Posts from — August 2009

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I took the potential tiger in our house to the footy for the last qtr a few weekends ago.  We inherited some tickets this week so we set off to see how far through a whole match we could get.  We lasted just into the last quarter.  And, I can’t believe I am saying this, I was ok with having the excuse to leave.  Usually I would stay until the final siren – win or lose.  But 100 points down, and in the middle of a very large flock of stinky pies supporters (actually they were all quite nice as far as collingwood fans go), I was content to pack up our bags when the little one said ‘let’s go home’ for the 10th time.

Sad to see they couldn’t dig deeper for Joel – he deserves a grander send-off.  Did you know they have a mobile TAB van at the MCG – what is the world coming too?   I have such fond memories of Dad taking me to the local footy, pestering him for money to buy a drink or a hotdog, and scouring the crowds for cans to squash onto our feet and clunk around in.  Probably with boys from the central school who I would later in life have massive crushes on but was never brazen enough to do anything about……..

Haven’t had much time to get into the craft zone but here’s the quilt which was off to Japan (I lashed out on a walking foot and although I had no real idea how to work one, it did seem to make a difference to my “in the ditch”-ness – way less bunchy):

And the present for a 5 yr old’s birthday (where a funny thing happened: it was at one of those play centres and was a kinder kid. One of the non-invited kinder kids co-incidently turned up at the centre – this kid had cake with the party and was not at all camera shy when the parents wre trying to take a photo of the birthday girl and her family. Too funny…):

Part of the present was also one of the glittery headbands with a rose.   I really like these tops, I gave them to a few special little ladies last year for christmas.  Ours get wear in winter as well with a long sleeve underneath.

that’s what the last few weeks feel like. buzzing on by. Did get to a few brown owl meets, a couple of ivanhoe quiltoffs, a perle 8 but mostly hanging with the fam. Took Sadia to the last qtr at the MCG to watch the tiges not quite lose to Melb (if you want to dip your foot in at the footy, the ‘g lets you in for free for the last qtr – great option for certain 3 yr olds who don’t concentrate on far away games for that long. We got to sing our song – which she loved.  The other kid is totally converted to dad’s poos and wees so I have to fly the black and yellow flag – I refuse to be outnumbered).  

We also went to Peter and the Wolf played by the Heidleberg Symphony:

Someone had a practice exam – freaky man – it’s ok anti-over schedulers, she only does ballet, she LOVES it and she can opt out whenever she wants.

I got a new neice – two weeks early:

and she got a quickie quilt – which looks like its still on the camera so that will get aired sometime in the next 100 years (I wonder what blogging will look like in 100 years?  perhaps we can just think things and it will go on our blog – that could be very very dangerous….and really quite messy in my case…)

xoxoxo