shu shu shu shu shu shu sugartown!

Yep that Nancy Sinatra lady is spot on - this place is sugartown alright. Here is a fine example of the types of sugar that the Americans have to offer... starting with Root Beer (great name for Sarsparilla!) "Wanna root, beer?", truffles, cupcakes, brownies, cookies and petit fours (a cake with fudge in the centre, covered in cream). The pic is a bit blurred, but man that is just how I felt after eating all that sugar!! Think I am allergic to high fructose corn syrup HFCS - google it & c what u get, scary!!

Santa claws is coming to town!!

You'd better watch out as Ashwin has a fear of Santa Claws! We took him to a Xmas sugar feast on Sunday & realised that whenever he laid eyes on da big fat man he just looses it and screams and cries. Here we have a pic with Santa (who was very lovely by the way) and Ashwin not wanting to even look at the fat man in red. The pic below is the aftermath and daddy trying to calm Ashwin down.

The same thing happened down at the library as Santa was doing his downtown visit Ashwin was checking out the traps and Santa said hi, and the same thing happened. In the silence of the library Ashwin just screamed when he saw Santa - poor little guy, no more Santa this year please!

it's a family affair...

This must be the worst family photo we have ever taken - the flash of the camera seems to have affected us all. Ashwin looks the best with some food in his mouth! Well the pair of us look wasted & no we hadn't been drinking - "man that light was waay too much!!" I had to post this pic as it is sooooo bad!!!!

Cruising at Nifty 50!

This was a night out the other night for a friends 50th birthday (that's Conrad on the left) in da city. It was very exciting to go out and listen to some music, eat, drink and chat. There was a live drumming band which rocked that including a didgeridoo player. The bummer was that Ashwin was tired and had to go to bed (he ended up sleeping in the car on the way home). Oh and is that my husband in the pic?? He recently went number 2 and got rid of the hippy hair - so he needs a beanie now, don't think I'll be able to knit one up before winter is over!!

How are you ducky?

Well, this poor duck is not too good as Ashwin has taken a liking to sucking the water out of its body. At one stage the whole duck was in his mouth and all you could see was the ducks head popping out! Ashwin likes his family of ducks in the bath now - this little fella we scored for free from the Childrens Discovery Museum :)

min-nee Ashwin

This is the only good pic I found of Ashwin in his min-nee tee sent from our good friends in Melbourne (who designed & illustrated them too!) I am very impressed with the tee of the elephants bum but unfortunately he wasn't in the mood for a photo shoot that afternoon. He has to layer his tees now as the weather here is a bit chilly, so we have a skivvy underneath. Lucky for me I got this pic because as soon as he had his dinner he spilt soup and crumbs all over the front & that would not have made it online!

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it

When Ashwin & I went wandering around the park the other day there were many a squirrel to be seen. It was great fun looking for the different species as I hadn't seen many black squirrels before this was a great opportunity to snap a few in action. This gorgeous ginko tree is where we found a black one & I got some great pics of it with the digital camera. The squirrel wasn't too far away so I managed to get some great shots of it having a bit of a clean before it took off. The other grey squirrel was pretending to be a branch of a tree & I found it striking a pose. Lucky for the squirrel that it was just me who saw it as I saw this guy & his dog sniffing around for some squirrels to startle.

A future tree hugger!

There hasn't been much action here of late of going to anywhere out of town. We've been taking it easy and enjoying a bit of gardening - a little bit of gardening that is... Winter isn't the best time to plant many things but we now have a window box with Italian parsley, rosemary & arugula AKA roquette/rocket. So they look quite cute out on the balcony - it has been good to get into the swing of gardening again as I miss having a garden to look after. We even have a Camelia tree in a pot which is like we had at home - this time of year they come into bloom & there will be some lovely red flowers just in time for christmas. Not that we can sit outside & enjoy the day here as it will be chilly willy, so looks like we'll be enjoying a lovely roast of some kind in our heated pad. Our little christmas tree of a lucky bamboo is going well so far & should enjoy itself long after christmas has passed.

Ashwin & I went to join a mothers group the other day but for some reason no one showed up - lucky it was near a beautiful park full of squirrels and amazing looking pine trees. So
we took the opportunity to hang out under some pine trees in the morning light. The other lucky thing for us was the sightings of many a squirrel out playing in the the sunlight.

Dazed & Confused - Happy holidaze...

Christmas or the Holiday season as it is known here is looming closer & closer! A hint for all Xmas shoppers in the U S of A is to avoid the shopping malls at all costs! It is just insane, trying to get a park is a nightmare, here is a pic of us going to a Westfield shopping centre on a Sunday afternoon around 4pm. For some reason when driving around in a carpark there are no laws & consume mode sets in, that is, consume all others esp when trying to get a carpark!!

The Cry

A short video about the future of whaling!

A video made for a Greenpeace global action - if you have time, click on the link and comment. There are loads more to look at as well. Support anti-whaling!!!