The usual visit to the Victoria Market started the day. After trying a work colleagues earlier this week, we bought some tangelos. If you haven’t tried these, give them a try, they are apparently a cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit, but if you don’t like the sourness of a grapefruit, don’t be put off, they taste much like a cross between a mandarin and an orange to me. They are easier than an orange to peel, are very juicy and are also very high in vitamin C. Give em a go, they might be my new favourite fruit! We also got some double-jam donuts again! Not quite as good for you as the tangelos, but yummy all the same.
Before lunch we decided to go for a bit of a drive and take the dog for a walk. We drove up to Malmsbury and walked around the Malmsbury Botanical Gardens.
This is a lovely little spot, and we had a lovely walk around the gardens, although you couldn’t call it exercise as the dog just wants to stop and smell every blade of grass and pee on every tree.
The viaduct over the Coliban River from the Malmsbury Botanical Gardens
We can’t seem to get away from dickheads on motorbikes, there was even one tearing around here too, destroying the tranquility of the day. We then walked up the main street, bought some take-away tea/coffee and cakes and took them back to the gardens – a nice little outing!
After lunch and a supermarket trip, I went for a bike ride. Despite the wind, it was a great afternoon, and I decided to go a bit further than normal, so rode down the Moonee Ponds trail as far as Essendon, then turned around to come back. About 30km into the ride I got a bloody puncture. A nasty little shard of glass in the front tire. The amount of broken glass that is on the bike paths and roads really pisses me off – most of it is from irresponsible youth I think – they are nothing short of bloody vandals if you ask me. Anyway, I was planning a slightly longer ride, but onced I’d put in the new tube, I just carefully rode home, I hate being out when I’ve used my one spare tube I carry! Anyway, it was a nice 41km bike ride anyway, with all of the last 20km home into the gusty wind.
September 14, 2008 at 5:22 am |
Yeah, cycling is always a bit nerve racking when you are far from home and no backup left!
September 14, 2008 at 8:48 am |
Yes Tangelos are very nice indeed. Agree with you on the glass – vandals OK.
In Auckland where I live the council is pretty good at cleaning it up if you let them know.
September 14, 2008 at 9:57 am |
Tsk tsk tsk, the youth of today…… sometimes I think I am too young to be frowning on the youth, then I realise I am not that young!
I carry a puncture kit and plan on patching the other tube so I still have a back up (still haven’t been visited by the puncture fairy on my roadie ssssssshhhhhh)
September 14, 2008 at 12:41 pm |
59:40 unofficial time. A bit slow but a jumping off point. Will blog more details when I have recovered a bit more.
September 14, 2008 at 5:53 pm |
Now you have put a Nick Cave song in my head, Red Right Hand, there is a line that I love “The Viaduct looms like a bird of doom as it twists and cracks”, he does have a way with word does Nick.
Tangelos a good, a work colleague put me on to them too, I bet they would make a lovely sorbet
Sounds like a lovely day, a great way to spend one of the first sunny days of spring.
September 15, 2008 at 10:00 pm |
I want a Tangelo! I want a Tangelo! We don’t seem to have them here :0( Maybe if I eat a mandarin and a grapefruit at the same time it would have the same effect….?
TA x