Tag: Doldrums

Slow Wake-Up after Christmas

The Koalas in our garden are still sleeping, though! Down here in South Australia, it has been difficult to get anything done (by anyone else, that is!) since about the end of October…all the run up to Christmas was a chore, everyone is ‘flat out like a lizard drinking’ to get all the orders out…


Summer Doldrums

35˚C yesterday and into 40˚C today … and not even January yet! Pretty warm for the time of year, even down here, where everything is moving at snails-pace (except for last minute Christmas shopping!) Christmas down here is, of course, the main summer-holiday season, so everything stops from about a week ago until somewhere at…


No, I haven’t bought a Honda!

… as was suggested by one of my ‘ardent’ followers of the blog!   No, things have not been very conducive to blogging in the last week, in fact, there has been so much turmoil around the house and around some of the bike parts (or rather their origin and what is going to happen…