Jack Russells

I don't know if I have said this before but Cliff has three
Jack Russell dogs. Ariel which official belongs to Ross.
She is about five years old. Two years ago she had her first
litter, which consisted of Sophia, who is almost the same
size and colouring as her mother. I tell them apart from
the fact that Sophie has three circles of brown on her rump
and Ariel only has one. The runt of the litter was Jess.
She is black and white and I wanted to call her Collingwood.
But for some reason (maybe because both Cliff and Ross are
Carlton supporters this was ruled out.) Yet I don't see
why it is always Ross who gets to name the dogs!

Ross has encouraged them to not only sleep on his bed but
to actually crawl INTO the bed and sleep next to him.

When he gets up and goes to work at 6 a.m. the dogs are then
lonely and crawl into Cliff's bed with us. I try to fetch
them OUT of the bed and toss them at the foot of the bed.
If I had my way there would be NO dogs in the house AT ALL!
I believe in animals STAYING outside.

Well about the 16th of this month.

Kirsten's Melbourne Trip Revisited.

Kirsten rang me on Wednesday 16th Oct to say she was having
a wonderful time in Melbourne. (I was not a big enough person,
I enjoyed saying 'I told you so.')

She also asked me to send her some more money as she was down
to her last $30. She went to the Melbourne Zoo and said there
was a stuffed tiger, with large eyes. It looked at her and
said 'Buy Me!' So she did.

So I sent her $100 and told her it had to last till Friday.

There would be NO more!

She also said that she rang 'Mummy' and told her what a great
time she was having and even sent her a photo of the Eureka
Tower Deck, where they were on Wednesday night.

Happy Birthday!

Audrey (Cliff's mum) is 84 years young today. That meant it was
just before her 23rd birthday when she had Cliff. In fact for
a country girl at the time that was OLD to have a first child
most country girls were married by twenty and had two kids by
twenty three.

Cliff did ring Aud for her birthday, during a lull at the shop.
As Lena and I were there we also got to say happy birthday. I
asked her if she was 84 years young and she said 84 but these
days not feeling all that young.

Kath did not get to say hello as she had gone to the dentist with
Kirsten. I asked Kirsten did she want me to go and she said no
as she had mummy and her teddy bear. It turned out it was NOT a
teddy bear but a tiger. It was the one she had bought on the
school trip at the zoo, for $30.

Of course as Ross is up there visiting her he did not ring!

Kirsten's Melbourne Trip.

Kirsten went to Melbourne on Monday 14th October. Later
that night her mother received a phone call from one of
the teacher's saying :Kirsten had been 'crying' all day
and wanted to go home so they were bringing her back and
she would be at the Morwell station at about 8:30 p.m.

I rang Kirsten and told her to stop acting like a 2 year
old having temper tantrum, and to stay in Melbourne. I
said if she came home her mother was going to pack her
bags and she would be sent back to live at my house.
She just replied "She didn't care."

Meg spoke to her about lunch time when Kirsten rang her
to say she wanted to come home and could Meg come and
get her. Meg told her "To stop acting like a 2 year
old having a temper tantrum and grow up, and she would
not be coming to get her as she was at a conference in
Melbourne till Wednesday. She was coming back later
that day and then Mick and her were leaving for Sydney
on Thursday morning to see some Car Rally.

Her mother also told her to stay in Melbourne and not
be a 2 year old having a temper tantrum just because
she could not get her own way.

Noting seemed to make a dent. The teacher bought her
back and despite the fact I said no one was coming to
pick her up, Kath relented and did pick her up.

However Kath said it gave her an opportunity to speak
to her on the way home.

What ever Kath said to her must have worked as Kirsten
said she would go back next morning on the 8.30 a.m.
train. She did!!!

Missed Appointment

For the second time ever, and the second time this year
I missed a Dr's appointment. I went to the chemist and
he said the script I have for my atorvastatin tablets
was low. I said that was OK as I had a Dr's appointment
... I then realized it had been at 10 a.m. that morning!

School Holidays

Kirsten came to stay with me in the first week of the
holidays as Kath had the other kids despite her 'little
turn.'

The hairdresser did another treatment for the nits on
Tuesday and Kirsten finally went in to the hairdressers,
on Friday 4th October, to have the two tone colouring
done to her hair. She and Kath thought it was great.
I did not think it was.

Kath and I both went with her, me to pay and she wanted
Kath for morale support. It turns out this was actually
her first time at the hairdressers ever.

Her mum has always cut and coloured her hair!

Brickbats to Safeway and Target

On Wednesday 2nd October, 2013, I went into Safeway to
buy one of the albums to put theanimal cards in, which
Sam is collecting. It turns out Safeway has sold out
nation wide.

One of the guys from cards said he is in the know and
most of them were withdrawn because there was a swear
word in them and there were a number of complaints.

The girl in the Morwell shop said opportuntists bought
out all the books and were putting them on ebay for $50
each. What a rip off when they were $5 each or two for
$8.

Again I went into Target to get the notepad and
aseccesies only to fine the assessories had still not
come in, but thankfully the notepads had. So I got one
for Kirsten and myself.

This meant the notepad I had was finally given to Cliff
as it was his from his birthday last year.