around about now...

I should be doing this, coming in to land at Dublin airportand then meeting up with the evilmooses for a mystery tour of Ireland and a reunion.

Update: the plan went a bit off course - the flight into Manchester was late, the flight to Dublin left on time and I missed it so I arrived a day late but the sun is shining and everything looks lovely and green.

longhorns on the way to deni

First we came across a plastic bullock team pullling a log buggy at a roundabout in Deniliquin

then the new entrance for the Deni Ute Muster, an event held each October just outside Deniliquin, NSW. In 2008 a record 7,242 utes attended, other records are attempted each year - utes with a dog in the back, utes driven by a blue singlet wearing driver etc. and a competition for the best "you beut ute" (most ariels, lights and shiny gismos) amongst others.

Above is the longhorn scuplture, the other is a ram's head with curly horns.

clouds and fire extinguishers

The rain has just about gone, our three days of drizzle came to a very welcome 92 points (23mm) of rain but there are still lots of interesting clouds around. This was taken on the way home from a fire extinguisher training course.

Fires were lit and...

successfully extinguished, several times and with different types of extinguisher.