Rescue Mission

IN KEEPING with my new "Superman" image (OK, OK, it's just a T-Shirt I picked up at Warner Brothers in Queensland), I was called to my first rescue mission yesterday when the Pedlo that Mike and Chaz took out onto the river in Adelaide city park had an unfortunate coming together with a buoy and got stuck in the middle, refusing to do anything other than float aimlessly downstream (much like myself at times). Anyhow, no sooner did they wave to attract attention than I ripped open my shirt, lept majestically into another boat, powered out at the speed of light (it was sooooo fast, it looked really slow, just like Steve Austin used to in the Six Million Dollar Man) and retrieved the lads. Don't think the concession owner was too happy, but hey.

I'VE COCKED UP. I left the charger for my Fuji F30 camera back in the UK and have now spent most of the day trapsing round Adelaide looking for either a replacement power pack or some sort of universal battery charger with no success. So, taking the path of least resistance, I'm about to do what any normal, sane, millionaire would and buy another camera...

ACTUALLLY, it's not that I'm buying a new camera for the hell of it - I've actually located a (very) slimline put-it-in-your-pocket-and-take-it-everywhere model that first caught my eye in the UK when it came out a year or so ago for Australian $289, which is only 115 pounds and therefore half price of what I can buy it for in the UK. A bargain. One can never have too many cameras.

THE CRICKET looks certain to be a draw, so probably a day away from the Oval (for Mike and I, at least) tomorrow. Looking forward to catching a few rays and not doing very much. It's actually been *cold* here the last couple of days thanks to a very strong wind. I shall, of course, be complaining to the appropriate authorities in due course. As Catherine Tate's character might say, "11,000 miles and they choose to keep it cold and grey - what a fucking liberty!"

AND I keep forgetting to mention that Hoopy bumped into a mate of his as we were sauntering through the Kangaroo enclosure at Australia Zoo last week. Is no place in this world safe?