The Chronicles Of…

I’d wear this…

Here’s a gift idea for friends and family…

I love Australia Day…

Spent a lot of time with friends, had a brunch thing at our place which we basically had an open invitation to, BBQ was on of course, we had a couple of kiddies pools, including a fairly large one, which was great.

Then after most people left we sat around the pool, had a few beers and chatted, which I’d be happy to do a LOT more…

Of course all day we were listening to the Triple J hottest 100 and now that I put a stereo out the back I’m very tempted to leave it there…

Then later on we headed to the park for a BBQ with church, a great turn out, there was cricket and lots of fun to be had…

Great day in all…

I don’t remember if I notice it more now that I’m trying to grow my lawn, as opposed to in Sydney where I didn’t have lawn, but so often in Dubbo it looks like and feels like we are going to get a really good downpour of rain, and then nothing… it just blows away without any rain falling.

That’s really all I have to say about that…

Oh, except, that I just wish it would rain… lots… I can water my lawn, but it’s so much easier when it just rains.

So, in other news, this evening we had a farewell thingy in the park, picnic, cricket, people, and the like for a family from church (Nugget, Sarah, Darius, Jemima and one on the way) who are moving to the lower Blue Mountains so that Nugget can go to the Presbyterian College.

Fantastic people, so if you bump into them in Sydney sometime look after them ay?!

We’re moving house.

To a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 laundry, 1 kitchen, 2 living room, 2 veranda, double back yard, 2 small shed, 1 driveway house…

From our 1 bedroom, 1 living room, 1 bathroom, 1 laundry, 1 balcony, 1 carspace, 1 kitchen unit…

It’ll be sad to say goodbye to the old unit. It has served us well. And now I’ll be the only one out of the 3 of us living in a place that isn’t owned by our parents…

We move Tuesday 27th.

I was traveling out west on Saturday down Richmond rd at Glendenning (Blacktown) and saw these signs…

I’ve seen these signs before, but now I have photo evidence of perhaps the dumbest poster campaign EVER.

The photos aren’t real good quality but they read “POWER POLES KILL” and “BURY CABLES NOT PEOPLE”.

Now I’m not Dr Power Poles or anything… but the last time I checked, power poles don’t really kill people… People driving cars into stationary power poles kill people… People who throw other people off power poles kill people… But power poles actively killing people…? I don’t think so… Unless of course there are indeed some psychopathic power poles out there that lurk the streets at night waiting to jump out in front of unsuspecting cars… that is a possibility… Maybe the people behind these posters know something I don’t?

But hey… Everyone is allowed to have a hobby horse, and maybe these guys are right… Maybe the government should spend the next 30 years inconveniencing the public and spending billions of dollars digging up streets and footpaths and under houses so that we don’t have big stationary objects to crash our cars into? And while they’re at it, maybe they could remove all the trees near the road too… so that we don’t drive into them. And maybe they could bull doze any other large stationary objects that people have to go out of their way to hit… like… say… houses? Traffic lights? Street lights? Post boxes? Street signs?

Yeah that sounds like a good use of money…

Maybe these campaigners will be happy if we turned the world into a desert so there’s no other stationary objects for miles that might kill us…

DUMB.

For breakfast we went to the Grapevine Cafe as it was a friends birthday, had the Corn Fritters, they were tasty.

Later I watched the Twenty20 match, was great to see that Warner bloke smashing it around the park.

Didn’t buy milk.

So I know my blogging has been scarce lately and I’ve been pondering this.

I think it has something to do with the fact that up until now I have been unbelievably witty, entertaining and humorous in every single blog I have written, not one has been a bore to read.

But then a few months ago something happened… I got more busy then expected and one of the unfortunate things about that is (besides really having nothing much to show for it and not really remembering what has been consuming all my time) I have been unable to dedicate the time needed to write the posts you have come to expect from myself.

Now you may think that the aforementioned characteristics come naturally to me, you’d be right, but I strive for the absolute best in a small percentage of things I do and therefore I read and reread, edit, and refine each post before putting it out there for others to judge me upon.

I read other bloggers and see that some days they opt for a single sentence blog, I’ve never been comfortable with this and wondered how you come to possess the ability to say something when there seems very little to say. But this year I vow to discover it.

You see, the next time I head to the shops for a carton of milk and don’t really have time to blog about anything else that particular day I may just try to write something like “went to shops for a carton of milk, found it, purchased it, returned home” rather than paying attention to that which is happening around me, and thinking that the world (aka 3-5 people who accidentally return to this blog occasionally) would be interested in what I saw.

On my busy days I’ll just forget that I have one of those really interesting life’s where there somehow seems to be a story a day which should be told in detail to all and instead I shall just rip the world off and tell them I ate cake cause it’s was Bill from accounting’s birthday.

So, in summary, you can still expect the wit and humour, but just be prepared for a little experimenting as well…

If I could be stuffed…

The year of changes…

I vow that no day will pass without me blogging!!

Not One!