(24-10-2024, 10:37 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: Hope all goes well KM.
The joys of getting older...
Dug out a few more buttercups; they've attempted a takeover bid among the mint & violets & were getting too numerous so had to dig out as many as i could, but will need to have another go at the damned things.
Madame le Cat very kindly 'helped' me until she spotted a bird on next doors roof, when she sat on the fence & swore loudly at it.
Im starting to believe that school lunches should also be provided to every MP, with precisely the same content, tested frequently to ensure the same content - & obligatory.
Our Headmistress tried that made an appointment with the local MP to bring a van load of kids up for a presentation at his office for him and his staff she took a sample of each days lunch for the week - the company delivered each weeks frozen on a Sunday - the kids took their half a wrap with shredded cabbage which had thawed .He was not amused - his kids went to a high decile school on the hill that were lucky to get KFC and subway while 70% of Napier schools got nothing - the media never mention that the scheme was supposed to include all schools by 2022 .Kids Can will do a great job feeding the preschoolers - can only be a win who cares about the politics of it
(26-10-2024, 01:08 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Oh boy, just as well I had a lazy morning! Duvet inner inside duvet cover. I remember now why I gave those things up, lol. And now I need one of those skirt things to hide the wickedness underneath. Or get down there and rearrange it so antique suitcases show and plastic bins don't.My grandkids that are over the ditch are the same Hunni - frightening the only ones still here are the three young ones and I know for sure that as soon as they finish Uni they will go - they all see their parents working hard and succeeding so hopefully some of them will come back - I guess that’s the price you pay for bringing your kids up to be independent - but the two oldest are like your daughter well settled
Then I did the windows on the deck side, inside and out and broke one of those hanging terrarium globes in the process so had to sweep and vacuum. Gave the deck a scrub with the leftover hot bubbly water.
Earned my coffee I think!
Oh, and instagram conversation with my daughter. They have found a house she is in love with, with acreage. A frame, trees, pasture, clean air, and room for an apartment for the inlaws. Her husband is not convinced, it is older than they are, and so needs a lot of his skills to update it. But what a place
for the kids. And has a pool which they need in Perth. And old heat pump aircon, which will need updating if they are to survive their summers, specially with her MS. The beauty of Oz's property market though, their newish build in town will pay for the new country place, and the renovations, and leave them mortgage free.
No wonder our kids are loving that life over there.