Recently the TV show Utopia started. It is so like my work that I can’t watch or if I do watch, it makes me cry rather than laugh. It is almost like I fell asleep on the bus and talked about my day at work and the scriptwriter was taking notes on the same bus. Much closer to a real positive experience is South Steyne and our lovely patch of the sea. It is so clean and we have such diverse sea creatures to see that it is really uplifting.
Swimming not blogging
20 today for Gillian!!!
getting ready involves taking off warm clothes. Yikes it was cool today
Sapphire and dad
WOW
Encounters with early swimmers
the third person will start own swimming after the end of August. Mum now doing the work
Trudi, Sam and Jo celebrating that Sam has completed 20 swims
At the point
I did not make it to Shelly so I got underwater shots
The doublers
Back on land
Janet completed 500 km today
Thanks for telling me Sue
the high achievers:
warm where it matters
australians for Rhinos
220 swimmers
nil newbies
What I have been reading: of course as a massive fan of Michael Connelly I have read The Last Show featuring new detective Renee Ballard. Fabulous. Also a new Harry Bosch is coming out in November this year. Also started reading The Gene written by the same author that wrote the Emperor of Maladies, a medical research writer who makes science a rip roaring read. Also informative.
Badge ceremony: 19 September 2017. Get going with your swims and get your badge or badges.
11 comments
Fiona Horn
21/07/2017 at 11:17 am
Fab blog….a fellow bureaucrat never knew that…I also have love/hate relationship with ‘Utopia’…for me it is documentary…sigh!Thanks for your book recs too- the science-y one sounds really interesting.
Paul
21/07/2017 at 11:21 am
Does anyone know how Michael went at Catalina? I can’t find a link.
Edwina Harrison
21/07/2017 at 12:56 pm
He did really well, it’s on Facebook, maybe 11 hours?
Edwina Harrison
21/07/2017 at 12:56 pm
Congrats to Janet 👍🐳
Shelley K
21/07/2017 at 12:56 pm
Paul, if you were on Facebook all would be revealed to you… *hint* he made it (thanks Shaun)
Paul
21/07/2017 at 12:59 pm
Thanks. So good to hear.
Shelley K
21/07/2017 at 1:00 pm
Geez it was freezin’ this morning!
That’s some fancy, funny, artsy-fartsy blogging Elizabeth, thanks
Paul
21/07/2017 at 1:01 pm
One day I will succumb to the allure of the 21st century.
Shelley K
21/07/2017 at 1:09 pm
Well, we’re all going to be asking ‘where’s Paul at?’ in a few weeks and your big swim will go unremarked upon… if a swimmer swims and no one writes it up on fb did it really happen?
Elizabeth Stewart
21/07/2017 at 2:12 pm
I hope I am blogging on the day of Paul’s swim because with all the comments on Michael Teys’ massive achievement, I have so many comments listed on my blog. So thanks Michael for donating to Lifeline out of your swim and also getting my more comments than ever before!!
Ian
21/07/2017 at 6:38 pm
What’s Facebook?