Yay! Just got email from our lawyer and it looks like the cash for Hugo Street is all set to arrive tomorrow. Wealth beyond our wildest dreams! A shame most of it has to go straight into our other mortgage. Still, I am getting a laptop so I will be very [...]

My dad and my little brother Max have arrived from New Zealand for a two week holiday in Sydders. Great to see them, Max is almost grown now - 17! Wow! He’s a lovely lad. They have headed off to Palm Beach for the afternoon with Ned and Dins. Damn holidaying people, I [...]

The spy who loved me
From the world of espionage we hear a fantastic story that Shirley Bassey has been a spy for Interpol since the early 1980s.
Shirley, apparently, has great contacts with Arab Royalty - great fans of her rendition of Hey Big Spender, so consequently gets some insider information. She’s even said [...]

Had a great long weekend. Busy busy!
Friday
Anthony came over for a lunchtime bbq. Lovely to see him in the flesh as it had been a while. My family gatecrashed the lunch, but nice to see them as well! ;-)
In the evening we went to Jake’s art opening. There was a huge [...]

I dreamed I had to go to London for work but I was taking both the kids with me. I found a blog by an old school friend who now lived in London so I decided to go and stay with her. She was married and her husband was a real snob. [...]

Wishing all my loyal readers a happy and safe Easter break.

We went to Archie’s planning meeting today - it’s a thing they do at early intervention, looking at what he has achieved in the last year and what our goals are for him in the coming twelve months. It feels good just to sit down and evaluate some things, and also to think about [...]

Just went shopping and bought a new pair of shoes and a pair of jeans. Shoes - Royal Elastics, almost identical to my last pair. I am the kind of person who only has one or two pairs of shoes at a time, so my main criteria are comfort, style and they have [...]

We got a phone call late last night with the news that our very good friends Larnie & Mikey have become parents! At quarter to six on Tuesday 6th April 2004, Charlotte was born, in Tasmania, weighing in at 9lbs (4.1kgs)! It was a 12 hour labour, no complications, all well and happy. [...]

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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