Month: March 2011

P365 – Day 81 clink clink!

When Juniordwarf was younger, Slabs used to be at home with him on Mondays. And as long as we’ve lived here, Monday was garbage collection day. So it used to be a bit of a ritual, as I imagine it is for many little kids, to watch the garbage...

P365 – Day 80 supermoon

So, Saturday night was full moon, and it was the so-called supermoon. Apparently the full moon was the closest it has been to earth since 1993, so it was supposed to appear bigger than normal. Well, we had an overcast night didn’t we, so moon viewing was far from...

P365 – Day 79 wiggling

Juniordwarf and I went to the Wiggles concert today. Excellent quality phone photo! I’m not sure what else there is to say. We were a long way back from the stage, but directly in front, so we had a good view. None of the pictures turned out very well...

P365 – Day 78 my little piece of paradise

Regular visitors to pastpresentfuture might remember my post about the jungle down the side of Slabs’ shed. To recap, our back yard has a fenced off section behind Slabs’ home brew shed that is ‘mine’. I have my own tin shed, a sort of paved area out the front...

P365 – Day 77 the butty

Well now, where do I begin? I’m not sure how to explain this one. Months and months ago, maybe even years ago – I can’t remember how long – Juniordwarf started talking about ‘the butty’. Originally it sounded a bit like one of those pommie accents where they don’t...

P365 – Day 76 cutting it

A while ago, when it became apparent that Juniordwarf was left-handed, I bought some left-handed scissors for him, but he was never interested in cutting anything. Even when he had the opportunity at play group, he never made any attempt to use scissors. Now that they are doing cutting...

P365 – Day 75 athletic carnival

Today was the Kinder to Grade 2 Athletic Carnival at Juniordwarf’s school. He’d been very excited about it for the last week. From what I can tell, the Phys Ed teacher had been practising with the kinder kids what they needed to do in a running race. Juniordwarf had...

P365 – Day 74 brushing the dog

While I was brushing Sleepydog this morning, Juniordwarf said he wanted to help. So he did. I was thinking today how nice it is that he can, and does, help with some tasks around the house (brushing the dog being an exception). He’s been helping with the washing for...

P365 – Day 72 gone fishing

Slabs is a keen fisherman and one of the things that attracted him to our town was its proximity to the river and a host of great fishing spots. So today we went fishing. Actually we did more driving than fishing, but we ended up at a pretty spot...