Thursday, November 29, 2012

Stuck

Andrew was due home from Brisbane last night, but didn't make it. His flight from Brisbane to Sydney was delayed and came in after his flight from Sydney to Wagga had left! It's fortunate that Andrew didn't have anything very important on today. I have a job interview this morning.... I also have two photos from the weekend,to share.

Toby and Bethany made the biggest mess at Kids' Club, but only Toby would let me photograph the handiwork. You can almost see the extent of the destruction in the background.


On Saturday night, the women of St Aidan's had our annual summer event. It wasn't called CafĂ© by Candlelight this year and we didn't do craft. We made mocktails, I gave some summer reading book reviews  and demonstrated the making of Eton Mess. Such fun!

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Progress

This is the stage in the build where each day can make an obvious difference.


They must have started putting up the frame yesterday and only got half of today in, if that, as we had rather a lot of rain.


I have found two mistakes so far, you really do need to pay attention!

Monday, November 26, 2012

Space

I have been holding onto this post since last week. Google told me that I have used up all my free space for photos and need to start paying for more! It's all sorted now, so we are back in business.


Last Thursday evening we picked up some pizza and met the Shephards at the lake.


We, and the ducks, ate much pizza.


Monique and I then set off to walk right around the lake, leaving the menfolk with the younger generation. We came back, nearly an hour later (it's a big lake) to discover children who had gone swimming in their clothes or who took photos of their feet.


I'm glad we managed this before the weather warmed up. It is going to be 40 degrees this Friday!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Entertainer

Toby is studying the book Holes by Louis Sachar, which is set in Texas, and was given a project with lots of Texas-related options. We found out about the project rather later than we would have liked, so were very pleased to discover that one of the options was to learn to play The Entertainer by Scott Joplin. Toby did that for his second grade piano exam! He hadn't played it in ages so has needed lots of practice, and we also had to do some research so he could present a little background on the piece.

Yesterday, after Israel's trumpet lesson, Shep and Andrew helped him out. It's a shame they can't do it at school with him, three people on a piano is pretty impressive.


Part of the background we uncovered is that ragtime was dance music played in the red light districts of African American communities and that Scott Joplin died of syphilis. I decided to leave a few of those details out for Toby's Year 5 project at the Christian College.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Habits

Warning, very bad phone photos, taken at night, coming up. When we lived in Estella, I used to walk Milo late at night, after the kids were in bed. I haven't done that here, largely because it isn't as safe an area to be wandering around late at night. Milo comes with me to the kids' bus stop in the mornings and when I go in the afternoons but it doesn't always happen and we don't go to the bus stop on the weekends, so I am starting a new habit. Walking Milo after dinner with Joss.

The first walk was great, we all loved it. Last night, however, Joss did not feel up to it, so Toby, who had been exercising for hours at track cycling, begged to come on his scooter. The scooter factor meant that there was less chatting, he was often a bit too far ahead, but he loved it and wants to come every night.

Here we are, almost home again by the light of the golden arches.


Then I decided to capture the moment. Yes, I am walking in my pearls.


It didn't seem fair to leave Milo out of the moment but he didn't really get the concept, silly dog!


Sunday, November 18, 2012

Rest

We have had glorious weather this weekend and have taken advantage of it. After waking up naturally at 8am on Saturday, I had a leisurely day with tea, coffee, gardening and baking with Bethany.  Milo got a bone and 'hid' under the trampoline with it.


Andrew and Toby went for a ride (they ended up riding 40 kilometers!)and Bethany and I went to the park with Milo.


We have recently watched Alice in Wonderland and Bethany warned me not to fall down this hole.


Just the sort of weekend you need before a big week.


Saturday, November 17, 2012

Progress

Earlier in the week we drove up to the block to see pipes sticking out of the ground and metal and foam hanging around.


Yesterday afternoon we saw this!





So exciting!