G'day TM and all to follow.
TM, I remember doing the sequin thing. I remember sewing red sequins onto one of those sports bras for easy child, for a Rocky Horror dance number. The trouble with glue, you always get some of them come off. I'm hoping that one day easy child has a daughter who chooses to do dance classes. Then she will know what I went through!
We had a fairly productive day today. difficult child 3 got a tricky bit of schoolwork completed as homework, despite having his baby budgie sitting on his shoulder throughout the exercise. When he finished we had lunch and then difficult child 3 went outside (while I minded Lucky the budgie) to collect some fallen eucalypt sticks to make a playgym. When husband got home (from playing trains) difficult child 3 handed the job over to him because the neighbour kids invited him over to play. So while difficult child 3 was getting in some positive social interaction, husband built the playgym. It looks amazing, like a miniature, leafless gum tree! When difficult child 3 got back home he got Lucky out of his cage and trying out his new perch. Lucky is still flying badly due to his clipped wing, so he couldn't climb up from one branch to the next. Since then I've added a ladder and a couple of toys. The idea is, Lucky can sit on this perch on the desk where difficult child 3 does his schoolwork.
We've had some lovely autumn weather, sunny skies and not too cold. That changed this afternoon - the cold and damp is here. The weather forecast for south-east Australia is for snow down to 1000 metres. It makes you think we'll be mostly blanketed over a large part of the place, right? Until you realise just how little of this country is higher than 1000 metres! The Blue Mountains west of Sydney gets ephemeral snow at some time most winters. Southern Highlands - ditto. The Southern Alps and the snowfields will be happy the ski season is getting a good early start - they need good snow cover before the June long weekend.
But us - it never snows here. It just gets blasted cold. And the wind goes right through you, picking up speed along the way.
Winter is here, a bit early.
difficult child 1 & girlfriend drove to Canberra this morning to see a major art exhibition there. Three hours' drive, so they were planning to stay over night. Imagine my surprise - he just walked in the door, they drove back as well. It was getting too cold, he said. All the outdoor stuff they were going to do as well - forget it. Probably a good thing - they would have risked icy roads driving back tomorrow. So instead, he's coming to our local church in the morning, girlfriend will meet us there. It should be a good day, but here's hoping someone's got the fire lit! Yes, we have a log fire in our church...
Enjoy your Saturday.
Marg
