Today is Australia Day, happy birthday Australia! This, however, means that as we live 5 minutes from the beach we have been inundated with all the people escaping the heat of Sydney and making our poor little town explode with people, boats, dogs and rubbish. Lots and lots of rubbish is now blowing around the street and into the yards of all of my neighbours as well as ours. I don't have a problem with people enjoying our beautiful seaside town but people take your damn rubbish with you or at least put it into one of the gazillion rubbish bins the council so kindly provides you with!
I have also noticed some odd behavior in our supermarket, while buying the usual groceries today I noticed that there was a bargain bin with Christmas leftovers, an aisle dedicated to the kiddies going back to school, a card stand with Valentines and a stand with Hot Cross Buns and Easter Eggs on it! What ever happened to just waiting until a few weeks before Easter to put the Eggs and Buns out, do we really need that much chocolatey goodness after the very recent weeks of decadent Christmassy goodness.
I am sitting listening to the kids play, leap and bounce in the little blow up pool that they have, it is half full of water and they are having a blast, you may ask why, if we live so close to the beach, are we wasting water by having a blow up pool. The answer is quite simple, on Australia Day we have a rather "interesting" bunch of people arrive, many just want to celebrate on the beach with their families and friends, unfortunately we have a few small pockets of people who over indulge in the sun and turn into horrible people who like to start fights and turn a day of celebration into a day of police, ambulances and helicopters. So this means that in the safety of the backyard the kids can enjoy their final few days of holidays, and I can enjoy a cuppa and some crocheting.
Happy Australia Day everyone!
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