HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY

LUNCH AT THE MELTON CLUB


Today we celebrated Lois's 80th birthday with lunch at the Melton Club. Lois is Mel and Craigs Nanna. It was a quiet affair as three of the guests were unable to attend so that just left Lois & Ken, Mel, Craig and myself and another family friend Jenny. We had a nice meal and spent two hours remembering the past.

WHAT I'M READING

I have just finished reading Janet Evanovich's latest book which was a very easy read but a little disappointing as there was not much happening really in this book. Have spent the last few weeks devowing the Karen Rose books which are fantastic and which I have thoroughly enjoyed to the point where I actually order the first two books in the series from the U.S.A. as I couldnt buy them here. Now all I have to do is wait for the next book to come out. Whilst searching the web for crime fiction I came across Carla Neggers who I am currently reading, I didn't buy these one's just borrowed them from the library. Trish bought two books by an Australian author Lean Giarratano and I have borrowed the first one from her which I will start as soon as I have finished the book I am currently reading. Had a sneak look at it the other night and looks promising so will keep you posted about it.

MAMMA MIA

GIRLS NIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Thought it would be nice to take Trish out to the movies so went and got tickets for us to see Mamma Mia! Sadly she did not enjoy the movie very much where on the other hand I had a wonderful time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Must say I love ABBA and their music is timeless. Would have got up and danced in the isle except I think my daughter would have totally disowned me. Never mind next time we go to the movies I will let her choose the movie.

MOVIES WITH THE GIRLS

KUNG FU PANADA

Today I took Monique and Jordja to the movies. This is my usual thing over the school holidays i.e taking which ever grandkids are around to see the current school holiday favourite movie. We meet beforehand to have lunch at the local shopping centre and then headed off to see the movie. It was very busy at the cinema as the weather was not good, rain and a bit more rain so everyone was at the movies. We all enjoyed the movie and met up with Kylie after to have coffee and as Trish was back from work she also joined us and we also did a bit of retail therapy. A nice way to spend a cold rainy day.

SUNDAY LUNCH

LUNCH IN THE CITY
On Sunday I caught the train into the city and met Mel for lunch. She was waiting for me at Southern Cross station as her best friend had come down from Ballarat to celebrate her birthday and was catching the train back home. We caught the tram down to Swanston Street and then went window shopping. We decided that we would have lunch at little cafe called RedNine in Degreaves Street, which served a very nice BLT with salad and chips. Yummy. We then did some more retail therapy and I finally caught the train back home at 4.00pm. One of the reason I caught up with Mel was to give her the album I had made for her graduation photos. I am very pleased with it and Mel was happy with it. Have included photos of said album.

CRAIG

20 GOING ON 21

While looking for photos to scrap tonight I came across these photos Mel took of her brother on Mothers Day. Its hard to believe that he will be 21 in December. Had forgotten that she had taken sooooooooooo many photos that day. Ashgrove was a photographer's paradise and there are many more great photos of us all plus the lovely autumm leaves and gardens. Well off to have a lovely soak in the bath as I am home alone tonight. Phil is in the truck and Craig is away in Stawell at his mates place. Then will watch a bit of telly and do some more work on Monique's rug which I started during the week. Hopefully will get it finished for her birthday.

WINTER WEEKEND

TEN PIN BOWLING

Bridgette has spent the weekend with us. She original was only coming for the night on Friday but it ended up staying until Sunday afternoon. She had a great time playing games on the XBox, then on Craig's computer playing World of WarCraft. On Saturday morning Bridgette and I made pumpkin soup and vegetable muffins for lunch. Byron came around on Saturday to borrow the mower as his is not working. Anyway after he returned the mower asked if he wanted to come bowling as we had promised Brigette we would go, Trish joined us as well and we all had a fun time. Everybody but me played two games and as you can see from the photos some strange goings on happened. We then had coffee at the Jolly Miller were we all ate goodies and drank coffee. Saturday night watched the footy...Go Saints...what a good win. Sunday we just muddled around, read the paper in bed, got up late, had bacon and eggs and just spent a lazy day not doing a lot.