Friday Night

Since I was on Narnia in 2009, we've been doing the same routine every Friday night...which is fish and chips and a game of something before the kids fall asleep watching a video on the sofa..which folds out into a bed.

The last couple of weeks we've finally broken out of the fish and chips thing.  We're all feeling like we've over stodged out....and now Phoebe and Daile are both concerned about it, instead of just Daile.  I'm pretty fed up with the taste of it I must say.  Matilda just hates change....but will be pushed if you're prepared to push hard enough.

One thing that's funny is that the Friday night is the one time of the week where we can pretty much guarantee that we'll have some kind of argument.  I don't know why this is...often it's because I feel grumpy and tired....and I think that something about the coming weekend and the concept of relaxing, tensioned with the fact that I hardly DO relax at the weekend, brings out a shortness or something ....I dunno.

Anyway, this week I was OK, but Phoebe and Matilda had a spat.  It all blows over soon enough though and then we had our game.  This week it was Jenga.  Here's some pics:

The argument....

The game....

The customary 'bull  in a china shop' approach of Tilda the Hun....pulls too hard....

.....it's falling....!

...but somehow it doesn't!!!! Cool as you like!  

....stitch that! 

Next up Feeb....

...Oh dear....poor Girl.

Summer Holiday....

Well, we decided that, despite our impoverished state, we'd be better off as a family if we at least went to do a four day trip to Stradbroke....so that 'something' that felt like a holiday happened during the kids 6 week summer holiday.  We went with a new tent, actually with two new tents that had been given (!!) to us by Chris, the guy who I took over the art school from.  They're in really good condition, and actually, even though they're both dome tents, one of them is so big that we didn't even need the other. 

The pics are all black and white (except for the iPhone panorama pics) because I was trying to be like a French photographer that Molly sent me a link to recently....but actually, some of them are better in colour.  (you'll just have to take my word for it eh!)

Here's my darlin' wife...to start us off - 

This was a panorama of the beach next to our camp site.....lovely and deserted!

We normally take the Red Cat catamaran, but this time went by the old ferry....which I liked a lot more cos there's no cafe...and therefore no mad queue to get a beer/tea/bun or whatever in the 50 mins it takes to cross.  Why people feel compelled to queue when it's such a short trip has always been a mystery to me.

Matilda is actually winded in this picture, having just fallen off the swing...just after I told her not to because I was under it!  She always smiles when she's hurt....bless her. 

Normally we get onto Flinders beach here...but there's been a lot of sea activity since we were last on the island and it's now closed off...as you can see!

Always nice to be home again though.....:-)