All the power you could need

Two whole weeks was Mr Pippin, the red mini dachy, at his health farm. We picked him up after our southern holiday and should have connected his tail to an electrical generator because he wagged so hard that he could have supplied all of NSW in electricity for the night...

We went to Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra and Dubbo, and listened to our little sisters say "can we go home now?" about 1000000 times.

So we are very happy to be back home to our own house and kitchen and shower and beds. I can do without another holiday for a little while!

one of the worst swimming lessons of my life

You guessed it, I did NOT drown like the Stig, but I did swim further than most Blue Whales do in their annual migration... The teacher must have borrowed mum's whip!

I reckon I sweated so much that the pool was deeper after we finished the lesson :-)

Mess plus Hard Work equals Tidy

Under threat from a big whip, or at least no computer time, Lachy and I tidied up our room.

Then mum came along and pulled all our stuff out of the boxes were we hid it in and we tidied up again properly... took most of the afternoon.

So that was sunday. Then we had to go to bed early because we are having visitors tomorrow, so no comet spotting either!

Fire and Ice

No, this is not a movie - actually it is but dad won't let me watch it until he has previewed it. Rather than going to the beach today, we started a fire. Not a bushfire, just a cooking fire on the bricks outside the Nakasaki's home, but good enough for potatoes and marshmellows. The potatoes ended up undercooked and the marshmellows burnt (if they got into the flames) otherwise perfect - we ate them anyway.

It's been a fun day but I'm glad to home and on the computer... dad says we might watch Lord of the Rings later - wooohoo!

We went to Brisbane

This was no great shopping trip. We went to hospital. Not our local hospital either - this one was over the hills and far away - in Brisbane. It was lots of fun, not. Actually it could have been much worse, and much better...

Genna had injections into her leg, some stuff called botox. We sat around several waiting rooms and tried not to look bored, but I had a hard time trying to hide it!

We came home as quick as possible (two hours on the road) and then did luge on our skateboards - and I won something! The best crash of the week award! and the most blood after a crash award! I was very happy, excited, and in pain. It was worth it.

My Little Dog

My little dog his name is Pip,
he likes to give my nose a nip,
he wags his tail and stays up late,
and sleeps inside a wee green crate.

My little Pip, he's chocolate brown,
he sometimes makes my daddy frown,
he wees on the carpet and the tiles,
and barks so loud he's heard for miles.

My little dog, he loves me so,
he follows everywhere I go,
in the morning he snuggles in my bed,
and whines and wags til he gets fed.

Lach's Birthday

Today was a very good day. It neither rained nor poured, and the old man neither bumped his head nor snored - which is just as well because it's Lachy's birthday!

I have started this blog because I wanted to see if I could blog more often than Andrew and Keryn, who blogged just the once and haven't blogged since...


As you can see, Orca's are one of greatest interests - beaten only by Pippin, my red Daschund. Mr Pip will be the subject of my next blog - so stay tuned!