Once again it seems that time has run away from me, and there will be no Christmas Cards from my house to yours this year. At the last minute I am endeavouring to at least let you know what is happening in our lives.
It has been a hectic year for me in particular. We have lost two cooks, a housekeeper and a laundress at work this year, and the new cook starts in January. I am now having dreams about cooking for fourty something people ... or is that nightmares!!! I think I can whip up a fairly decent braised steak and an icky sticky date pudding without thinking about it now.
I have been working pretty much full time for the last couple of months in the kitchen, and up until the time the new cook starts. Kevin has been marvelous and has been happy with a bit of wood for dinner, the nights I have been too tired ... or repulsed by food in general when I get home. He has been doing the shopping for Xmas for me too, braving the hordes of wild last minute shoppers ripping the bargains from his hands! ... well .... sort of!
We will have a quiet Xmas Day. Hopefully! With a predicted 35 degrees on the day, and after I get home from work, Andrea, Peter, Blake and Xavier are coming for tea. Then after work on Boxing Day we are going to Andrea and Peter's, along with Kevin's sister Lorraine and her brood for our family Xmas get together, where we have a traditional KK which usually turns rather violent. But fun ;-)
Anyhoo .... here are a couple of photos of Blake and Xavier. Blake was 11 in October, and Xavier will be 9 in February.
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| Blake |
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| Xavier |
I'm new at this Blogging thing, but I think I'm having fun. I should tell you that all the photos so far have been mine. Infact, you can take it as gospel that all the photos on the blog will be mine, unless I tell you otherwise. The Father Xmas one, was a montage I did, using a photo of the sandhills at Perry Sands near Mildura Victoria, and the tin cutouts of FC driving the team of emu's were on the edge of the town of Tarlee, on the way to Clare in South Australia.
Kevin and I did get away for a holiday this year in September. We won a travel auction bid to Mildura, then we decided to go on to Wagga Wagga to visit Kevin's brother Max and wife Jenni, then we all went on to Canberra to go to the Floriade Flower Festival, and the Tulip Gardens. It was a quick but nice adventure, and of course I took lots of photos. Including this one of the inquisitive possum on the Canberra Golf Course.
Cute isn't it ... but trust me ... you don't want one in your garden, because before you can say 'What cute little furballs they are', they have found their way into your ceilings and will run rampant all throughout the night.
Kevin suffers from selective hearing these days. He gets scared when I start saying how I need a new lens, or something new for my growing camera gear, and I'm sure it effects his hearing. He usually does give in eventually after I howl and howl for something new, on the proviso that this 'whatever it is I desperately need this time', is absolutely the last camera thing I buy!
.... uh huh ... yep, sure it is the very last thing i need .... ;-) ..... so ... the last lens and flash I got allows me to take photos of very little beasties. And I'm so very chuffed with it!
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| Front on view of a Cicada |
When I get a bit more better with the Blog I will attempt to post a slideshow of the trip to Floriade.
I really do feel slightly bad for not making more of an effort to send Xmas cards to everyone, but hopefully this will do for this year and I will be motivated ... or not working so much next pre Christmas.
I hope that when the gifts have all been opened
and when the tree is gone
When the carols no longer ring in our ears
May the joy of Christmas live on.
And then the Angel of Shopping said, go forth and buy gifts at the post Xmas sales, and maybe a little something for yourself.
Best wishes, much love and Merry Christmas to all. Heather
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