Scatterday Sunday 28th October - Jay Day

Here are my 'J' things, better late than never.
The Jasmine Rice Thai restaurant in Wollongong - not my favourite food but there you go. My sport is Jumping - show jumping. I have always loved to watch it. This is one of the photo's I took at the Royal Easter Show this year. And, my pointy thing is the jib on this crane that I photographed in Wollongong last weekend. This is a scene of City Beach, taken from the Lighthouse and the overlooking WIN stadium - a popular spot - the crane is working on an apartment building behind the stadium.
Now to find out what are our subjects for next week.

BOOOO 25.10.07 - Scatterday will be Sunday this week!

Hi ho all,
Off down to the van in 5.
Have my piccies all organised and will get to it Sunday night.
Until then ..........................

Babies update 23.10.07

Firstly there's our Zara - she is quite the young lady now.

I was babysitting tonight and we had a nice visit before she went off to bed. She scoffed up a little plate full of avocado and banana and thoroughly enjoyed it too. How tastes have changed.
Of course she is sitting up and reading already.

Here she is in her new hat! Next we will be having beach belle photo's.

Then there's Harry.

This was his first day at the beach - the first of many if he takes after his Dad and big brothers.

This is his first fishing trip with his Dad.
It's lovely to see the kids all enjoying their babies, and of course I do too!

On the way home from work .... 18.10.07

On Thursday afternoon we decided to go for a coffee on the way home.
Too windy to sit in the street and watch the passing parade so we decided to get a takeaway and went up to the lighthouse at Kiama to sit and drink it.
Kiama is about 15 mins south of Albion park and is renowned for it's blowhole which puts on a great show when the wind is blowing in from the sea. I'll find a photo of it and put it up later.
I'm so glad we did. Here was mum and baby heading south, leaping and frolicking just a few metres away from the headland. Luckily I was able to scrabble in my bag and get my little Ricoh R4 and record the scene. Wonderful.

P is for us - PERFECT PEOPLE!

Here we are my letter 'Ps'.
I was having problems with accessing the Net to do my mosaic so decided to do it on my own computer on Photoshop. Much easier, no uncontolled cropping and I could alter the sizes of the photo's no trouble so think I will do that in future.
Something red my Pointsettia - grown to a big shrub now from a small pot given to me for a Christmas present. The metal thing is my pewter pussycat and the sweet things - I roamed the shops at Shellharbour Square and came up with some yummy sweet things. Couldn't chose between the Peanut Brittle and the Picnics so here they both are!
Not much news this week. I am looking forward to a nice quiet weekend at home to catch up on gardening and am even hoping to make it into the sewing room.

The Letter 'F' as in Froid .... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well we had a busy week looking for all the 'F' things.
I found this amazing 'F' Firewood sign down the South coast on the road into Bawley Heads and Kioloa. I had a couple of other maybe's but I thought this one took the cake really. For something cold I thought about frosty foto's and foggy features but kept coming back to this one of DD Leelee a Freezing Froid Female.I took this photo down at Bendalong last season - you can see her holding her breath and trying not to get too wet. Of course for the elements I chose this lovely warm fire. There's nothing like an open fire.
I have been up half the night watching the International Competition of Sweet Adelines International - what a great group of sensational singers. We have a Kiwi / Aussie chorus in the finals so that's really exciting.
I am off to the van on Sunday to sort out some reno's with a builder down there and we can hopefully make our sleeping quarters a bit more comfy.
Hence here is Scatterday on Friday.
At the moment I have to sleep in the dungeon on the lower level. VERY difficult to get in and out of - I have to get down on my knees and sort of roll into the bunk - getting OUT does not need description - LOL.


Here is Bailey saying hullo - I had 'stolen' Maureen's bunk for a daytime Nanna nap - my bed is the one below on ground level!
Cheers girls

Scatterdays C could be for Cat or Canine really.

But this time it's for a hobby, furniture and a pizza topping. I'm not s'posed to eat cheese 'cause my cholesterol is up.
I have not been very imaginitive with the pizza - loved Fran's capsicums - don't fruit and vegs stacked up in shops look just so great? Anyhow - here is some unimaginitive CHEESE - it is LOW fat.
You would have a very dull pizza without it really.
My furniture is my old china cabinet - bit retro isn't it? I bought it at a clearing sale at Baan Baa - near Narrabri and then had to con the local carrier (husband of a friend) to bring it home for me and then had to con the local glazier (husband of a friend)to replace the mirror in the back of it. It's full of all that crystal that I have inhertited or bought at sales 'cause it was cheap but then never use. Know what I mean?
Then hobbies as you can see - I have chosen Cake decorating - I need another mosaic here ....


I also have Fran's problem of cropped photo's - we'll work it our one day. So you can't really see the two tiers of the wedding cakes but no doubt you get the idea. I photographed the old photo's so the clarity is not too great either. On well it's not a competition is it? So here is what I did in another life - prepared me for free machine quilting tho' with the 'cornelli' pipework (all the squiggles like stippling). I'll just tell one story and that's of the hexagonal cake you can see there with the sweet peas. Well it was an order for the wife of one of the local GP's in the town. It was finished(used to burn the midnight oil then too)late one night - the day before it was being collected. When I got up the next morning, my two little darlings (twins) who would have been about 3 or 4 or so at the time I guess had been up before me. They had removed and eaten every flower! All that was left were the little curls of wire which were like the tendrils of the sweet peas. I was NOT amused as you can imagine - I actually can't remember ever being so angry really. Anyhow they disappeared post haste from my wrath and luckily -for them - as they had been VERY careful removing the flowers and not damaging the icing at all I was able to resurrect the cake and redo it with the spare flowers that I had left over. A couple of years after the event I was able to tell the recipient and we had a good laugh about it. The girls say they don't remember - maybe they are blocking it out! I will NEVER forget!
I am off tomorrow to Syders for the day to catch up with Scquilters and then with some old nursing buddies and then off to M&M's on Sunday. That's why my piccies are up now. Catch ya next week!.