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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 222255" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Good morning everybody.</p><p></p><p>Linda, don't beat yourself up about the tree. Surely kt can decorate it for you? In our family, the tree has been decorated by the kids without our help (except to suggest moving an ornament here or there) as soon as they're old enough to reach. This year difficult child 3 did it all by himself. mother in law's chopped down pine tree got delivered in the rain on Friday and we got home from difficult child 3's school presentation day to find the tree in the bucket of water left for it. Yesterday was searingly hot with a dry hot wind so difficult child 3 & I moved the tree indoors to safety. Very glad we did - overnight the wind got stronger, today was literally blowing a gale although the day was mostly sunny, no rain. That tree would have been shrivelled to a crisp if we'd left it outside.</p><p></p><p>Today we had the train club Christmas party. Closed to the public, but still a large number of people because it's combined with the vintage & veteran car club. I got a ride in a 1923 Ford, the owner has added GPS to it, converted it to 12V and has a small radio installed. I showed him how to very simply "pimp his ride" and iPod the car. Talk about spanning the centuries!</p><p>It wasn't as hot today, I still wore my swimsuit for most of the day, just grabbing my jacket for those times when the wind was at its worst. We had a lovely picnic lunch, with cold chicken, salad, my home-made mince pies and biscuits, and fresh mangoes and cherries. That's something about Christmas for me - the smell of mangoes through the house.</p><p>Driving home we followed the coast road again. It was late afternoon but the sea looked beautiful, still intensely blue. From our position on the clifftop road, I was reminded of Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" and the second verse: </p><p>"The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, </p><p>He watches from his mountain walls, </p><p>Then like a thunderbolt</p><p>He falls."</p><p></p><p>After all the gale-force winds in Sydney over the last few days, the skies are flushed clean and we could see the city in the far distance, every building clearly etched against the sky. The sea was clean, we could see so deeply into the ocean. I'll have to drive difficult child 3 down here again, just to explore the ocean beaches. We sometimes get too used to estuary beaches and their gentler surf.</p><p></p><p>Tomorrow - I don't know yet. I need to talk to teachers, I was hoping to get to a writers' meeting but I think once more school takes priority. We'll see what the morning brings.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 222255, member: 1991"] Good morning everybody. Linda, don't beat yourself up about the tree. Surely kt can decorate it for you? In our family, the tree has been decorated by the kids without our help (except to suggest moving an ornament here or there) as soon as they're old enough to reach. This year difficult child 3 did it all by himself. mother in law's chopped down pine tree got delivered in the rain on Friday and we got home from difficult child 3's school presentation day to find the tree in the bucket of water left for it. Yesterday was searingly hot with a dry hot wind so difficult child 3 & I moved the tree indoors to safety. Very glad we did - overnight the wind got stronger, today was literally blowing a gale although the day was mostly sunny, no rain. That tree would have been shrivelled to a crisp if we'd left it outside. Today we had the train club Christmas party. Closed to the public, but still a large number of people because it's combined with the vintage & veteran car club. I got a ride in a 1923 Ford, the owner has added GPS to it, converted it to 12V and has a small radio installed. I showed him how to very simply "pimp his ride" and iPod the car. Talk about spanning the centuries! It wasn't as hot today, I still wore my swimsuit for most of the day, just grabbing my jacket for those times when the wind was at its worst. We had a lovely picnic lunch, with cold chicken, salad, my home-made mince pies and biscuits, and fresh mangoes and cherries. That's something about Christmas for me - the smell of mangoes through the house. Driving home we followed the coast road again. It was late afternoon but the sea looked beautiful, still intensely blue. From our position on the clifftop road, I was reminded of Tennyson's poem "The Eagle" and the second verse: "The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls, He watches from his mountain walls, Then like a thunderbolt He falls." After all the gale-force winds in Sydney over the last few days, the skies are flushed clean and we could see the city in the far distance, every building clearly etched against the sky. The sea was clean, we could see so deeply into the ocean. I'll have to drive difficult child 3 down here again, just to explore the ocean beaches. We sometimes get too used to estuary beaches and their gentler surf. Tomorrow - I don't know yet. I need to talk to teachers, I was hoping to get to a writers' meeting but I think once more school takes priority. We'll see what the morning brings. Enjoy your Sunday, everyone. Marg [/QUOTE]
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