Where have I been all this time...

Well, nowhere really. I have started a blog several times, on the train, at work, at home (both of them) but nothing publishable of late. This one should be different.

February flew past, followed quickly by March, and now it is one day away from my brother David's birthday ie Mid April, and I am not happy with not submitting stuff to this site.

February & March saw me spending a lot of time in Sydney and at the office, interspersed with weekends down in Geelong helping Dee tidy the house for a seemlesly endless series of "Open Homes" Each time was like a "Backyard Blitz" / "home improvement" show, with Dee, the girls and I throwing baskets of household items into clothes baskets and stuffing them into the shed, and the boot of the car, with 5 minutes to go before the Real Estate tossers arrived. Then we would drive around Geelong for 45 minutes, come home to a tidy, sparkling house, only to instantly begin messing it up again by making a cup of tea, or unpacking the car and shed !!

We had some good weekend things to do though. We joined into a Walk for the Cure relay one Saturday evening with Dee's firm. It was nice to stop to think about others fighting and sometimes dying of cancer, and the little things we can do to help them. I thought of Dad.

We also got a puppy. Gizmo is a male cocker spaniel. Dee brought him out of her Tupperware funds, so he is a Tuppy Puppy. Cute as all hell, with lots of wriggles and licks for anyone who needs them. He is learning about toilets at the moment, but he's only 12 weeks old so he gets away with a bit at present. Gizmo is brown and has a white cross on his chest. He came from a farm just north of Colac in western Victoria. Estimated birthday = 24 Jan 2005.





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