Aussie Humour

I saw this on someones Facebook page the other day and thought 'I have got to have that for my blog!!'
So, here it is.

Quite amusing I thought ;)

This one was circulating at the beginning of the year when we had the floods.

I did find this one rather amusing!! ;)

Here is some others that have been done..

Ha ha ha the Aussies do have a sense of humour. ... Well, some of them do at least.

Unless these were done by some other country! 

Gypsy x

Drive around.

It is a lovely day today, temperatures reaching a nice 27c
After eating our carrot cake with a nice brew on the balcony we decided to go for a drive to a haunted house we saw a while ago.
The older boys stayed at home, they just have no enthusiasm sometimes those boys.

Anyway,  we jumped in the van and headed off with the camera - just in case ;)

Got all the way there (15 mins away) and the gates were shut!
A sign read " Open every 1st and 2nd Sunday of each month" damn!

So we took a slow drive back and spotted some kangaroos in the woods a few yards down the road!

Can you spot them? bit difficult to see on these pictures and we didn't bring along our spare lens that can zoom right close.
We didn't expect to come across any Kangaroos to be honest. So it was a pleasant surprise when we did.

After getting back in the van from Kangaroo spotting we headed towards a lovely Memorial Gardens place.
Had a water fountain, A lake, and lovely plaques placed beside the trees.
I've never seen anything so beautiful, yet sad at the same time.

Lovely, peaceful place. Very tranquil.

I could have spent all day here.

Gypsy x

Husbands Birthday

My husbands birthday was yesterday.
The plans I had just didn't materialize due to my damn headaches that I get.
Why does it have to be on a day of celebration or a day where we've made plans. So annoying :(

Anyway. My poor husband had to work on his birthday. I think everyone should be allowed the day off on their birthdays. - If only!

We got a few nice gifts for him, its pretty hard buying for someone whos so difficult. Or who has everything he needs already. So I had to improvise.
Here's what I came up with..

         

 

There is also a big mix-master, but I'm unsure where my husband has put this.
He also has a Tshirt. Of his favourite idol. Bruce Lee.

And he had a cake!! ok I admit, I didn't bake it and it was rather small compared to the cakes that we normally have, but its a cake at least :)

My poor husband. I will one day actually bake him a cake.
I have tried in the past and failed miserably. I wont even go into have I melted the chocolate.

But I didn't realise that you could actually burn something by using the microwave!!!?

Happy birthday my sweet loving husband. You mean more to me than anything, You are my world, my rock, my everything and I love you dearly.

Gypsy x

Haircut for Sage

Its coming to that time of year again when the weather is heating up and the dog is over heating fullstop!
So, I gave our little boy a nice little trim.

I would have took him to a proper dog groomers but I've been hearing some horror stories about them and so decided to do it myself.

Well, he may not have been amused but we found him hiliarious!!

Gypsy x

Van Halen :)

We, or should I say Anthony has his Van now.
The lovely people that we had the van from, left a lovely neat stack of goodies for us.
Can't thank them enough.

They names the van Halen... I so didn't click at first and thought it a rather odd name for a van?
I explained that we would probably rename the van 'Stimpy' as my car is called 'Ren'.

Then of course the following day, the penny dropped. And I suddenly realised why they called the van Halen.
Its staring right at me ... Van Halen! I'm so incredibly slow sometimes ha ha ha ..

Anyway, The name will stay 'Halen' he is.
And heres some pictures of him. My husband has big plans for him... wish him luck.

Not the prettiest of vehicles we've owned but there is room for improvements.

Will update with improved pictures as soon as the tranformation is in progress.

Gypsy x

Thunder

What a way to wake up! To the sound of thunder and lightening.. Ahh I loved it.
Funny how any other noise can put you in such a mood for the rest of the day when you've been woken early.
Yet for some reason Thunder is acceptable.

By the time I found the camera and put the battery inside, the thunder and lightening had died down a little, which is a shame.
We turned the lights off in the living area and the lightening just lit the room up.
The noise of the thunder had me jump from my seat a fair few times too!

Nothing better than a good storm to clear the air and make everything much fresher.
Great start to the day.

Gypsy x

Brief new friends..

Funny how you cross paths with certain people in your life isn't it?
We have been here in Australia for 18months now and not really 'clicked' with anyone.
We buy a Van from Gumtree and seem to have met the perfect 'friend material' couple.

But, today they leave Brisbane! and were selling their van as they are off to Cairns for a month then off to New Zealand until Christmas! Then back to England.  BUMMER!

In the two days we saw them, they seemed friendly and nice with a lovely sense of humour.

They left us with more than just a van, they left all their camping equipment too!
As a Thank you I offered them a crystal doll each. and they were most grateful.

I excused the table in the craft room and explained my husband reads runes, and they too shared the same common interest in Runes and Tarot cards etc. along with the same interest in good old British banter and many British programs. But the best common interest we had as got to be the New Age things.

They were Nicole and Dave - Nicole said 'If only we had met sooner!'

Anyway, we've promised to keep in touch and hopefully they can holiday over here again in the future.
And if we ever did return to the UK for a swift visit, They are definitely on the list!

Angers France 2008

Reminiscing about our holiday in France this morning.

I tried to look for the pictures we put online at the time, but can't find them anywhere so I'm going to post some pictures of our trip to Angers from the hard drive. - Wish me luck.

We had to spend our first night in our tent, because we decided to arrive a day early :)

Went off to see the Castles of Angers.

Beautiful buildings.

Our shack for the next 10 days.

Bitter sweet memories of France when I see the pool.

Plenty for the kids to see and do.

Great man-made beaches. Or fishy beach as Adam would call it after spotting so many little fishes.

Cheeky!!

This lovely building is called 'Adams House'

Ashleys never really forgiven us for this picture - Have no idea why? ;)

Will post some more up at some point.

Gypsy x

Postie

Just thought I would post a photo of the local postman we have here in Queensland.
Not sure if all of Australian post man get around this way but I do know that British postman didn't.
We thought it was rather amusing when we first arrived.

Very cute I thought.

I will have to try and remember to take a photo of our bin men!!

The days update

Just a normal diary blog today.

Not quite sure what time we first got up but the clock was flashing 3.40am, during the night we must have had a power cut.
Seems a regular thing out here in Queensland, not sure if its all over Australia or just this suburb but I'm pretty sure this time last year there were quite a few power cuts!

Anyway, Anthonys phone alarm went off usual time. So no 'over sleeping' for us.

Got the children off to school, went to work came home prepared dinner.

Thought I would be clever and do lots of vegetables and soaked them in Olive Oil.
Only when I went to flip them over, the tray tipped and the oil soaked the blooming floor! Me and the dog were sliding around for the rest of the day!
At least I didn't lose any veg.

Dinner, once cooked, was edible...just.
Then quickly washed down with some more cake!

There is plenty of it left over.

The day started off quite warm. then by the afternoon it was rather overcast, still reached 25c but not with the blue skies..

As you can see, or not as the case may be. No blue skies :(

Nice hanging baskets though, don't you think?? ;)

Anyway, Holley, Adam and Olivia went off to swimming. Holley and Adam will now move up when they go back, so, Holley will be in group 4, Adam in group 3 and Olivia stays in group 2 and I think that's because she won't jump in with her goggles off!, well she does, but with a lot of encouragement.

Off to watch me Eastenders now with my husband, although he claims he doesn't like it but I always catch him watching it!! :)

My Olivias 5th birthday

It is our sweet babys birthday today.
And we managed to decorate her cake, or should I say, I managed to decorate it without it falling apart!
And it was a success, she loved it! screamed with excitement when she saw it being carried into the front room by her daddy. Bless her.

  

She has had the most fabulous day. Its all about toys and sweets when you're that age isn't it?
She opened the cards first but it was a case of quickly open them and toss them to one side.
Then a mad frenzy to open up the gifts, as quickly as possible.

Here she is making a wish! after saying it out loud first ha ha..

And the wish was?... I wish I had lots of sweets!! 

Happy 5th birthday Olivia.

Our beautiful daughter.

Whom I loved the moment I saw you.

x x x