Hello Fam',
Crikey my mind's so scattered I can barely think straight enough to put down anything worthwhile reading. I'll give it a go though ...
Lovely to see some more 'activity' on the good ole' Blog. Networking sites advancing as they are it seems emails are a thing of the past now :o/.
Wendy, lovely pic's of the family. How did they all fare during the latest storms down there? The girls all look good too.
Lyn', I hope you get your grant. It would be so lovely to have that oppertunity. Is there a time limit for how long you stay there? You ought to do a 'Mary Moodey' and find a man and settle there for a year or so. Wouldn't that be lovely ay?
Think I mentioned before that Tony has moved my desk, computer and all other paraphenalia into the middle room. Marc's old room and one day to be Giancarlo's room. Anyway, my pc's on the desk by the window and Tony's is on the same desk next to mine (it's a large desk). Tony's has a Application I loaded onto it, '101 Kids Brainy Games'. Angelina's started on it now and is really quite good at the games for her level, 'I Spy, Alaphabet Chickens, memory games' and other jigsaw and puzzle games. She's even starting on the mathematics one, simple additions but obviously still much learning to do there.
Bernice we have got as far as putting the bottles in a big tub to wash them but as Tony only feels well some of the time he has been putting his efforts into cutting wood for the fire. There are a few big piles of wood behind the Tiling place just up next to the pub. I saw them when I cut through the pub carpark in the mornings on our way to school.
I stopped into the Tile shop last week and asked if I could have the wood. Of course they didn't mind as it was just rubbish to them and better us remove it than them having to bother about it. I think Tony has only collected half a pile so far so there is still plenty to get but his back being like it is he is hard pressed doing it.
I think I'll go and sweet talk someone around there and get them to load a pile into my wagon for me. There's always young blokes around there so hopefully someone will be kind enough to help a crooked old lady (haha). It's only one door up but I wouldn't push my luck by asking them to carry it to my place.
There's also a pile of cut up tree down the end of the block that's been there at least a year so it's well seasoned. I'll stop in and ask him if I can have it, also a good sized half railway sleeper and busted pallets down the end of our block.
If we're lucky I might be able to score enough wood to see us through winter. We still have two logs of gidgee out the back too, that we'll keep until it's really cold.
I had planned to cook a stir fry for dinner tonight so I'd best logoff and go do it before it gets too late. Sorry it's an 'ordinary' post but hey, that's my life...
Will post Hokeys school photo. Love to all,
Sara xxxxx
Well that was yesterday but for some reason I lost connection with the net when I tried to post my entry so I'll try it again tonight.
This morning Hokey and I went out to sell chocolates. A school fundraising thing, this time to provide access for all students at his school to 'Mathletics.com.au' in 2011. P&C paid for it this year and it's been so popular that we've decided to have it again next year.
Anyway, my family had already eaten 3 chocolates so that's $7.50 I have to put into the box. I took the box two doors down last week to the building site and left it there with the fella's and they dropped it back in the afternoon.
We took the rest out this morning and went first to a car yard where only one person bought a bar, I thought they'd all sell there but I got the same excuse as the beggars in the street "sorry, I have no money on me". Yeah right!
The area we live in is predominately Asian, Lebanese, and other scattered races, You don't see too many Anglo's. Well, we started to walk down the side street and stopped in at the first house, a beautiful grand brick home with a huge yard and a couple of new cars in the yard. 'Looks promising' I thought, until the door opened and the Chinese lady looked out at us. My heart sank a little as these folk never part with cash, or so I thought but she bought two. God bless her.
Next were three town houses, first two were Chinese and expectedly they weren't interested (the other lady was a fluke). The last townhouse was a family of Lebs' and initially they said 'no', I said 'no worries, thank you' but then the man decided he'd have one and gave Hokey the money plus about 80c extra. I went to give him change but he said "no no, doesn't matter" then he baulked at the door, turned and said to no-one in particular "How many kids do we have"? He or one of the family, there was too much going on I didn't see who but someone produced a $10 note and they grabbed four more bars. We thanked and "God bless"d them very much and went on our way.
Next two or three houses, no answer. There were people home but must've saw us coming up their drives and didn't bother answering their doors, I couldn't blame them, I hate dealing with door knockers myself!
Asd we walked out I surveyed the street and saw several potential houses, ones with tradesmen vehicles out the front so I decided we'd try our luck at those places. First though I went directly across the street to a nice neat brick home and rang their bell. An elderly (I think, couldn't see through the security screen) lady answered the door but wasn't interested. "No problems Dear, thank you" and off we went.
Rather than head down toward the trades vehicles I went to the place next door to the old girl as I recognised the hot looking car as one that I'd seen drive past our place several times and around Roselands in general.
The front door was open and the man called out from up the hall "'Ello, what can I do for ya"? 'Aussie' I thought 'thank goodness'. He opened the door with a genuinely friendly smile and I told him what we were selling and what for and he said, looking at Hokey "weellll, I dunno if I got two dollars fifty" and winked at me. He dug $3 out of his pocket and I went to get his change but a younger lady called out from up the hall "what are they selling"? I called out 'chocolates' and she came to the door. "yeah I'll have one". Dad (or husband??) said "just two dollars and we'll be even". "ok" she says and they chatted and joked with Hokey. We were down to two so thanked and 'God bless'ed them then headed down the steps as the fellow told Hokey he only had two more doors to knock on. I heard them say something to each other about 'only two more' then they called us back and said they'd buy the last two. I was absolutely stoked and they were such nice people. So we'd managed to sell all remaining 12 choccies in a half hour (with all my long winded story telling you'd be excused for thinking it took us all day :o/). So the tradies next door on the building site bought nine, we had three and the others sold today. All gone, thank goodness!
O'killy do'killy, that's it for me for now so I'll sign off and hope this finds all readers in good health and spirits.
Love, as always, Sara XXXXX
Ps, Lyn', I enjoyed that clip you posted :o)
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Ronny trying out guitars - he has to play the right handed ones upside down!
In Melbourne, with the tram in the background.
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