So the first week back at school and we’ve been doing ok. Yes, its true that on Monday The Flipster went to school with jam-on-vita wheats for lunch. But by Tuesday he had a healthy and nutritous midday meal, even if I did end up spending most of the day walking around with my clothes inside out.
Wednesday we’d ramped it up another notch and while its true I missed my piano lesson we did make it to after-school swimming. If ten minutes late.
Thursday was looking good, very good.
Lunches-tick; on-time-tick; appropriately dressed-tick. But then we got home from school and discovered; Boef (the puppy) with one of our chickens between his jaws (dead) and that we both have nits.
So, the Flipster and I now know what we’ll be doing on March 26th. Wearing our 3D glasses!
Based upon the book by Cressida Cowell, How to train your Dragon, is the tale of Hiccup, a reluctant Viking teenager whose world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that may in fact not be a fire-breathing colossus of death and destruction. We’ve been to Readings and bought the book so we’ll be well prepared by the time the movie comes out.
Today began with a visit to the vet where Boef’s stitches were removed. The castration of Boef has had a visibly quantifiable effect.
No longer do we have to walk down the street accompanied by a pair of balls with accesorising puppy. As The Flipster commented; “Boef’s knobbly bits have vanished”! And a good thing too, he was verging on the pornographic.
Boef’s swagger is now less John Wayne and more Julian Cleary, plus he sings so much prettier this way. I sincerely hope The Classification Board concern themselves with the size of dogs balls in films. For the sake of our children.
The Flipster’s first foray into the world of Surf Lifesaving and Nippers was a great success. Let’s face it, running and water was always guaranteed to be a winning combination! A fabulous experience all round was topped off with a first in the under-7s beach sprint in his first Surf Carnival down at Venus Bay.
Two months without blogging! It must be summer holidays
His mother having rarely met a hat she didn’t like the Flipster has been subjected to hattiness since birth. Luckily he has taken to this and can now select his own hats with some aplomb.
I can’t believe its taken me this long to get onto these. I’m obviously retarded. Now, addicted and retarded.
Kiddie Records Weekly began in 2005 as a one year project devoted to the golden age of children’s records. This period spanned the mid forties through to the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers.
Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it has been their mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today’s generation of online listeners. Each week throughout the year they add a new recording. With a break in 2008, returning in 2009 for one final year.
You can download all the recordings and the associated artwork. Douglas Fairbanks Jr narrating Prince Valiant and the Outlaws anyone? Or to make it easy on your self, you can order everything on CD or even, for the technophobes, order recordings as Audio CDs. What a fabulous way to drown out the plumbers. I’m in streaming heaven!
Today’s been a weird day so far; full of busy-ness and drama and its only just past midday!
This morning at 7.30 am our plumber arrived with six blokes and five rainwater tanks. The place is a hive of activity and Boef is beside himself with excitement as at the moment the backyard is a frenzy of digging and testosterone. With our existing tanks and the new ones we will in the end have 13500L all linked up in one system with water pumped into the toilet cisterns, the laundry, the veggie garden and best of all; a rainwater tap installed in the kitchen! The work is scheduled to finish on Friday and the heavens are scheduled to rain after that. Fingers crossed!
On a more serious note I got the shock of my life this morning when I took my usual route through the laneways, popped out into the very next street only to discover a friend’s house badly burnt and sorounded by police tape, police cars and fire trucks. Instant nausea.
Luckily, it turns out our friends are safe. But only just. They haven’t been allowed back yet to see what is left of their posessions, but they already know that their little boy has lost all of his clothes and that one of them, an artist, has lost all of her recent work. I can’t imagine how devastated they feel.
Brunswick East Primary School are holding one of their twice-yearly Twilight Markets at the end of November. These aren’t the slick corporate events some other schools enjoy hosting. More like a miracle of chaos and anarchy that somehow all falls into place on the day. ‘Organic’, a bit rough around the edges, and very enjoyable for it.
The Market is on Friday November 27th from 3.30 until 8.00, there will be live music, a glass of wine, some great craftiness and best of all, some really yummy food to be provided by Ms Helen from each peach.
I too will be jumping on the bandwagon with a stall featuring greeting cards by talented photographers Jules Campbell and Sylvia Baxter as well as my own very first ever set of Christmas cards. We’d love to see you there!
Our builder is an admirable man but one of the best things about him is his wife, Jody Bell. And come to think of it I’m not sure if she’s technically his wife but either way she’s definitely his better-half.
She makes fabulous bathers incorporating modern fabrics with old-time figure-friendly features such as boy-legs, halter necks and bottom-diminishing frills. I’ve been coveting a pair for ages and am finally getting around to it. This has led to the discovery that she will be at the Skirt and Shirt Market this Sunday at Abbotsford Convent, with a Bathers and Hat stall.
Whats not to love about matching hat and bathers?
Bathers come in all colours but mostly black, in sizes from incy-wincy to Boom Bah. She swears you’ll never need to wax again and they won’t turn your boobs into pancakes. Prices range from $70-$90 and best of all she has a change room you can swing a cat in with a mirror on the inside. The inside.
Hats are all sizes but mostly large and very spotty which is often just as a hat should be.
The Skirt and Shirt Market this Sunday is at Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford, next to the Collingwood Childrens Farm from 10am till 4pm and again on Sunday 29th nov.
