Here are our new friends from Chile, who came for World Youth Day :

Connor got Spiderman PJ’s for his birthday. Cheeky bugger, first thing he did was went and tried them out…

A picture smaller Is clicked by the wise reader. He sees the details.

I’m getting slack. Rest assured I’m not dead, for some reason when I’m on holidays I seem to have less time for blogging and stuff. Mum and Dad and Dan were here for the last two weeks, I’ve got some photos to post soon. For certain values of soon anyway! Meanwhile, way back at Easter [...]

For my birthday dinner the other night, Mark and Bern and Bec cooked me a Discworld cake. That was a cool and tasty surprise. Mark has posted progress photos

The dwarf beans we planted after the rain have grown incredibly fast. They weren’t even magic beans, to my knowledge anyway. If you ever want to see life just bursting forth from the earth, plant some beans. This particular one appears to have been visited by The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Over the holidays, we decided to start a vege patch. There was one there when we moved in, with a shrivelled capsicum, some small potato things, and chives. We ignored it and it got overgrown, and I got sick of its overgrownness a few months ago and did some of my favourite type of gardening [...]

You may now burn with jealousy at the photos of our new 42″ Plasma TV!! It’s an absolutely sinful indulgence, but since we won it in a competition, I’m not feeling too guilty.

Ash is having a karaoke party for her birthday, so we whipped up a logo for her invitation

Ashleigh thought she’d be a bit too clever and climb out her bedroom window to hide from Connor today. Once balanced on the windowsill, she discovered it was too far to jump down, and too slippery to climb back up. “Daddy can you help me down?” “Yep, as soon as I go get the camera. [...]