Busy Saturday...

Busy Saturday...

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Last of the fruit

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Busy week

A busy week - by our standards anyway.

At least that's what I thought until I started writing this. OK We skipped Tae Chi on Monday, Tuesday I went to my book club, W's being doing a lot of bellydance, and had a piano lesson, Bingley got a couple of walks. But that's about it.

Mmmm where does all our time go - Oh I know... Working!

One powerball...

Mi's son and daughter have decided to migrate to Perth. For four years at least. They have sold their business in the UK, and plan to buy one here. If all goes well, and they are happy here, then they'll stay on after the four years. It sounds like they will get the visa, so Mi's very happy.

Friday at last - tomorrow I get to work on the new wall again!

Busy Sunday

Busy Day - at 8am Bingley had his training

Then off to a promo viewing of Zathura

Then off to see a Chinese performance at our local park (Part of Kulcha on Swan 2006).

Bingley had an icecream, possibly his last as the trainer just emailed us to say he needs to lose some weight.

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Belle

R took in a stray whilst walking this morning. She was taking a walk with a friend (from over the fence) when a god started following them. It's name was Belle and it had escaped from someones house on the estate. We phoned them (from her collar) and left a message 'we have your dog' meanwhile Bingley had a great time, with someone to play with for the morning.

Here's the latest from the room split upstairs. I spent much of today on it.

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Room split

I've started the long planned project of splitting the big room upstairs into two. I'm splitting off the third of a room which has the bed in it, to make another bed room. We've not really needed to use this room much, but on the occasion we have, it's never really felt suitable as a bedroom. So here you can see the starts of the new internal wall. It's just to be a wood and plaster board wall, which is common in rooms over on the East Coast, but is the 1st for us. I just hope it doesn't lean!

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Bingley - bad eye

Once again we've had to take Bingley to the vets with what turned out to be an allergic reaction in his eye. We noticed it last night - all puffed up and red. It looked a little better this morning, but just incase... So $100+ later, we're told he's allergic to most of the ground cover in the garden - if he get's it in his eyes. We're still deciding what to do about that one...

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Chicken run

W decided the Chickens wanted to stretch their legs, so she bought them up to our side garden. The area a all fenced off (to keep the cats in) so their is no fear of them 'flying' away. However they really weren't too keen on the new location (despite all the plants and trees for them to destroy). So they spent the hour sh***ing on the pavings and the window sills. - Back to the pen for them...

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Some more Fruit...

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Dog training

Here's Bingley being trained in our back garden, with a home made assault course. Some things he's really good at, but we just can't teach hime the so-simple 'down'.

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Buffied out

Nothing is happening, at least not much in our lives at the moment. Unless of course you count Buffy, which has been our staple TV diet for the last Month or so. And when I say 'diet' I really to mean that we've been watching it to the exclusion of virtually anything else. Except for a few episodes of Angel which we've thrown in.

OK so becoming Buffy fans may come across as a little nerdy, doing nothing for our already nerdy persona. However it wasn't something we thought we'd enjoy, some friends recommended it to us - saying how well the series and characters develop. They we're right, the story lines would be very repetative if it wasn't for the underlying characters. Still I'd better not go on about it too much, if you've not been Buffed yourself, my praise will probably just dig us in deaper.

So what else are we up to... W's had her 1st piano lesson yesterday. She's been practicing for a few weeks, but was told -start again- as she's not doing it in the prescribed way. Personally I think it would have been better if she was just told to keep playing (that's play playing, not musical playing), rather than having to start from scratch.

Myself, I'm still trying to learn guitar. Their's several guitar techniques. Strumming, finger picking, pick-picking (hope you can follow these technical terms). Unfortunately, with my finger roll shaped fingers (short, stubby, and often coated in chocolate) I've come to the conclusion that strummings not an option. I simply can't limit myself to a single string. It's actually lucky I can mash my way through this keyboard.

So it's pick-picking for me, complete with my set of six garfield picks (except for the ones Bingleys chewed). I've just moved onto lesson 4 in my teach yourself book, and with it onto the fourth string. I'm trying to sight read, so everything is very slow, and I usually take about 10 days until I discover I'm playing the wrong note. - Like W, no one will be asking me to perform for them soon.

W's belly dance group are performing again this Weekend.

Here's the details - although I doubt you'll be able to make it...

Saturday 11 March, 2006
4.30 - 7.00pm
THE COLLINS ST CENTRE
Cnr Collins and Shaftsbury Sts, South Perth (plenty of parking)
Doors open 5.30pm for buyers::: $2 entry for allor Bellydance Central Studios....3 prizes
Stallholders arrive 4.30pm to set up::: $5 stall

All dancers of every level are welcome to perform at the bazaar

Guilty over lack of posting

I guess the main news is that Dads home and a lot better. The sparkle in his voice remains, and it sounds like he's getting better everyday.

A colleague at work managed to badly break his humourous bone last Friday, he ended up in hospital longer than my Dad - it just shows how things have changed in heart ops.

W's birthday tomorrow. We've not got anything planned, it will just be a birthday weekend - so anything she wants to do, we'll do. Unfortunatly I've got to work on Sunday (due to the arm break).

Depressingly I've given in on the HTPC for now, and will just be using it as a high spec PC. Basically I over engineered it, it was too noisy, too big, and too much hassle setting up - especially now you can buy a dvd recorder for around 100 bucks.

Oh well, here's some fruity humour to be going on with...

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