Showing posts with label other family people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label other family people. Show all posts

Saturday, January 02, 2016

I tried this: Gummy Bear Icypoles

As I was checking out The Metapicture (as I do on a fairly regular basis) I found a recipe for Gummy Bear Icypoles.

These gummy bear icypoles came from
here
I don't know about you, but when I was a little person, my mum had a cupboard filled with Tupperware.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Merry Boxing Day

Merry Christmas +1 to everyone!


What did you get up to? I stayed up until 2am on Christmas morning, roasting a deboned turkey (looked sort of like it had been steam-rolled)

Thursday, December 24, 2015

It's Christmas, it's Christmas Time!




In eight minutes it will be Christmas Eve. I am awake because I am cooking a whole heap of things for Christmas Day because we are hosting Christmas at our house. I am cooking things and The Man is washing dishes.

So far I've made

Monday, May 26, 2014

Photo bomb - May 26 2014

May 26 - PET
This is one of the men who lives at my house. He is 35 years old in dog years and a rat bag. He is the younger of my furry sons, but the bigger of the two, and he and Buddy are best friends.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Photo bomb - May 11 2014

May 11 - MOTHER
This is my lovely mother at the taping of Dirty Laundry Live at the ABC studios in Elsternwick. The Man was meant to come with me but backed out because he went to a seminar, so I took Mum instead. I ended up with a parking ticket, but it was a good night otherwise.
**one of the people in the above image is not a cardboard cut out.

Friday, May 02, 2014

Friday, April 04, 2014

Photo bomb - April 4 2014

Today is my cousin's birthday.
Happy birthday CN!
April 4 - GOOD TOGETHER
Tonight we had a pick pick (Honey-ese for picnic) tea in the loungeroom. Fish and chips go really well together, and clean up was easy peasy because I released the pups and they ate all the dregs.

Flipped - BAD TOGETHER 
Since The Man and I got together, AFL has been a bone of contention. I support the Blues, The Man barracks for the Hawks, but comes from one-eyed Magpie supporters.
When Honey was baking, I was so sure that she'd be a boy that I told The Man that If she was a girl, she could barrack for the Hawks.
Hmmm.
When Buddy was on the way, I was smarter. I said that he could barrack for the Hawks IF he decided to be born on Grand Final Day (a couple of weeks before his due date) AND if Hawthorn won the Grand Final (which I think they did?). I even said we could name Buddy after Buddy Franklin.
Lucky because now he's quit the Hawks and become a Swan.
Anyway, as a result, after giving the forces that be multiple opportunities, Buddy is a Blue Boy.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Photobomb - March 26 2014

March 26 - I AM HERE 
This goanna lizard is quite big and lives at my niece's school, where I was today.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Fully aware that I am behind on my photos

I know, I have not posted photos over the last few (THREE!) days.
It is a side-effect of my self-imposed challenge to only use my DSLR* to take photos.
It means I need to go and get my photos off the camera and the other day I just had a serious case of the CBFs, but tonight when I get home from work I'll get my photos off the camera and put them here and I'll be right back to where I need to be.
SO this week I have been to a little tiny town called Llanelly where my dad and brother were in a motorcycle rally. The Man and I crashed their Saturday night dinner and I've convinced my dad to take Buddy and Honey for a ride on one of his motorcycles. I went for my first motorbike ride when I was three months old and its time that they had a go.
And in other news, I am thinking about my 'challenge' for the month of April. What do you reckon I should do?
Opposites?
Songs that the prompts remind me of?
All in black and white?
Having a little Lego man in each of my photos?
I don't know...
*listen to me talking fancy about photos and such. A DSLR is a digital S... L... er... R camera.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Photo bomb - Feb 21 2014

Feb 21 - FUNNY
I've been going to roller derby training a lot lately and I've used up all my 'exercise clothes' (aka clothes that I don't care if they get manky and ruined by falling over in them and rubbing them all over the floor).
Tonight I went to the last of a series of self defence classes and I'd run out of shorts to wear, so I borrowed The Man's swimming shorts which have been with him since before we'd even met. The Man is skinnier than I. Halfway through the session I was thinking how the pants felt more roomy and how somehow I must have dropped a few kilos off my backside during the training session. Then someone said that my pants had torn a bit, and they just got worse and worse as the session continued.
The instructor asked me if they were likely to fall off. I decided that if they did decide to fall off, I'd go home wrapped in one of the flags that were hanging in the training hall.
It was very lucky that I was wearing my too-big roller derby shirt as it sort of disguised my gleaming white leg that was hanging out of my pants.

Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Photo bomb - Feb 4 2014

Feb 4 - CHILDHOOD
These videos give you a fair idea of what I used to watch when I was a kid. What is missing is 'Dot and the Kangaroo' and 'Muppet Babies' which I used to watch at my Nanna and Grandpa's, and 'Dumbo' which we used to watch at our neighbours, who had a super modern video machine.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

It's Christmas time

Look at me!
I'm blogging from my phone!
I really am wondering if I will get to take all 365 photos before next Tuesday night, but I smashed out 30 photos tonight in a couple of hours so it might be possible.
I'm at my mum and dad's in Melbourne, quaffing moscato on their couch.
So let's do some maths.
I think I've taken about 130 photos, which leaves 230 left. There are six days left for 2013, which means I need to take a minimum of 40 photos a day each day.
It could happen...

Friday, December 20, 2013

Photobomb - Dec 20 2013 (it's a big 'un)

OK then.
I'm catching up.
 MOVEMENT: This man never stops moving. And he's so quiet while he does it. He really is a ninja.
 1 O'CLOCK: At 1pm at work I was ready to break out the lollies. They didn't last long.
 SURPRISE: What surprises does the owner of this belly have in store. It's a mystery?
 SOMETHING YOU DON'T LIKE: I do not like pasta meals. I do not like them at all, and when I was presented with this meal, I threw a hissy fit and refused to eat it.
 3 O'CLOCK: At 3pm I should have probably refilled the poppies at work, but I figured the basket looked full enough.
 FEAR: This is a very real fear of mine. This car space is right next to the pedestrian walk way, and the owner of this car reversed into it backwards faster than I'd drive into it forwards (and I am a mad driver).
I took this photo just after I thought this car was going to hit the car next to it (and my car too). Then today I was arguing with Honey about holding my hand across the pedestrian crossing, which is just to the right of where I took this picture, and an over-keen driver in a Toorak tractor almost hit Honey as the driver was racing into the car spot near the entrance to the shopping centre. If I hadn't grabbed Honey's hand and she had have moved to where she wanted to go, she'd be Honey mincemeat right now.
And sorry about the sermon, but I am afraid of idiot drivers.
 9 O'CLOCK: Needed medicine because I was having an allergic reaction to KFC. This place 'opens at 9am'. It turns out that it does not.
UPSIDE DOWN: The prompt says it all. Buddy was having a great time hanging around with his Poppy
 MIRROR: We were waiting for Honey to go to the tiny toilet, and Buddy was checking out the bloke in the mirror. I love this picture because he looks like he is thinking 'Who do you think you're looking at?'
 WATER: The water fountain near my work.
 MAILBOX: This Australia Post letterbox looks a bit vintage, and is located somewhere near the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo. I think it's in Forest Street?
7 O'CLOCK: This is one of the stations along the train line to Melbourne. Once upon a time I was getting the train home from work and the peak hour carriage was full. The train stopped here and all of a sudden a man said that someone had left their bag behind and then bowled it underarm off the carriage and onto the platform. Five minutes after we left the station, one of the other passengers asked where her shopping bag had gone.
It was funny, but the passenger whose shopping was gone was not so happy.
11 O'CLOCK: At work again. It was time to take my 11am photo and I banged my head on this trolley. I'm not even sure how I did it.
 RED, WHITE OR BLUE: And a bit of green for good measure. I took this photo on Pearl Harbor Day so I had hoped to get something USA-related but it was not to be.
 WHERE YOU ARE: This is where I am most weekends.
 MACRO: A close up of the crocheted flowers that have sprung up on the Shrine Reserve.
 2 O'CLOCK: These gentlemen were only too happy to have their photo taken.
 4 O'CLOCK: My lovely friend Elvie. She didn't like this picture, but I think its great.
MADE ME SMILE: I got off the train at Flinders Street, and all I could hear was Christmas carols. It was the first time I'd heard carols (other than Michael Buble on the supermarket sound system) and it made me smile.
10 O'CLOCK: Someone delievered these flowers and asked me did I know who they were for. Poor Mr Baillieu seems to have already fallen out of people's memories.
 8 O'CLOCK: The view from up the top of the escalators at Southern Cross Railway Station.
 BELOW: This photo was taken from well below the Christmas tree in the middle of the city.
 TREAT: Nutella is a treat, right? Especially for someone like me who lives in a Nutella-free house.
 5 O'CLOCK: I was ready to escape. I *think* I tidied the desk before I went. I can't remember.
WHERE YOU ATE BREAKFAST: I usually have my breakfast here. And I always eat the same thing.
 COMMUNICATION: We couldn't leave the doctor's waiting room until Honey had spoken to Gran on the phone.
 QUIRKY: Taken at the Echuca Wharf. It is quite quirky, yes?
 NO!: Honey's favourite word. Just after this photo was taken she yelled at me 'NO!' which is pretty much the sum total of what she says to me these days.
 6 O'CLOCK: One of the stations along the Lilydale line. If you look closely you can see that someone has tagged the window. That is how good my new camera phone is.
 SHADOW: My big man Buddy was quite excited to pose for my shadow photo. He crawls like the wind so it was a bit tricky getting all of him and his shadow in the shot.
 I SHOP HERE: I took this photo two weeks ago (is that how long its been since I've posted pictures?) at the Beechworth Bakery in Echuca.
 THIS IS THE WEATHER TODAY: Warm enough for a summer dress and things, but wet enough for puddles. Ridiculous weather - December needs to get itself in order.
 R IS FOR...: Riverboats. Or river. Or redgums. I took this photo on the morning I popped up to Echuca for a visit.
 GREEN: This is on Melbourne's Southbank. I'm pretty sure it used to be at the Art Gallery. Or maybe it wasn't...
 JOY IS...: Hanging out with my favourite lady, Honey.
COMPOSITION: I seem to have a lot of nail polish. It looked so good after putting them on the shelf that they now live there.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Photo bomb - Jan 27 2013



27/365 - Buddy (and Uncle Bluey)
27/365 - Honey
FatMumSlim
SUN: The sun peeking over the roof of my house. Heaps of colours, but not yellow?