A little update for you.
We have had the final inspection on the house, had a leaving party for the kids and around 20 friends at the local pool, we had a little get together at Occys Brewery with our Scouting friends including live music from our very own DJ Macca and his band Soul Survivors which was lovely. Had a great time catching up with people we usually only see for a short time each week.
We had 2 garage sales, on 2 Saturdays, and sold pretty much everything. Just a gas fire and a fridge and freezer and some kids toys left. Most will go to charity shops, the fridge and freezer we will ship if we don't sell them this week and the fire.... I need someone to buy a gas fire. It won't work in England!
Ians Car has gone :o( bye bye A GUNNER he was a nice car. Mine is sold but the buyer is letting us keep it till we are in Perth and ready to leave which is pretty cool, thanks Dan!
Tonight is the last scouts, last night Marisa said goodbye to her Drama Llamas, next weekend we are on our own (yippee) Marisa is in Perth doing YWAM, helping the homeless for her last few days of school and the boys have a final Scout camp. We will be left surrounded by boxes and possessions waiting to be backed by the movers next Monday and then we are off on Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or Thursday. Depending on when the camel delivers our $$ to the bank!
We have organised a few drinks with friends which should be fun, we have already been out to dinner, again, with 'our' staff we miss them, we have been out to lunch with lovely friends we met as customers in the cafe a long, long time ago :o) a handful of catchups to go and we are done.
I think we need to rename the blog, I'm pretty sure 'There and back again' has already been taken.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Sunday, October 31, 2010
For Grandad
Missy has been busy creating things. Not a lop sided bookshelf or mis-shapen keyring (still in use for the shed?) but impressive nonetheless :o)
We have been harvesting more veggies, the neighbours are grateful!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
and then....they read some books
A while back the troopers all got certificates for taking part in the summer reading challenge, and here is the evidence ;o)
photo lifted from school website, in case you are wondering the two on the left and the one at top right are mine. Shame only 2 families took part though, does no one use the library any more?
photo lifted from school website, in case you are wondering the two on the left and the one at top right are mine. Shame only 2 families took part though, does no one use the library any more?
Monday, March 29, 2010
Bathtub Derby
Last week was the ultimate bonding experience...the Cornerstone Bathtub Derby. Mixed groups from year 7/8 met at the beach and had an hour to contsruct a vessel capable of rounding a bouy and returning in hopefully one piece.
The children had about a month to prepare plans and gather duct tape, rope, cable ties, decoration and bottles up to 3l in volume. I suspect that mostly no planning was involved.
We filled my car with binliners full of milk bottles, having a cafe must have its perks! We hefted our haul onto the beach and got ready to start.
We had a great production line going, first person cable ties 2 bottles together, second person duct tapes them to a second pair of bottles, third person lays them out to look like a surf board, fourh person tapes groups of bottles together and we all take turns at taping and rolling the vessel over to ensure it will not fall apart.
Duct tape supplies ran low so we dispatched a Mum to Bunnings for replacements.
Panic over and with ten minutes to go we started decorating the boat with spray paint and coloured tape, not forgetting our flag on a pole.
By now we had given away dozens of spare bottles to other less super organised groups, but strangely, when we asked to borrow duct tape we were refused! Harsh... very harsh.
The Fish, as we named her was ready and the crew were eager to go. We went to the start line and compared our boat to the competition. We were fairly sure of success as ours seemed capable of floating at least.
And they're off.......... well some are, some boats fell apart at the start and most people were somewhat submerged and getting stung. Our fearsome crew paddled away and returned I think some five minutes before the next boat, much cheering and chanting went on, followed by collecting all the bottles that were floating off into the distance.
After the next heat was the deciding race, so, who will be the winner? we discussed tactics and the benefit of not dangling your legs in the water and off they shot, only to return 10 mins before the opposition. Our boat remained intact, was capable of holding the entire team of 6 without sinking and was the only decorated boat (I think)
After we won soundly, no prizes were given for best decorated or titanic award or best design, shame really as we did a great job, we had a fab little crew who all worked hard and made sure that those that didn't get a chance to row in a race got a little trip around the beach at the end.
After we had tidied up the beach, we were supposed to put the boats in the skip, as ours was the only one to still be capable of floating we really couldn't bring ourselves to chuck it in a skip so I popped it in the trailer to go back to school and dry off a bit.
After a trip to work to brag about our sucess, modest? NO! I went to school to collect the children and managed to wedge the entire boat in the middle of the car, after letting some ari out of a few key bottles we drove home stinking of sour milk.
The Green Machine is in the garden and will at some stage go back to the beach so the 5 of us can test drive it again!
A fab mornings work. Thanks Team!
Picture of Missy and friend paddling away is courtesy of the school website, nice pictures in the local paper too.
The children had about a month to prepare plans and gather duct tape, rope, cable ties, decoration and bottles up to 3l in volume. I suspect that mostly no planning was involved.
We filled my car with binliners full of milk bottles, having a cafe must have its perks! We hefted our haul onto the beach and got ready to start.
We had a great production line going, first person cable ties 2 bottles together, second person duct tapes them to a second pair of bottles, third person lays them out to look like a surf board, fourh person tapes groups of bottles together and we all take turns at taping and rolling the vessel over to ensure it will not fall apart.
Duct tape supplies ran low so we dispatched a Mum to Bunnings for replacements.
Panic over and with ten minutes to go we started decorating the boat with spray paint and coloured tape, not forgetting our flag on a pole.
By now we had given away dozens of spare bottles to other less super organised groups, but strangely, when we asked to borrow duct tape we were refused! Harsh... very harsh.
The Fish, as we named her was ready and the crew were eager to go. We went to the start line and compared our boat to the competition. We were fairly sure of success as ours seemed capable of floating at least.
And they're off.......... well some are, some boats fell apart at the start and most people were somewhat submerged and getting stung. Our fearsome crew paddled away and returned I think some five minutes before the next boat, much cheering and chanting went on, followed by collecting all the bottles that were floating off into the distance.
After the next heat was the deciding race, so, who will be the winner? we discussed tactics and the benefit of not dangling your legs in the water and off they shot, only to return 10 mins before the opposition. Our boat remained intact, was capable of holding the entire team of 6 without sinking and was the only decorated boat (I think)
After we won soundly, no prizes were given for best decorated or titanic award or best design, shame really as we did a great job, we had a fab little crew who all worked hard and made sure that those that didn't get a chance to row in a race got a little trip around the beach at the end.
After we had tidied up the beach, we were supposed to put the boats in the skip, as ours was the only one to still be capable of floating we really couldn't bring ourselves to chuck it in a skip so I popped it in the trailer to go back to school and dry off a bit.
After a trip to work to brag about our sucess, modest? NO! I went to school to collect the children and managed to wedge the entire boat in the middle of the car, after letting some ari out of a few key bottles we drove home stinking of sour milk.
The Green Machine is in the garden and will at some stage go back to the beach so the 5 of us can test drive it again!
A fab mornings work. Thanks Team!
Picture of Missy and friend paddling away is courtesy of the school website, nice pictures in the local paper too.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
and then we.....
Whistlestop tour through our week.......Monday 22nd February to Monday 1st March
Marisa was poorly on Monday as were almost all her friends...hmmm not good, I had to work so fortunately a good friend had her for the day, Tuesday still poorly so at home with Mum and couldn't go to Scouts, Wednesday still ill so another day at home. Enough already and back to school please :o) Well enough to go to the pool Friday night though!
Busy morning on Friday for Carolyn, monthly pilgrimage to see the accountant while the children enjoyed games and crash test dummies and kite flying and cooking etc etc for Jubilee Day at school, K had a friend round after school which was fun, nice chap.
Saturday night was WOMUBU a music festival held on a local estate called Broadwater Farm great music and free tickets for us which was fab. The children climbed the local travelling climbing wall and we listened to music till long after dark. Good times.
Late start on Sunday, I wonder why? trip to Bunbury as nothing better to do looking for odds and ends and stuff for Ian, another pair of sunnies to be replaced for our offspring who seem to lose or break sunnies regularly. Fish and Chips on the Marsden Waterfront which wasn't great, have had much tastier one there before.
Monday was a public holiday so like all sensible people we went to the Beach at Meelup, stopped at a coffee shop based at Ngilgi Cave on the way home to drink coffee and read the paper while various kids, not all ours, roamed around eating ice creams.
At home the children watched a film while we sat out front of the house and enjoyed a light breeze as we read till it was too dark, popped some fish in the oven and chilled out. No cubs this week due to public holiday but back again next week.
Marisa was poorly on Monday as were almost all her friends...hmmm not good, I had to work so fortunately a good friend had her for the day, Tuesday still poorly so at home with Mum and couldn't go to Scouts, Wednesday still ill so another day at home. Enough already and back to school please :o) Well enough to go to the pool Friday night though!
Busy morning on Friday for Carolyn, monthly pilgrimage to see the accountant while the children enjoyed games and crash test dummies and kite flying and cooking etc etc for Jubilee Day at school, K had a friend round after school which was fun, nice chap.
Saturday night was WOMUBU a music festival held on a local estate called Broadwater Farm great music and free tickets for us which was fab. The children climbed the local travelling climbing wall and we listened to music till long after dark. Good times.
Late start on Sunday, I wonder why? trip to Bunbury as nothing better to do looking for odds and ends and stuff for Ian, another pair of sunnies to be replaced for our offspring who seem to lose or break sunnies regularly. Fish and Chips on the Marsden Waterfront which wasn't great, have had much tastier one there before.
Monday was a public holiday so like all sensible people we went to the Beach at Meelup, stopped at a coffee shop based at Ngilgi Cave on the way home to drink coffee and read the paper while various kids, not all ours, roamed around eating ice creams.
At home the children watched a film while we sat out front of the house and enjoyed a light breeze as we read till it was too dark, popped some fish in the oven and chilled out. No cubs this week due to public holiday but back again next week.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Merry Christmas and Apologies
Early November to 24th December 2009
Firstly, to anyone out there who is still remotely interested in what we are getting up to, or whether we are still alive and kicking, we apologise for the lack of regular blog over the last six or seven weeks.
The last few weeks have been manic for us with regard to work and play and we just haven’t had the time to sit down and blog on a regular basis, and you know what it’s like, get a few days behind and you’re looking for a gap in your life when you have enough time to blog about those few days in one hit.
Don’t find enough time to blog about a few days for a few days and you are looking for a gap in your life when you can blog a week etc, next thing you know 7 weeks have gone by and it’s time to hold your hands up, apologise, say Merry Christmas, and promise that it won’t happen again.
That is to say, the lapse in blog won’t happen again, not the say Merry Christmas won’t happen again, after all we would hope that we would still be around next year to say it again, the merry xmas bit that is.
We will from now on be eating allbran for breakfast in an effort to get a bit more regular, and if we don’t manage it every day we’ll try to make sure we keep you in touch with our movements at least every couple of days.
The Café has been very busy over the last 7 weeks, this has also coincided with us staying open until about 5’ish Monday to Friday, which invariably means that Ian isn’t home before 6pm and as he starts at about 7am most days and is trying to get fit enough for this bike ride that he wants to do from Busselton to Augusta at the end of the summer, we are not normally in the mood to do anything other than relax after dinner.
The bike ride is the one that he had planned to do at the end of November, but because of the longer hours in the Café and the fact that we are not going to have daylight saving this year, Ian wasn’t getting a chance to practice and he felt that although he was pretty sure that brute force and ignorance would get him through it if required, he wouldn’t enjoy it and he wants to be able to enjoy it, so it has now been put back to the end of the summer.
Over the last few weeks the kids have had loads happening as well, there seemed to be something extra to do with Scouts every week, Bowling, Billy Cart Racing, Garage Sale, Meetings, Camps, Fundraising, getting ready for the Scout Jamboree in January, and all this on top of their usual meetings.
The kids have all done well at school, with Marisa being one of a select few to be in the “One Club”, you only get in it if your results are predominately “1” and definitely have none below a “2” for effort, but then she would wouldn’t she.
Kristian has been taking it easy at school and doing just well enough to keep everybody happy, but he didn’t break into a sweat all year over his class work so we will be pushing him a bit next year to try and get a competitive edge to is work and get him into the “One Club”. He knows he can do it, it’s just that nobody told him that’s what they wanted him to do, so he kept his head below the parapet and had a nice life, in which all his teachers think he is so wonderful.
Fraser has really come along great guns in the second half of the year, after a few misunderstandings between Fraser and his Teachers in the early part of the year, they have worked out how to keep him interested and motivated and he has really come on well, finishing the year top of his class in Science and well graded in Maths, while also working extremely hard to get good results in most of his other subjects.
We are very proud of all three of them.
The school packed up a week before Christmas and we have tried to work it again this year that Carolyn is able to stay at home with the kids, looks after the house, reads the instruction on how the Hoover (Vacuum to you non-English types) works, that sort of thing, while Ian slaves away in the Café, and so far it has worked quite well, the Hoover got switched on on Christmas eve.
The Saturday before Christmas we went round to some friends house for a few drinks in the evening, that is to say Ian went round at 6pm as he didn’t want to go to the Carols by Candlelight service in Busselton, he might have gone if it was going to dark but the thought of Candles in daylight didn’t really do it for him, Carolyn and the kids turned up after the show and the kids played computer games with our friends kids while we had a beer and put the world to rights until about 1am when we caught a taxi home.
On Christmas Eve we invited a few friends and neighbours round for drinky-poos and nibbles, including the kids there were 19 of us and it turned out to be a very relaxed, pleasant evening.
It was the first time that we have had people round for drinks since we have been here, quite sad really, but it is something that goes back to our days in the pubs back in England.
As a landlord of a pub, everybody wants to know everything about you, you don’t know everybody in the town, but everybody in the town knows you and it is quite unnerving at times, you just don’t have a private life except when you are locked away in your own little flat with the curtains drawn, so we have always tried to keep ourselves to ourselves and it has been hard to get out of the habit.
We are only a couple of months short of being in Busselton for 2 years now and up until these last couple of weeks we have still been using the pub as our place to unwind at the end of the week, as we would have done in England.
As in England, a night in the pub over here can be expensive, whereas a few drinks with a few friends sitting under the patio over here can be just as much fun at a fraction of the cost, you just have to drop your guard a little bit and let people get to know you, it’s taken us nearly 2 years to work that out, positively frightening really, but we’re confident we’ll get better at it from now on.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Firstly, to anyone out there who is still remotely interested in what we are getting up to, or whether we are still alive and kicking, we apologise for the lack of regular blog over the last six or seven weeks.
The last few weeks have been manic for us with regard to work and play and we just haven’t had the time to sit down and blog on a regular basis, and you know what it’s like, get a few days behind and you’re looking for a gap in your life when you have enough time to blog about those few days in one hit.
Don’t find enough time to blog about a few days for a few days and you are looking for a gap in your life when you can blog a week etc, next thing you know 7 weeks have gone by and it’s time to hold your hands up, apologise, say Merry Christmas, and promise that it won’t happen again.
That is to say, the lapse in blog won’t happen again, not the say Merry Christmas won’t happen again, after all we would hope that we would still be around next year to say it again, the merry xmas bit that is.
We will from now on be eating allbran for breakfast in an effort to get a bit more regular, and if we don’t manage it every day we’ll try to make sure we keep you in touch with our movements at least every couple of days.
The Café has been very busy over the last 7 weeks, this has also coincided with us staying open until about 5’ish Monday to Friday, which invariably means that Ian isn’t home before 6pm and as he starts at about 7am most days and is trying to get fit enough for this bike ride that he wants to do from Busselton to Augusta at the end of the summer, we are not normally in the mood to do anything other than relax after dinner.
The bike ride is the one that he had planned to do at the end of November, but because of the longer hours in the Café and the fact that we are not going to have daylight saving this year, Ian wasn’t getting a chance to practice and he felt that although he was pretty sure that brute force and ignorance would get him through it if required, he wouldn’t enjoy it and he wants to be able to enjoy it, so it has now been put back to the end of the summer.
Over the last few weeks the kids have had loads happening as well, there seemed to be something extra to do with Scouts every week, Bowling, Billy Cart Racing, Garage Sale, Meetings, Camps, Fundraising, getting ready for the Scout Jamboree in January, and all this on top of their usual meetings.
The kids have all done well at school, with Marisa being one of a select few to be in the “One Club”, you only get in it if your results are predominately “1” and definitely have none below a “2” for effort, but then she would wouldn’t she.
Kristian has been taking it easy at school and doing just well enough to keep everybody happy, but he didn’t break into a sweat all year over his class work so we will be pushing him a bit next year to try and get a competitive edge to is work and get him into the “One Club”. He knows he can do it, it’s just that nobody told him that’s what they wanted him to do, so he kept his head below the parapet and had a nice life, in which all his teachers think he is so wonderful.
Fraser has really come along great guns in the second half of the year, after a few misunderstandings between Fraser and his Teachers in the early part of the year, they have worked out how to keep him interested and motivated and he has really come on well, finishing the year top of his class in Science and well graded in Maths, while also working extremely hard to get good results in most of his other subjects.
We are very proud of all three of them.
The school packed up a week before Christmas and we have tried to work it again this year that Carolyn is able to stay at home with the kids, looks after the house, reads the instruction on how the Hoover (Vacuum to you non-English types) works, that sort of thing, while Ian slaves away in the Café, and so far it has worked quite well, the Hoover got switched on on Christmas eve.
The Saturday before Christmas we went round to some friends house for a few drinks in the evening, that is to say Ian went round at 6pm as he didn’t want to go to the Carols by Candlelight service in Busselton, he might have gone if it was going to dark but the thought of Candles in daylight didn’t really do it for him, Carolyn and the kids turned up after the show and the kids played computer games with our friends kids while we had a beer and put the world to rights until about 1am when we caught a taxi home.
On Christmas Eve we invited a few friends and neighbours round for drinky-poos and nibbles, including the kids there were 19 of us and it turned out to be a very relaxed, pleasant evening.
It was the first time that we have had people round for drinks since we have been here, quite sad really, but it is something that goes back to our days in the pubs back in England.
As a landlord of a pub, everybody wants to know everything about you, you don’t know everybody in the town, but everybody in the town knows you and it is quite unnerving at times, you just don’t have a private life except when you are locked away in your own little flat with the curtains drawn, so we have always tried to keep ourselves to ourselves and it has been hard to get out of the habit.
We are only a couple of months short of being in Busselton for 2 years now and up until these last couple of weeks we have still been using the pub as our place to unwind at the end of the week, as we would have done in England.
As in England, a night in the pub over here can be expensive, whereas a few drinks with a few friends sitting under the patio over here can be just as much fun at a fraction of the cost, you just have to drop your guard a little bit and let people get to know you, it’s taken us nearly 2 years to work that out, positively frightening really, but we’re confident we’ll get better at it from now on.
We hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy and Prosperous New Year
Friday, October 30, 2009
Great Aussie Craftsmanship
Tuesday 27th October 2009
Marisa received a Bronze Certificate from school today for her results in an unannounced Maths test that she took a little while ago, the certificate reads Conqeusta 2009 but she doesn’t know what the test was for and the school haven’t told us what it is for, they have just handed out the certificates and presumably we are expected to be impressed.
As it is we are quite impressed, maths is Marisas weakest subject and she has to work hard to do well, so this is a good result.
It was a bit busier at the Café today, although we were never really pushed it just seemed to be a constant plod for most of the day.
As well as having a fryer that is not working, we now have a dishwasher that is not working, so all the dishes had to be hand washed today which pleased the staff.
Great Aussie Craftsmanship, that’s what all the adverts say, every new piece of equipment that we have bought for the Café, mostly Australian, has packed up on at least one occasion.
We had a visit from the Environmental Health Officer this afternoon, we got a clean bill of health apart from some paintwork that needs repainting and new rubber matting on the floor.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts tonight and after dropping them off, Carolyn came home grabbed a bit of food and headed back out again to attend a meeting that was scheduled at Scouts for 6pm and she had forgotten about it. She hadn’t forgotten the meeting just that it was starting half an hour early this week.
After Scouts we relaxed in front of the box for an hour before having an early night.
Marisa received a Bronze Certificate from school today for her results in an unannounced Maths test that she took a little while ago, the certificate reads Conqeusta 2009 but she doesn’t know what the test was for and the school haven’t told us what it is for, they have just handed out the certificates and presumably we are expected to be impressed.
As it is we are quite impressed, maths is Marisas weakest subject and she has to work hard to do well, so this is a good result.
It was a bit busier at the Café today, although we were never really pushed it just seemed to be a constant plod for most of the day.
As well as having a fryer that is not working, we now have a dishwasher that is not working, so all the dishes had to be hand washed today which pleased the staff.
Great Aussie Craftsmanship, that’s what all the adverts say, every new piece of equipment that we have bought for the Café, mostly Australian, has packed up on at least one occasion.
We had a visit from the Environmental Health Officer this afternoon, we got a clean bill of health apart from some paintwork that needs repainting and new rubber matting on the floor.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts tonight and after dropping them off, Carolyn came home grabbed a bit of food and headed back out again to attend a meeting that was scheduled at Scouts for 6pm and she had forgotten about it. She hadn’t forgotten the meeting just that it was starting half an hour early this week.
After Scouts we relaxed in front of the box for an hour before having an early night.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Death on the Highway
Wednesday 21st October 2009
Today was probably the quietest day of the year so far at the Café, every shopkeeper in the centre was left wondering where the punters were, let’s hope it’s not a sign of things to come.
Fraser is getting rave reviews from some of his teachers at the moment, todays topic of the month was maths where he has been getting 100% for algebra and is generally getting an A grade for other maths.
This evening Ian and the kids went for a bike ride, this time the garage was open so they all had an ice cream and Kristian made sure they brought his mum home a mint Aero, her favourite.
Marisa got a phone call from one of her admirers tonight, it turns out that he is in the same Scout patrol as her, a patrol that has just been formed because of rising numbers and they are going to have a camp as their first patrol activity, in two weeks time.
The front page of the West Australian had a picture of a mangled car and lorry which had collided on the new bit of highway between Rockingham and Bunbury, it turns out that this is the first accident that involved a fatality on this new stretch of road since it opened, maybe a couple of months ago.
Now the reason we are bringing up this sad subject on the blog today is (1) we haven’t got much else to talk about, and (2) we have found it really hard to describe to people and put into writing how bad the driving is over here, but this time we have decided to bite the bullet and say it as it is.
Now everyone who has ever been to another country where they have roundabouts will recognise that in WA, they just don’t know what a roundabout is there for or how to negotiate it, but once you realise this fact, you can take evasive/precautionary measures and hopefully get from one side of the roundabout to the other unscathed.
The bit that really amazes us and that we can’t get to grips with, is accidents, accidents that quite often end in death or serious injury.
If your level of expertise at driving was based on not having an accident with another vehicle, then the drivers of WA would be the best in the world.
Maybe it’s because the car is their pride and joy, the thing that they cherish above all else, nice and shiny, preferably with a couple of stickers on the back which cause you to take offence and cover the kids eyes if ever you pull up behind one, and most importantly, a five or six litre engine under the bonnet, attached to a couple of girt big exhaust pipes so that it makes a lot of noise, and the funniest part is, it has about as much oomph as a Ford Transit with a blown exhaust and would be left standing by a 1300 Vauxhall Nova.
Anyway, we digress, the reason for this little rant is that you can almost guarantee that at the time of the accident and death on the new bit of highway, there was probably no other vehicle in sight and Ian has come up with a theory as to why this accident happened, it’s because they chopped all the trees down when they built the road.
What is he on about? You might be thinking.
Well it goes something like this, the roads over here are so quiet that you should be able to take a fairly accurate guess on how long it would take you to get from A to B so the chances of getting into any compromising situations is pretty remote.
Because the roads are so quiet and you are not likely to get into an awkward situation which might cause you to collide with another vehicle, you have to find something else to hit and WA drivers are good at that, there are umpteen small crosses by the side of the road that bear witness to it.
Today is the first time in we don’t know how long that we have heard about a fatal accident involving two vehicles that have collided, normally it’s a tree, the favourite pastime over here seems to be let’s see if we can knock a tree over.
Unfortunately for the driver and passengers concerned, they always seem to pick a girt big tree that’s probably been around for a couple of hundred years and intends to hang on for just a bit longer, hence dead occupants in the car and a tree that has got a couple of scratches in its bark.
Why can’t they aim the car at a bush, maybe scratch the paintwork a bit, but what the hell, they could still drive it home and tell their mates how you killed a bush by driving into it at 100kmph while it wasn’t looking and lived to tell the tale, but no they always go for the tree.
Hence, if they hadn’t chopped all the trees down by the side of the new highway, then the vehicles wouldn’t have had to collide because the one that wanted to collide, could have collided with a tree and left the other vehicle unscathed.
Many years ago, Ian had saw a comedian called Jasper Carrot on stage and part of his routine was about some statements received by insurance companies from people claiming for accidents in their cars, bearing in mind that this was probably about thirty years ago, the one claim which Jasper read out that stuck in Ians mind at the time was, “I had to swerve three times before I hit the tree”.
I know, you had to be there to really appreciate it, but it has got Ian wondering whether Australians are the human equivalent of lemmings, but instead of throwing themselves off cliffs, probably because there don’t seem to be many cliffs over here, they drive into trees.
Any death is a sorry tale, over here the roads are good, wide and relatively traffic free, there should be less fatal accidents per head of population than virtually anywhere in the world.
Today was probably the quietest day of the year so far at the Café, every shopkeeper in the centre was left wondering where the punters were, let’s hope it’s not a sign of things to come.
Fraser is getting rave reviews from some of his teachers at the moment, todays topic of the month was maths where he has been getting 100% for algebra and is generally getting an A grade for other maths.
This evening Ian and the kids went for a bike ride, this time the garage was open so they all had an ice cream and Kristian made sure they brought his mum home a mint Aero, her favourite.
Marisa got a phone call from one of her admirers tonight, it turns out that he is in the same Scout patrol as her, a patrol that has just been formed because of rising numbers and they are going to have a camp as their first patrol activity, in two weeks time.
The front page of the West Australian had a picture of a mangled car and lorry which had collided on the new bit of highway between Rockingham and Bunbury, it turns out that this is the first accident that involved a fatality on this new stretch of road since it opened, maybe a couple of months ago.
Now the reason we are bringing up this sad subject on the blog today is (1) we haven’t got much else to talk about, and (2) we have found it really hard to describe to people and put into writing how bad the driving is over here, but this time we have decided to bite the bullet and say it as it is.
Now everyone who has ever been to another country where they have roundabouts will recognise that in WA, they just don’t know what a roundabout is there for or how to negotiate it, but once you realise this fact, you can take evasive/precautionary measures and hopefully get from one side of the roundabout to the other unscathed.
The bit that really amazes us and that we can’t get to grips with, is accidents, accidents that quite often end in death or serious injury.
If your level of expertise at driving was based on not having an accident with another vehicle, then the drivers of WA would be the best in the world.
Maybe it’s because the car is their pride and joy, the thing that they cherish above all else, nice and shiny, preferably with a couple of stickers on the back which cause you to take offence and cover the kids eyes if ever you pull up behind one, and most importantly, a five or six litre engine under the bonnet, attached to a couple of girt big exhaust pipes so that it makes a lot of noise, and the funniest part is, it has about as much oomph as a Ford Transit with a blown exhaust and would be left standing by a 1300 Vauxhall Nova.
Anyway, we digress, the reason for this little rant is that you can almost guarantee that at the time of the accident and death on the new bit of highway, there was probably no other vehicle in sight and Ian has come up with a theory as to why this accident happened, it’s because they chopped all the trees down when they built the road.
What is he on about? You might be thinking.
Well it goes something like this, the roads over here are so quiet that you should be able to take a fairly accurate guess on how long it would take you to get from A to B so the chances of getting into any compromising situations is pretty remote.
Because the roads are so quiet and you are not likely to get into an awkward situation which might cause you to collide with another vehicle, you have to find something else to hit and WA drivers are good at that, there are umpteen small crosses by the side of the road that bear witness to it.
Today is the first time in we don’t know how long that we have heard about a fatal accident involving two vehicles that have collided, normally it’s a tree, the favourite pastime over here seems to be let’s see if we can knock a tree over.
Unfortunately for the driver and passengers concerned, they always seem to pick a girt big tree that’s probably been around for a couple of hundred years and intends to hang on for just a bit longer, hence dead occupants in the car and a tree that has got a couple of scratches in its bark.
Why can’t they aim the car at a bush, maybe scratch the paintwork a bit, but what the hell, they could still drive it home and tell their mates how you killed a bush by driving into it at 100kmph while it wasn’t looking and lived to tell the tale, but no they always go for the tree.
Hence, if they hadn’t chopped all the trees down by the side of the new highway, then the vehicles wouldn’t have had to collide because the one that wanted to collide, could have collided with a tree and left the other vehicle unscathed.
Many years ago, Ian had saw a comedian called Jasper Carrot on stage and part of his routine was about some statements received by insurance companies from people claiming for accidents in their cars, bearing in mind that this was probably about thirty years ago, the one claim which Jasper read out that stuck in Ians mind at the time was, “I had to swerve three times before I hit the tree”.
I know, you had to be there to really appreciate it, but it has got Ian wondering whether Australians are the human equivalent of lemmings, but instead of throwing themselves off cliffs, probably because there don’t seem to be many cliffs over here, they drive into trees.
Any death is a sorry tale, over here the roads are good, wide and relatively traffic free, there should be less fatal accidents per head of population than virtually anywhere in the world.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Operation Christmas Child
Thursday 15th October 2009
Carolyn went to COGGS assembly at school this morning, today was the day Operation Christmas Child were picking up the shoeboxes that had been filled by the kids.
Our kids are always very keen to take part in things like this and we think that it is good for them to spend a bit of time and energy thinking about others, so we always donate something from each of them so that they can hand it over in person.
We think the kids might be getting a bit presumptuous in their young age, in the past they have harangued us until our ears bled so that they wouldn’t miss out on taking their donation in, this time they haven’t said a thing since the letter came home a couple of weeks ago and Carolyn hasn’t looked at the pile of letters stuck to the fridge lately, so we were not as prepared as we might have been and the kids were concerned.
So the kids had to get up early this morning so that their shoebox donation (filled shoebox that is) could be filled and fulfilled, we always have a few shoeboxes lying around for situations like this so that wasn’t a problem, the problem was going to be getting sensible NEW stuff to put in it, nothing second hand please.
The shops over here don’t open until 9am and with the best will in the world you couldn’t rely on a shop to have what you wanted, you wouldn’t leave it to the last minute to buy a ball of wool from a wool shop if it was the only one in town, cos if you did sods law says that they would have run out, would not have anything similar to wool, have ordered some from the east, but it won’t be here for six weeks’ish, but they felt the need to open the shop with no stock because they didn’t want to let their customers down.
Fortunately we found a few bits at home that we could use, the rest we got from non conformist shops that open early because somebody might want to buy something on their way into work or school, so thank you to those shops and stuff the rest of them.
It was a busy day at the Café today, we were absolutely mobbed for about three hours at lunchtime with barely a spare chair in the place, just by coincidence, two of our part time staff popped in for lunch and had to wait for a table to be vacated.
It wasn’t really coincidence that they popped in for lunch, today is pay day so they had an ulterior motive, still at least we got some of it back.
Carolyn went to COGGS assembly at school this morning, today was the day Operation Christmas Child were picking up the shoeboxes that had been filled by the kids.
Our kids are always very keen to take part in things like this and we think that it is good for them to spend a bit of time and energy thinking about others, so we always donate something from each of them so that they can hand it over in person.
We think the kids might be getting a bit presumptuous in their young age, in the past they have harangued us until our ears bled so that they wouldn’t miss out on taking their donation in, this time they haven’t said a thing since the letter came home a couple of weeks ago and Carolyn hasn’t looked at the pile of letters stuck to the fridge lately, so we were not as prepared as we might have been and the kids were concerned.
So the kids had to get up early this morning so that their shoebox donation (filled shoebox that is) could be filled and fulfilled, we always have a few shoeboxes lying around for situations like this so that wasn’t a problem, the problem was going to be getting sensible NEW stuff to put in it, nothing second hand please.
The shops over here don’t open until 9am and with the best will in the world you couldn’t rely on a shop to have what you wanted, you wouldn’t leave it to the last minute to buy a ball of wool from a wool shop if it was the only one in town, cos if you did sods law says that they would have run out, would not have anything similar to wool, have ordered some from the east, but it won’t be here for six weeks’ish, but they felt the need to open the shop with no stock because they didn’t want to let their customers down.
Fortunately we found a few bits at home that we could use, the rest we got from non conformist shops that open early because somebody might want to buy something on their way into work or school, so thank you to those shops and stuff the rest of them.
It was a busy day at the Café today, we were absolutely mobbed for about three hours at lunchtime with barely a spare chair in the place, just by coincidence, two of our part time staff popped in for lunch and had to wait for a table to be vacated.
It wasn’t really coincidence that they popped in for lunch, today is pay day so they had an ulterior motive, still at least we got some of it back.
Kids Go Back
Tuesday 13th October 2009
It was a bit quiet in the café today, it’s probably got something to do with the kids going back to school today and their mothers putting the house back together.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts tonight, as they are going camping yet again in a couple of weeks time we had to turn up with assorted forms suitably filled out and yet more money so that they can go.
Unfortunately we’re only getting rid of them for one night and they wouldn’t take Kristian, but we’ll still try to enjoy it.
We had a guy round the house this evening to quote for a small wall to stop the grass from encroaching onto the flower beds, we only want it one block high and it’s 34mtrs long, so not too difficult you would think, but the last quote we had was for about $1,400 which we thought was a tad on the pricey side.
It was a bit quiet in the café today, it’s probably got something to do with the kids going back to school today and their mothers putting the house back together.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts tonight, as they are going camping yet again in a couple of weeks time we had to turn up with assorted forms suitably filled out and yet more money so that they can go.
Unfortunately we’re only getting rid of them for one night and they wouldn’t take Kristian, but we’ll still try to enjoy it.
We had a guy round the house this evening to quote for a small wall to stop the grass from encroaching onto the flower beds, we only want it one block high and it’s 34mtrs long, so not too difficult you would think, but the last quote we had was for about $1,400 which we thought was a tad on the pricey side.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Romantic-Busselton?
Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Carolyn went into school this morning to help out in Kristians class with reading, because she was having trouble listening to all the kids on her list in half an hour she decided to stay until she had heard them all, that took an hour, she’ll be a full time teacher before she knows it.
It is a weird week in the Café this week, yet again it was quiet in the morning and we got hammered at lunchtime, as opposed to doing half our trade in the morning and virtually half at lunchtime which is the norm.
We spoke to Ians sister Sharon tonight, she is going to have the kids for a three day break at the beginning of October which they will love.
If we are not too tired from work because virtually all of our Saturday staff have got the day off that weekend, then we might even indulge ourselves in a romantic meal somewhere, assuming somewhere in Busselton knows what romantic means, which we doubt, otherwise we’ll settle for a meal somewhere and a couple of pints.
Carolyn went into school this morning to help out in Kristians class with reading, because she was having trouble listening to all the kids on her list in half an hour she decided to stay until she had heard them all, that took an hour, she’ll be a full time teacher before she knows it.
It is a weird week in the Café this week, yet again it was quiet in the morning and we got hammered at lunchtime, as opposed to doing half our trade in the morning and virtually half at lunchtime which is the norm.
We spoke to Ians sister Sharon tonight, she is going to have the kids for a three day break at the beginning of October which they will love.
If we are not too tired from work because virtually all of our Saturday staff have got the day off that weekend, then we might even indulge ourselves in a romantic meal somewhere, assuming somewhere in Busselton knows what romantic means, which we doubt, otherwise we’ll settle for a meal somewhere and a couple of pints.
Top 20%
Tuesday 22nd September 2009
The Café was quiet again this morning, but we had a busy lunchtime and that carried on into the afternoon which was good, perhaps our persistence in staying open later in the day is starting to pay dividends.
Carolyn went to assembly at the school today, there were actually two assemblies one for the primary and one for the senior schools.
In the assemblies they were giving out awards for NAPLAN results, similar to SATS in the UK, and Kristian received one which was absolutely brilliant as they are only given out to the top 20% in the country. Kristian and his best mate who also got one, are convinced that they got them for being in the top 20 in the country despite the fact that 40 children in the school got one, they probably didn’t take the maths results into account.
The puppies are really starting to settle in now, they are managing to stay quiet for virtually eight hours overnight and are confident enough in their surroundings now to pee and poo wherever they want apart from their bed, this makes for a lovely assault course for Ian to negotiate while he is still half asleep first thing in the morning.
The Café was quiet again this morning, but we had a busy lunchtime and that carried on into the afternoon which was good, perhaps our persistence in staying open later in the day is starting to pay dividends.
Carolyn went to assembly at the school today, there were actually two assemblies one for the primary and one for the senior schools.
In the assemblies they were giving out awards for NAPLAN results, similar to SATS in the UK, and Kristian received one which was absolutely brilliant as they are only given out to the top 20% in the country. Kristian and his best mate who also got one, are convinced that they got them for being in the top 20 in the country despite the fact that 40 children in the school got one, they probably didn’t take the maths results into account.
The puppies are really starting to settle in now, they are managing to stay quiet for virtually eight hours overnight and are confident enough in their surroundings now to pee and poo wherever they want apart from their bed, this makes for a lovely assault course for Ian to negotiate while he is still half asleep first thing in the morning.
Punching Above His Weight
Monday 21st September 2009
It was very quiet in the Café for most of the day, we did get hammered unexpectedly for about an hour at lunchtime though which made the day look reasonable.
Carolyn managed to get rid of another two baby bunnies at the pet shop today which was a bit of a relief, we thought that because the shop had a glut of them all of a sudden we might get lumbered with keeping them because they get too big.
Carolyn went to school this evening with the kids, it was a parent teacher evening where we get a chance to meet the teachers find out how good our kids really are.
As it turns out, all three kids are doing really well with the younger two being good allrounders, while Fraser has his specialist subjects and is punching well above his weight in Science and Maths, just by coincidence it is the same teacher for both subjects, so whether it’s the subjects that interest him, which they do, or the teachers ability which is the key factor in his achievement, we shall have to wait and see.
It was very quiet in the Café for most of the day, we did get hammered unexpectedly for about an hour at lunchtime though which made the day look reasonable.
Carolyn managed to get rid of another two baby bunnies at the pet shop today which was a bit of a relief, we thought that because the shop had a glut of them all of a sudden we might get lumbered with keeping them because they get too big.
Carolyn went to school this evening with the kids, it was a parent teacher evening where we get a chance to meet the teachers find out how good our kids really are.
As it turns out, all three kids are doing really well with the younger two being good allrounders, while Fraser has his specialist subjects and is punching well above his weight in Science and Maths, just by coincidence it is the same teacher for both subjects, so whether it’s the subjects that interest him, which they do, or the teachers ability which is the key factor in his achievement, we shall have to wait and see.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Two Dogs
Friday 18th September 2009
Carolyn was supposed to help out with reading at school this morning, but completely forgot about it because Kristian had to go to the Dentist.
Kristian was a brave little soldier at the Dentist, they removed an adult tooth from the back which involved a lot of pulling to and fro, Kristian was screaming, Carolyn was holding him down, there was blood flying all over the place and when Ian phoned Carolyn to ask her to pick something up on the way into work, she put the phone down on him.
Needless to say, Kristian was a tad traumatised after that so spent the day at the Café playing on the computer while we were working.
Just after lunchtime Carolyn got a call saying that she could have the @@@@@@@, so we are now proud parents of two Ridgeback/Retriever puppies who are only young, but one weighs 4kg while the other weighs 3.5kg, we’ll have to start breeding more rabbits so that we have enough food for them.
Carolyn tried to get rid of two more baby bunnies today at the pet shop, but there seems to be a glut of baby boy bunnies at the moment so they don’t want them, we’ll try again after the weekend.
Marisa came back from school camp today, she was absolutely shattered but she had a great time and when she saw the puppies, she burst into tears of joy, which is the sort of thing she does.
Carolyn was supposed to help out with reading at school this morning, but completely forgot about it because Kristian had to go to the Dentist.
Kristian was a brave little soldier at the Dentist, they removed an adult tooth from the back which involved a lot of pulling to and fro, Kristian was screaming, Carolyn was holding him down, there was blood flying all over the place and when Ian phoned Carolyn to ask her to pick something up on the way into work, she put the phone down on him.
Needless to say, Kristian was a tad traumatised after that so spent the day at the Café playing on the computer while we were working.
Just after lunchtime Carolyn got a call saying that she could have the @@@@@@@, so we are now proud parents of two Ridgeback/Retriever puppies who are only young, but one weighs 4kg while the other weighs 3.5kg, we’ll have to start breeding more rabbits so that we have enough food for them.
Carolyn tried to get rid of two more baby bunnies today at the pet shop, but there seems to be a glut of baby boy bunnies at the moment so they don’t want them, we’ll try again after the weekend.
Marisa came back from school camp today, she was absolutely shattered but she had a great time and when she saw the puppies, she burst into tears of joy, which is the sort of thing she does.
No News About @@@@@
Thursday 17th September 2009
Kristian and his class went to the Old Butter Factory in Busselton today on a school trip, Carolyn was hoping to go with them as a little helper but she had to help out in the Café instead.
It was fairly busy in the Café today, there seems to be a lot of tourists around, so hopefully the silly season is going to start early.
We haven’t heard from the girl about the @@@@@s today, and Carolyn would really like a matching pair. There are loads of ads for @@@@ starting to appear in the local papers, so if this doesn’t work out, Carolyns bound to find another soon enough.
Kristian and his class went to the Old Butter Factory in Busselton today on a school trip, Carolyn was hoping to go with them as a little helper but she had to help out in the Café instead.
It was fairly busy in the Café today, there seems to be a lot of tourists around, so hopefully the silly season is going to start early.
We haven’t heard from the girl about the @@@@@s today, and Carolyn would really like a matching pair. There are loads of ads for @@@@ starting to appear in the local papers, so if this doesn’t work out, Carolyns bound to find another soon enough.
A Broken Hose
Wednesday 16th September 2009
Carolyn helped out with reading lessons in Kristians class this morning, she normally spends about thirty minutes there but thinks that she needs to spend longer so that she can listen to more kids read, so as of next week she is going to stay longer.
It was a fairly quiet start to the day in the Café today, then just before it started to get busy, the waste hose from the dishwasher decided to break and dump water all over the kitchen floor, Ian just about had enough time to mop the floor and work out what the problem with the machine was before it got busy.
Carolyn went out and got a new hose for the machine, but we were too busy to find time to fit it, so we had to hand wash all lunchtime until Ian could repair it.
Carolyn went to look at a couple of @@@@@ this afternoon, after all what would the girl who has everything want for her birthday, they are @@@@@@@@@@@ and apparently look lovely, but then again, when was the last time you heard someone so “what an ugly @@@”, it doesn’t happen, you never know, one day in WA they might even start using them to advertise @@@@@@@@.
* all the @@@@@@@ are so we don’t spoil the surprise!
Carolyn helped out with reading lessons in Kristians class this morning, she normally spends about thirty minutes there but thinks that she needs to spend longer so that she can listen to more kids read, so as of next week she is going to stay longer.
It was a fairly quiet start to the day in the Café today, then just before it started to get busy, the waste hose from the dishwasher decided to break and dump water all over the kitchen floor, Ian just about had enough time to mop the floor and work out what the problem with the machine was before it got busy.
Carolyn went out and got a new hose for the machine, but we were too busy to find time to fit it, so we had to hand wash all lunchtime until Ian could repair it.
Carolyn went to look at a couple of @@@@@ this afternoon, after all what would the girl who has everything want for her birthday, they are @@@@@@@@@@@ and apparently look lovely, but then again, when was the last time you heard someone so “what an ugly @@@”, it doesn’t happen, you never know, one day in WA they might even start using them to advertise @@@@@@@@.
* all the @@@@@@@ are so we don’t spoil the surprise!
Friday, September 25, 2009
School Camp
Tuesday 15th September 2009
We were a different member of staff short today, again we were fairly quiet apart from a mad hour at lunchtime and although it meant that Carolyn had to work when we thought that she was going to have the day off, it did mean we saved on wages and we do like to look on the bright side in difficult situations.
Marisa went off on school camp this morning, a treat for leaving year 6, the end of primary School. She was so excited and really looking forward to it, especially the bits that are going to involve “Pranks”, the school in their wisdom has told the kids that pranks are something to be encouraged on this trip (as long as they are cleared with a member of staff first), they must need their heads tested.
After Carolyn finished work today she went to our Veg suppliers to pick up some bunny Veg, stuff that they were going to throw away, that sort of thing, only to find that someone from a farm has been coming to collect it before she normally gets there.
That would explain why she doesn’t seem to be able to get much lately, so from now on she is going to get there before 2pm, if she remembers.
Kristian had his mate round after school today, Tuesdays after school are the highlights of Kristians week, they are the time when he can chat and play with the same kid that he has been chatting and playing with at school and on the computer all week.
Fraser and Kristian went to Scouts this evening, they were cooking on the camp fire tonight, they now know how to core an apple, stuff it full of marshmallows and chocolate, wrap it in foil and throw it on the fire until cooked.
Apparently the end result is worth all the effort, but they didn’t bring any home for us to try so we’ll have to take their word for it.
We were a different member of staff short today, again we were fairly quiet apart from a mad hour at lunchtime and although it meant that Carolyn had to work when we thought that she was going to have the day off, it did mean we saved on wages and we do like to look on the bright side in difficult situations.
Marisa went off on school camp this morning, a treat for leaving year 6, the end of primary School. She was so excited and really looking forward to it, especially the bits that are going to involve “Pranks”, the school in their wisdom has told the kids that pranks are something to be encouraged on this trip (as long as they are cleared with a member of staff first), they must need their heads tested.
After Carolyn finished work today she went to our Veg suppliers to pick up some bunny Veg, stuff that they were going to throw away, that sort of thing, only to find that someone from a farm has been coming to collect it before she normally gets there.
That would explain why she doesn’t seem to be able to get much lately, so from now on she is going to get there before 2pm, if she remembers.
Kristian had his mate round after school today, Tuesdays after school are the highlights of Kristians week, they are the time when he can chat and play with the same kid that he has been chatting and playing with at school and on the computer all week.
Fraser and Kristian went to Scouts this evening, they were cooking on the camp fire tonight, they now know how to core an apple, stuff it full of marshmallows and chocolate, wrap it in foil and throw it on the fire until cooked.
Apparently the end result is worth all the effort, but they didn’t bring any home for us to try so we’ll have to take their word for it.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Little Helper
Wednesday 9th September 2009
Carolyn helped out in school this school this morning, she has volunteered to help out with reading in Kristians class on Wednesday mornings and she loves it.
That’s two mornings a week she helps out now, if she wasn’t needed at the Café from time to time, Ian reckons she would end up training to be a teacher.
The Café was as dead as a Dodo again today, according to our figures for last year this week was quiet then as well, so hopefully it’s not all doom and gloom.
Carolyn picked up a load of chocolates this afternoon, they are for the Scouts, to help with their fundraising, she got the kids to help her put them into boxes of assorted types ready for the Scouts to start selling.
Carolyn helped out in school this school this morning, she has volunteered to help out with reading in Kristians class on Wednesday mornings and she loves it.
That’s two mornings a week she helps out now, if she wasn’t needed at the Café from time to time, Ian reckons she would end up training to be a teacher.
The Café was as dead as a Dodo again today, according to our figures for last year this week was quiet then as well, so hopefully it’s not all doom and gloom.
Carolyn picked up a load of chocolates this afternoon, they are for the Scouts, to help with their fundraising, she got the kids to help her put them into boxes of assorted types ready for the Scouts to start selling.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Operation Christmas Child
Tuesday 1st September 2009
It was another very quiet day in the café today, it did us a favour in a way because we had a new lad start work today, he’s decided he’d rather work than go to school, his parents and the school are quite happy to let him try it out, so we have got him three days a week for a month and if things work out he will go on to five days a week and we will organise a traineeship for him.
He certainly seemed very motivated today, if he wasn’t carrying out food or coffee orders he was cleaning and always looking for something else to do.
Marisa had a lead role in assembly this morning, she had to stand up on stage during assembly and talk to the school about taking part in Operation Christmas Child, each child is asked to fill a shoe box with Pants, Socks, Toiletries etc, which will then be sent to underprivileged homeless street kids, possibly in Russia. According to her mum she did really well, no doubt Marisa was pleased to hear it.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts tonight, it turns out that they have got to go on yet another camp, because they are going to have to share equipment with another troop over this way when the go to Jamboree next year and so that they can get to know each other and learn how to use the other troops equipment, another camp has been ordered, they see our kids more than we do.
It was another very quiet day in the café today, it did us a favour in a way because we had a new lad start work today, he’s decided he’d rather work than go to school, his parents and the school are quite happy to let him try it out, so we have got him three days a week for a month and if things work out he will go on to five days a week and we will organise a traineeship for him.
He certainly seemed very motivated today, if he wasn’t carrying out food or coffee orders he was cleaning and always looking for something else to do.
Marisa had a lead role in assembly this morning, she had to stand up on stage during assembly and talk to the school about taking part in Operation Christmas Child, each child is asked to fill a shoe box with Pants, Socks, Toiletries etc, which will then be sent to underprivileged homeless street kids, possibly in Russia. According to her mum she did really well, no doubt Marisa was pleased to hear it.
Fraser and Marisa went to Scouts tonight, it turns out that they have got to go on yet another camp, because they are going to have to share equipment with another troop over this way when the go to Jamboree next year and so that they can get to know each other and learn how to use the other troops equipment, another camp has been ordered, they see our kids more than we do.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Silence the Guns
Thursday 27th August 2009
Marisa and Kristian had their sports carnival today, Marisa is Sports Faction captain and very proud to be so, of course it did mean that she would have to take part in more events than anyone else, but that is one of the burdens of being captain and she loved it.
Carolyn managed to watch most of the carnival in the morning, before coming in to work for a short while, then headed back for the afternoon events.
While Marisa was giving it her all as sports captain with minimal success, Kristian was lining up to take part in the sprint, only to be rooted to the spot when the noise generated by the starting pistol terrified him so much that he didn’t move until most of the other competitors were halfway down the track.
At this moment in time, we are not predicting a career in the armed forces for Kristian, at least not unless the promise to fit silencers to all the guns and anything else that might become noisy.
Marisa and Kristian had their sports carnival today, Marisa is Sports Faction captain and very proud to be so, of course it did mean that she would have to take part in more events than anyone else, but that is one of the burdens of being captain and she loved it.
Carolyn managed to watch most of the carnival in the morning, before coming in to work for a short while, then headed back for the afternoon events.
While Marisa was giving it her all as sports captain with minimal success, Kristian was lining up to take part in the sprint, only to be rooted to the spot when the noise generated by the starting pistol terrified him so much that he didn’t move until most of the other competitors were halfway down the track.
At this moment in time, we are not predicting a career in the armed forces for Kristian, at least not unless the promise to fit silencers to all the guns and anything else that might become noisy.
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