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Saturday, December 30, 2006

woodford folk festival (general) - 09:51 PM - yesterday, i mentioned going to the woodford folk festival with nicola & jack & i...

Friday, December 29, 2006

nicola & jack's visit (general) - 06:39 PM - nicola & jack, my visitors for the past three days, left this afternoon for the...

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

visitors arriving tomorrow (general) - 12:33 AM - actually, since it's past midnight, i suppose that technically i have visitors arriving today, but...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

covered an ikea lamp (creative) - 07:32 PM - i made a cover for an ikea lamp which was plain white & looked a...

mary was black - 09:46 AM - i just ate some more lollies from the really cool gingerbread house that monica &...

Monday, December 25, 2006

merry christmas! (general) - 12:11 PM - it's christmas day here & smiley & i are just relaxing after a very full...

camera copy cats (general) - 10:54 AM - it seems that greg & myself copy each other when it comes to digital cameras....

Saturday, December 23, 2006

swimming lesson pictures (smiley) - 10:56 AM - i've uploaded the five best pictures of smiley at his swimming lesson yesterday (& one...

not so hard after all (general) - 10:31 AM - okay. so it wasn't so hard to fix the sony driver, after all. i just...

through the wormhole (general) - 10:12 AM - well, after looking for my misplaced card reader in surely every likely place it could...

literally & to the letter (smiley) - 08:02 AM - kids take things so literally. i suppose it's a good thing. here's an example. smiley...

unknown device (general) - 12:16 AM - i've got a new camera. it's a canon powershot S3 IS & it's lovely. *smile* ...

Friday, December 22, 2006

revolution nine (smiley) - 08:09 AM - smiley loves numbers & at one stage when he was reciting some numbers over &...

Thursday, December 21, 2006

$100 just in time for christmas (general) - 01:46 PM - awesome! a month or so ago, i got an offer from virgin money with my...

mystery creatures (general) - 08:37 AM - when smiley, myself & don were at the beach a couple of weeks ago, a...

some pics taken by don (smiley) - 08:24 AM - when don was here, all the way from kansas, he took some really nice pics...

swimming lessons (smiley) - 06:51 AM - smiley's been having a block of swimming lessons this week. my sister had her two...

Monday, December 18, 2006

ghost outlook express (general) - 06:19 PM - can someone please tell me how my mobile phone synchronised its contacts with outlook express...

always cranky (general) - 05:32 PM - the cranky woman who lives in the house behind my place is really negging me...

Friday, December 15, 2006

boy genius (smiley) - 08:40 PM - smiley wrote the number 20 all by himself! i was in the kitchen cooking &...

Thursday, December 14, 2006

loose parts toy storage (general) - 08:10 PM - this isn't my idea since i saw it put into use with some toys from...

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

smiley pics on flickr (smiley) - 02:20 PM - i uploaded some pics of smiley that i took ages ago with my lubitel 166b....

Monday, December 11, 2006

don's last evening (general) - 09:38 PM - tonight is don's last evening in australia. he left for his hotel about half an...

Sunday, December 10, 2006

new neighbours (general) - 01:33 PM - that didn't take long! i have new neighbours already after karaoke vampire boy moved out...

Saturday, December 09, 2006

free hugs (linky lurrve) - 08:11 PM - if you need something to cheer yourself up, or even just to give yourself a...

stubborness (smiley) - 08:21 AM - smiley can really hold onto an idea. some kids can fairly easily be distracted when...

Friday, December 08, 2006

cranky neighbour (general) - 07:12 PM - well, karaoke vampire boy has definitely gone, but i still have a neighbour who gets...

table & chairs all done (creative) - 12:52 AM - i finished all the painting yesterday & this morning (well, yesterday morning really, since it's...

Thursday, December 07, 2006

warm yoghurt (general) - 11:29 PM - anyone know how long you can keep a tub of unopened yoghurt out of the...

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

finished painting (creative) - 03:25 PM - i've finished painting the other pieces of the table & chair set of which i...

reupholstering (general) - 01:13 PM - rudi & audrey gave me a couple of single seater armchairs for my place when...

no junk mail (creative) - 10:00 AM - i've been meaning to get a "no junk mail" sign ever since i moved in...

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

two more house pics (general) - 10:35 PM - two more pics of things going on around my place: - my dotty bed set....

painting a chair (creative) - 10:32 PM - okay, so it's not exactly creative, per se, to simply change the colour of a...

karaoke vampire boy (general) - 07:11 PM - this morning i woke to a moving van & some moving guys shifting stuff to...

only three boxes to go (general) - 05:23 PM - smiley spent a couple of hours this afternoon with shroom & nanna & poppy at...

visitors (general) - 09:36 AM - after having two visitors in quick succession, one staying with me, one staying nearby, my...

Saturday, December 02, 2006

decorations for my bookcase (general) - 08:48 AM - i went to ikea yesterday with sherry (my best friend from melbourne. she arrived late...