What a pong

M was rather upset at a terrible smell coming from her carpet this morning. It appears that Bingley had found an egg in the garden (one of the problems with occasionally letting the Nandos triplets out for the day). He's bought the get in, on to M's carpet, and broken / eaten it.

The problem being that the egg was way past it's use-by date, and so was rather smelly. This apparently didn't put Bingley off, so he's possibly going to be suffering later today. The egg he left (not much), stunk the place out.

Here's a neat egg pic that tickled my fancy (stolen from this promising blog).

Harley Update

Poor girl - having been slimmed right down by the vet on Friday (draining her kidneys) - they have swollen straight back up again. The vet had warned that this was a possibility, but it was still a shock after only a couple of days.

What next, if anything? we're not sure. We'll be seeing the vet again later in the week.

Harley

Friday - Harley to vet, expecting one of her kidneys to be removed. Vet drained 325ml of fluid from it - she's looking a lot better. We know she's still not got long left. She got Polycystic Kidney Disease which currently isn't curable.

Since coming home she appears a lot happier, and is certainly a lot thinner.

Saturday - Up early, Gardning, Take a trailer load of garden clippings to tip, Swim in pool, quick dip for Bingley, Mid day nap, Huge food shopping trip, Late lunch, Bunnings (hardware) for some bits and bobs, another tablet for Harley (theirs a challenge). It's now 6pm

Spider

DSC00943
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

Got home tonight to find this fella sat on out chair.

It's not that often you see them this size, or this close up.

Book club

Tuesday night - book club, and this month it was at our house.

Thanks to W and R for helping get the place tidy, and supplying us with lots of tasty treats.

Being at my house - it was my choice of books - and I went for...

The Time Travellers Wife we'll see next month if anyone liked it.

Monday Night

DSC00930
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

Out with the usual crowd for Pizza in Leeming (not the Ko Sing for a change).

Paul's 40th!

Pizza Night

DSC00925
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

Sunday night (day we got back from Sydney) - W's mum invited a dozen or so friends around for a pizza night.

It all went really well, making their own pizza's - and once again they were probably the best so far.

Darling Harbour

stitch_5
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

I've uploaded a heap of photos from Sydney...

Bingley being packed

DSC00889
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

W went off to Sydney for training on Monday - I followed on the Tuesday night 'midnight horror' flight.

We had a great time in Sydney - despite the freezing cold rainy weather (it did pick up). Poor W had to attend a course during the day - whilst I did lots of sight seeing.

We went to a couple of shows at the Opera house - and ate out a LOT.

We even made a trip to a belly dance shop on Saturday, and then on to buy a few xmas presents.

Christmas soon - blimey!

M update

The wonders of modern surgery - M was back home by early evening, and within 24 hours he's able to do 'normal' activities once again.

W and I are off to Sydney next week - for W, she's one a course Tue-Fri - for me it's just a holiday. She flies out early Monday morning, and I leave on Tuesday night (arriving early Wed) - unfortunately their is a course I couldn't get out of on Mon & Tue. We both come home on Sunday

We're staying in a swanky hotel, overlooking the Sydney Opera House. Poor W is going to miss out on all the places I see during the week. But in the evenings she says I can be her 'hire a stud'.

M's back in hospital

I dropped M(&R) off at the hospital this morning, as they have decided they need to re-do R's stent (or whatever the exact procedure is called).
It's being done as day-surgery, and appears to be almost considered routine - so we don't expect any problems.

Cathaven site updated

Several years ago I created a web site for the local cat protection society (The CatHaven).

The site design has pretty much remained unchanged since then.

The only problem was, that its menu only worked for users of Internet Explore. So lots of people using other browsers probably didn't realise that their should be a menu on the left hand side. And they will have missed most of the sites content. That wasn't so much of a problem back then - as most people used ie.

Anyway, this weekend, at long last I got around to fixing the site, so now at least the menu works for everyone.

I've also turned back on the animation for the menu (the menu lines drop down from the top when the page is first entered). This was turned off, because back then a lot of people had PC's so slow that the animations got in the way.

OK the site isn't up to site's I currently work on (like www.thewest.com.au , and our activepaper products )

- but it does have a bit of a retro feal.

Here it is

I've got a whopper

new_monitor
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

That's what W tells me anyway - its a big 22" Viewsonic monitor.

So here's my review of this latest Viewsonic offering...

Wow it's big. Pictures great - and it's big!

Did I mention it's big.

OK, not as big as some - but anything bigger is just showing off.

Nandos are out and about

Nandos are out and about
Originally uploaded by robandwend.

This chickens are loose.

100 things about me

I’ve seen a lot of lists like this on blogs, so decided to do one myself

100 things about me.

1. I never thought I’d like dogs
2. I still don’t really, except for Cavalier King Charles’s
3. I have no real allergies
4. I like to read before I go to sleep
5. I like sci-fi, but not to read
6. I can’t stop eating unhealthy food
7. I like gadgets
8. I’m addicted to diet-coke
9. I collect politically incorrect figurines
10. My wife beats me
11. She says I deserve it
12. My wife is my life
13. I do Tai Chi – but not for a while
14. I really enjoy photography
15. I have rheumatoid arthritis
16. I’m the only man in my book club
17. I’ve tried learning the piano – and failed
18. I’m trying to learn the Guitar – and failing
19. I have to work too much
20. When I’m not working, I’m usually on call
21. I was born in Sheffield – UK
22. I take about seven different tablets everyday.
23. I really do have a terrible memory
24. I give in too easily to my dogs begging eyes
25. I wish I worked closer to home
26. I think my hearing is starting to go
27. I have more PC’s than I know what to do with
28. I donate to Greenpeace
29. I suspect I’m losing my hair
30. I miss UK long summer evenings
31. I don’t drink
32. I believe 95% of politicians are corrupt
33. I love having visitors
34. My eyes easily go moist watching a sad film
35. I’ve had the letters EXENNO going around in my head since I was young
36. I’ve no idea what they mean
37. I love having my head scritched
38. I don’t think scritched is a real word
39. I have several watches
40. I’m 42 years old
41. I believe I must have misplaced 10 years somewhere
42. I love reading about English literature and language
43. My English skills is abysmal
44. I may be a snob
45. I try not to be
46. I don’t swear
47. I’m not into watching sports
48. Or playing them really
49. When young I was really taken by a film called SWALK (also called Melody)
50. I can’t remember anything at all about the film SWALK
51. I’ve watched the TV series Pride and Prejudice a dozen times
52. I’ve had my chakras aligned – it took a whole day
53. I like to collect things
54. I’d never build a house again, unless we win lotto
55. I always sleep like a log (I’m assuming logs sleep well)
56. I do like to cook
57. I don’t like to clean up after
58. I wear glasses all the time, although I don’t really need to
59. Although I have a blog, I’ve tried to ‘hide’ it from search engines
60. I prefer a PC to a Mac
61. I reached item 60 and really had to start to think
62. I work for the local Newspaper
63. I listen to audio books and podcasts each day to/from work
64. I can’t sleep sat up
65. I have two older sisters
66. I no longer like Mcdonalds burgers (don’t know why)
67. I’ve worn the same belt everyday for over 15 years
68. My wife and I have 3 ipods (total 130gb)
69. Watching / playing most computer games make me dizzy
70. I don’t enjoy horror films
71. But I do like ‘chick-flicks’
72. On visiting my old college – I didn’t recognize it at all.
73. The most cats we’ve had at one time is six, currently we’ve got two cats, one dog, three chickens, and eleven goldfish.
74. I am not a morning person
75. I emigrated to Perth, W. Australia 13 years ago
76. My mother in-law and her husband live in a granny-flat, part of our house.
77. I wear size 11 shoes
78. Three of my toes have come out of their sockets
79. I have no middle name
80. When young my nickname was big-G, now it’s Robot.
81. I leave the toilet seat down, and get annoyed at others who don’t
82. I can’t name just one item to be my favorite film, book or song
83. However Pretty Woman, Pride and Prejudice and Somebody (Depeche Mode) would be up there.
84. I have been made redundant – it was the best thing that happened to me.
85. I have never lived by myself
86. I enjoy doing woodwork
87. I have never broken a bone
88. I’ve always looked older than I am - which used to be a good thing, it’s not any longer.
89. It appears I’ve forgotten all my A-level mathematics.
90. I used to have a moustache and would quite like to grow one again
91. My wife doesn’t want me to have another moustache
92. I rarely watch TV, but do watch a lot of TV series on DVD
93. I can’t bend my right thumb
94. I’m a five finger typist – three on the left hand, two on the right
95. My French teacher at school said my French was more like Chinese
96. I had my first crush on a girl when I was nine
97. I eat my breakfast sat at my PC
98. I bought myself a wedding ring last year. I didn’t get one when we married 19 years ago.
99. Emigrating to Perth was the best idea I’ve ever had
100. I enjoyed doing this list, but it was harder than I thought.