A training walk around Holt as part of the walkcanberra.com website led me past innovative gardens, beautiful roses, a community park and, of course, a street library.
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| Floriade is over |
One of my regular walks/runs goes through Umbagong District Park, where there are a couple of timber bridges half way round. These have been closed for over a year due to 'work' being done. I have never seen a single person working on these bridges, which is very frustrating as it means a perfectly good route is inaccessible. Others have clearly shared the same sentiment as they have removed the barriers to walk across without incident. The closure of the bridges has now become more permanent. Now, I'm all for safety but I'd really like to see some action on this issue.
On a happier note, people have been crocheting abstract images and native flora and fauna and securing them to trees, which is quite entertaining.
It's been a while since I had an Orval, but they are always tasty, spicy, warming and welcome.
Our group training walk was a repeat of Stage Two of The Bloody Long Walk, past more embassies, through more suburbs, and around more of the lake. It was also completed in pouring rain - we were utterly drenched!
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| Embassy of Finland |
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| High Commission of Samoa |
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| Still smiling! |
Due to extreme leakage and technical issues, it appears that I need new walking shoes and a new phone. So the next day I went shopping.
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| Essential supplies |
The new phone has a new camera of course, so who or what would naturally be the first thing to photograph...?
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| Melantho |
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| Penelope |
