Wednesday, December 17, 2008

My Nan....

Unfortunately in the early hours of this morning my Nan passed away.
She had been successfully on dialysis for several years to combat kidney failure, but early stages of dementia and an infection received through her dialysis meant she was transferred to a Christchurch Hospital, then a Christchurch Rest Home (as no Timaru one could administer dialysis for her - RIDICULOUS) only a few weeks ago.
Last weekend the infection came back with a vengeance, and there was nothing more that the doctors in Christchurch could do for her. We were told on Monday morning that she wasn't expected to see out the week, and arrangements were made for her to be transferred to the Hospice here in Timaru, because being back here was all she wanted the whole time she was away. She arrived and was settled in at the Hospice by 3 o'clock Tuesday, and she was gone just after midnight.
Dad had told me on Monday that he thought once she got back to Timaru that she'd probably give up, and he was so right. It was sooner than we were ready for, but the best thing for her really. And lets face it, we were never going to be ready. How could you be?
I took this photo of her just before Christmas last year (under duress I might add as Nan doesn't like getting her photo taken), so that I could make memory books for myself and my sisters.
I got Nan to write on a card which I put with the photo in a pocket of the book, along with photos and messages from our other grandparents, our parents and each other. I am so pleased now that I did that. Now I will always have a little piece of my Nan when I need it, and so will my sisters. Incredibly at my age, up until today I still had three of my four grandparents left. I only wish I had scrapbooked when Grandad Scott was around. He had the most beautiful handwriting, and probably many a story to tell too.
At least now, after 14 years of patiently waiting, she is with Grandad again, where she should be.

Elizabeth Evelyn Scott (Betty)
6 June 1924 - 17 December 2008

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Our weekend...

Our weekend was crazy (again!)... my best friend Ange's little sister Ness got married, and I was photographer AND guest!

The ceremony was in the Raincliff Outdoor Chapel (on the Scout Camp grounds), and the reception was at the Youth Camp, which worked well because all the guests that wanted to could stay the night in the bunkrooms :) Because we could, D towed the in-law's caravan out while I was sorting out pre-ceremony stuff with the wedding party, so that we could sleep in a double bed, rather than the bunks. Fab!

The wedding was beautiful, and because I have known the bride's big sister for nearly 25 years, it was almost like being at a family wedding, so that was cool. I was (and still am if I am totally honest) completely stuffed yesterday, after taking the photos all afternoon, then dancing the night away until about half one in the morning - something I haven't done in a LONG time! We had a yummy brunch the morning after the wedding - bacon, eggs, hash browns, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, toast etc. Mmm mmm!

Anyhoo, here's a wee taste of the photos I got on the day... Ladies and Gentlemen, Jonno and Ness Hines (nee Morrison):









Righto, that's it for me for now, best get away and make lunch for J before we need to head off.

Toodles, B x
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

HaHaHa

Nice one Rachel, yes I can type and since you enjoyed my blog so much I'll start a regular blog on Becks site just for you!!!! ENJOY

Monday, December 8, 2008

Blog Takeover....

This is Daz here, I finally thought it was about time that there was something on this blog for the husbands, so here goes.

It was late February 2008 and I had a bike that needed a freshen up in the motor department, so why not freshen up the rest of the bike at the same time? This is how the bike looked before it went in for a make over.

And so the strip down begun, who would've thought that this would be the start of 8 long months? That is correct, from initial strip down to final assembly and coming out the other end looking and sounding 100% better it was 8 months.



After the bike was stripped of its parts I then started attacking it with a stripping disc on all the accessible parts of the frame, when this was completed it was taken down to the sodium blasting dude in redruth (payment for the sodium blasting was made in the way of 24 pack), it had to be blasted around all the welds, nooks and crannies where I couldn't get in with the strip disc. When I got the frame back I then had to sand the whole frame to smooth out the profile that the blasting left, all up I probably spent about 16 hours stripping and sanding.



So now it's time for painting. First the frame had a couple of coats of undercoat then countless coats of a two pack paint which Stu at Resene matched for me off a brand new 2008 KDX at Motorcycle World, thanks Stu. I figured that if I was going to all the trouble of stripping and painting the frame I might as well give it a coat of the latest colour (so now I have a silver KDX which looks much smarter than the old green model). But it didn't stop there, since changing the frame colour I also had to change the colour of the tank, this was hand sanded to give the paint something to etch to, this also had a couple of coats of undercoat and then 3 or 4 coats of a 2 pack gloss black, this now ties in with the frame. When spraying the frame I used a state of the art spraying jig!! (It's amazing how many uses you can get out of a common broom and wheelie bin) The rear swing arm got stripped right back and had a couple of grooves welded up by the good lads at Andar and then sanded and sprayed in the same silver as the rest of the frame.




Now that the frame is looking good as new it's time to start assembly, or as much assembly as I could do without the motor. This is how the bike spent the next few months while I had a friend rebuild the motor which included the following: new conrod, piston, rings, every bearing in the motor, gasket sets and I also had to get the bore re-chromed (not a cheap rebuild but had to be done)





The rest of the bike had the following replaced: new gripper seat cover, new alloy bash guard for the rear brake master cylinder, new headstock bearings top and bottom, new bearings in all suspension joints/pivots, new front pads, new air filter, new alloy gear lever, new fork gators and I've also added an hour meter to keep up with maintenance based on hours running.

My KDX is now re-born, a project that took 8 months but was worth the wait.



Tune in for the next instalment soon... Daz.

Dr Bunsen Honeydew?!

Well, apparently that's who the staff at Hubbards think Daddy-bear looks like now!
Spot the difference...


Ha ha ha ha ha! That is SO funny! Oh well, that's all for now, I will post more tonight about our crazy weekend.

Toodles, B x

Friday, December 5, 2008

More Child Cancer Funrazor....

Here are Dave and Ken from work, two of the RSM partners, doing their bit for the Child Cancer Funrazor. Between them they raised just over $3,000.00. Well done guys!

To be fair, Ken had a lot less to lose/shave in the first place, but I still say good on them for taking part. Jolly good show, ol' chaps! Bloody good effort for a bloody good cause. Huge props to you both.
Righto, time to head off to the office..
Toodles, B x

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Child Cancer Funrazor

Well, it's done - Daddy-Bear has (pretty much) no hair left now! They don't actually 'shave' your lid, but they give you a number 1 haircut with clippers. I got some pictures of the shave unfolding, but he was too busy afterwards getting the 'after' photo taken and talking to people that I haven't managed to get an 'after' photo myself yet! He was pretty hairy before he was shorn - he had been growing his hair and beard for a bit instead of keeping it trimmed like normal. Very hairy beard, ick! Well, here's the pics I managed to get.....


Well it was for a fab cause, and Timaru on its own had 81 people volunteer to have their heads shaved, raising over $50,000.00 for Child Cancer. Hubbards (Dad's work) raised more than $6,500.00 of that on their own, with four of them (two of whom were women) standing up to be counted. Absolutely awesome to see people taking part. I have to confess I am way too chicken to have my hair off, but I certainly take my hat of to those who did, especially the women.

I have pics of the two guys from work too, so will add them next post...

Toodles, B x
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Thursday, December 4, 2008

NO WAY!

This is in no way intended to offend the woman in the paper today, but have you ladies SEEN the article on page 9 of today's Timaru Herald? Seriously, could they not have found ANYONE ELSE who makes cards? This woman basically showcases examples of the type of handmade card that makes people cringe when you talk about having made your own cards. Grrrrr.

I know that all you lovely ladies out there have, and do, make beautiful cards. I have started on mine already this year - check out these two quick snaps I have taken this morning of the designs I have made so far..... I've made about 8 of each thus far, so I've a wee ways to go to finish my production line! I also have another couple of designs I want to play with too... maybe this weekend I'll get round to it!

So, for those of you who end up with these cards pictured below, I apologise for spoiling the surprise, but that article just ticked me off. Seriously.




Enjoy my slightly out-of-focus photos.... (oops).... I'm off to make lunches

Toodles, B x
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Oh... My... God...

Did any of you actually SEE what D looked like during MOVEMBER? Yeah, nasty huh? I even made it on the air on The Edge to join Jay-Jay's WAM support group - Women Against Moustaches. They put me on air so I could repeat my text... Yes, my hubby resembles Paul Snr from American Chopper. Yuck, Yuck, Yuck. Thank goodness it is now December (otherwise now to be known as "Get-that-Face-Fuzz-Off-Month" Ba ha ha ha ha) See what I had to wake up to:


Yeah, it's gone now, hooray! I think to be honest, he's just stoked that he grew the hairiest, ugliest moustache out of all his workmates - must be a testosterone thing yeah? Oh well, all over for another 11 months at least. Phew!

Nuff said about body hair.... Toodles, B x

Oh and PS, D is going to do a post or two of his own soon, for the hubby's to read... about his bike rebuild and the trailer reno's, so WATCH THIS SPACE! ;)
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Belated gloating to follow - be warned!

Yes, I'm afraid this has to be done - below are photos of what our place looked like on Bathurst day (back in early October). I never got to post much about this because I was flat out studying for my exams, but yeah - GO FORD!

AND, not a bad result either - Ford finishing P1, and P2, and the Holden that came in P3 was Greg Murphy, and you gotta love Murph, he's a good 'ol Kiwi boy! :)
Righto, I spose that's enough gloating then... oh wait, hang on, GO FORD!!!
(Sorry, that one just slipped out, ha ha ha!)
Toodles, B x
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Monday, December 1, 2008

ok, ok, OK!

I know, I have beaten my formerly CRAP record and nearly made it to a whole month without blogging. SORRY! So now, Bridgette, you can shut your cake hole!

I am going to do some separate posts with photos in from our labour weekend trip, but first I'll tell you about last weekend...

I went to the last crop day for 2008, 9am - 9pm. We all took food to share, and man did we have a HEAP of food to get through! Although, scarily, we managed to chew our way through a hell of a lot of it....oops.

I struggled to find my 'mojo' as Nic calls it, but once I got past lunchtime, I got into the swing of things and got two one page layouts completed.


This was just the cutest chalk drawing, so I just had to capture it on film. Gotta love that denim blue glimmer mist for colouring the flowers with.... looks awesome huh?

The eyes on your feet story is really very cute - many many moons ago when I was a wee lass (probably about 3 years old) my Dad drew eyes on my feet to help stop me from tripping over all the time - the theory being that if my feet had eyes that they would be able to see where they were going. Clever theory I reckon!

Anyhoo, J walked into the toilet door the other night, and honestly, you would have thought that his bloody feet had fallen off, the noise he was making! So, I told him the story about my Dad, and offered to put eyes on his feet. At the time he refused, but the next morning, obviously after some careful thought, he asked me to draw the eyes on his feet after all. And, being the good scrapbooking mother that I am, I took photos for future use (of course, ha ha ha!)

After I put the eyes on his feet, we phoned my Dad... well Jacob did... at 7.15am he was the only one up and about, so he answered the phone. The first thing he asked Dad was 'Guess what I've got on my feet, Grandad?" And when he told Dad about the eyes, I could hear Dad chuckle down the phone from across the other side of the room. He never realised those twenty-something years ago that he was starting a new family tradition! Ha ha ha ha ha. To be honest, I think he was stoked :)

Oh well, that brings you up-to-date on the recent past for now, so onwards and upwards from here huh?

Toodles, B x

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Ok, here goes the FULL update......

.....Ok, so my last decent post to you all was the Thursday before my exams, 16th October. Here's what's happened since:

Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th October

I spent the weekend before the exams hard out revising for my first exam. Not exactly a barrel of laughs, but it’s got to be done.

Monday 20th October

9am – my first exam. Quite frankly, I was crapping myself. It has been 14 years since I sat an exam, and back then I didn’t do so well. Luckily, I think all my preparation paid off, as I had time to answer all the required questions, re-read the questions and my answers again, and finish half an hour early. What a relief to have that out of the way. Now to spend the next couple of days revising for my second exam on Thursday. UNTIL Grandad has a bad turn and ends up having yet another ambulance ride to Hospital. They think he’s had a stroke. Not so great. Things are definitely a bit touch and go, and emotions are running high. So much for being able to concentrate on revision.

Tuesday 21st – Wednesday 22nd October

My days are split between visiting Grandad at the hospital, and trying to get my revision done. I have to say that my concentration levels are pretty much non-existent – I just keep seeing Grandad lying in his hospital bed, and to be honest, he doesn’t look so great. One of the visits I had, I actually thought he was dead when I got there, he looked that bad. I got a hell of a fright. Doctors have now told us that he may make a full recovery, which could take some time, but there is no way of knowing if there is another, more severe, stroke on it’s way. If it’s going to happen again, there will be no warning. Not a nice thought at all. And all the while Nan sits there beside him. My poor Nan seems to have gotten shorter again this week. When did my grandparents suddenly start to get old? I don’t think it should be allowed to happen. I know Mum is finding it hard coming to terms with the fact that her parents are getting older, and that they may not be around for a lot longer (as you would). I just feel bad for everyone at the moment. Life sucks some times. So as you can see, revision is obviously going swimmingly at the moment – NOT.

Thursday 23rd October

Unable to concentrate, I baked a banana cake for Ma to take to Auckland with her this weekend for Sarah. It’s Sarah’s birthday tomorrow – she’ll be 28. Where did THAT time go?

I did as much revision as I could manage in the morning, then anxiously headed off to work to sit my second exam. The exam finished at 5.15pm, and I THINK I did well enough to have passed anyway. We only have to get 50% to pass, but of course I would like to have managed more than that. Results don’t come out until a couple of days before Christmas, which is going to be a LONG wait.

So, I get home at half five, phone in an order to the Morgan’s Road F&C shop, and collect our fish and chips for a hurried tea. D and I have to be at our first Election Day training session by 6.30pm. Rush, rush, rush! Gem came round to look after J and get him off to bed while we were taught how to issue ballot papers and do the votes count, among other things. Training finishes at 9.30pm. By now, I’m a teensy bit tired. Surprised? Nope, me neither.

Friday 24th October

Sarah’s birthday. Ma is on a flight to Auckland early this morning to spend the weekend with her. My banana cake is in the air! Ha ha ha.

Jake and I pack all our stuff into the caravan (no small feat) and tidy the house, post-exams (it is not a pretty sight by this time, so again, no small feat). D came home from work at lunchtime, and we hit the road (in both vehicles as I can’t tow the caravan, and we don’t all fit in the ute of course) to Meadow Park, Christchurch…along with what seemed like a million other stupid cars, trucks, vans and motor-homes. Grrrrr. It took us two and a half hours driving time to get there. Double Grrrr. We are all a bit tired and cranky by the time we arrive. GREAT way to start a holiday! We nip down to the Northlands mall to grab some tea, got the groceries we need for our few days, then get settled into the caravan for the night.

Grandad got sent home today, but was back at 11.30pm that night with tummy problems due to a blocked catheter, which took a couple of hours to get fixed.

It’s a bit sad when the hospital is unfortunately so busy and so desperate for beds that they send you home when you maybe should stay, especially if its just before along weekend – they appear to try and empty out the wards before the weekend as a rule. I’m not blaming the staff – their job is not an easy one, and they are all lovely - but the hospital itself always seems to be extremely busy, often short-staffed and ill-equipped for the number of patients that rock on in, mostly due to lack of space/beds for them, but what can you do? I guess there’s just not enough money to go around.

Saturday 25th October

Ok,” I said, “Let’s go DO stuff”……and do stuff we did. There was a national Mustang Show being held at the Westpac Arena, so we took J along for a look. There must have been nearly 75 cars in there, all in pristine condition, shiny, sparkly, and tough-looking, all at the same time!

PHOTOS TO COME

Jake was impressed, although the gloss wore off for him long before it did for this father. A 4 year-olds attention span can only stretch SO FAR! Back at Meadow Park, we cooked up some bacon on the free barbecues and had Bacon Sammies for lunch, and debated over what the weather was going to do….

In the end we decided to give it a shot, hoping the rain would hold off, and headed out to Orana Park. This was what J had been talking about for WEEKS before we went. It was great. I have to admit I think it looked almost exactly the same as it did the last time I was there about 15 years ago, and could probably do with a bit of a spruce up, but J had a great time. There were playgrounds for him to play on, and all sorts of animals that fascinated him.

PHOTOS TO COME

Unfortunately the weather did turn cold, and by the time we had all had enough, it was starting to rain. Rather a lot. So it was back home to Meadow Park to make burgers for tea, and watch a bit of telly in the dining room.

I have to say that the facilities at Meadow Park are fab. It was SO clean. I was well impressed. The last time we took the caravan away we stayed in the Fairlie Camping Grounds, which was nice enough, but the shared showers/kitchen facilities etc left a little to be desired. Meadow Park makes Fairlie look like a dive. It’s a bit dearer, but the nice new dining room and kitchen facilities are awesome, the showers and toilets were cleaned at least twice a day, and there is a really cool playground for the kids. Highly recommended!

PHOTOS TO COME

Sunday 26th October

It’s hailing heavily as we head over to the dining room to make pancakes for brekkie

PHOTOS TO COME

Then off we go again… went to Animates to find a new toy for Buzz, then to G4M (Gifts For Men – gadgety gift shop for blokes) for D to have a look. We had a play in the $2K leather massage chairs – hilarious! Then we were off to Science Alive. None of us had ever been, but I had a good idea of what it would be like. It was awesome. J loved all the hands on play, and was fascinated by some of the displays. What a fab way for kids to learn about real life things. Very cool.

PHOTOS TO COME

Then D dropped J and I off at The Bead Shop on Manchester Street while he had a look at Acorn Models for a bit…. J and I made a huge blue gecko for him (he chose all the beads etc himself, I was in charge of assembly!). It looks cute hanging off his bag!

PHOTOS TO COME

Then it was time to head back to Meadow Park for a bit of a break. The sun had come out for a bit, although the air temp was still pretty cold. D had a nana nap in the caravan while J and I hung out at the playground.

PHOTOS TO COME

I took a cuppa and my word puzzle book, and J played happily for about an hour and a half until it started to get real cold, and the two of us were pretty hungry! We watched some of J’s new DVD of The Best of The Zoo (from the program on TV1) while we ate tea, then J went to bed and D & I watched some of his new DVD set – American Chopper. Lovely relaxing end to the day, lazing around watching telly and eating lollies! Yum!

Monday 27th October

After a relaxed sleep-in, the boys went off to hire a tandem bike to ride around on – not bad $10 for an hour. It was a lovely sunny morning, and they had a great time, although not long into it, J decided he was able to drive it himself, so they had to go back and swap the tandem for two singles!

PHOTOS TO COME

While they spent an hour driving round the camp ground, I cleaned the caravan and packed our gear into a pile of those reusable shopping bags (which are SO handy) so that when we dropped the caravan back to Kae and Ian’s at Kerrytown on the way home, all we had to do was transfer the bags into my car, and head home. Brilliant plan! I finished about the same time the boys did, so once we were all fed and watered (and toileted!) it was time to hit the road (“On the road again, Just can’t wait to get on the road again…..”!!)

PHOTOS TO COME

It was a stinker of a day – real hot for travelling. Thank goodness for air-con! We got home mid-afternoon, unloaded the car, put on some washing, and then sat outside in the shade with long tall cold drinks and chilled out for a bit. Just lovely.

Tuesday 28th – Friday 31st October

The rest of our week was filled with work/daycare, and the usual unpacking/washing/finding new homes for things that follows after a holiday. Nice not to have to study though, I must say! D had a work thing to go to in Christchurch on the Friday, and wasn’t due home until about lunchtime Saturday, so I had a quiet night in where I fell asleep in front of the telly watching a movie – Step Up 2. My kind of movie too. Lucky I taped it!

Oh and I bought J’s first school sweatshirt and school sunhat today. He’s getting excited about the whole school thing. Awesome!

Saturday 1st November

J and I hung out at home in the morning – he was very tired all week this week after his exciting weekend away the week before. D got home just before lunch and we popped out to Kae & Ian’s to collect the last few things out of the caravan. J showed off his school sweatshirt and hat very proudly for Nana and Grandad – so cute! Then we had to go to Granny-Rose’s to do the same. He’s a funny boy!

Sunday 2nd November


We had Alex’s 3rd birthday party to go to in the afternoon, which was lots of fun. Unfortunately Alex wasn’t all that well, so they took him to the after hours doctor while we were there and the poor wee man had a nasty ear infection. We had a lovely afternoon all the same, and J played quite happily with his cousin Brianna.

We were rewarded for the lovely afternoon with an almighty temper tantrum from his nibs that lasted about an hour, which we think we can attribute to either the sugary food, or the food colouring in the raspberry jelly slice, which he ate rather a lot of. It seems that every time he goes to a party, if he has either raspberry coloured food/drink, or lots of lollies etc, when he comes off his ‘high’ he’s a little SHIT. I guess this means that Christmas is going to be fun then, huh? JUST LOVELY.

Unfortunately when he throws a tanty, patience goes out the window entirely for D, and then I get impatient with him being impatient, so everyone ends up grumpy. Fun fun fun!

Monday 3rd November

Today Nan Scott (Dad’s Mum) ended up in an ambulance to Christchurch. She had been having nasty tummy pains and it turns out that from her dialysis she had a nasty infection. Initially they thought it was peritonitis, which is a bit more serious. The bugbear though is that Timaru does not have a renal specialist (ie anyone who can help with dialysis issues), so even when she gets out of hospital, and perhaps needs to go into care, she can't go into care in Timaru because no-one is 'qualified' enough to help assist her with her day-to-day dialysing. How bloody ridiculous is that? I bet that the nurses at the hospital help deal with far more complicated treatments than dialysis on a daily basis. Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid. Our health system really doesn't look after the elderly does it? Man that makes me mad. Poor Nan. Luckily (I spose) she is suffering with (or blessed with, depending on how you look at it) a bit of dementia, so she won't really know what's going on. If she knew, she'd be mortified, so it's for the best that she's not always able to remember what's going on. So, for now at least, she's in a renal unit at Christchurch Hospital.

Last lot of Election Day training tonight, 7pm – 9.30pm. Tonight is the training session for the Polling Place Managers, which is good because last time I had no special training, and effectively ran ‘blind’ at the end of the day. I am confident that this time things will run smoothly! I also had to collect, check and sign for all my supplies – do you have any idea how much stuff I had to cart home? Quite a lot, I tell you!

Tuesday 4th November

Tonight was my Beaded Bookmark Class – man what a laugh! Jo, Steph, Bev, Nic, Mum and I all had quite a giggle at the silly things each of us were doing. All in all a successful night, full of muttering, swearing, giggling, laughing, tears and, finally, completed bookmarks (thank goodness!) and supper (which incidentally I started baking at 9.50pm the night before when I got home from training). I didn’t expect it to be so funny, to be honest. Hilarious! Hopefully all the girls were pleased with their final products :)

Wednesday 5th November


Today was the day of J’s first SCHOOL VISIT. He was SO excited, I was worried it wasn’t going to meet his expectations, but I had nothing to worry about. He loved it. And he was SO good. I was very proud. He listened to the teacher (Mrs Woods) when she spoke, he didn’t yell out like some of the other school-visitors did, and he sat still the whole time.

The class was learning about the letter ‘h’, so he got to hear a story about Harry Hatman from Letterland, sing a song, do some colouring in, and practice writing the letter h. He did very well. At the end of the session they were signing the alphabet, which he learnt earlier in the year at daycare, so he joined in doing that with the bigger kids.

We got to spend the morning tea break outside watching the other kids play, although unfortunately it had been raining, so the playground was a bit soggy. Then we went to the office and bought a school polo shirt, and headed back to daycare.

On the way back to daycare he left a message on Daddy’s answer-machine to tell him how much fun it was, and then he wanted to phone Granny at work and tell her all about it too. When we got to daycare, he wouldn’t take his school sweatshirt off until he had shown it to all the daycare teachers – he’s so proud of it! When we got home that night, he put the polo on straight away, and wore it until bedtime. Funny little sausage! He also had to ring Nana after tea, and tell her all about school, then talked to Granny-Rose again just as he was going to bed, and after telling her again, he asked to speak to Grandad-Jim so he could tell HIM too!

Awww, oh to be so excited about something! It won’t be long and he’ll be complaining about having to go to school, so I shall make the most of his enthusiasm for now J

Thursday 6th November

Well, here I am, up to TODAY at last!!!! Ha ha ha. The school visit obviously left quite an impression on J, because this morning I got “I don’t want to go to daycare Mum, I want to go to school today”. However we did get out of the house without arguments in the end.

Tonight I am heading to Kathryn’s with Nic to do some scrapping, although I have no idea what I am going to work on tonight, so I’ll have to ‘go with the flow’ and see what I can be bothered carting with me before I decide me thinks!

Tomorrow we are going to call over to the Forresters and have a drink after tea while I help Rach with HER blog, then Saturday it’s Election Day, and Sunday I think D is going to enter a Motocross TT event in Ashburton, now that his bike is up and running. I suspect that this weekend is going to evaporate before it even gets a chance to get started! Oh well, nevermind!

I’m going to go now, and hopefully I will get the photos uploaded (as there are quite a few) some time over the weekend or early next week for you.

Hope everyone is happy and healthy in your families, let me know how you’re all doing yeah?

Toodles, B x

Miniscule update

I was hoping to update y'all last night, but D was hogging the computer, and then I decided I needed to get my election day supplies sorted out, and that took until bedtime!

However...... Yes, I am still here...... Yes, I have been slack..... but I HAVE got some great reasons/excuses, which I will fill you all in on shortly.

Bridgette - don't be so darn mean... you can criticise once you have a blog of your own you meanie!!!!!

Rach - yay you for starting your own one - ABOUT TIME!!!!! Ha ha ha.

Righto, back to doing that annoying work stuff I have to do in order to get paid, darn it. I am out scrapping tonight, so hope to update more on Friday night perhaps.

I hope you all get out there and vote on Saturday... I know that all politicians are wombles, and we basically have to choose the best from a bad bunch, but if you don't vote, you can't really complain about them! If you want to see a friendly face, come see D and I at Highfield School, we're there ALL DAY! (PS - Any donations of homemade baking/lollies/chocolate etc gratefully received! Ha ha ha)

Toodles, B x

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Just a little...

...little, little, tiny post tonight. I have a lot to catch you up on, but I have a lot of hard out revision to get done before my two three-hour exams next week. Come 5.10pm next Thursday, my study is over for the year! YEEEEHAAAA! Bring on the Barbecuing-Scrapping-Chatting-Drinking-Doing-whatever-I-want-because-I-don't-have-to-study season of summer! Righto, back to the books I spose. Anyone want to know about Negligent Misstatements, the Remedy of Specific Performance, or the function of the New Zealand Constitution? No? Oh well, it's just me then. Hope you are all happy, healthy and warm (it's b....... cold tonight isn't it? Even my pink slippies are cutting the mustard tonight, brrrrr). Ok, enough procrastination from me. Don't expect much over the next week tho ok?

Toodles, B x

Monday, October 6, 2008

Photos should be visible now...

...on the AMIMALS post.

And, Bridgette - wtf? That's not our barbecue you idiot!!!! We actually have one of those flash six burner rotisserie stainless jobs, but it's in the shed behind a whole lotta crap and I couldn't be arsed dragging it out and spring cleaning it first, so I used our camp cooker and frying pan because we were only cooking 6 kebabs. You're SILLY!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha

Toodles, B x

Sunday, October 5, 2008

The next Jamie Oliver???

...well, I can only live in hope! J helped me get tea sorted tonight. He's not too bad really, especially for a four year old. While I shredded the lettuce and sliced the tomatoes, he grated the carrot and cheese for our salad. Then while I got the kebabs ready to cook, he buttered the bread to go on our plates too. Being a boy though, he decided any 'outdoor' cooking needed to be done by him (funny!!!). I had to finish off once the novelty wore off, but he didn't do a bad job to be honest.....




So, like I said, I can only live in hope that I am helping to create the next Jamie Oliver, or pehaps Gordon Ramsay (god help us!) Ha ha ha ha ha! Although, if he wants to learn really good culinary skills, he'll have to find a better teacher!

Right, I'm off to bed, I have another book to start - a Sophie Kinsella one which appears to be a nice light read. Catch you all later in the week? Let me know what YOU'VE been up to, ok?

Cheerio old chums! Toodles, B x
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