Aren't these flowers just beautiful, I love those bright orange gerbras! These are the flowers that my bloke gave me on my birthday - he still can't believe he got away so lightly. I don't know what he is on about, saying that I am hard to buy for. Um, I think the list is endless but flowers well that topped the lot. Unfortunately they don't look quite as fresh anymore which is why I figured I would share the pic now so I could see them again :-)

Do you remember the gerbras that used to be around when we were kids? Mum used to plant them and I didn't particularly like them back then. I am sure they weren't as big and meaty as these suckers are though. And the colours weren't as bright as what you can get now either. Maybe they have stuffed them all full of growth hormone or something - oh well, I still love gerbras :-)

Happy Birthday to my little sister who is going through a really hard time at the moment. Be strong girl, you have a huge support network and you will get to the other side with a bit of help from your friends. Hmm that sounds a bit Beatlesish really doesn't it. My mind is jumping from one thing to the next here maybe I need another glass of bubbles to settle things down a bit.

What a good idea.

Later

Happy Birthday

Yay, happy birthday to me :-)

My birthday present to me this moring was to buy the boys' lunches, yay, I hate making school lunches. With Andy being away we were going to postpone my birthday until Saturday, but I have just had a phone call from him and we are going to meet up in Auckland tonight. Yippee birthday wishes do come true :-)

I've been painting

and not even scrapbook painting. Ali's bedroom really needed a going after and it has since we shifted in and I took down the pelmets over the curtains, figured the walls were looking just a bit to shabby with the screw holes still showing. Anyway I moved all the furniture off 2 of the walls, washed them all down, filled the holes and painted 2 coats. As to why I decided to do that today when I am feeling like garbage with a cold anyway I have no idea.

Pantry Finds

 
Looking for a snack this morning I opened the pantry to find this, certainly not what I was expecting to find. Now I am left wondering who left them there and whether it was by accident, or if this is the new hiding place so that his brother's can't use them.

I feel sick

Sky TV sent me a little bag of Jaffas trying to get me to buy something - can't remember what. I have just eaten the whole thing and I don't even like jaffas!

On the move.

Yep, I have been really quiet over the last few weeks. We have had lots going on in our life since buying into this new business. Finally we made the decision that living apart was not what we wanted to do and finding a place to rent in Auckland is what we needed to do. Andy has been busy hunting out likely places and we have found a place - not really Auckland, but Pukekohe! Just heard this afternoon that the place we liked was ours if we wanted it.

We will finish up this term in Whangarei and shift in over the school holidays so the boys can start their new schools at the beginning of a term. Now the real work begins as we get packed and get this place into a state that we feel comfortable renting it out. Unfortunately we will be miles away from the Lakes, but with winter coming on, it will give us a chance to get used to our new surroundings and the Auckland traffic.