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Aunty Margy 21/2/1942-31/3/2010

No time for any photos this week. Been a busy week this week, with the usual running around, after school activities etc, also looking into setting up an online store for my buttons, and possibly jewellery, so trying to think of a business name, domain name, and then will have to register it, and get a business tax number sorted. Olie had a fill in teacher today, I think her name was Mrs Nato, Olie said some of the kids were told off, and told not to be cheeky, as they were calling her Mrs Tomato lol. Cody is into hand ball at the moment, its what all the kids at school play, so I bought him a new ball today, and Olie one too, but I managed to lose Olie's one on the way home from school, the boys had swimming lessons, so I quickly walked back to school and back home to see if I could find it, but no, someone must have picked it up.
Grandad Shaw has broken his ribs - had a nightmare, and lept out of bed, and landed on the corner of the bedside cabinet.
We've just been invited to an Easter Egg hunt next weekend, from a lady with four boys, that also moved from NZ, so that will be fun.
Better go, it's Friday treat night, so the kids have got lollies from the IGA, and I'm making nacho's for them, so it'll be ready for the movie at 5pm.

Boy oh boy, has it been raining this week, there has been plenty of flooding around Queensland, and even one school was closed around here the other day. It really hasn't stopped raining much for the last few weeks, it's not really that horrible though, because it's still warm, but not too hot. The forecast is showing we are going to get a little sun on Monday and Tuesday, it has been lovely having cooler weather, mind you it's only 6.30am, and it says it's 24 degrees, so we must be used to the heat now, as we think this is cool, even Cody has been putting on his sweathshirt at nights. We were supposed to be going on Cody's school farm trip today, but it has been cancelled due to the weather. It has been great weather for delivering the pamphlets, nice and cool, apart from boggy grass, I enjoyed it on Tuesday, it managed to stop raining for a few hours so I got out and did them, I even have started running whilst doing them, so am starting to get fit, I'm off to pick more up this morning, so hopefully there will be a break in the weather this weekend, as all the boys papers are turning up tomorrow morning too, so they will all have to be out before we go away on Tuesday.

Grant and Kelvin have had a couple of busy nights, working at Gloria Jeans, and are also doing some work over the weekend.

The boys have had a busy week at school, Cody is becoming a young entrepeneur, he came home and said he had sold 3 of his biscuits at school for 40c, and the next day sold some more for 20c, he is always trying to sell something of his to Olie, I think he's saving for another ds game at the moment, he is a good saver, Olie is the opposite, he gets his pocket money, and wants to buy something pretty much straight away lol.

The boys like to brush my hair sometimes at night, Olie even had a Women's Weekly out, because it had a picture of a lady on the front cover, and he wanted to do my hair like hers, I said maybe one day he might be a hairdresser, to him, and he said "Nah, I'm going to be a wrestler, and I'm going to buy a weight bench straight away, or maybe I will be a boxer, maybe when dad is an old man he will give me his weight bench". So good to see he has his career sorted out, at such a young age lol, though last year, he wanted to be superman.

Well better get moving, it's nearly 7am, and everyone has just got up, the rain has just started up again, and looks like it's not going to go away in a hurry. The boys have a party tomorrow, and then we're going to catch up for lunch with Kelvin and Caz on Sunday. Looking forward to seeing you guys on Wednesday.

Hi there, this week has flown by. Trying to get stuff organised for going away, and still need to wade through all the paperwork to get ready for the accountant in NZ when we come, ready for the end of the tax year. I've managed to book us a night in Brisbane not far from the airport, for the night before we fly out, which will mean we won't have to be up at some ungodly hour to get to the airport, hopefully we should be able to leave around 6.30am from the motel, and we can leave our car at the airport for the week. We've got some pommy friends housesitting for us, and may be going to leave Patch with them, but not sure about that one yet.

The pictures above are:

1. Olie, getting ready for battle

2. Round 2 of battle

3,4 & 5. Cody and Olie, making soup for their teddy bears.

There has been more rain, this week off and on, so definitely the rainy season now, it's cooler the last couple of days, and everything is really green, funny how people think Australia is very dry, but it certainly isn't the case here, it really has been pretty green most the time, since we moved here, apart from maybe a month or two, though I do miss seeing flowers in peoples gardens, you very rarely see a flower around, apart from what maybe on a tree.

Olie is off to a birthday party at a park tomorrow for his friend Damon, he is into Ben10, so I was instructed by Olie, to which alien to buy, I think I came home with the wrong one, but he seemed happy enough, I mean for gods sake, an aliens a bloody alien isn't it lol. On Sunday, Olie has another boy coming round for a play date, so a busy weekend for Olie, then next weekend they both have a birthday party to go to. Cody has just lost another tooth, so that is number 6 now, even though it was quite sore, he had been wriggling it all night, and he was dying to get some more money for his money box.

Cody's teacher has asked me to come and help on their class trip, which is to a Maleny dairy farm, in another week, so that will be fun - 20 odd kids loose on a farm.

Off to pick up the phamphlets soon, I've just got given a different route, which is around our house, so yay, flat ground, no hills to walk up.

Been a pretty uneventful week at Grants work, he found a large spider underneath some timber the other day, and got someone else to squash it. Grant and Kelvin are off start the Gloria Jeans coffee shop job on Monday night. Right really better get out of here, and go and pick up these papers.

Caught up with Kelvin and Caz on Saturday night for pizza at their house, Sunday we finally took a visit out to our investment at Noosa (pics above), it was good to meet the management there, they have just taken over several months ago, and the place is looking really good, we are looking at updating the furnishings in our room, to bring it more up-to-date, our room is in the blue building - 5th photo down, and on the top floor, we have a good view to the river across the road, we even got to test out the pool while we were there.
It had been very hot and sticky, but we have had some good rain since the weekend, which has cooled it off in the last couple of days, tonight must be the coolest it's been in a while, it's lovely for a change, and we haven't had to use the air con., in the last couple of days.
Cody's been off school, yesterday and today (Thurs), with a temperature, seems to be bouncing back now though, so will be back to school tomorrow.
Grant and Kelvin have got the job for Gloria Jeans (coffee shop), to start soon, sounds like a biggish job, so all good, Kelvins been busy networking with people, and sounds like some good jobs coming up in the pipeline.
Friday tomorrow, so the boys are off to the shop after school to get some treats, and we'll watch Jumunji again, as it's the Cartoon Network movie for Fri night.
P.S. Not sure what's going on with the date thing at the top, it's always a day out - it's Thursday today, not Wednesday.

Hi there, we've started to get a bit of rain at last, it has been raining a little bit each day this week, had none today, but lots in the night, temp still would have been 30 today, we had lots and lots of rain last weekend, and our lawn flooded pretty quick, as you can see in the pictures. Cody and Olie had lots of fun swimming in the rain.
Not much has happened this week, last weekend was probably our first weekend where we stayed home most the weekend, it was nice for a change, just to hang around home. The boys have started emptying the dishwasher everyday, we have dish drawers, so they empty one drawer each a day, Olie declared on the second day "I quit, I don't wanna earn any money", lol, I told him too bad, he was doing it anyway, he hasn't grumbled about it too much since.
Grant hasn't had any run ins with the turkey this week, he did watch a couple of lizards having a fight today - it all happens at his work.
I've been in helping at school, and delivered some business directories, went back to school today to sort out what I will be doing with the 'Support a Reader', just have to wait for my blue card to arrive, and then I will start, I think I'm working with Yr4 kids.
Cody has just come out with his big thick winter pyjamas on, he said he has them on because it's winter (it must be still about 25 degrees out there at 7.30pm lol). We have the air con., on at the moment, I don't think he will have them on for long once he gets in to bed.
We've just been reading "Captain Underpants", the boys think his books are hilarious, we have just about finished the first one, Captain Underpants has a name code in it, Grandad Ken, your name is Flunky Hamstertush, Grandma is Poopsie Hamstertush, Grandad Shaw is Poopsie Pizzasquirt, and Nana Shaw is Pinky Pizzasquirt, hope you like your new names.