We got to drive around Mt Panorama

Following a Van on Conrod Straight
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Tis cold ere in the morning. Today 2 min to 19 max and again tonight it has cooled down. Helen did the washing this morning and then we headed over to Mt Panorama for a few laps. The road enters at Murray's Corner and you can go either way, but we opted to go the race way. Starting on the grid and into hells corner, up mountain straight, round Griffins bend and through BP cutting, up over the top of the mountain and down through the Esses. The Esses are tight, steep and to think that the V8's don't slow down that much, then comes the Dipper and around Forrest Elbow and wind it all out down Conrod Straight. We were only allowed to do 60 k MAX and even Helen got a bit of a buzz when I tried to take Caltex Chase at 60. We also drove up pit Straight for a look and the room through there is not great considering the amount of gear there is placed in pit straight during a race. The circuit is 6.213 kilometers long. We then visited the HQ Shop and I visited the museum. Helen sat outside and read her book. I wasn't going to visit the museum but for $5 I thought why not. There is some lovely memorabilia and some of the old original cars well restored, polished and nearly look brand new. Helen told me that Wayne Gardner and his family came out while I was inside and drove off in an Audi. We have photos of every corner, ripple, bump and at different angles too and even the winery half way round and someone's outside garden trees which were out in lovely colours. So from the mount back to the Van park to take the washing in and to have lunch, a short sleep, then out to the post office to send some concrete samples back to Arnott's and a parcel to Andrew, then a craft shop for Helen to browse. The craft shop is called Fantasia and Helen said they had everything! The best craft shop she has found on this trip. We'll have to go there again before leaving Bathurst. Now the picture of the berries that look like tomatoes is just so full of life and colour. The actual berries are about 5mm in diameter and I did a job on them while Helen was in another craft shop. The Arnotts concrete samples were four packets of Ginger Nuts all bought in different shops and with different expiry dates, but so tough I was unable to chew into them. I even tried dunking them in tea, made no diffence. They have very little ginger flavour and have changed in shape, are nolonger able to soak up moisture and were the worst examples of a biscuit that I have ever tasted. I had one out of each packet and the remainder with a letter went to Arnotts today in the post. (Arnitts got back to us, explaining that they have different Ginger Nuts for each state and when I got home we bought Queensland ones and they are just PERFECT) The saga with Telstra has taken another turn. Yesterdays letter said they were unable to credit me with 5 hours time, it was outside their limitations, but now they are offering to credit my account with a month of useage. They said that the first month was 43 days and had a prorata 14 hours usage on it which I didn't go over. I explained to them that had they told me in the first place that the first month was going to be 43 days and that I had prorata time I would have been happier. I said that in the time I have been in contact with Telstra / Bigpond I have had a different person answer every email and to me it looks like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is dong. The saga is not over yet.

Eat Queensland Ginger Nuts, great to dunk in your tea