Christmas past...again

We had a lovely Christmas, quiet but still nice. I did feel the absence of family though, maybe it was because we have been back to Uk or maybe because my half were in Bali, dunno but there was something missing. We are hoping to go back to Leicester for Christmas in a couple of years, weather permitting cos looking at the crazy weather patterns of the last couple of years, the planes will be grounded! Weather is hot hot hot, worked yesterday instead of today so we are hitting Yanchep Park and beach in the fixed up kombi, yes he is fixed and also up for sale! A beetle called Basil is waiting to take his place! Blessings and peace to all xx

Felt-a-licious

have joined up to do this workshop on ems blog http://www.embers.typepad.com/. I love felted things but have no idea where to start, so what the heck for $25 I'm going to give it a go. I do think I am turning into Becky Bloomwood and might need therapy! I will post some pictures of my creations!!

So yesterday I did food shopping and Chrimbo shopping and felt really exhausted after my 5 days on at work. I'm wondering if we are not getting enough iron in our diet now we are substituting quorn for meat most of the time.

here's one of my danglies that I created

Isn't facebook fab??

I never used to think so, I thought it was stupid, people posting tosh like what they had for tea that day of what grand thing they were up to. Now I have warmed to it...it's great for looking at peoples photos, people who's photos you would never normally see. Maye it's just because I am a nosey so and so. I have got in touch recently with some people I used to go to school with. I wouldn't call them school friends, more just casual acquaintances. One girl in particular has touched me, Annie Leighton. She was a beautiful mystery at school, wise and mature beyond her years. Anyway she is now living the life I dream of. 5 acres of nothing that they are slowly creating into their home. They are in northeast Scotland and have dubbed it Coldhome. Very apt. if we were every lucky enough to have such a project maybe we could call it hothouse, as that is surely what it would be. She is surrounded by an extended family of artists and musicians and they are in the midst of building a straw bale timber frame house. By the sounds of things she has had her fair share of heartache but I am looking forward to getting to know her better and learning more from her.

Home and is it all forgotton?

Home sweeet home, but not as sweet as I thought it would be. Our house seems huge, sparse and impersonal after the cosy and cluttered homes of England.....will have to work on making more mess and more clutter!

Trip back was fine apart from the descent into Perth where the pilot seemed to oversteer and then understeer to compensate, the plane did a few pretty full on tilts and then thankfully settled down, all good.....

Lee ended up with jetlag and a dodgy stomach having to take 2 days off work. 2 days in 8 years not bad I suppose. I was back to work Monday and Tuesday and it was all okay. Kids pretty shattered and sleeping patterns a bit all over the place but settling down. School will soon sort that one out.

We are in the wet UK

We have been here for 2 weeks now, such a huge mixture of emotions. I spent the first few days in tears - sheer exhaustion due to the 3 days it actually took to get here, the lack of living accomodation and the revisiting of rellies. Thankfully I have settled down a bit and am starting to relax and enjoy it. It's weird, it feels as though I have never left, driving around the city feels the same, not much ahs changed.

Today......I got my nose peirced.

Wasn't planning to. Well I have been planning to for the last 25 years but haven't quite plucked up the courage, then I was supposed to get it done for my birthday but chickened out. So today i went to Joondalup to order the foreign currency and just did it. I got a platinum one, or was it titanium, one or the other...with a little(ish) diamond thing. God it hurt, both my eyes watered like fountains. The girl who did the "procedure" was lovely, pregnant with 4 weeks to go and thought I was the most funniest thing. Don't suppose she gets many 43 year olds having this done.

William was horrified, Oscar was a bit scared, Lee dutifully said it suited me and I yet have to hear Elliot's reaction - trust me you will probably hear it too!

Let's hope it doesn't get infected like Liz's manky toe!!

Meeting with Wills teachers

Well, they were nice, they know William, they have received the Will Death Stare many times. They find my little chubba chops arrogant and cocky, oh dear methinks we have built him up a bit too much. We are trying to address it though and hopefully he realises he is being a complete twit and will snap out of it.

Liz had her ingrowing toe op so picked he up from the docs and ferried her back home, I picked up coffee and cake froma maccas so we demolished that and then I left her and her manky toe to suffer.

Made my first candle, it is for Nikki and have made an Opium smelling one, althought it doesn't smell much like my Opium. It was fun though and very easy, I used soy wax which is more friendly than the other wax (apparently).

Didn't go to yoga this week, looks like I'm going to miss this term out, it's too much of a rush on Wednesdays, papers to deliver still and ironing too, hey ho. I will have to do some at home. Got a couple of new books for Elliot and he cleaned his room and sorted out all his DVDs and books in order to get one!! The other has been put away for the next time he needs to blitz his room.

Watched Bran Nue Dae, the movie with Amanda Kombi in it, it was a lovely film and Elsie look AWESOME. I loved the interior decor on her. Paint job was not too shabby either.

Got a fantastic little luggage case thing from salvos for $6 and a pair of Sportsgirl jeans for $9. I have a pair that I paid $90 for so I am wellll happy. Hopefully I can pick up some more luggage and have enough for all of us for our trip which is getting closer and closer......