This blog is boring

You know you are in trouble when someone walks up to you and tells you that your blog is boring. Not enough updates I guess. Sorry :o)

We have been working hard, Ian is hoping his foot will get better in time for our Bushtucker trip on Sunday which we are really looking forward to. We get to go in a canoe up a river, eat some grubs n kangaroo n 'stuff' look at a cave and more paddling of the canoe. Sounds fab. We'll let you know how it goes. All 15 of us :oD

We had a few drinks to celebrate living in Oz for 2 years which was fun. 15 adults and 10 kids, great night in. Thanks kids for all the tidying (and I am not being sarcastic, they worked like little troopers).

I put these beauties in to brighten up the doorstep.



The boys had to have needles today, Fraser seems to have missed out his year 7 jabs, not sure how but he has had 2 today, Kristian only needed one and was happy to go for ice cream after. Carolyn had a coffee because she didn't have a needle today, only brave soldiers got the reward today. What Missy will be like when she has hers at school I shudder to think. No ice cream there!!!

A conversation between Marisa and Fraser.... 'Fraser there is a huge hole in your sock' 'Mmmmm but it still covers most of my foot'. Okaaaay then, all is well in the world according to Fraser. (It was more hole than sock and is now in the bin)

So am I forgiven for being boring Elena???

xc

50 Not Out

Monday 15th June 2009
Ian didn’t get up any earlier than usual because he thought that we would do the birthday thing after work, Carolyn and the kids had other ideas and he ended up getting into work late, having opened his cards and pressies.
It was a weird day at the Café today, we are short staffed for the next three days so it felt busier than it was, but it was a quiet one really.
Carolyn stuck a notice on the counter announcing Ians birthday so he stayed in the kitchen until the afternoon when the sign was removed, Ian doesn’t really do birthdays and doesn’t like a fuss, specially from people who aren’t family who if it hadn’t been announced, would have been none the wiser.
He did get a couple of presents from a couple of customers, the old dears do like to make a fuss of him bless em.
Kristian went to Cubs this evening and had his investiture, when he came home with his new neckerchief he was so excited, he even made Carolyn do the Cub handshake a few times while taking a photo of it which Carolyn will no doubt post at some point.
After the kids had gone to bed we watched another episode of Shameless before having an early night.

A Year On

Tuesday 2nd June 2009
Today is the first anniversary of day Carolyns Mum died, for Carolyn in particular it is extremely stressful, every anniversary is something new without her Mum, Birthdays, Anniversaries (she was the one who used to let us know when our wedding anniversary was), Christmas, we just didn’t realise how many different things we kept in touch about.
It has been a very traumatic year for Carolyn, the death of her Mum at what is today considered to be a young age within a couple of months of us migrating to the other side of the world, living in a new country, new cultures, new laws, new expectations and no guarantee that we will be allowed to stay in a couple of years time.
Through all this Carolyn has worked her socks off, making sure the kids get the best education possible, helping out at the Café when the going gets tough, doing the Bookwork and keeping house to name but a few things.
Carolyns Mum backed us through our efforts to leave the UK and head for Oz despite the fact that she didn’t want us to leave, it’s just a shame that she never managed to come out here and see what she had helped us achieve, if she is looking down on us now, she would be proud of what we have achieved and how Carolyn has held it together over the last year, a year of pressure and change.
Carolyns Mum is missed by all of us, she will not be forgotten, but in time we will learn to live with the loss, and hope that we and the kids make the most of the help that she gave us, the help that got us from Axbridge to Oz.


Busselton Town Centre was pretty much closed off to traffic today as the Shire do some alterations to the roads, we thought that the road closures combined with the end of a long weekend and the tourists going home would mean a quiet day, wrong.
We started quietly although Ian had cocked up with the rota and didn’t have enough starting early, nobody to do the Monday morning duties which needed to be done today as we were not open yesterday.
We coped, we were helped by the fact that the Gas Fitter had decided not to turn up till after lunchtime, this meant that Carolyn could help out at the Café as we are short staffed with Michelle off on holiday to New Zealand.
We were busy until about 2.30pm when it died off in dramatic style, after that it was dribs and drabs and not really worth staying open, but we have to keep trying.
The Gas Fitter didn’t turn up after lunch as he had said, he is apparently going to turn up tomorrow instead, don’t you just love these tradies.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts this evening, they had to get everything organised for the Forrest Quest Camp this coming weekend, apparently they have come up with two Skits to perform while on camp, now when was the last time anyone used the word Skit?
After the kids went to bed we watched the Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood, it was a good film in its time but alas, too much naked flesh for the kids to be allowed to watch it.