Pools and schools have figured largely in my life just lately. Take yesterday: in the morning was R’s prizegiving event at her school, and after that we shot off to get my Yacht Club (on the edge of a pretty big pool called Durban Bay) tag updated. Then there was a trip to a nursery to get some more plants for the ongoing garden replanting exercise including round the pool. Then, in the afternoon, we had to pick R up from a friend’s house and go to J’s school for her Monkeynastics prizegiving and display. Then, a notice came up on R’s school communicator – with only a few hours’ notice there was an evening compulsory gala for Swimming Squad, so it was back across town. Pity the schools are quite a distance from home and from one another!
It was our wedding anniversary, and today is Much Better Half’s birthday, but there hasn’t been much of a chance to do much about either. Champagne did figure on tonight’s menu, though.
Anyway, another pool visited was the edge of the Indian Ocean after I picked J up from school, where we each found a cowrie, and later this afternoon was R’s normal swimming lesson at 16h30. On the way out of the pool area I encountered this impressive not-so-little fellow and posed him for a portrait.
Rhinoceros beetle
I had another furiously buzzing spade-headed beetle bomb me just before I started this, but that picture will have to wait. At this rate, I’ll be replaying all the old Beatles numbers, just to get in the mood. I have been listening to Handel’s Water Music on the car player, as it happens, so that sorts the pool part.
never found a cowrie ever! having a bit of a lazy day mentally (I’d like to loll around in lazy ginger cat fashion) congrats to better half!
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We have a good beach for them.
The cats are a good example of relaxation!
Thanks, on her behalf!
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The “normal nutter” more busy than NORMAL? Congrats on all the achievement, anniversaries and birthdays.
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Congratulations
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Congratulations on all the birthdays, anniversaries and prizes!
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What a gorgeous beetle, and aptly named: I’m one of those people that like beetles and spiders and creepy things except of the cockroach variety.
Love that music too, not the greatest but right up there, often put Handels works on my player thingy.
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Certainly a beetle of character, and one that might be a champion if fighting in Thailand where contests are staged.
Some people can’t Handel that music, and prefer Hayden from it.
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Don’t know Hayden’s work, fact I’ve never heard of him, As for Joseph Haydn I like some not all of his stuff; Beethoven is/was the greatest to my way of thinking
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Ludwig is my favourite, too, and top of his pops for me are not so much the symphonies, as the sonatas, particularly the violin and the cello ones.
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Seems we have much in common by way of music.I, too, am partial to the violin and cello works, especially the violin. I would dearly have loved being taught the violin. His one and only violin concerto must rank as the greatest concerto for any instrument ever.
Being an atheist; I do enjoy his Missa Solemnis, which I play quite often. For reasons unknown I do believe that the church of Rome do not quite appreciate the works of Beethoven & Mozart.
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Thenagain I think a play on words hiding in there somewhere
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(*shocked indignation*) Play on words? From me? How could you think that?
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Easily! 😉
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