It's Mother's Day in Oz on Sunday and I have been treated (early) to a V.V.V nice new camera. Anyone who knows me, knows I'm never without my camera and I snap away at anything and everything. I was allowed it early and have to be proficient in it's use before (a) Darcie's class assembly on Wednesday - if I hear 'There's a hole in my bucket one more time, I'm liable to throttle her! or (b) our hols (which are whizzing closer by the day - horray!). I will be tested and asked spot-test questions on what all the buttons are for. Failure will result in the confiscation of my camera until I have memorised the manual, so there's a lot at stake.
It's got a super-de-duper lense and you can take really cool close ups. This was a flower in our garden.
How cool is that? I'm almost professional, aren't I?
The only down side for the kids is that for the last two days, they haven't been able to sit on the toilet without me poking the camera in their face. I won't put those pictures on here, although I can provide the link for a small fee.......
So.... other news from the Delaney's this week. Business has been good again this week. I guage it now on the 'kitchen' scale. A quiet day means all the breakfast dishes are washed, re-packed in the cupboard and the hoovering done by mid-day. Medium means the dishes are in the dishwasher and the hoover is propped up against the kitchen counter. Busy equals six coffee cups in the sink as we're too busy to re-wash one. Very busy means Paul's taking phonecalls from multi-national HUGE Companies at 11am, still sitting in his office in his pants; not quite having made it to the bathroom for his shower. This week's been a very busy week (in parts). Good job we don't have web cams as standard for the business....
Sam went to his footie match again this morning and I include here as a one-off special competition........
SPOT THE BALL:
Please print off the picture, mark the position of the ball and post it to us. The winner will be notified by mail of their fantastic prize weel commencing 1st July 2007. Prizes are:
- 3rd - chocolate digestive (nibbled)
- 2nd - tub of chicken salt
- 1st - packet of Tim Tams
Can you stand the excitement? I'll warn the post office to brace themselves for the extra workload. They may even need to beef up the Australia Post moped to a larger cc!
Here's an action shot of Sam in his match today. Sam's right in the middle, standing over the boy in yellow squatting over the ball - yes, that IS a technical term!
Gormless!
Now, Pentley Bark news...
Mr Bark continues to make good progress. He's got his last jab next week, then a fortnight and he can be let loose on the unsuspecting Australian public. I'm looking forward to taking him to the beach to see what he makes of the sea and the sand.
Gormless 2! Perfect for our family!
Darcie snuggles up with Mr Bark, who momentarily lowers his standard to sleep with Darcie and her room full of knickers.
House news.
They've been really cracking on with the house this week! We have fully plastered rooms upstairs (some now even have coving!). Downstairs is starting to be plastered, as is the outside. We have the top coat to go on yet - hopefully this should be done over the next few weeks.
Here's the house from the corner of the back garden. The alfresco is the structure to the left. Eventually, this will be under roof cover as the roofline is extended over the ground floor. The little square window on the ground floor will be our kitchen window.
This view is taken from the kid's activity room, facing out towards the balcony. There is coving in this room and it has lovely white plastered walls and plasterboarded ceilings.
Another view from the Activity room, facing forward this time to the golf course.
A view from the front of the house (upstairs) facing toward the stairs (to the left at the back of the picture). The doors to the left lead to the two bathrooms and the seperate toilet.
Darcie does her Spiderman impression.
So, quite a big update again this week! We're due our second UK visitor at the end of the month courtesy of Paul; Paul's curry-club companion and fellow talker of drivel, lover of all things Xena and football - when football WAS football and not soccer! It'll be lovely to see him. I just hope he packs extra traqulisers - never mind the flight, it's a few nights with our family that'll be the killer. He'll be skipping onto that plane to go home like a little spring lamb!
Also, I would like to say Happy Birthday to Paul's Mum, Margaret. I won't say how old she is today, but it has a '0' on the end, so it's quite a big one.
(o: Happy Birthday Nanny D, now get those flights booked!
