Great about the party, Bath! Yep, funny about the sms - I didn't even realise till your last text that you hadn't received my first one until after you sent yours! Pinatas DO work...but (he, he!) only when made my someone from Central America - all the ones we've ever had all worked a treat; not too easy, but not work for a woodchopping champion. But I'm pretty lucky to have grown up with proper pinatas, by virtue of cultural background.
Simone - lucky you choosing the wrong day to go on Puffo - yesterday's weather would have been unpleasant with that southerly blowing! Belgrave is a lovely place to live, or surrounds (Upwey, Kallista, Sassafras etc). You just need to look at your Melways when you see a house you like and check out where the bus routes are in relation to the house, train stations, shops. You don't want to be too far away from these things, as much as that is the initial appeal...you get over that quickly! We're in a great spot here - 5 minute walk to the train and 3 different bus stops, 5 mins walk to servo or shops, can't hear the traffic from the highway unless wind direction and some truck's airbrakes coincide...and even then, barely noticeable. Go for it! My parents waited 20 years to move up here with us and realised that the area DID have the schools for us that they thought didn't exist!
Geez it's cold in here. I'm going to find some kindling and get a fire going cos my hands are frozen.
Ooh, have to pull the sewing machines out and learn how to thread my overlocker (b'day present that I haven't used yet) cos I bought some material on Saturday.
Ok, the cold is moving me to action - can the wind please change to a northerly again!!!!!