MM - glad you had a wonderful day, a bottle of wine with DH and a $100 voucher from Dymocks - you hit the jackpot girl!

MM - actually I've read Mem's autobiography and she worked long and hard and juggled in the early days, she was living in a car at one point. I'm not defending her, I think she's just trying to point out that a lot of ppl today consider certain aspects of expenditure as 'necessities' when a generation ago ppl wouldn't dream of making those choices, kwim?

Raino - at sunburn. I guess that hole in the ozone is getting bigger and bigger. My hairdresser was telling me she got medivac'd to the burns unit in hospy after less than 3 hours out on the lake. She's been waterskiing for years so it was a bit of a shock. It was third degree burns and she collapsed (!) So slip slop slap everyone, that sun's getting nastier than it used to be.

Kate the girls night in with Tupperware, what a great idea! Noice raffle win too.

JaZaH I bought the BH&G maggie 10 days ago and haven't looked at it yet ! I'm starting to think towards Christmas too as it's going to be craaaaazy with the removals, etc. I've got an advent calendar quilt panel but not sure it it'll get sewn this year! GL with the fete committee, we're currently organising our stall for the Guides fete. I had the brilliant idea of doing a "confectionary" stall as the cake stall was already taken and it was a complete winner last year. We sneak a few craft items in there too .

DD is being a complete royal PAIN today since her sleepover friend left. She's about to get her MP3 player confiscated if she's not careful.

Trill, sleepover was a complete success and her friend is such a lovely thoughtful kind and genuine girl, I'm just soooo relieved. It's doing H a world of good to have a special buddy after all this time. I guess i started to doubt that there were any other families bringing up their daughters to be genuine people but it seems like eventually they find one another! No muffled giggling, we watched Muppets Wizard of Oz (hilarious by the way), well actually I fell asleep on the couch and they watched it. So it was sort of an early night for me!

I told E it was time for a sleep, and she toddled into her bedroom ready to hop into the cot (!!!) She's been utterly exhausted these last few days. I took her to the dr as she had a bit of a temp and has been horribly whiney and clinging but he couldn't find anything wrong with her either. So now I'm wondering if she's just been overtired for some reason. I wonder if she's been awake at night but I've been too tired to hear her?