Back from the capital

I'm back from Canberra and glad to be home. As I predicted it rained the entire 300kms drive down and all the next day in Canberra too. This meant no long walks with Da but a weekend of museum visiting.

First stop, Saturday, was the National Archives where to my surprise and delight one of the computerised displays featured a random family history which included a document signed in 1957 by a man who was to be my boss in the early 1970s. Then to Old Parliament House and the National Portrait Gallery where there was a fascinating range of portraits of the famous and anonymous as part of a portrait competition.

After a late breakfast on the Sunday we visited the National Museum where we focussed on a gorgeous display of Papunya (indigenous) art plus an hilarious display of the 'best' cartoons from 2007 most of them highly unfavourable to our recently ousted Prime Minister. Then on to the National Library to see a display about the Camaleers from Afghanistan/Pakistan who worked the Outback from the mid 1800s onwards.

In between there was time to watch hours of tennis from the Australian Open in Melbourne including some exhausting five setters and a couple of meals out with Kh and Ae both whom looked well following viruses.

The drive home this afternoon was mostly in sunshine but a massive storm hit us on the M5 in Sydney and the last 30 minutes was driven in almost blinding rain.