Scuplture on the Canning River

Friday was a busy day for both of us. I delivered two computers to a young Maori family north of the river. The younger son is in our daughter Helen's class at Padbury Primary School. They were delighted with both machines. The one for the kids is a slot loading iMac running an older operating system OS 9. I loaded 9 on it because I have been given dozens of great educational games on CDs. They come from Castlereagh School, a government school which caters for severely disabled children. Not many people know about Castlereagh and it should be given acknowledgment for the great job the staff does with their charges.

It is sad that because of a government dictate computers must not be held longer than 4 years, and so, the fleet of iMacs Castlereagh ran had to be dumped in favour of brand new PCs which don't run all those educational programmes. I would have thought that it would have been OK for the school to keep a few iMacs specifically to run these educational programmes....but no.

In the evening we attended a sculpture opening at Deepwater Point on the Canning River hosted by the City of Melville with lots of free drinks and food. The sculptures were good, especially one installation (see, I am getting with the arty terminology) which was completely made from discarded plastic drink containers. To quote a Peter Seller's line to be said in a strong Scottish Accent...'I noo say little aboot the Arts, but ah was soootably imprrressed ba what-a saw'

A few pics of the plastic marine life. Click them to enlarge.


Joan is about to embark on round six of chemo next week. Another six after that in the Folfox6 regime. What happens after that we have not been told. There is another CT scan at the end of the month and we hope to see more reduction in tumour size. All the bookings for the Queensland trip are made and we hope that the chemo does not make her too sick to travel.