Im Computerless

My poor computer has had a breakdown and is having a rest and I am at the mercy of my childrens generousity, which isnt great. Im finding money is working if that fails then bodily harm. I should be back on Monday but then they said I would have it back today. Im a bit peeved I paid to have windows onecare virus protection and the guys fixing my computer found 600 threats on it. No wonder it wasnt running that well. Anyway will catch up with everyone next week.
Bye for now
Jackie

Another Great Day

 

The girls had another very successful day.  They competed in two sections   Open Up Tempo which they won and Open National which they placed second.  The adjudicator wanted to award equal first to both teams but was unable and unfortunately awarded first to the other team. 

This is the only photo I took all day.  This is Tess in her Jazz costume.

A bit of a catch up

Well it seems like an eternity since I've updated my blog.  Time gets away so quickly and May is always one of our busy months.

Firstly it’s been two years since our lovely Heather left us .   Often we will be talking about something and say Oh Heather would have loved this.  She is always in our thoughts and is greatly missed .

On the 13th of May my eldest turned 17 I still think I'm way too young to have a 17 year old.

 

 

It was the first time in four or five years that I have actually been home the morning of her birthday which was really nice.  She was spoilt and was given a flat screen TV for her room and a huge surprise was tickets to go and see Fame the musical.  You can check out the website    HERE.  We are really looking forward to this.

We went out for breakfast at Wendy’s Cafe Delish in Montville, which was lovely sitting out on the balcony in the sun on a chilly autumn morning.  Then I took her shopping for HOURS at Maroochydore Plaza.  She topped up her wardrobe nicely.  Hope you had a great day Tess.

Friday saw the start of the older groups competition at the Sunshine Coast Dance Eisteddfod.  This eisteddfod is huge it runs over two weeks.  Weekdays are solo performances and the two weekends are the group performances.  This is the first time in a few years that Tess hasn't danced a solo.  On Friday her school, SCPAC came 1st in the Open Hip Hop, Fourth in the Open Up Tempo, there were only two points difference between fourth and first, it was so close.  They got a second place in the Open Novelty and Cabaret section.  Tomorrow they are dancing in the National Section and the Open Up Tempo section.  The standard of this years eisteddfod is so high it’s a pleasure to watch the older groups dance.  Although I do struggle watching Tap and a lot of classical.

I am also going to see Yusuf or better known as CAT STEVENS I'm more excited to see this than I am fame and they are both on during the same week.  Better get going as it’s getting late.

Bye for now

Day 7 Monday

Last day of a week in my life and unfortunately our last day away.

 

I woke up at 6.30 and was determined to do one more layout before we left.  It was quite chilly this morning Chris and Tess got up about 9.  We scrapped for a couple of hours then packed up our gear.    Chris modelled a costume that she was going to wear to work for a back into the olden days, sorry I cant remember what she called it but you get the idea.  She was hilarious as she did different poses for us.  Mr Burleigh arrived home from his weekend away, we kicked him out of his house all weekend and we left shortly afterwards.  It was a quick trip home compared to the one there and we only stopped once to get something to eat.  I arrived home to an empty house which was rather nice.  We had a fantastic couple of days but it was all over too quickly.

I have really enjoyed this project.  I don't think I took nearly enough photo’s especially of the girls, Tony and myself.  The girls are so over the camera now it’s really hard to take their photo’s .  Lets hope I can get this into an album in the next couple of weeks.

Day 6 Sunday

I didn't take a lot of photo’s today we were too busy scrapping or pretending to scrap.

Had a bit of a sleep in this morning went outside and it was quite foggy.  Scrapped all day, lot’s of laughs, a bit of singing and a bit of dancing.  Two of Chris’ friends came over in the afternoon,  Tess taught them how to stamp images onto candles and how to ink chipboard pieces.  We had a break to watch a couple of shows on TV and have dinner then it was back into it.  Tess managed to complete an entire album I was impressed.  I think I got to sleep about 3- 3.30am.

Day 5 Saturday

 

Woke up at 7.30 after a cooked breakfast of Bacon and eggs we drove to Maryborough to grab a few things.  Chris took us down to the river again and took us on a tour.  She knows a fair bit about the history of the area and I found it really interesting.

Chris then took us to the wealthier parts of Maryborough and showed us the beautiful old Queenslanders.   I fell in love about fifty times over, the houses were superb if it wasn't so hot here I would consider moving there.  There was so much to look at.

We then went to the supermarket and had some lunch there, the seafood crepes were very nice.  When we arrived back to Chris’ house at about 12.30pm,  Tess and Chris made some pumpkin soup and spag  bol, so dinner for the next two nights was sorted.  The only thing left to do was to scrap which we did until the early hours of Sunday morning.

Day 4 Friday

The weekend couldn't come quick enough as I was heading off for a scrapping weekend with friends.

Up at 4.30, leave for work at 5am.  Fairly busy morning which went quickly I finished at 9.45.

Tess picked me up at 11.30 after a detour back to her house and to the petrol depot we headed off to Imbil to check out a unique scrapping shop, unfortunately it was no longer there but we had a browse through a secondhand store.    They had some nice things but I couldn't really concentrate as the owner kept talking  so in the end gave up.  We then went to the  cafe for lunch, it was really nice.  Tess had the Thai beef salad and I had quiche and salad.

We arrived in Gympie about 2.30 and stopped at a lovely park to take some pictures.  Then we ventured into the CBD  lots of nice old buildings to look at.  We found an antique shop called Daze gone by oh my goodness the stuff they had in there was gorgeous  I don't think the owner was real happy about taking photo’s in the store.  We spotted a church up on a hill and knew we had to go and have a look  unfortunately it was part of a catholic school and their were school children everywhere.  We didn't think it would be a great idea to sit outside the school taking photos. 

We arrived in Maryborough about 4pm and found our way to a park on the river.  Our friend Chris whose place we were staying at had to have a procedure done at hospital that afternoon and wouldn't be home until late so we were happy to roam around Maryborough taking in the sites.  That town has an amazing  history we spent a few hours and only walked around one block.

With the light nearly gone we decided to have dinner at the Post Office Hotel.  We arrived at Chris’ about 7.30 unloaded the car and started to scrap.  Not sure what time we got to bed but it was late.