SKIN AT THE AUSSI LIFESAVING TITLES

What a fabulous weekend Skin had watching Cass compete in the Lifesaving titles at Kawana Waters in Queensland.

We were chauffer driven to the beach in a racy convertible by Dale Topp. I think his name is TOPP because the top of the car rolls down!!!

Here is Skin in his straw sunhat looking at all the competitors on the beach.

As you can see…his neck is getting quite red in the hot Queensland sun.

Here is Cass waiting for the gun to go off to launch her boat.

BANG!!!!     THEY ARE OFF….LOOK AT THE BOAT SOAR OVER THE WAVES!!!!

YES!!!! Cass and kristy won their heat!

 

Skin watched the events from behind the barricade.

He was horrified when Cass was injured in the finals and had to have her knee bandaged before being taken away in an ambulance.

He had to go too to be treated for sunburn!!!!

What a foolish banana!!!

Luckily they were both patched up and returned for the presentations.

Congratulations Venus Bay for a mammoth effort!!!! 

Will Skin learn to SLIP, SLOP, SLAP SOON!!!!

If not, he will end up looking like Lyn Carrot.

By the way……where is Lyn Carrot?????

SKIN JOINS A CATTLE RANCH

WHERE HAS SKIN BEEN FOR TWO WEEKS???

WELL!!!!!

He has just been brought back in a cattle truck from an adventure on a cattle ranch in outback Australia.

I took him to see a show called,’Outback Australia’ on the Gold Coast.Cassidy my gorgeous daughter, came too. Here they are lining up at the bar for a drink of lemonade!

 

 

Here he is having a ride on an oversized, furry cassowary, waving an Australian flag.

He thought cassowary riding was much too comfortable and decided that sitting on a hard saddle on the back of a horse was for him!!!!!!

Cassidy laughed and laughed, as she has spent many hours in the saddle throughout her life.

But Skin could not be deterred!

He made friends with a lonely looking cattleman…

AND……..THE NEXT THING WE KNEW…..

HE WAS GONE………….

              FAR, FAR AWAY INTO THE HARSH, DRY OUTBACK.

I have been worried for two weeks!

Lyn carrot was so upset that she cried non stop for the whole fortnight. She is a soggy, soft mess and will have to go out in the sun to toughen up.

We are all going to watch Cassidy race the rubber inflatable surfboats on Saturday at Kawana Waters, here on the Sunshine coast in Queensland.

She is competing in the Australian Lifesaving championships with all her team members.

Maybe Skin will decide to become a lifesaver!!!!!

Watch this blog to see what happens!!!!!

 

 

 

 

He was so excited that he took off on one of his escapades out west.

Here he is

SKIN AND LYN BECOME WRITERS

Where have Skin and Lyn been for 2 weeks????

They enrolled in Colin Campbells’ writing workshop on the Gold Coast hoping to become famous authors in a fortnight!

Here they are, sitting in their new snake skin chairs, with pens poised waiting to write words of poetic charm and perception.

Col sits waiting with his pen poised waiting for the fruit and vegetable to pay attention!

They keep swivelling their chairs around and locking their eyes on the computer screen……

What a naughty pair!

Just before they started this course, Skin decided to have a bath with all his clothes on!!!

Is there any hope for this appealing character?

It is Col’s birthday tomorrow and Skin and Lyn found this fabulous birthday cake at Eumundi market made of chocolate with a spiralling  Queen cake tail. They were too frightened to bring it back to the coast!

The writing course finished today. Skin wrote a collection of poems about the joy of being a banana and Lyn wrote one long poem about her life as a vegie!

Will their work be published and will Col receive a cake!

Find out in the next weekly installment of, ‘Skin on tour 2009’