Pergola so far

Friday 29 April

When we came back with the new car,

the workmen had finished for the day.

They have been here for a week.

Most of the time it rained.

Pergola, the saga:

We had a quote for the new pergola.

We had the old pergola demolished

and taken away.

We had a new facia put on,

the old one was rotten.

It took for ever, the guys turned up for

short time now and then.

Then the old guy hurt his back.

We were quote $700 for the new facia.

It finely cost us almost double.

The pergola people came to install the

new pergola and refused to do it:

The facia was all wrong.

Claude refused to call the old guy back.

We had to find someone else.

Nobody wanted the job.

One day a painter rang to see if we had any job

for him, big or small.

Claude told him we did not have any painting

job but we needed a carpenter.

Lucky strike.

The painter belong to a group guys doing

 home maintenance.

The carpenter came removed the old/new facia

and install a new one ($5000 later)

Pergola people came to inspect...OK,

 then the rain set in.

We had a quote to redo all the facia around the house

$30 000

Does anybody knows of a cheaper

carpenter?



Old car.....New car

Friday 29 April

Today we are taking possession

of our new car.

Our new car is still a Subaru Forester,

but a Diesel.

It is a bit different to drive. It has 6 speeds.

Boy I had enough problem going into 5th.!!!



Amelia last Wednesday at grandma

Wednesday 27 April

Rain, rain go away

Amelia want to play.

 As usual, Amelia was up early.

Now she is having a sleep in,

in her Dora sleeping bag.

And watching TV.

In the afternoon we used the sleeping bag to

make a tent.

Amelia love going to the shop...

She often say: "shops" to me.

Now I know why!!!!

Amelia often ask to go to the shops

and Jo told her to ask Grandma

to take her.

I usually take her to a park

or the beach. But today it has

been raining.

The mall has a small children

area under cover.

Today is the last day that I have Amelia on

 a weekly routine.

Tomorrow Thursday 28 April is

Jo last day of work.



Amelia bath

Tuesday 26 April

We were just home fiteen minutes

when Shane dropped Amelia.

She was just in time for dinner.

I had cooked a weight watchers bolognaise sauce

before going to the movie.

I only had to cook the pasta and

seasoned the salad.

Amelia enjoyed everything.

She ate the salad too.

Amelia is writing on herself with

bath texteurs.



Easter Monday / Anzac day

Monday 25 April

Easter Monday

also

Anzac Day

A very wet day, but not cold.

We put on our raincoats and went

to Fairlight for a walk along

the sea shore.

We were very lucky it did not rain much.

Just few little showers.

But it started to pour when

we got back to the car.



Potiche

Tuesday 26 April

Very wet day.

This morning I went to aqua

While Claude worked a few hours.

After lunch to went to the movie

at the old Cremorne  cinema.

"The Orpheum"

a 1930 art deco picture palace

We were in the main room.

Very beautiful  (the whole place is lovely)

A man was playing an old organ on stage.

When he finished the floor

opened and the organ went down

with the man bowing to us.

I took some photos with my phone

but they were not good.

We saw a French movie

"Potiche"

with Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.

A witty comedy

Easter 2011

Sunday 24 April

Easter

We were at 10 am at Shane and Jo's

place to hide our eggs for the

children eggs hunt before

Mykaela had to go to her dad.

 The girls are very nice outfit from India.

Shane bought it for them on his last trip.

 Mykaela spied some eggs

 Amelia did very well

Then Mykaela played her flute....Amelia too

 Me making fun of the Japanese tourists yesterday

on Manly beach.

I wonder what significance doing this with

their means?????

Then dressing up and dancing

Grand dad joined in too

I still have to learn  lot about this

camera, I just like to point and shout.

Claude is much better.

But there is hope, Jo told me that

I was the same when I first got my old camera.

Central coast

Friday 22 April

Good  Friday

It turned out to be a very nice day.

We packed up a picnic and drove to

the central coast.

We went to Avoca beach but it was

very crowded and no parking spot.

So we went on to Copacabana.

We went to relax on the beach

and had our lunch.

The we drove back to Avoca beach.

some people were jumping from

the rock.

From there we went to Terrigal.

They have done a lot of work

in the park. Very nice walkways.

I am just trying my new camera.

Still not happy.

On top of my camera problem I am having

blogging problem for the past week.

As I understand it, Google blogger

stop publishing after updating to

Microsoft Internet explorer 9

for vista.

I had to use another copy of the google blogger

called blogger in draft.

So now I have to learn that too.

I had a very stressful afternoon.

Oh boy I don't like changes.

New camera

Thursday 21 April

We went to a camera shop to have my camera

look after.

Not good news.

The lens mechanism is broken.

It will be too expensive to have it fix

so we bought a new camera and I have

to re learn everything.

I am not happy.

We went to Manly to test it.....



Painting Easter eggs

Wednesday 20 April

This morning I got Amelia up as soon as she was awake to

let Mykaela sleep in a bit longueur.

We went to a park with a tall climbing frame

for Mykaela and there is also 4 different

types of slides.

One was bumpy and Mykaela was sliding lying down.

It looked very strange to see her body

sliding and undulating.

Amelia had fun too sliding between the

legs of her sister and

having Mykaela between her legs.

But I could not make my camera to work.

When I got home Claude managed to

make it work for a short time

and I was able to take 4 photos

before it died.

 They are painting plaster Easter eggs

Mykaela had her I pod on.

She was listening to songs and time to time

was bursting into song.

Amelia was not eating.

She was more interested in watching the birds.

So I dragged her high chair near them.

South Head

 Sunday 17 April

Today we went for a walk along

South Head

 some nice carvings 

 North Head

Where we were last Friday 15 April

 Yes, there is a nudists beach.

You can see them from the path.

They were only old fat men, not worth watching.

an old cobbles path



North head national park