Maddy's Timetable.

Maddy is doing abridging course to get her back into school. It
runs for a number of weeks, She is actually starting in the
second week. Her times in the second week are Tuesday 9 a.m.
to 10:15.a.m. Wednesday 1.30 p.m. to 2.45 p.m. and Thursday 12
to 1.15 p.m.

In the second week she is with me the times are exactly the same.

It does not give me time to get two hours of work done with Lena so
I have asked her to come after Maddy goes home.

Maddy Comes to Stay.

Karen Roberts was going to Adelaide to play darts for eleven
days. Maddy asked if she could come and stay with me for that
time and I said it was O.K. if her mother gave me $100 for
the entire time.

Her mother came over on Friday 18th and dropped the money off.

Karen was suppose to drop off Maddy on the Monday night about
5 p.m. However she rang and said that Maddy was with her
friends and she would get a lift later.

I rang her mother at 9 p.m. as she was not here. Then Maddy
rang me to say she would be here SOON.

However at 10:30 p.m. she was still not here. I rang her and
she said she could not get a lift so I had to get out of bed
and go and get her! Great start!!!

We Celebrate Kirsten's 16th Birthday

Cliff and I were going up after the market on Sunday the 20th
to see Kirsten for her birthday. Just as we were about to
leave Morwell I received a phone call from her to bring up KFC.
I asked how many people we were feeding and she said just mum
and me.

So we just got the "Cheap as Chips" deal for $19:95. Which
was a lot cheaper than we usually pay to feed the mob up
there.

When we arrived there was a boy there attached to Kirsten
it seems, but he eats healthy and would not have any KFC.

I gave her the 16th Birthday card.

She showed me were she fell over and really bruised her right
knee, coming out of the cinema the other night. Then last
night (19th) Kath allowed her to drink which I was disgusted
at and as a result she fell over again and bruised her left
knee pretty badly too. Then she tried to jump over the fence
and fell on her bruised right knee and made it worse!

But despite all the trouble she said she had a great time!

Kirsten's 16th Birthday

I had meant to ring her for her birthday. Cliff did not want
to go up after work on Saturday, as he did not want to miss
his races. So we arranged to go up Sunday. She said she was
having a sleep over and there would be about 4 friends. I
asked her if we had to feed the whole mob and thankfully she
said "No!"

But when I thought the first time about ringing her it was
11 a.m. and I figured it was too early that she would be in
bed still asleep.

However the next time I thought about ringing her it was
already after 12 a.m. and thus no longer the 19th!

Ross was home with Cheryl but he did not want to go to tea
with us for his birthday. He said they were going back to
her place and having a quiet meal.

My 65th!

Now I'm officially retired! Ha! Ha!

Cliff suggested we go to the club or R.S.L. for tea, but as no-one
else could come I said why don't we have a nice romantic dinner
alone at some place where we had not eaten before and he said O.K.

We ended up going to the Aura Café. It is located near the
parking garage in Traralgon.

There was only a few people there, so we easily got a seat.

The wait staff were nice.

I saw that they had oysters moray on the menu so I asked Cliff he
wanted to go halves with me and he said "Yes" so we ordered them.

I went to the toilet. When I came back Cliff said "Well I don't
know how you managed to do it but they have got the order wrong."

There were crumbed oysters on the table and the waitress came up
and said they were ? and we could A. Sent them back. B. Eat them
at no charge and not have the ones we ordered or C. Eat them at no
charge and still have the ones we ordered. I opted for C.

I told the waitress that it was O.K. about the mistake as it was my
birthday and that was like a little present.

Well we finished our meal and I was really felling the push to finish,
when the wait staff came out the three of them had a plate with a
slice of cheese cake on it with sparkles on the cake and they sang
"Happy Birthday" to me!! It was lovely.

I asked them to take a photo of me with the cake and they did but
by then the sparkles are gone out. They offered to get more but I
said No as they would most likely cause too much flare I the photo!
I also got them to take a photo of Cliff and myself.

They were really sweet!

All up it was a really GREAT NIGHT!

Ryley Turns Six.

Not only was it Ryley's sixth birthday, but it was also the last
Friday of the month.


So we went to the Morwell club for tea.

Kath was angry with Nathan as he said he was going to make a
special cake for Ryley but he did not bring it to the club. He
said he "forgot".

Cliff and I did not win anything in the raffle. Kath did. John
and Lena did not have any luck either.

Overall the kids were not too bad.

House Rules

I never watched the first series of this, but am enjoying
this season. I usually watch the Wednesday night episode
with Lisa, I was surprised that she does not watch it as
she is so into decorating. This show is partly sponsored
by "Home Beautiful." This is the magazine that I give her
as a subscription each Christmas.

There were 6 couples at first. They decorated each other's
houses and then one team was eliminated. From the first
episode I did not like Brooke and Grant from Tasmania. All
the teams are competing to win the grand prize of having
their mortagee paid off. Three couples Maddie and Lloyd
from Queensland, Candy and Ryan from N.S.W. and Adam and
Lisa from Victoria all want to have their mortagee paid
off so they can get married and start a family. So I
wanted one of them to win. Brooke and Grant between them
have 7 children. She just wants to stay at home with them.
Mel and Bomber have four kids between them and she wants to
stay with them and Carole and Russell from West Australia
want to win so Carole can stay at home and see more of the
Grandchildren. Anyway Brooke was a b...h and he was a
b.....d. So I was pleased when they were eliminated first.