Community Projects

Today is communal cleaning. Which unfortunatey doesn’t mean the community come to my house and help me clean, it means that at 8a.m. on this fine Sunday morn, the community gathers on the local playing field and after a few stretching exercises and a pep talk, gets down to cleaning up the neighbourhood.
They pick [...]

Trashed.

The place is trashed. Our rennovations start next week and I need to pack up the entire house into boxes. I see this as my big chance to finally really dump all the crap we have.
I had to kick the man out for trawling through the rubbish and saying ‘ but we need this’. [...]

Things Aint Pretty

Kev just found out we I am sending him off to the temple for his 3 days ikyusan again in August.
Let’s just say he isn’t happy, things aint pretty here right now.

Neil Diamond Night.

Horrific. It was all in all, pretty boring to watch.
Now I realise that aisde from myself , Jacadamia, 2 carmalite nuns and a couple of prisoners in a Russian gulag, everyone else on the planet knows who won the whole thing. It requires constant vigilence to not find out, to not accidentally hear or see [...]

Happy Hospitals.

Big day today, Sunshine and Jim both needed to see a specialist at a big University hospital, not life threatening, just consultations really so I have been putting it off
as it takes up quite a chunk of the day and I always end up fraught dealing with the beaurocracy it entails.
I was really hoping that [...]

A Family Band.

The noise levels have been unmanagable today.
The piano has had a recent resurgence in popularity and that causes endless fights as everyone demands their turn.
( Not that they actually NEED anything specific to fight about, he’s sitting next to me, he’s looking at me, is enough)
I like that they play,I like that they are interested. [...]

A Pig’s Bladder.

So what’s new? Bugger all, but we are in a nice little groove, gorgeous weather, warm sunny days, garden all green and lucious, just waiting for the tomatoes now.
I think my promise to myself to water every day is yielding great results.
Kevin had some weird inexplicable breakdown yesterday and is refusing to play Rugby EVER. [...]

A World Out Of Whack.

Well the vote off threw me for a loop.
I just don’t get it. Who votes? Who are the people voting? Why do they vote the way they do? what IS going on.
So I can see a lot of people liking Brooke, she seems like a very nice person, with a nice voice, and I can [...]

Cat Cafe in Crazy Town

Feelng throughly invigorated after yesterday’s workshop I decided to take a nice long walk, keep the body and the creative juices flowing.
I miss a lot in my small one horse town because I go everywhere by car.
Walking today I had a chance to check out the new cafe everyone has been raving about. The Cat [...]

Weekend Roundup.

Relatively quiet here on the Eastern front.
I dispatched 3 kids and a cellphone off to the grandparents for the night yesterday.
They take a train and then a bus and then Granddad meets them at the bus stop and they call me. It works pretty well.
Kev was being Kev-ish all morning claiming he didn’t want to [...]