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From Keith and all his family that includes Marg, the four cats, all the fish and prawns in both tanks. At the moment we are looking at a dry under 30C day, but actually we all want rain and plenty of it BUT not all at once.
Our first artificial Christmas tree it just touches the ceiling. The latest cat addition loves climbing it too

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Keith's Christmas tree 12-08

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What a lovely tree Keith. What are your plans for the day?
I am catering for 20 people at lunch time. Then we go to a friends house in the evening.

The kids are very excited! Adrian and I have to put the trampoline together after the kids are in bed asleep Wednesday night. Hopefully we wont be up too late doing that!

Merry christmas!

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

I am catering for 20 people at lunch time.

I assume my invitation was lost in the mail.

I mean, it just couldn't be possible that you just didn't *sob* invite me...

I guess the postman is a bit slow at this time of year Joe?

You can come, as long as you are good at putting batteries in kids toys.

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Lindy

As usual off to sons for lunch (and put up with his controlling mother inlaw) then off to daughter and granddaughter for a very relaxing night.

Today I am making a Baileys rocky road fudge slice.

I have been advised to double up on the Baileys as it tastes a lot better, plus a good feed of Aussie king prawns.
And all day nothing but water and tea to drink. A bit of driving to do so I must play it safe.
That does not mean it will be the same Boxing day as we are staying home.

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Keith, are you really telling us that youre not the risk taking drunk driver that we all think you are?

All of my illusions have been shattered! Black is east, up is white! Cats and dogs living together!

You absolutely cannot drive without full concentration at this time of year. There are so many more useless drivers on the road to compensate for.

So far I have almost been merged into 3 times, been stuck behind someone keeping pace with the car in the left lane (a good 15k under the limit too, it was greeeeeat) and managed to avoid several very drunk and/or every tired drivers that were having a great deal of difficulty with straight ahead. Add to that the across the board over-cautiousness and therefore unpredictability that comes with a double demerit period and the roads are just horrible. /grinch

Still, all going well so far. Just one more day to go.

Happy Xmas everyone

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

We had to drive through it to get to a hospital for Ryan, Traffic is horrible, especially in an emergency on Christmas Day.

We had a good day before all that though. Couldn't of asked for better weather and happier kids!

Hope everyone else has had a good holiday period.

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Lindy, Is everything ok??

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Lindy Is Ryan OK. Nothing is worse than taking children to hospital, been that done that plenty of times the big C scare but turned out a over careful doctor.

Just as well I was a sober as ever, later on Christmas day about 6pm a stupid parent let her two young kids play with their new bikes with out supervision. I came around a corner slowly as usual then I basically roll down to the next corner 4 house blocks it is a steep hill. One of the two young kid came flying out of their sloping driveway and naturally straight in front of me. I slammed the brakes on and stopped practically instantly (no skid marks) by the time I got of the car the kid was up and run across to the other side and about the same time Mum came screaming out realizing it was the kids fault. Only damage I knocked his hand break. In fact Marg an myself were shaken up the most. I was still shaking an hr later.
I strongly recommended to mother to take the wheel of for a while. A little later I looked out the Daughters window yes you guessed it on the road again and no supervision.

The mother does not realize how lucky the kid is alive about 5 minutes behind me was the son in-law who only knows two speeds Faster and faster. There is no way he could have stopped in time.
I still feel a bit shaken up even writing this.

Other than all that we had a good day. I made some Rocky Road fudge using Irish Cream it is a killer (safe to eat) heat kills all the good stuff. It is certainly not for the diet conscious

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a stupid parent let her two young kids play with their new bikes with out supervision.

How many parents do you think supervise their kids playing on their bikes? How would they possibly keep up?
Hope everything is ok with Ryan, Lindy

I checked their ages today and both under 5yld. They were playing on a narrow busy little road. It is the main access road to a larger estate.

Also another resident has spoken to the parent about the same kids on the road.
Answer to your question. "Not enough"

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ohhh jeez you were lucky mate,i hate that feeling,anyone that drives knows that feeling,getting shaken up after a close call,theres nothing worse!so i hope everone had a safe x-mas.i just did the family thing had a stack off good food for a change(its normally my animals getting the good grub).so after it was all said and done,i retreated to bed,it was after midnght by now,i whipped in a dvd,got all set to watch it,and the phone rings,it was dad who just got home,and has locked himself out,and had no spare keysso i had to get out of bed and go up there and take out a window for him,by now at was after 1am and i was so tired.so today ive have to go back to dads and put the glass back in,plus to top it off its just shy of 32 degress here,very hot.but that was my x-mas pretty boring!

Ryan took a dive off a friends trampoline right onto rocks... the gash on the back of his head was huge. I will never forget the scream I heard come out of that kids mouth. He ended up with 5 staples to hold it together.
And I dont know why, but even though it made my stomach turn I couldnt take my eyes away from what the doc was doing!

As for kids on bikes. Mine know their bikes will get taken away from them if they dared ride on a road. I see kids ride around here on the road and with no helmet.

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

ooohhhh,hes lucky he also didnt knock himself outwhat a unlucky thing to happen rite on x-mas too.

The tree looks great Keith

Merry Christmas to you all, even if a few days late



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Beautiful tree Keith!

I'm too late to wish you Merry Christmas, but not New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR KEITH TO YOU & YOURS!

Keith - I got itchy and coughed just reading about the 4 cats!!

Lindy - Glad to hear Ryan is ok overall...

Our Christmas was much smaller this year - but worked out GREAT in the long run... We got to celebrate a small portion of it in our new home. We spent most of the time with Family in other places though... i think it turned out to be 4 Hanamas celebrations afterall... (not counting the work Christmas parties).

I made some Rocky Road fudge using Irish Cream

YUMMA!!

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