SATURDAY 6 JUNE     CAIRNS

John was feeling somewhat poorly this morning! So was I – but this is due to a genuine sore throat. I wonder what I might be getting?

We eventually managed to go to shops to buy what is needed for tomorrow’s meal, and get a paper.

Then it was a quick snack lunch and off to bowls, at Stratford. We played in pairs games; won one, drew one; neither of us played particularly well. The club is on the semi-rural fringe of town, behind it is the Barron River, which comes down the range from up on the Atherton Tableland. There were great flocks of metallic starlings swooping around near the bowls club, through the afternoon.

As the day wore on, I started to be bitten by sandflies!

John fancied a  pizza for tea, so we bought him one. I wasn’t very hungry, so had some chips.