busy-ness

Have I been slack, or have we been busy? You decide:

Sat 6 September: Surprise dinner party for Chalkie.

12-21 September: in Melbourne, stayed several nights with Luke and Kim, then stole their car and drove some of the Great Ocean Road, over two nights. On the way back, collected Dad and Mum from the airport, and checked into our hotel. Liam's first birthday party on the sat (shared with the daughter of Kimmy's cousing), then an outing to Melbourne Zoo on the sunday, before flying home that night.

26-28 September: Up to Ross and Barb's place near Crow's Nest. Ross has mowed a 6-hole golf course into their front paddocks, and had set up a skeet-shooting gallery, with a borrowed claybird launcher from the shooting club, plus his wood-fired pizza oven. All the family came, with all the kids except Luke and Kim (Melbourne) and Linda and Sam (Mt Isa). A tops time was had by all. 28 or so in total, including 2 in utero (congrats to Tanya and Steve), plus the last remaining from my grandparents generation, Grandma's youngest brother Des, and his wife Jen, visiting from Namibia. Brag: They are Emmy-award winning documentary film-makers.

3-5 September: I went to North Stradbroke Island for a camping weekend with some mates, ostesibly a buck's weekend for one of them. Used my new snatch-strap during some challenging 4wheel driving thru sand. Carmen went to Caloundra for the matching Hen's do.
Sunday 12 September: Up to Dad and Mum's for the weekend, for Thomas and Amy's Christening. Neil's dad Tom and his lovely wife Sadie had arrive that week from Scotland. Lovely ceremony, and magnificent repast at chez Wilson afterwards, for 25 or 30 of their closest friends... Then I was rostered to drive the church mini-bus that evening, so we actually made it to church! How novel!

18 September: Rob and Katy's wedding. Very nice, ceremony and reception at Bundaleer Gardens at Brookfield.

19 September: Today. Church, and packing up for tomorrow, when we go to stay with Ben and Bonnie, so that the mess and fumes from the floor sanders and lacquerring this week won't make us sick.

And so next weekend, we'll be cleaning up the kitchen from all the sawdust (no doubt) before MOVING UP STAIRS!!!ONE!! HOORAY!!!

I hate that "Word"

You ever wonder where lolcats came from? Wonder no more...

It just makes you think...

From http://imgs.xkcd.com/

Paint

This week has been all about the paint. Undercoat/sealer throughout the week, in the evenings. A new friend came over during the day Friday and did the first top coat for the ceilings, I did the second ceiling top coat that evening, and then today he came back and we did the two wall top coats.

Stoked with how it looks.















20 weeks:

20 Week Scan

Here you go, new pics as of this arve. Please don't be offended that we haven't emailed you these. You might still get some more, i just thought this is a good selection...











Don't know gender, but judging by those biceps... hehehe.

Tiled!!

Firstly, go Here and see what Luke says about some people he has been interacting with, last week.

I TOTALLY agree. One of my biggest "things", annoyances, is people whose conversation is totally self-centred. People whose stories are almost always volunteered without prompting. Sometimes it feel like they don't really need you there. I'm not just an audience, folks. I might not be an extroverted person, but I sometimes like participating in two-way conversation. By all means, I might be interested in you and your life, but allow me the courtesy of asking about you? And sometimes you might return the favour?

I've been meaning to post this sentiment for yonks.

And now for something completely different.

Tiling in bathroom is finished. Check it out, the first ones are before the grout and finishing...

bathroom

Couple more shots of the bathroom: wetsealer dude did the glassing and laid the angle in the doorway and outside of the shower, and the tiler put in the screed.