What a Pain

On Monday morning, on his way to the chook pen with Master B, L suddenly decided he didn't have enough excitement in his life and decided to take a trip. He stumbled into a hole, dug by one of our chooks (the first three chooks we owned - we only have one of those left - seemed to have something of a fetish for digging holes in the ground). He immediately knew he had done something drastic to his ankle, which he had rolled, and after icing it for a while we drove to town to have some x-rays. By that time, his ankle had swollen to the point where there was a lump the size of a half a tennis ball on the side of his ankle.Fortunately, his x-rays came back clear, and the diagnosis is that he has pulled his ligaments - still very painful. His ankle will need to be strapped and he will have to have physiotherapy. He also has to use crutches. The hardest part of all of this is trying to get him to actually stay of his feet, he is constantly hobbling around and putting pressure on it, very naughty boy.

Make Your Vote Count

This is L's new hobby, http://bundyphotochallenge.bogspot.com He has started it up in just the last week or so, and now would like everyone to go to the site and vote for your favourite one. You are also welcome to join up and make your own submissions. If you really like one of them in particular, please leave a comment saying why, which aspects in particular you think has made it a good shot, the link can also be found in the "Our links" Section on the right side of this blog. Please go and visit it and vote - do it now :)

Fire Away

Well, with the official onset of the fire season (locally, anyways) L has been busily ordering breathing masks and goggles, etc. that will come in handy when he's out fighting fires with the rural fire brigade. The kids thought it looked like fun, and so:-

The goggles kept falling down around Master B's neck, it reminds me of David wearing King Saul's armour going out to fight Goliath.

The Inside Scoop

Here are some photos of the inside of our new home, beginning at one end and walking through to the other. The photo quality isn't brilliant - I took them on my mobile phone because, let's face it, life is just too short to wait for L to take any on his fancy camera :D

Miss A's room, Mr B likes to hang out in her room. Thank you to Poppy and Nanny for the quilt cover set and her lampshade

The bathroom, a much appreciated area of the house, no more brushing teeth and keeping tioletries at the kitchen sink :)

3 photos from inside the "Parent's Retreat", it's nice to be able to have privacy, I had forgotten what it was like to have a bedroom door :D

Another very much appreciated room in the house - no more emptying the porta potti every week - HOORAY!!!

2 views from inside Mr B's room, thank you again to Nanny and Poppy for the lampshade, and for the quilt cover set for when he's in a big boy bed, and the lace curtains


The laundry - so much space, and now that the washing machine is not in a garden shed somewhere in the back yard, I can hear when it's finished. Who'd have thought washing clothes could be such bliss :)

The lounge room, sorry about the blurriness of the photo, but you get the gist.

The family room/office, hopefully we'll be able to keep it tidier now...well, we'll see ;)

The beautiful kitchen, so much room for everything, and so easy to be organised, without doubt, one of my most appreciated rooms (I'm so proud of my colour co-ordination skills, LOL)

The dining room, much easier to eat from this table now that it's not just another place to put "stuff". Thanks to Poppy and Nanny for the curtain. Balloons have pretty much been a fixture since we moved in here - life is a non-stop party :D

Before we moved into this house, I made a huge list of all the things I was most looking forward to when we finally moved in, the list coved 2 sides of an A4 page, and anyone who knows my writing knows it's small. So far all of those expectations have been met and we are enjoying living here immensely. Even cleaning the house, while it's takes longer, is a much happier task.

HUGE thanks to my Dad and Stepmum for taking time off work to drive 5 hours here for a weekend, to buy almost all of our curtain rods and give us so many curtains, and to put them up, plus many other little jobs that needed to be done XXXOOO THANK YOU.

Also, many thanks to L's Dad and Mum for the HUGE financial contribution they made in helping us to get this home XXXOOO THANK YOU!