Had a lovely weekend in the country with P&B -- we set off on Saturday morning for Warburton. Much grumbling from B as we slowly wound our way through his least-favourite suburb, Ringworm; the traffic was dense with SUVs all heading out of town.

Had a walk among the tall trees in the afternoon, then checked in and proceeded to read the papers before heading out to the Polish café for dinner. A slight mix up meant we got more food than any of us wanted; sitting outside enabled us to miss most of the live entertainment.

On Sunday morning we breakfasted in Warburton then set out for the La la falls. After about half an hour's walk surrounded by ferns and tall eucalypts we reached the falls. Not the most spectacular but certainly worth the walk. P spent some time on the walk back looking at birds in the surrounding trees. I'm afraid I have awful trouble seeing tiny birds in large trees; he points, I squint, and say, "where? ... oh, there", by which time he's already seen twelve more fabulous things. Using binoculars doesn't seem to help me a bit.

It was a lovely relaxing weekend and the sort of thing one should do on a regular basis.

Last night was the first episode of State of play on the ABC -- I really enjoyed it; I particularly liked Bill Nighy's newspaper editor.