the last 48 hours we’ve had more than 75 mm rain (3 inches, you Brit.s!).  That is a lot of rain.  At times it was so heavy that it was difficult to see the trees in our back garden!  Fortunately at no stage have we been caught outside during a downpour.  This morning it cleared up, and as we could hear the creek running in the valley below our house, I (David) decided to go down and have a look.

Walking down to Cripple Creek

Walking down to Cripple Creek

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Cripple Creek, in the little valley below our house in Mount Riverview.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, there is water in what is usually a dry water-bed at the bottom of the valley.

Cripple Creek 4 sCripple Creek 5 s

There were some extraordinary mushrooms.

Cripple Creek 1 s

 

A huge amount of water in the main part of Cripple Creek – as much as I have ever seen there.

 

 

 

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The “down” side was that the other creeks were flooded also, and the one in StMarys had risen almost to cover the pitch where Nick was supposed to play cricket today.

February

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Back to school ….

There is a huge difference, however: Nick can drive!

This is a huge development, which we really didn’t see in advance.  Perhaps it’s dependent on the person – Nick is a reliable, sensible person to whom we are more than happy to entrust the car.  in fact I think Sue is less worried about Nick driving than she is about me (David).  So if Nick (or Andrew) needs to stay late, or get home early (cricket training, for instance), Nick can take the car to school, and the problem is solved.

The cricket season has re-started after the Christmas break.  That sounds a really odd thing to say for an Englishman, but not for an Australian, as I have become.  Nick is now opening the batting for 2nd Grade, for Glenbrook-Blaxland Cricket Club.  He hasn’t made a big score, yet, but it is still a much greater achievement than his father ever managed!

Nick opens for 2nd Grade 1

Nick opens the batting for 2nd Grade, at St John’s Oval.

He is now an imposing figure – 188cm and 70 kg – and has the potential to be a destructive opener: when he gets going he can really tear a bowling attack apart.