Tassie adventures, second weekend

It has been a delightful weekend. On Friday evening I joined my friends D & C for dinner at their place (which has been beautifully re-done since last I saw it), and then we went to "Danceaholics Anonymous", where much dancing was done. I taught a bit of Swedish Folk Dancing, we did some square dances, some contra dances, and even one SCA dance (taught by another SCA person present). Then I went back to their place, slept in a nice comfy guest bed, and in the morning we took a delightful walk up the side of the mountain to the Newtown Falls and on to the Junction Cabin.

It was very lightly raining, so I borrowed one of their Tasmanian leather hats to keep my glasses dry (otherwise the rain was so gentle as to feel nice after last weekend's heat). I had planned to try to pick up one of those hats for lord_kjar, to replace the leather hat he has that is wearing out, but until that walk I hadn't considered getting one for myself. It turns out that when they are not too big for me (like lord_kjar's is) they are really quite comfortable and very good at keeping glasses dry in a light rain. Therefore, if I manage to find time to get one before I fly on Friday, I think I will get two...

After the hike I baked a blueberry cake for C to take with her to a workshop she was attending that afternoon, while she got ready to go, and then my friend S picked me up and took me to G's place, where we had several hours of delightful conversation and good food. Then we went back to his place, where I got a not uncomfortable couch for the night, and in the morning clovis_t's mum picked me up and brought me out to their place for lunch, which featured lots of good food from their garden. Their property is just as lovely as ever--I really love the cliff that backs their land and looms over everything, and how lush and green everything is.

After lunch we gathered up the SCA stuff that clovis_t had left with his parents when he moved to Scotland five and a half years ago. Some of it I will bring back to Sweden with me, and the rest I will hand over to an SCA friend here to either sell or give away as appropriate.

Then she brought me to my hotel room for this week. Not as nice as the dorm room I had last week. The kitchen here has only a tiny fridge, hotplate, and microwave--so no more home-baked bread for the rest of the week, though I can still do stove top pancakes and the like.

Now I really should wrap this up, do yoga, and get to bed--tomorrow starts my week of serious training on the care and feeding of a Laser-ablation ICP-MS laboratory.