Woo Hoot Wednesday!

Not a great photo sorry, but thought you might like to see what the weather had been up down the road from us...

And this is the boat that got washed up on our rock on the weekend - now you can see why we call it Flat Rock! It's real name is Moturaka Island.

On a day like to day, I'm grateful to be safe and sound wrapped up in my house, with a happy dog and cat, and a hubby on the way home from work!

Woo hoot for medical help - I beleive that it's not always necessary but sometimes it's the only thing that helps. My sister is sounding much more like her old self after just a couple of days of medical intervention, and of course after a couple of nights of decent sleep. Sleep is a wonderous thing.

Roll on tomorrow, as I am assuming our SENZ tickets should arrive then. Boo hoo for my flooded letterbox. I've been out there trying to empty it out and have stuck newspaper in it to help soak it up.

I'm trying to finish off the layouts that I started at Crop Waikato...so hopefully I might have a few to share come the weekend. Enjoy the rest of the week my friends.

The weekend...

It was a great day down in the Waikato...great company and very little scrapping accomplished (isn't that right Angela??!!)I did manage to get one whole layout finished. And about three half done. We hit the two scrapbooking shops before the crop, so I've added one or two things to my stash. And on Sunday after I had unpacked the way to much stuff that I took I started on another layout, so all is good in my little world LOL. The photos on my circle layout are of me, but don't really match the title. I couldn't really find any to go with it, and it's kind of nice to be using up some of my older photos. Hannah, maybe we could do one on our pets, I've got a million or two photos around that subject ROFL!

Thanks to all those who have asked after my sister. She has been to the Dr and is getting a bit of help and is also staying with Dad until she feels a bit better in herself. Fortunately Dad and my step Mum are both retired so they can be flexible in what they do, where they go etc, whereas I had to go back to work so couldn't be there for her as much as she needed. But still she's on the up and up and that's the main thing. The Doctor thought said it usually takes a few months to come right when you've had such a stressful knock.

Now depending on where blogger puts these photos...a friend from the Naki asked about the threading water punch and how it works. A picture is worth a thousand words, so in one photo there is a couple of arrows, they are showing the lines where your paper is actually punched. When you've punched it, slide it along so that the punched bits line up on top of the design and then punch again, and you just keep doing this until you've punched out all you want. If you end up reading this Annie, hope it helps!

We all know the weather was a bit rough...but who would have thought we'd have a starfish on our back lawn. We are close to the beach, but not close enough for starfish to be part of our usual garden furniture. Birds don't eat them, which was one way we thought it might have ended up there. And I don't think anybody close enough was fishing and it's found it's way there courtesy of a moggie...but Lyall said we did have some mighty good gusts of wind. Good enough for a boat to lose it's moorings and end up on our local island (and because Kiwi's are the master's of understatement, it's called Flat Rock), well it is a big flat Island! Must take a photo of it and show you...So what do you reckon? Can starfish fly?

The other photo's are my layout efforts for the weekend...take care all, more of the wet stuff is on it's way. And think of Mandy and I who have all those little ones inside due to the weather...LOL!

A few weeks ago...

I helped a friend shift house out in Waiuku (that's not far from Tanya and Alison), about an hour and a half away from us, South West. When we were there, we found she needed a few things from Mitre ten, so off Lyall and I shot. We pull into the carpark and what did I spot but a scrapbooking shop...bye honey LOL! Really we were both in our element, him in the hardware shop me in a scrapbooking shop.

This is a newish shop, with a lovley friendly owner, who has just started a blog. On her last post she is putting people who comment in the draw for a RAK and I thought this might be a two way thing here...if you guys want to check it out you'll go into the draw, and she might get a new customer or at least a few more visitors from it!

I really enjoyed visiting the shop. It was spacious with excellent lighting (so important) and super friendly. Lots of great stock, so in a couple of weeks am planning on going back out for a visit, as it's market day in Waiuku as well - just waiting to hear whether Lyall is working or not - if he is I won't be going, but if he isn't then I will be. Here's hoping he isn't.

So here's the link to Craftee Creations - if you get time please pop in and say hello.

Woo hoo....

Okay so if doesn't bring a tear to your eye, I don't know what will....(thanks Dad for sending it to me). And Vicki, my friend, I don't think you should read this...



Anyone who has pets will really like this. You'll
Like it even if you don't and may decide you need one.

Mary and her husband Jim had a dog, Lucky. Lucky was a real
Character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a weekend visit they
Would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open because Lucky would
Help himself to whatever struck his fancy.

Inevitably, someone would forget and something would come up missing.
Mary or Jim would go to Lucky's toy box in the basement and there the
Treasure would be, amid all of Lucky's favourite toys. Lucky always stashed
His finds in his toy box and he was very particular that his toys stay in
The box.

It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer. Something told
Her she was going to die of this disease, she was just sure it was fatal.
She scheduled the double mastectomy, fear riding her shoulders.

The night before she was to go to the hospital she cuddled with
Lucky. A thought struck her...what would happen to Lucky? Although the
Three-year-old dog liked Jim, he was Mary's dog through and through. If I
Die, Lucky will be abandoned, Mary thought. He won't understand that I
Didn't want to leave him. The thought made her sadder than thinking of her
Own death.

The double mastectomy was harder on Mary than her doctors had
Anticipated and Mary was hospitalised for over two weeks. Jim took Lucky
For his evening walk faithfully, but the little dog just drooped, whining
And miserable.

Finally the day came for Mary to leave the hospital. When she arrived
Home, Mary was so exhausted she couldn't even make it up the steps to her
Bedroom. Jim made his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap.

Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn't come to her when she called.
It made Mary sad but sleep soon overcame her and she dozed. When Mary woke
For a second she couldn't understand what was wrong. She couldn't move her
Head and her body felt heavy and hot. But panic soon gave way to laughter
When Mary realized the problem. She was covered, literally blanketed, with
Every treasure Lucky owned!

While she had slept, the sorrowing dog had made trip after trip to the
Basement bringing his beloved mistress all his favourite things in life. He
Had covered her with his love.

Mary forgot about dying. Instead she and Lucky began living again,
Walking further and further together every night.

It's been 12 years now and Mary is still cancer-free. Lucky? He
Still steals treasures and stashes them in his toy box but Mary remains his
Greatest treasure.


Live everyday to the fullest. Remember it is a blessing from God.

The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with
The most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.

They are the ones that care.


'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle'.


So my Wednesday wahoo's

Coke would have to be up there! It's Wednesday and I'm a bit tired and I've a heap to do, so Coke is the word LOL!

A package of goodies from Scrappn Patch arrived today, wahoo I say to that!

Having such kind caring friends, such as you guys in my blogging world, and in real life. And I don't like that saying, 'in real life' hello, this is real life, I've met a number of you, I need a new saying to explain it, got any ideas?

Wahoo for the funny things kids say. Picture this, a wee girl on the monkey bars "hey Trace, I need some help...I NEED all the help I can get" ROFL! (With you on that one kid, I need that too!!). Too cute.

Have a good end of week, I've got a couple more things to do ready for Saturday. Gotta be over at Deb's by half seven, so it will be another early start for me...make me feel like I'm getting up for work!

I bet you didn't know...

That I hated ham LOL! I did think about my garlic allergy, but actually for years I loved garlic, however it no longer likes me...it just wants to kill me! Might have something to do with the years I used to spread it on my toast for breakfast. Yep you read that right. For breakfast. And yep, I do eat bacon. But I don't eat pork. Go figure!

Well ladies (oh and Dad!) we have finally got our kitchen ordered. They came out this afternoon to measure it up and we will go in during the week to choose handles etc and it will take about four weeks before it's in. Then it's just the tiles and carpet to go. The tiles are sitting in the lounge in boxes waiting...waiting...waiting. The carpet is sitting in a warehouse somewhere, waiting...but hey, at least they are chosen, paid for and ready to go!

But I couldn't find shoes that I liked...kind of in between seasons now, so will wait a few more weeks, and hide the holes in my favourite shoes...

Now this is a shout to Adrienne over at Scrappin' Patch. A few weeks ago, Adrienne kindly offered to track down the coveted threading water punch. So I ordered one. And so I thought I'd check out the shop while I waited for it to arrive. So I ordered a few things. And then a few more things...and you kind of are getting the picture. Adrienne has kept these all together and couried them as one lot. They should be here tomorrow, WAHOOO. Boy if you could see how black the sky is out my window, scary...Anyway, thanks Adrienne! And come on courier driver...LOL!

Miss Angelgurl have fun being the boss tonight! And if your joining her, have fun too! The light's not great in my scraproom for night work and really I want a lazy night before I have to go back to work tomorrow! All you parents going yippeee the holidays are over, and us teachers are all going, yeah another week would be nice ROFL!! Have a nice week my friends!

Update...

This was the Friday night challenge last week...

So I guess flame grilled burgers really are on the menu at BK Queen Street LOL! If you didn't see the news, BK had a wee fire this evening...and since nobody was hurt, the flame grilled aspect kind of appealed to my SOH...

Thanks Vicki and Alison for the friends email, that was lovely to get.

I had to have a nana nap today, it's taken us two and a half days to get our storeroom sorted out - and that's four of us working from about eight thirty to about five. It hadn't been done in the five years I've been at the kindergarten, and there was stuff buried pretty deep LOL!

I have been keeping up with your blogs but forgive me for not commenting in the last few days. My sister phoned me last weekend in tears. To cut a long story short she has quit her job after thirteen years there (she's a teacher in an early childhood centre) and as she lives by herself, she has been staying with us, which is lovely. Having someone close to you go through a bit of emotional turmoil is pretty draining, hence I haven't spent a lot of time on here. But she's in a much better head space now, so I can spend a bit more time on the old 'puta and in my scrapbooking room. Which is probably a good thing as it's Waikato crop next weekend, so best I be packing up a few things...

We are off to get the final plans done for the kitchen this weekend, so that's a goodie. And I found the seam on my favourite shoes is about to unravel so it looks like I will be shoe shopping this weekend too (yep, I do have other shoes, but I need another super comfy pair to wear to work day in and day out!)

Enjoy your weekend my friends...

And go Rachel...Last week I asked for your help, to help Rachel blog her way to immunity, well ladies lets amp it up a gear and really spread the word some more. Thank You to all those ladies that helped out last week. If you don’t have a blog you can still help Rachel out by leaving a message on her blog.

So here are the guidelines:

1. Leave a comment on Rachel’s blog post here

2. If you have a blog please write a blog post about Rachel and Scrap-n-Crop and PSA and do the link thing.

3. Leave a comment on Rachel’s blog here to tell her you’ve done a post.

4. Go to the PSA blog to this post here and leave the following comment “Rachel’s friend and the link to your blog post about her”. No personal messages should be left in that post, just the above.

Thanks for your help. If you would like you are more than welcome to cut and paste what I have written. (Thanks Janine, that's just what I did LOL!)

Just for you!

To A Beautiful Woman

Be Sure to read about Audrey Hepburn at the end.

Now I lay me Down to sleep I pray the Lord My shape to keep.

Please no wrinkles Please no bags And please lift my butt Before it sags.


Please no age spots Please no gray And as for my belly, Please take it away.

Please keep me healthy Please keep me young,


! And thank you Dear Lord


For all that you've done.



Five tips for a woman....

1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.

3. It is important to find a man you can count on! And doesn't lie to you.

4. It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.

5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.


Foot Note:

One saggy boob said to the other saggy boob:
'If we don't get some support soon, people will think we're nuts.'


Send this to five bright, funny women you know and make their day !!!


It's BEAUTIFUL WOMAN MONTH & TAG YOU'RE IT!



Did you know that it's Beautiful Women Month? Well, it is and that means you !!! I'm supposed to send this to FIVE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, and you are one of them !!! Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her 'beauty tips.'

It was read at her funeral years later.


For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

If you share this with another woman, something good will happen . . You will boost another woman's self esteem, and she will know that you care about her.

Hmm can't see them on here yet, but am hoping the smilies are with this...if not use your imagination LOL!

Have a great wahoot Wednesday. I've been busy at work setting up, and have started cleaning out the storeroom. That's a huge job, back into it tomorrow. Catch you later.

Helping out Rach!

Courtesy of Miss Angelgur's blog...

Rachel is a kiwi scrapper living in Kuala Lumpar since October 2007 with her DH (shall we call him scrubby) and her two adorable children A and M. For the last seven weeks Rachel has been taking part in a scrapping competition by Scrap-n-Crop’s Project Scrap Away. Each week someone is eliminated. Rachel has created some beautiful layouts during the last seven weeks. Rachel is the only kiwi in this international competition. So why does she need your help? She has the opportunity to blog her way to immunity and this is how you can help.

Leave a comment on Rachel’s blog and you earn her a point.
If you mention her name and Project Scrap Away (PSA) on your blog she gets an extra point.
Then go to PSA blog and leave a comment on this post here and type Rachel’s friend with a link to your blog.

Let's go and help a fellow kiwi out! Go Rachel!

Sharing time!

The photo on my header, well actually I can only tell you that it's somewhere down the West Coast of the South Island! Past the glaciers and before Haast...we pulled over in the campervan and got out for a wander along the beach. And it's probably one of two million or so shots of the said beach. You know how it is...

I've been busy in my scrapspace today. One layout done for my BOM and my name tag made for Waikato Crop. Then I kind of got sidetracked. One of my holiday jobs was to go through all my unwritten on c.d's that I know have photos in them, but what, well there in lies the mystery. You know what it's like when you start looking at photos LOL! Anyway I thought I'd share...and since blogger still isn't playing nicely in regards to photos and nobody at blogspot has got back to me to tell me how I can change it back to photos instead of a bunch of letters, I have to do an explanation here! One is me and my brother - outside with a plastic truck. One is my gorgeous Mum on the beach - don't those togs just rock! I've put the photo of the baby on here because I'm hoping my Dad (hi Dad!)who reads my blog will be able to tell me which of his kids it is LOL! And finally one of my sister, gotta love the shorts she's wearing...

I got heaps of weeding done yesterday and even mowed the lawns. The washing got dried on the line for the first time in a week! But I'm hoping it's going to be a wet weekend so I can stay snuggled up inside (good excuse not to continue gardening you see!) and scrap and get myself somewhat organised for Waikato crop - it's a bit far to come home and grab stuff...I think I might play around with my blog over the weekend, as this photo issue has only come about since I changed my template...

Woo Hoot Wednesday!

It's Wednesday and I'm on holiday...

*woo hoo for being able to get out of bed when you want...
*for not having to rush after work to get to the doctor, dentist or hairdresser...
*today I finally finished my appraisal, so that's a big wahoo for me!
*yesterday when I went into Botany to the dentist I stopped at Payless Plastics as they stock a few scrapbooking supplies. While there wasn't anything that really caught my eye, I found the above plastic folders and they are just perfect for my stamps. I like that I can fit a few sets in each one and although I haven't tried it yet I figure my 12 x 12 Fancy Pants set will fit into one as well. They line up like books on a bookshelf but open like a little briefcase. They even have handles. And at $4.99 each are extremely affordable.
*wahoo to being home with my cat and dog (or should I say my cat who thinks she is a dog and so follows me around everywhere, ever so cute!)


Miss Meg had a wee challenge on her blog...she suggested sending someone a card via snail mail, just because you can...I thought 'what a great idea' however when I looked I don't actually have very many of my blogging buddies home addresses, so if your happy to do so, when you get time could you please either email me or pm me through sketchbook with your home addy? And that way when the mood takes me I can whizz the odd thing your way - just because!

Have a great Wednesday!

It's been a while...

Since we had a nice sunny day, so I wandered around the garden looking for some colour, and thought I'd share these we gems with you...everybody say awwwwww!

Got up this morning to find the windows of the car iced up, now that's a fairly unusual occurance for us out by the coast. When I worked on a couple of stud farms (one of them was in Auckland and the other Cambridge) it wasn't unusual on the coolish mornings to be going out and breaking the ice on top of the water troughs so they could get to the water, but being out this close to the coast, frosts such as this are pretty rare. I was also talking to my sister tonight who said there are quite a few signs around out Karaka and Papakura way in regards to black ice - again not that common a sight up here!

I went out for lunch today with my friends Kathie and Ollie. Kathie is off to the South Island for a couple of weeks in August (for her husbands work plus a bit of time to play!) and then in November off to the States, Cuba, The Cayman Islands and a couple of other spots out that way (she has a son on the Caymans). While we were talking about shopping over there and bringing stuff back it reminded us of a funny thing that happened to me a few years back... Really good friends were off to the States, part work, part touristy, and asked if I wanted anything bought back. I wrote a list, and said "that would be great have written a list, so that if you can't get the first thing, then you might be able to get the next thing instead and so on" (ummm all scrapbooking stuff of course!) Now somehow there was a breakdown in communication and they got everything on the list (never in my life would I ask someone to bring back that much stuff (and that was eight hundred dollars worth!!) - if it's not flat and light I wouldn't even think of mentioning it!). So while I was one happy camper, I was dumbstruck on how it happened, and to this day when someone asks if they can bring something back for me...I make sure it's as clear as a bell, and I don't write a list...!!! Mind you, it's not hard to get stuff here or imported now, thanks to the internet!

Well I probably should get my butt off here as I have my appraisal to do and am really just finding ways to get out of it...unfortunately that doesn't get it done!! Happy scrapp'n!

Today...

Boy it's hard to think of titles for my blog LOL! I popped along to Deb's for a crop yesterday - when she first put up the date I knew I already had stuff on, but wanted to pop in for a little while. Having finished the care2crop album I got this dropped off to her and I did a bit of a grab and run from my stash so didn't get much done but got to meet Jane and Janet both of whom I hadn't met before, which was good. Love being able to put a face to a name. Am looking forward to catching up with Jane when we go down to Hamilton for the Waikato crop - and LOL I will be better organised then, but don't be suprised if sometime mid to late afternoon I start reading mags or making cards, as I find my eyes get sore, and one starts getting bloodshot - and as I'm the driver best I have both eyes working properly! I've had them tested and apparently it justs dries out a bit, same thing happens if I drive for too long at night.

I couldn't believe how cold it got yesterday! Friends came over for the afternoon/evening and said at lunchtime it was six degrees. Now you have to remember us Aucklanders generally aren't equipped for that temperature...no double glazing on our houses, and while more and more are getting heat pumps, they aren't as common up here as down south. I ended up getting thermals on. Poor old dog and cat kind of shot out the door, did what they had to and were back in like a shot!

So today along with the washing, and a bit of gardening I finished the Friday night challenge over at Sketchbook. It feels great to be getting into some challenges again, having been to busy to get stuck in.

I have a huge list for the holidays, of all sorts of jobs and I can't wait to work through it. It always feels great when you get everything accomplished that you've been wanting to do for ages. A lot of it's general house stuff, eg the gardening, each day theres a visit somewhere, eg the hairdresser etc, some of it's scrapbooking and I have my appraisal in August so am hoping to get that done, and I have feedback to write for a student and send in as well.

Hope your all wrapped up warm, and I don't know about anywhere else but at least it's only blowing a gale here, the rain has stopped for the time being!

Hmmm for some reason I now only get a bunch of words when I upload a photo, any ideas why? Is it something I've set? Means I can't drag the photo down to where I want it...

Wahooooooo it's Wednesday!

So I figured you have all seen this on other blogs, so the highlighted ones, are the ones I've read...

01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I've read #1, started 2)
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible - (A majority of it as a teenager)
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (teacher read it to us at Intermediate)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwel
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (was forced upon us in 5th form)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet- William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


That was a few more than I thought I'd read. I must read The Lovely Bones as everybody who I've spoken too, tells me I should read it! And I like the sound of The Five People You Meet In Heaven - just kind of appeals, so will have to see if I can get that one from the library.

Since it's Wahoot Wednesday...

A shallow wahoo, but fun all the same...Being the last week of term we celebrate the birthdays of the children who will be having them during the holidays as well as any this week. Yesterday one of the families brought us in a bunch of roses each - wahoo for them I say, always lovely to recieve flowers and a hug! (especially as this was the last of their three through our kindergarten). And I loved that both Mum and Dad came along for the celebration.

Tools - Lyall came home from work yesterday with this groovy tool that's kind of a cross between an axe head and a scraper. Half an hour later and half the kitchen cork tiles have disappeared, another half and hour tonight and they will all be gone!

Sunshine - hello sun, thanks for visiting yesterday, it meant all the kids could get out for each session. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the rain, but when you have forty five children inside for a few days in a row, you really appreciate being able to get outside again, especially for a whole session - last week it was 'quick come outside...okay back inside...okay come outside...quick back inside LOL'

Best I finish getting ready for work now! Oh and Jules, thanks for the invite LOL (she's having a Stamp'n Up party on the weekend, and thought I might like to keep adding to my stash, and I do want to keep adding to my stash, but gee Invers is just a tad to far to travel! Have fun without me LOL!)