Navigating in a circle

This Tuesday we walked off Sebastopol road, north of Cressbrook Dam. The plan was to walk in a circle for about 7 km on gazetted roads. We headed north on a dirt road, then turned NE along a farm type track until we came to some cattle yards and flowering silky oaks beside a creek - dry as usual - where we enjoyed our morning smoko. From there we needed to move clockwise towards the East then back south to our cars, but for a while it looked like we might be doing an extended circuit along exposed cleared ridges. Fortunately we struck back to a track to the south and after a while we came upon a landowner in a ute with friendly dogs who advised us to head back north to pick up a pleasant road reserve which took us west to our original road, along which we returned to the cars which were parked overlooking the rather empty dam.
By this time it was 1.30 as we had started late due to indecision as to our intended walk. We must have done around 11-12 km.
The good news was that Francis produced a Bakewell Tart for his birthday and it was very good.

Concerts at St Luke's

We are very lucky in Toowoomba to have access to excellent music. Recently St Luke's has had several concerts. On Friday 11th September we went to an international organ recital where Frantisek Vanicek from Czechoslovakia showed us the range of our Norman and Beard Organ. Then we went to two of the concerts put on during the Carnival of Flowers, the first being Phillip Gearing playing Mendelsohn and Bach on the organ, then 3 days later, we enjoyed a lunchtime of German Lieder with bass-baritone Arthur Johnson accompanied on piano by Phillip Gearing. The church was full of floral arrangements and people wandering through which gave it an added atmosphere.

Brewing

September has been a brewing month. I have made ginger beer for Melbourne Cup day, followed by two brews of beer for the summer. It all promises to be a lot of fun.