I'm late tonight, I've had a busy day. Sorry I haven't got time to chat to you all. Fran, I hope your place on the island is sufficiently sound so you can repair the damage. For everyone else, enjoy your weekend with the upcoming football match and all your hobbies which are so vital at keeping us from going totally nuts. We have a football grand final here this weekend also. Sorry to disappoint, but frankly I couldn't give a rat's. I'm not a footie fan.
mother in law & I saw the neurologist today. I've got to have another MRI, I have to wait for the hospital to ring me with the appointment. It will be some time in the next two months. After the doctor, we did a bit of shopping then headed home. I'd left difficult child 3 working, he says he got a fair amount of work done. mother in law & I had mail-ordered some clothes, the parcel arrived while we were out so I promised to drop in later on. But first, I HAD to rest. Meanwhile difficult child 3 had finished his work and decided to go bike riding. But his tyres were a bit low, so he hunted for a pump. Then he couldn't find the little hose bit - I told him to look in the end of the pump. He said it wasn't there. eventually he found it - where I said it was. Then he tried to pump his tyre and only succeeded in flattening it completely. Mind you, each time any of this happened, he had to come in and tell me - not much chance of a rest. Eventually I gave up and headed out to see mother in law, only to get waylaid by a neighbour, sawing the lower limbs of one of our street trees - a Banskia. He gave me the whole sorry saga; local kids have been pelting his house with banskia seed pods (these are the ones that are drawn as "big bad banskia men" in May Gibbs' illustrations of her "Bib and Bub" books). These things are big and hard. Kids have been ripping them off the trees and lobbing them at this bloke's house, he's gone through thousands of dollars of broken windows. Mind you, I think he is enjoying the conflict, he goes out to chase the kids and confront them instead of doing what I do - taking photos of them in action. So of course, it escalates for him.
I eventually got to mother in law's place, it is exciting looking through new parcels especially when you've almost forgotten what you ordered! And at last, despite my misgivings, I own a 'little black dress'. Black is NOT my colour but if I bling it up a bit it should be OK...
I'm sitting here wearing a new royal blue singlet top (shelf bra kind) with a light lime and white striped voile shirt. I probably should have changed out of it before I decided to clean the bathroom... but it's OK, I'm still looking clean and tidy. I still look like an ad for bathroom cleaner, actually. A pity bathrooms aren't as easy to clean as in the ads!
Tomorrow husband has a meeting with his trains group and he's taking difficult child 3 with him, because I have a meeting with my writers group. I might wear my new bathroom cleaning outfit! As long as it's a warm enough day, of course!
Our school holidays begin today for two weeks, plus the last couple of days have been the last day of school ever, for our final year high school students. They are now on stu-vac before their final state-based exams, the HSC (Higher School Certificate). Today and yesterday mother in law & I saw a lot of students wearing their graffiti-ed school shirts - they write on each other's school uniform shirts on the last day, because they will never be worn again!
Enjoy your Friday. Our weather is definitely warming up, both my peach trees are in full blossom, looking pretty in pink. My Jamaican lime tree smells fabulous, the bees are very busy.
Marg
She is quite the young adult!
