Rory - MCHN are a bit strange sometimes, they give advice when you don't need and don't give advice when you need it!!!! Great that Ollie is growing well, you must be doing a ripper job. He sounds like he enjoyed his first Law Institute do, charming all the ladies. BB is screening The Business of Being Born - Ricky Lake documentary tomorrow night. A few of us are going along (and about 200 others LOL!!!).

Bath - Thursday night was horrid! It was a weird day today too, started off cool but warmed up very quickly. Glad Friday night was fun, I was going to go but had another xmas "girls get together". Look forward to catching up tomorrow.

Dee - welcome back! I bet you can't wait for DH to be home for xmas. I can understand how hard it must be for a toilet break when you are on your own with 5 kids! I love Maroon 5, I bet the concert will be fantastic and Rob Thomas - what can I say (YUM!!!!). Why do people go to family events if they don't like kids or don't like kids being around???? Grumpy old buggers annoy the hell out of me. Pity Nathan didn't flick more sand on him LOL!!

Ali - all of you having gastro would not be pretty! I hope you feeling better soon, esp you. Being pregnant and having gastro must be doubley yuk. Take care of yourself.

Nic - the photo is beautiful! He looks like a nice Santa too. Nixons seems pretty cool with sitting on Santa's knee. It is a small world, I thinkt that all the time when I hear stories like that, very freaky!

Maya - goats cheese is just divine, esp the one from Yarra Valley Dairy. Its worth the trip and their Persian Fetta (my mouth is watering now!). I am not a huge milk drinker, don't mind milk shakes or smoothies but not straight milk. I can't stand soy, but have never tried plain goats milk. So are you frocking up tomorrow night?? Glad its not going to be a hot, humid night.

Tali - shame about missing carols but I would avoid too if the midges come out in force! I get a really bad reaction from mozzie bites and have lots of scars on my legs from scratching so bad when I was a kid. I still scratch bad when I get bitten and they say in the paper today that they are going to be out worse this year, great! Maybe Jaspen could tell you if you were in the right part of town?

Very busy weekend. Friday had xmas dinner with friends, lovely night that ended with us all in the spa with our punch! Saturday Chelsea had a party, then I had to get food ready for a bbq we had with friends today, wrap pressies. Today the bbq and it was great. My GF has 3 lovely girls (6,4,2) and all the kids played so nicely together. Marley is getting over a cold and was a bit cranky today.

I am a bit annoyed with my brother today. As I mentioned before, we were going to do a family photo for my dad for xmas. I spoke with my SIL to organise a day and we thought today would be good, late afternoon after my lunch guests left. Well my brother text me to say he already had other arrangements and couldn't come. I don't have many nights free leading up to xmas, we are so busy so I told him to forget about it and we should all just organise our own present for dad. I am just going to do a photo of my family instead. Why are these things always so damn hard to organise???? Enough whinning, better go finish the last of the wine and the delicious white chocolate and cranberry pudding we had for dessert today