More Guests!

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

We're very lucky as we have had our good friends Tanya, Jeff, Audun and Kajsa visit us for this last week. We went on a mini tour of Tasmania and actually managed to see Cradle Mountain (a first for Jonno and the first time in 3 recent visits for me) as well as lots of wildlife including wombats, penguins, echidnas and platypi .  This is mostly because Tanya is a very patient tourist - I'm more of a get in - walk fast - go to next destination tourist - whereas she is happy to take it easy and wait for the animals to come out. Consequently this also meant we outlasted the bad weather as we had some very wet mornings and sunny afternoons.  Left to my own devices I would have been long gone by the time the sun appeared.

Huntsman

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Lately I have become a very nervous computer user. Not because I am afraid of new technologies, rather because I am afraid of the huntsman spider which popped up beside me last time I updated my blog.  I know it's in my general vicinity I just don't know when I'm going to see it next - I can certainly feel it crawling all over me - uggg...

ps. Oh - If you are say an American about to board a plane and  come and visit us, ignore this post - I'm just kidding oh yes I am  ha ha ha..no spiders here!! uh uh.  no snakes or sharks either..

Tropfest 2010

Monday, 22 February 2010

Last year I watched Tropfest at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne with Jo, Paul and a gadzillion other people.  This year I watched it in Salamanca Square with maybe a thousand or so people - it was pretty nice and relaxed especially as Jon and I were holed up in the VIP section with (the rest of ) Tasmania's film elite.  Aside from the good seating arrangements this meant we got free drinks, fish and chips and a drumstick icecream - what more could we want!  Posh hey.  

FYI the building on the left is the building that I work in a few days a week doing admin stuff.  It's the reason that I got on the VIP list because part of my adminy role was to keep track of the RSVPs on the VIP list. heh heh heh.

oh - also - My winners would have been:

1. The way god works
2. Happenstance
3. Shock
4. Testicle

Not like the olden days

Sunday, 14 February 2010

In the olden days, we couldn't just take photo after photo with our parents camera! Today Jon and I organised a Mountain Bike orienteering event which meant quite a lot of unsupervised play time for Zali and Jett (and my camera).  Here are my favourites out of the hundred or so photos they took!

Product Review - Gelli Baff

Monday, 8 February 2010

The kids have recently seen an advertisements for a product called Gelli-Baff - which claims to turn your bath water into jelly, then back again when you add a sachet of jelly dissolver.  They'd been wanting to try it for a while (who wouldn't!) so when they recently completed a string of good deeds we went up to the supermarket to get some.   

It actually took us a while to find it  as it was in the kids toys aisle (as opposed to bath products) - I recon this is because  it's well and truly priced as a gift, not an every day item (like bubble bath).  I kid you not but a pack of Gelli-Baff  costs $12.56!    Of course divided over all the jelly baths you have per pack  it brings the cost down per bath considerably. All the way down to 12.56 per bath in fact. Yep - only one bath per pack!  And not only that but the product says it will turn 40 litres of water into jelly - which is a regular bath filled up to about 6cm deep. Pretty shallow really - and reeking slightly of false advertising as there's a picture on the cover of the pack of a bath filled with considerably more than 6cm of water.

So how did it perform I hear you ask. Well it was ok - the water went jelly-ish and the kids thought it was pretty fun.   It was kind of more like consistancy of that glue you do paper mache with than jelly.   When we put the stuff in which was supposed to turn the jelly back to water it only really did it a bit.  So the kids had to have showers after the bath anyway.

Overall it was ok - probably a good present for a birthday party or something like that.  My major question though is why the heck did they spell it like that? 

Cupcakes anyone?

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Or perhaps you'd prefer a more formal arrangement..

Stripey Cake

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Australia Day 2010

Thursday, 28 January 2010

For the first time since it started a few years ago we went down to Kingston's Australia Day celebration at the local beach.  The weather was ok and the beach was nice and all but after Cronulla I think we all felt a bit uncomfortable seeing people (particular big groups of  youfs) all decked out in Australian Flag stuff.  Also the beach was missing a certain something (ferry boat races? something anyway) that might have kept us there longer. After an hour or two we caught the free double decker bus back to the car (the highlight of the experience for the kids!).

In the afternoon we had good fun up at Ferntree where Tracy and I went for a run while  Jon, Paul and the kids walked to Silver Falls.  Afterwards we all played hide and seek in the playground until it was time to go to Denny's house for a BBQ which was really pleasant (yay Denny's deck!).