Deffo got up off our arses today!

Whew it's been a busy day so far!

Celia and I met up at 5.30am and embarked on a reccy ride to boldly go where no WEWW has gone before... i.e. Toohey Forest via the Yeronga-Moorooka bikeway.

Here's our route:

 

Heading up from the CityCat stop to Dornoch Tce and up Highgate Hill then around to Dutton Park, under the Green Bridge and along the Corso. The turn-off for the bikepath is about halfway along the Corso and marked with yellow bars. It takes you through parks, across Fairfield Road and up Park Road, across Ipswich Road, through more parks and eventually ending up in deepest Moorooka. Mayfield Road to be exact.

Almost exactly opposite the end of the bikepath is a road leading up to Toohey Forest Park. Well it's actually more of a track and Toohey Forest is actually a mountain from this angle. So it was a hard left as Celia skirted around the outside of the park looking for a realistic access point..... it really is quite hilly around here! We hit Toohey road which is a main road but it led us to where we wanted to be - inside the park on a sealed track.

Once inside the park, the smell is amazing and it takes seconds before you feel like you are really away from things. You are really high up at this stage and if you peep out between the trees, you realise you are on a high ridge.  Time for a quick piccy, courtesy of a passing dog walker...

We followed the track which led about 2.5kms through the forest and ended us at the Nathan campus of UQ. After that, we were able to zip around the deserted university ring road and pick up the S-E Freeway bikepath all the way home.

Total distance: 30km
Total time: 2hrs 8mins (LOTS of faffing about, map reading and general head scratching - the lady on Map My Ride sounded more and more like she was hiding a smile when she announced our steadily decreasing average speed)

What else? Mary and Phoebe!! They took their clarinets down to the market and (with Mari's excellent help page-turning and thanking donors) really hit one out of the park for us. Total takings for about one hour of playing : $53.55! Kaching!!

Well done, girls! You did us proud. There's talk of another session next week so watch this space.

Next up... Cheese and wine meeting

Today at 12.30pm we met up at Donna's and nutted out some details for the up and coming Cheese and Wine tasting on March 23rd from 4-6pm. Invites coming shortly. Tickets $20 cash on the door. It's going to be a really lovely afternoon. We've got Tim from Chalk and Cheese and a manager from one of the featured wineries to come and talk about the wine and give us tastings. Then we've got Lou who is a cheese expert and she's going to hand pick some cheeses for us to go with the wine. It'll be a chilled-out kid-free zone in the garden with Alvin (hopefully!) playing some smooth grooves from his extensive record collection.

Donna has all the details of what needs doing and will be sending out an email soon.

Finally... I pimped my ride!!! DING DONG that bell is begging to be rung.

I know she looks like she's being strangled but my zip tags were too short to go around her waist. We'll see how she fares tomorrow. Riders, see you at 5.30!