Great Choice Brent!

When I left you yesterday we were off to have lunch...........Brent decided he would like KFC as a treat and Grandma thought it would be nice to have it at Rosser Park, Gold Coast Botanical Gardens. Although Rosser Park is only approx 1.5km from home (a nice walking distance) it had been some time since we'd been and so we were astounded at the improvements which had been made. After eating our KFC we went walking, smelling, feeling and admiring the plants, there are movement activated information posts, so it was permissible to touch the plants in some gardens!, we watched the ducks and other water birds, dragon flys, tadpoles.........if they all were to mature to frogs the GC would be over run by frogs! eels and to Brents great delight a baby tortoise/turtle sunning on a rock. Truly a wonderful hour and a half - its not often that we get to have one-on-one time with the grandkids.
Finally got so frustrated with the fact my internet connection has been dropping off regularly - a real nuisance when you are working from home - I rang Australis and was assisted by a very nice young man James, refreshing that he didn't talk down to me like so many in the IT call centres do. Hopefully, we have fixed the problem............ by unplugging all my phones and filters and then putting them back! Simple when you know how eh?
Sat down last night to watch the Bulldogs on pay TV and after the first 10 mins the screen went blank and a notice came on about technical problems and they would be rectified ASAP, so out came the books for a quiet read - well one of us promptly had a Granny Nap -then suddenly we had a thought maybe its also on one of the 'obscure' digital/hd commercial channels.......YES YES Yes...but the Bombers were staging a comeback.......so instead of biting the fingernails I painted them......but the Boys from the West soon showed those Bombers what for. If we beat the Tigers next week it will be history as we have never won the first five games of a season. Maybe I will be getting that tattoo for my birthday H!!!
The ironing basket was overflowing with three weeks ironing so I got up early this morning to complete ....... I have got very relaxed in my housekeeping since moving to the GC!
Each Sunday night we have a family dinner and its our turn at hosting - found a recipe for Cookies and Cream Ice-cream so have made a tub of that this morning..........looks good enough to eat! Suzanne has two overseas students staying with her at the moment, Cecile is from Switzerland and is here for 13 weeks (9 left) and Yuriko from Japan who is only here for 2 weeks. Lets hope its a nice evening tomorrow so we can spill outside........there's not a lot of room in our little townhouse to fit 10 or more.
Thanks to those who have left comments or emailed me .....off to Sharks for lunch as Bill has to pay his 'punters club' money.........yes - we do eat at home sometimes!!!

Happy Birthday Dylan

Its hard to believe the first born of my first born is a teenager today.......hardly seems yesterday he was born. Happy 13th Dylan - I am so looking forward to your holiday with Grandma next month. Unfortunately my photography isn't the best - but I will include a picture of the card I made D - Heather was so impressed she is going to show her friend Shirley who is a scrapbooking
genius (I am definitely not in her league - Shirley has a great blog site if your'e into scrapbooking its Reflections - Shirley Fyfe). Thats a basket ball on the star 'cos D's team won the grandfinal a couple of weeks ago and it has definitions of precious (my nickname for D) and birthday plus words such as celebrate, special etc
Yesterday we took part in 'Test the Nation' promotion for Flora and had our cholesterol checked....5.6 so its just over the 5.5 the Heart Foundation says is ok, Bill was so low it didn't register, perhaps the fact I had a latte an hour earlier didn't help!! The FREE testing is on until tomorrow - Australia wide - check the website for a site near you.
Brent is spending the day with us today, he and Grandpa are off playing tennis, before we go out somewhere 'special' of Brents' choosing (probably Macca's) for lunch.
Good luck to my beloved Western Bulldogs tonight..... will be great to be able to sit and watch them 'live' on TV and not at some bewitching hour like 11pm as it was last week.....

Oops must fly....supposed to be getting ready to go for lunch.....

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