This one of course! I've been cruising around checking out all of the other fine blogs & noticed that all of them have a post somewhere appologizing for not posting so much. And I don't want that, so, you know, fuck it.
I HAVE been very busy though.
Things I have done lately;
- Had my mother in law to stay. I thought for one night, but SURPRISE! "You've got me for 10 days!' Not really so bad, I am not complaining that much. She stays here during tennis tournament season so she can go & umpire, so she wasnt here most of the time. And she did treat us to chinese for dinner. And the monkeys adore her. And she is happy to baby sit occasionaly.
- My father became very ill while on a grey nomad caravan tour, which was a bit stressful. He was in Karumba, which all grey nomads rave about, but doesnt seem to have anything within 200 kms beside a caravan park, & a fish & chip shop. And a small airport, which is lucky, because the Flying Docter service airlifted him to Mt Isa. Mt Isa is a small mining community just over 1500 kms from here. Dad is much better & is back in civilisation (I'm LYING he is in JINDABYNE) close to his own docters & creature comforts, but my sister & I had many many phone conversations about which flight we should be on to Mt Isa.
- The shed is installed & full of crap, which is awesome because it means the crap is out of the house!
- I have almost organised downstairs into some sort of workable space, which includes a desk space of my very own. Wooooooooot!! This, my friends, is brilliant. I am so extaticly happy to finally carve out a space of my own to create stuff in. To leave projects half done & get back to them when I can, rather than have to pack everything up to save it from the monkeys. Which means, that most of the time I don't bother starting anything at all because it would need to be packed up fairly quickly. But this space? My new WORKSHOP space? Has a lockable door.
- I have started making a notice board using a vintage scarf & an op shop picture, but it needs more work so I will show you when it is finished. (I did this in my workshop space. have I told you about this? It's fabulous.)
- Attended some festivals. I am not the grooming nazi (no, really) but PLEASE. Redcliffe Show seemed to be full of people trying out to be hill billy extras in a Deliverance remake. I didnt hear any banjos, but I did see some disturbing dental work, & far be it from me to make fun of anyone over that. The Teneriffe Festival, by comparison, had a Vueve Clicquot & Oyster stand. No Joke. No free samples though, now that's a joke.
- Started organising, with Cheryl Anne, our father's 70th Birthday. We are planning nice finger food, a slide show, some margarita machines, & a dessert buffet. I do need to create the invites so if anyone knows of a great website where I can do this, please let me know!
- Each monkey was invited to a friends birthday party, held at a play centre. Luckily on separate days, so they both got to double their fun. Generally the kids (mine & other people's) where well behaved, which was a delightful surprise, although I did have to stop myself from punching one mother on the face for being a nasty bitch.
- Took the Gentleman to the local Garden Centre, where they had just unpacked a vespa out of their container from Bali. Thankfully, it wasnt for sale, much to the Gentleman's dismay.
- Introduced Monkey Jnr to this wonderfully loud, electrical machine with a pointy stick that you can poke things at. It's a win win situation!
Mrs BC
