Ah deary me, I’ve had a good weekend! Saturday of course was the spectacular RiverFire display, which a great crowd gathered on our street to watch the fireworks from. I backed my car out of the garage for a number of reasons - one being to stop people parking in our driveway, the other being that I opened the doors and boot and turned up the radio for the “synchronised soundtrack” that Triple M were playing, and I think people enjoyed it.

The F1-11’s started the celebration by dropping flares as they climbed rapidly, then the fireworks exploded for half an hour, while cars created gridlock in our street, and pedestrians scurried for position. It’s funny - riverfire draws a bigger crowd to our street than new years. And then the highlight and grand finale was the F1-11’s flying down low-level between city highrises and doing the spectacular dump & burn. It was a bit cloudy, so the planes quickly ascended above the cloud, still dumping fuel which made the clouds glow this aweome flickering orange.

Then Tim and Mark arrived. Tim was playing in the Alan Brown Big Band at the Sheraton, and I was going into the valley to see Thirsty Merc play. For the first few hours I pretended to be a roady and basically just walked around the venue listening, “checking balance”, and then Mark dropped me off at The Rev. Nice place it is, big open room with a mezanine, but it was closed. Anyway, the Merc absolutely rocked - I recorded the whole concert on my phone’s dictaphone, and when I can, I’ll download the clips onto the computer if I can. They played for about an hour and a half, and I went and bought their album and got all of the boys to sign it. Wicked night.

Sunday I had planned on going down to the River in the morning to see a regatta that was on, but that didn’t eventuate after a late night. Instead I slept a lot, and went to Carmen’s 22nd b’day late lunch. Was a nice little family type party. And then, that brings me to now - trying to sleep. The drugs I’m taking are supposed to knock me out, but the dam things don’t work.

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