Busy busy busy

We've had some sunny days and produced some electricity ... but not a tremendous amount. Our roof is quite shaded, especially at this time of year, so we're not sure if it is going to be the powerhouse we had hoped for. The only day we've put any into the battery at all was Sunday, when we left the house for seven hours to go into Queanbeyan to meet friends for lunch and go grocery shopping. Turns out the best way to use less power is to turn everything off and go somewhere else! Wow. 

We have been unusually social though, these last couple of weeks. There was a concert at the museum - local musicians, which was excellent. They moved some of the exhibits out of the big room upstairs that has a stage at one end - apparently it was the first time it had been used for live music since the 1920s! There might have been dancing then. We did not have dancing, but there was a bar.

Then there was the historical society annual dinner (no bar, bring your own bottle(s) of anything) where our table came third in the trivia and there was an excellent speech about the local home guard during the second world war. Sounds a bit dull but was really interesting - the guy was very entertaining. He is writing a book and kept saying things like "I've found this obscure record, does anyone know a William Maynard, born about 1920?" and someone up the back would go "Uncle Bill!!!!! He lost three fingers in 1952 and his wife was an alcoholic" etc. Small towns.

Then we went to an art exhibition opening for another art group in town - they seem to be a bit more serious than our group and have artist statements and coherent styles. It was great, and we knew a few people there, and there was a bar. Actually the same bar because the art people ran the bar at the concert too, to make a few extra dollars.

Then I was not social at all and went down the coast for a couple of days, which is why all these pictures are beach pictures. Only an hour away but ten degrees warmer. I made a pair of pants that worked out and a shirt that really didn't.