Australia Day

While the rest of Australia was out celebrating Australia Day at various barbeques we chose to have a low key relaxing day at home. I spent a bit of my time lying in my hammock reading my book and just enjoying the peace and quiet of the day.

I did take time to reflect on what makes Australia the great country it is today. I remembered the soldiers that gave their lives so that I can still enjoy days like this and I listened to the sounds of other people doing their business. I heard someone mowing their lawn and a dog barking. I heard someone calling out to someone else. All these were far enough away to not be annoying and intermingled with the birds, I quite enjoyed hearing them.

I also chose to read Missus by Ruth Park as an appropriate book for Australia Day. Ruth Park is a classic Australian author who wrote the Harp in the South Series. I loved both Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange and Missus is the prequel to these and explains the background of the main characters. I'm finding it a little slow to be honest kind of like the bible where so and so begat so and so etc. OK, not quite that boring but much the same. I am hoping now that I am up to where the two main characters of the other books find love with each other it will start to move along.

All in all a lovely, relaxing day that I hope to have many more of this summer.