Bath - got a top deal, through a fire brigade friend. Car was his 95yo dad's, who has owned it since new (it's a 95 VS Berlina Sedan) and has...get this...45K kms on the clock!! It's like a two year old car! Except he has touch parked a lot with it...and we know someone who can work on those dings for cheap Just got to book it into the mechanics ASAP for RWC, then get insurance, then organise a tow bar...and book myself in for a dressage or showjumping comp!! It's got electric everything, which I get paranoid about (thinking of things failing in the middle of nowhere with a horse float attached...), so I'll just have to place a little faith in it. Importantly, it has ABS brakes and I think I'll like the cruise control feature, with speed alert. It's really, really fancy for my car standards! Still it's just a car and it's going to suffice beautifully for towing a single horse Oh, yeah, and it was an absolute bargain. BiL was going to sell us his car but he ran into some hitches that would have delayed the car sale and DP felt bad thinking about this other car because he'd agreed to buy BiL's car...then BiL said to 'go for it' when he heard about it, cos he can't get his own arse into gear and he was relieved to be off the hook! Worked out better for us, this car is better cos it's got ridiculous mileage.
Good idea about using the library, Bath! I'm getting into trouble around here for using BB too much. I'll go nuts on here when DP comes home, and it irks him to see me on teh puter...and all I want is to unwind while he plays with Oscar! Oh, well, better do the PR job and cut down on my visible time on BB
Got to ride my horse today with Osc, and it was his first time using the bareback pad...what a difference! Not only was he comfortable, but because he could hold onto the monkey-grip loop on the front of the pad, his position was just beautiful and correct. We had a ride together and then he started to get a bit delicate - humidity and a very sweaty head under his hard hat He had a mini-meltdown, so I had to bustamove pronto.
I wonder how Wade will go tomorrow! I hope he loves it. I think it's a great idea about care for Niall, Bath - and the CAE sounds a bit too ideal!
Mel - movies would have been just perfect this week, how nice!
Better go, I'm supposed to be researching car insurance...
Just gonna talk about this here and not in the other forums. You'll see why!
I hinted at this on my FB page, so here are the details and I won't talk about it on FB either (not publicly).
Today Oscar fell off the deck. And not back onto the deck from the rails. He fell off on the wrong side of the deck. IT'S A 3 METRE-ODD DROP!!!!! DP was just in the kitchen right near him, making my iced coffee and I was in the next open area on the phone to the insurance people for the car when we heard a loud cry. Tom looked out and couldn't see...then he could and he bolted down! If I hadn't been on the phone, I probably would have panicked a lot more than I did, initially! He was on his front and got up to stand and was very upset (duh!) but he only said his elbow hurt - everything seems fine now. He had some Babu as soon as I finished with insurance man (cos he was getting Daddy cuddles and I was happy to let them do that cos I want him to seek Daddy for comfort from now on, too, not just me) and fell asleep.
I'm not surprised, though I'm not happy he had to go an make an experiment of it He pushed his little chair up to the (very much legal height and width) deck rails and went over. Last week he was climbing the table before I caught him at it and moved the table away. I took him back to the edge, holding on tightly, and put him over it a bit and said "danger danger danger, that's a good 3 metre drop" (realising he has little concept of distance measurements!!)...but no, he had to give it a bloody go.
Sure, I'm laughing now cos he's unhurt and it's just so typical of him, but shiat! It was scary! So, if my dad thinks Oscar's NOT going to climb his ladder against the wall to access the lower roof, he's dreaming. If he thinks that once on that lower roof Oscar wouldn't then climb the next ladder to the higher roof, he's absolutely deluded!! The boy must really have thought he could fly
definitely gonna see if the diving club can make an age exception for training!!! I was right when I reckoned the 10 metre diving board would not faze Oscar one iota. At least he'll land in water! Though he might have a bit more respect for the diving boards now
Sorry for long post, I wanted to share that with you, but didn't want to attract dumb arse comments in the Boo Hoo room.
Is anyone else experiencing kamikaze moments with their Junies, or other kids when they were this age? Is the only solution clipping their wings or hobbling them? I reckon Oscar would still escape with hobbles!
Heart rate regulating now...
Mel - FYI, there's a new underwear shop opening in Upwey, in the biggest floor space shop on the street. They'll have fitters there, too. I am so excited about it, not just cos it's underwear I won't have to travel to get to (well, apart from foot power), but it means every last shop in Upwey's main street is now occupied! it's been a dead space for a year now, and the last few years saw rent hikes and many vacancies, like Belgrave was a few years ago and it's very sad to see. So, now my bra money can be spent locally, too Another thing to do when you're checking out the fairy shop!!
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Oh Maya I feel for you! Not sure if you recall our deck but it is pretty high and I have fear of Flynn going over! Must fly cause mum and stepdad are over...
Oh Maya!!!! Thankgod Oscar fell the right way... what was at the bottom? Lawn? Oh Geeze... and I was panicking about my mother's decking... a 2m drop but there was cement beneath. Niall did the same thing... pushed a chair to hang over the railing's edge... and he tends to yell "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!" and leap when faced with a height arrrggghhh our boys are going to send us white (grey) overnight!!!
DH cooking dinner again... similar scenario to the other night... hungry feral kids... better get back to it!
I think he bounced because he landed on his front and because underneath is packed soil (is path to the garage and is unsealed and no gravel, just dirt) and it had just been soaked with the day's rain. I think the ground was slightly bouncy, as a result. He has declined further offers to jump from the deck was just checking to see if he learned that lesson!
I'm hoping he flipped over to the other side to hang before coming off, otherwise is was a 4m fall!! But thinking he might have made it down the other side first - surely it would have been worse at 4m?
Oscar's first day back at childcare today and he was beside himself when I left him. When I got back at 12.30 (we decided a whole day would be way too much for him in a new room with the way he was feeling) he was happy as Larry and didn't want to come with me! I stuffed up and squished in a playdate, though, and it started out ok and just went horribly wrong, with Oscar-standard meltdowns (so, really, nothing major, but I knew he was spinning out). So I brought him home, where nothing held his attention for too long before he pushed himself too far. He's now asleep - he needs it! I'm glad he hasn't seen Toy Story with volume, or he'd be saying what Niall says! (He watched it on the plane, but refused the headset, so only saw the pictures!).
Mel- is work gearing up yet? Will it be on an even keel by the time students are starting?
Better pack up paints now...
Maya - the adventure thing must be a June 19 thing cause Marley is a climber too!!! Just something else they have in common. She will climb anything. Chelsea can climb up our swing set and Marley has been trying desperately to copy her, with not much success. She hasn't yet fallen from any great height but she has no fear. I would have freaked out too if I had of seen something like that, thankfully DH is a bit more calm in those situations. So glad he is ok, and won't be jumping off anytime soon. That is fantastic that Oscar is dry overnight, I still feel like that is ages away!! Any more luck on the assignment front?? Everyone should be back from leave now. What a joke that was - would never happen with my students Your new wheels sound perfect, and with all the mod cons!! You won't know yourself. My dear DH would never comment on my computer time...he woudn't dare LOL!!! I love lingerie shops!!! And good ones too. I will have to get to Upwey soon and we have to meet for coffee (and a stop at the fairy shop!) Work has been pretty busy, mainly chasing up all the naughty people who don't let me know if they want their offer ARGGHHH!!! If they don't want it - just say so! I am also organising two workshops for new students, and my coordinators just leave the agenda up to me, which can be hard work fitting everyone in to the times they want. It will be busy up until semester starts in a few weeks then things should calm down a bit.
Bath - you were brave getting on the trains after the week of chaos!!! You were lucky you didn't end up a victim of the mass cancellations. Melb Central would have been blissful, nice and cool. How did Wade go?? Bet he loved it. School shoes are so expensive. I paid $100 for Chelsea's last year and thankfully they still fit. They had that same deal in Myer last year. Child care for Niall sounds great, you deserve some more "you" time. Hope it all works out. And French class, how fun would that be? I haven't taken Marley to a movie yet, she probably wouldn't watch it unless it was Wiggles, her major obsession at the moment. I took Chelsea to the movies when she was 4 months old, then about 3. They have Mums and Bubs sessions at most cinemas on a particular day, first session and they have the lights on low, and the volume isn't as loud. I saw at Hoyts they have the "Half Pipe" cinema which has bean bags, wonder if they make alot of noise??? How was your holiday?
Well we survived the heat wave. I hope we don't have to do that again in a hurry!!! Chelsea is loving being a grade 1 girl and her teacher is just fantastic.
Is anyone going to watch the new Underbelly series next week? It looks good.
Just got to book it into the mechanics ASAP for RWC, then get insurance, then organise a tow bar...and book myself in for a dressage or showjumping comp!! It's got electric everything, which I get paranoid about (thinking of things failing in the middle of nowhere with a horse float attached...), so I'll just have to place a little faith in it. Importantly, it has ABS brakes and I think I'll like the cruise control feature, with speed alert. It's really, really fancy for my car standards! Still it's just a car and it's going to suffice beautifully for towing a single horse
He had a mini-meltdown, so I had to bustamove pronto.
Heart Failure material
arrrggghhh our boys are going to send us white (grey) overnight!!! 
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