excuses..

Sunday, 16 December 2007

And just to prove i'm not just staying up late so I can watch the weird stuff on SBS , here is some of my recent cake work.

Self Portrait

Tuesday, 11 December 2007

This is part of how Zali spent her 8th day of contiagousness.  Whilst she's missing her creche friends and creche activities she's still having a pretty good time - the sick day routine generally includes a trip to the supermarket after dropping off Jett, followed by and hour or so of kids' tv while enjoying a chocolate milk, followed by a bubble bath if she feels like it. When she's at granny's there's  icecream involved as well - some people have all the luck.

In other news, we're frequently reminded that our previous  2 abodes featured both low water pressure and big baths. We've now got excellent water pressure and a smallish (by comparison) bath as well as the anomally of a bathroom with no drain in the floor.  This risky combination has lead to about four incidences of - as Zali would put it - 'Sinking the bath'. Todays episode was so severe we nearly sunk zali's room as well.  It's lucky we have cork tile floors as not ony can the kids to paint on them , they also cope well with submersion.  Ooh - speaking of submersion - Jett now willingly has baths! Horay!

indulge me...

Thursday, 6 December 2007

These photos are from Zali's recent sports day.  We have more. Much much much more - so while this is clearly a parental indulgence just be thankful that I'm restricting myself to one race alone. Also it means I don't have to stay up late photo-shopping some of the other ones to make it look like zali was miles ahead when in fact she was um.. respectably competitive. 

itchy

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

If a job's worth doing..

Saturday, 1 December 2007

Jett doesn't seem to be related to us. Or at least not to me. He likes things TIDY and ORGANISED. He'll hover around Zali with a rubbish bin while she cuts up little bits of paper. He puts his shoes nicely together in his little hanging shoe rack (which he was thrilled to receive). He  stops eating breakfast in order to ask me to shut a cupboard door (which is obviously hanging messily ajar) and yesterday he didn't have breakfast until he had personally swept the floor around his breakfast chair (admittedly it still had the previous nights dinner attached to it but sheesh!).   Anyway - today he spent a good 15 minutes collecting up washing from the pile I left scattered along the passageway and then stuffing it all into the washing machine..  It was a big job and he had to resort to holding bits of it in with his head while he gathered up other bits.  cute. slightly scarey, but cute.

You couldn't buy it.

Monday, 26 November 2007

As a general comment I'd just like to say that you just couldn't  buy the sort of amusement that you get from your children. (For that matter you couldn't possibly legislate against all the household crimes they manage to commit either) 

This is zali showing off her dress on the weekend and the photo of Jett is from just a few minutes ago. Yes he is asleep, and yes he is wearing swimming goggles.  He's slept for the last few nights with sunglasses on (he must be very sensitive to the dark I guess) but tonight I couldn't find them so we settled on goggles instead.  He can be quite stubborn about things sometimes.

In other news,  Jonno is recovering from a bout of the flu, and I am recovering from a brief but intense love affair with Risotto. In fact it has been so intense that I've had twice as many risottos in the last 4 weeks than I have in my entire life before that. However tonight it's all over - my relationship with with Arborio is ruined and I think distracted stirring and a rubbery leek are to blame.  I suspect jonno is secretly relieved that this hot Italian dish is out of our marriage although I'm sure he would testify that the last four weeks have been great and in this case it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Getting out of the Big Smoke

Wednesday, 21 November 2007

We also had guests on the weekend which was a lovely treat although we are always left feeling hollow and empty when they leave, as we just don't have the same sort of friends down here in tassie yet. Although of course we will when our plan comes together and they all move here.  As far as selling the viritues of Tassie goes, the weather turned on some great days and the serenity had an impact I am sure*

Anyway - while our guests were living up the great Tassie lifestyle, this is an artists impression of what was happening to their car (parked at sydney airport). Really!!  It was stolen while they were here. We couldn't have engineered it better ourselves and if that's not a sign from the god-of-what-to-do-next  I don't know what is. (we didn't do it andy I promise!)

*not to mention the dirt cheap house prices, clean living, lack of traffic hassles, cheap childcare ... - www.discovertasmania.com.au for more info - we offer free accommodation for the first month -  unfotunately it's with us though.