Christopher and Tina visit

Monday 1 October

Happy birthday dad.

Very late last night, 11h 30, Tina
and Christopher arrived.
They are down our way to go to
a friend wedding.

This morning we had a lazy start
watching the photos of their trip
to Finland and Italy and of their new
property, that they are revamping.

 The birds must have remembered Christopher.
A lot of them came to be fed.

We had a very nice lunch near the BBQ.
Christopher took some photos but I forgot.

 relaxing before they left to visit
Shane and Jo.

Manly Jazz festival 2012

Sunday 30 September


Sunny but cool day.

Pack up lunch and we went to manly to listen to some jazz

 the first stage we stopped at

 

 

Then we went to the Ocean front and spent the afternoon there

 

 

 

 

 

Tricia Ivy a french girl from the Martinique

 

 

 

 

 

I am having a lot of trouble up loading the video's. I hope some of them will be good

 

Shopping break

Friday 28 September

We had been shopping all
morning so we had lunch out.

grilled fillet of lamb salad with feta and hazelnuts

September birthday lunch

Thursday 27 September

Today is Sandra birthday.
Anne birthday was at the beguinning of the
month but she was away in Europe.

 Marie had lasagne (she always has it)

Marie and Camille

 Tricia and Anne

 Sandra and Rosie, they had veal so did Camille. (sandra had a different sauce)

Tricia, I and Anne
Anne and I had penne with sun dried tomato,
chorizo and basil. yummy.
We had a nice long relaxing lunch.
I was so full that I only had salad that night.

Only two slept over

Wednesday 26 September

Mykaela went home last night.
Today she is going horse riding
as a special treat.
Amelia and Joshua had a sleep over.

 up bright and early, she dressed herself
We had a desagrement about her hair.
She had combed only the front and put
3 hair clips at the back.
The only way she let me comb it was
when I gave her a hair band I had
in my Christmas stash for the advent
calendar. (too big anyway for the calendar)

Playing with the fire man

When it was a bit warmer outside we went
to the Diggers new playground.
But I had forgoten my camera
AND my mobile was dead.

 Amelia must have worms.
She ate:
2 weet bix for breakfast
a small packet of teddy bisuits at 9
a banana at 10
a sandwich at 11

 a yogurt and fruit at lunch time.
she wanted strawberries and grapes.
I did not have grapes so she said:
"do you have blueberries?"
so she had strawberries and blueberries

Joshua had a nice snooze and gobble up his lunch

All the grand children

Tuesday 25 September

Jo and Shane has business to attend
so they drop the children off.

 Joshua is exploring for the first time

 Amelia is rediscovering her tea set

Mykaela is colouring a bag. It looked very nice.

 Joshua walking

I was kept busy.
Later on I put Joshua in the high chair near
the kitchen bench while Amelia help me
make the dessert.
I only start cooking when Jo and Shane
came back. Shane looked after the kids
and taught Mykaela something on Jo
new toy and Jo stayed with me while I
made dinner. Very nice chat with a glass
of wine...Claude was still working.

Malaysia Festival'12

Sunday 23 September

Today we went to Darling Harbour
for the Malaysia festival

Classical Indian dance
The Indian and Bharathanatyam type dance
dating back 2000 years

Asyik dance
Meaning "beloved". Asyik is Royal court dance
created to entertain the Kelantan queen over the
loss of her favorite bird.

The Lion dance

dancing in the crowd

Malay martial art.

Jeremy Young (he sang on stage, his family was just near us)
He is 8y, at 7y he was a semi finalist of Australia got talent.
Apparently he was the younger ever semi finalist.!

 

Malay wedding

 

traditional Chinese dance
fan dance

We had a very fine day.
We try new food, (I wanted to experience).
Claude had some satay beef but try something
new for dessert.

Drain, part two, three and four

Monday 10 September

The plumber came today to deblock the
rain water drain/pipe

he removed the old terra cota pipe and
replace them with PVC pipe

 he even put a little man hole in case
we have more trouble later on. It will
save us to have to dig the garden.

And that is all the roots which were blocking the pipe.

Thursday 13 September
Claude took some time off. He will work Friday .

 Claude filled back the hole and covered the pipe.

Saturday15 September

We went and bought 4 rolls of turf and 4 bag of soil

Sunday 16 September

Beautiful morning, we have to finish the job.

 putting some top soil

 laying the new turf

 we put the old turf, (all dry by now) at the bottom of the
garden where no turf grow.

and a good watering follow by fertilizing

The garden look very nice. I will have to
remember to water it well every days.

It was a lot of work but we are very proud
of our effort and by doing some of the work
ourselves we save some money too.

More project to tackle next week.........