The dreaded 'New Year Resolutions'Actually I don't dread them at all. I am quite happy to make a whole set of resolutions into a list* entitled 'really useful things that we are all going to start to do' and I actually have evey intention of keeping them all. It is the rest of the family that are living in fear at the thought. The problem is that I am so filled with the joys of a new year and a fresh start, its a kind of lets get things moving sort of feeling and I sort of like to draw eveyone else into my plans too!So just for the record this year we are looking at:
Happy New Year Tiggs x *those of you who know me will already be aware that I can use any excuse to make a 'really useful' list (come to think of it I can happily manage without an excuse at all!) The oddness of rain .... and soft boiled eggs.... not that rain and boiled eggs have anything to do with each other .... apart from being two things that stuck in my mind about today... (i really must try to get out more !!)Quite obvioulsy rain doesn't fall everywhere at the same time - but it still amazes me that you can be sitting in your kitchen looking out at the rain pouring down in your neighbours garden and then you turn and look into your own garden there is bright sunshine and NOT A DROP of rain!!! You could actually make out the 'edge' of the rain just on the other side of the fence. Maybe I am just easily pleased but for some reason I kind of liked it!!! On the plus side we did get a lovely bright rainbow - one so obvious that even Callum managed to spot it. He usually can't make them out at all - even with me holding his chin in the right direction and pointing directly along his line of vision and Rhys shouting 'look there it is' and jumping up and down (although this last part may actually be a hinderance rather than a help  ). As for the soft boiled eggs... well let me just say that eating 'eggs in an egg cup' (Rhys' name for them) with a 2 year old and a 3 year old is an experience that I could happily live without - and may well cause me to give up life altogether if i ever have to do it again!! Suffice it to say that by the time Rhys had finished his egg I am sure that there was actually more egg on him, the table and the floor than had been in the whole egg in the first place (must be like a Tardis inside the shell!!). However this experience was easily surpassed by Cal, whos over enthusiastic solider dipping caused his egg cup to over-balance sending his egg shooting off the kitchen table and heading most of the way into the dining room. I managed to locate it again by following the trail of yoke it had conveniently left behind it as it had rolled merrily on its way!! By the time I cleaned up the mess my eggs had gone all hard in the middle -  - next time i think i will talk them into having 'eggy bread' instead!Tiggs x Why oh why do we diy?!DIYWhy do we do it to ourselves? We spend all week working and when we get to the weekend and we could actually have some well earned time off - but what do we actually do? Do we put our feet up? Do we pack up the kids in the car and spend the days out in the fresh air? No! What we actually do is decide to wallpaper the utility room (well we don't actually all do this EVERY weekend otherwise the world would be full of very over-decorated utility rooms - but you get what i am on about) ... so this is how i have spent my Saturday. The result is that i am now exhausted and have the lovely prospect of getting up in the morning and painting the ceiling of aforementioned utility room in a very nice shade of blue/green. *Sigh* The question I suppose is why do we do this to ourselves? I can only assume that at some period of pre-history some human somewhere decided that cave paintings were all very well and good but what their cave really needed was some Laura Ashley flock wallpaper and a flowery chais longue. If you think about it diy must be the most bizarre idea any species of creature has every come up with - and for some reason we all keep doing it ..... Tiggs x 11 weeks and 6 days later...............Well it has only taken 11 weeks and 6 days but today we finally got Graz's skills assessment result from the ACS with a big ... Yes!!!!!
... so it is onto the visa application for us!!  After all that waiting around for a reply we should be well practiced for waiting for our visas!! If I had been a little more on the ball then we could be sending off our main application right now - but when am i ever that organised?!! With a bit of luck (and rather more effort that i have been putting in lately  ) we will be sorted before the end of November and you never know we might have actually gave a visa before the end of next year!! (good job we are not in a hurry!)Tiggs x Happy Birthday!!Happy Birthday Graham!!!
Have some birthday balloons!!!
 Another year older!! You will be catching up to me soon
 Tiggs xx A day out with Thomas...Happy Birthday Callum... 2 Today!! My baby is getting so big so fast!! I can't believe that Callum is 2 already - it only seems like two minutes since he was a tiny baby ....... but then again when i think about it i can't actually remember before he was here. Surely he as been around forever?! (or maybe it just feels like that because of sleep deprivation!  !)Rather than a birtuday party we took a family trip to the railway and went for a ride on... Thomas the Tank Engine (and friends!)
 ) riding up and down the line on every single different steam train (and a couple of diesels!) that we could and taking loads of photos of all of our favourite engines and generally having a fab time.See for yourself...  Callum and Daddy meet Thomas  Rhys and Mammy meet Thomas' driver  Callum and Grandad Aidy ride on Daisy the Diesel Tram  Rhys takes yet another ride on a train!!!  Callums highlight of the day was meeting Harold the Helicopter Big thank yous to Grandad Aidy and Nana for organising our big trip out - and of course to Thomas and his friends! 
Smarty pants!!With a fab set of GCSE results you are now officially a smarty pants ...  Off to college now (couldn't find a kangaroo in pants - will a platypus do instead?!!) My first foray into the world of the escribitionist ...Escribitionist [e-scribe-bish-uh-nist] - noun - a person who keeps a diary or journal via electronic means.Hello and welcome to my very first blog entry! Finally, after much due consideration, i am taking the plunge and starting our very own family on-line diary. With the long road towards our visa stretching out ahead of us we should have loads to write about so ... ...In the beginning when Graz suggested the place to go was OZ, the path to our visa was a formless void and darkness covered the forms. Then someone said, "Let there be Expats"; and there was Expats and Tiggs saw that the Expats was good; ...... ..... hmmm much to biblical methinks!!  But pretty accurate!I am not going to start by giving loads of background info on us and our current progress towards our visa - those that do not know us already will be able to catch up as they read and i am determined that this is not going to be one of those blogs about what i bought at the supermarket today and arn't bananas expensive at the mo ...  Please feel free to call back anytime you like to catch up on our latest exploits in words and pictures. Tiggs x |
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)) schedule and the job MUST be finished on time (no more 'the utility will take a month' (5 months later...) or the bathroom will take a week (4 years later...))