home from bali

we are back from bali. *sad face* had a wonderful holiday but it's so cold in adelaide. ahhhhh have a look at some of our photos if you get time.

anzac day

a time to remember. not just those who gave their lives to defend their country but also my late husband. it's his birthday today. always rains on anzac day doesn't it? well in adelaide at least. i went with my son and family to a friend of theirs who sells ex office plants. they are gorgeous and very well priced. i bought two for twenty dollars. one is a kentia palm and he said the other is a happy plant. it's large. they look good on the veranda and need to be under shade cloth or inside. after buying the plants and doing some shopping i then went to the cemetery. each time i go, which i admit is not often, i can't find my husbands grave. now i know that sounds terrible. i make mental notes but each time it eludes me. so after about ten minutes i finally found him and did my thing. whilst there is it crazy not to visit the graves of my parents and his parents. they are all at enfield cemetery and as far apart as possible so it takes a while. unfortunately i left my floral tributes at home. drrrrr. oh well. i was supposed to have cookie, my grand daughter, yesterday but her mum rang to say something came up so i missed out. i won't be able to have her again until i get back from bali. they've given me their lists of presents to buy. lego transformers and hannah montana. ahhhhhh really. oh well, if that's what they want. my daughter submitted the paper work last week for my g/son to go to high school. omg now if that doesn't make me feel old i don't know what does. :)

a blog

there's a blog i love to read. i've mentioned it here before. there was a post in december. 'life part two: begins today'. end of blog. she left to live in hawaii with the man of her dreams. i have a link to her blog and check it regularly just in case she decided to blog again. sad. nothing. get over it. goodbye. so now i use the link to get to this blog. saves typing in the addy blah blah blah. you know how it is? imagine my surprise, no shock, tonight when i went to her page and da dum there is was. a new blog. and she's back. she's an editor for a fashion magazine. she broke his heart and she doesn't like herself atm. i don't know if she's blogging from singapore or hawaii. time will tell i guess.

procrastination

procrastination is my middle name esp. lately. i've been sitting here on the net each night doing not much of anything really. i've been meaning to sort out my kitchen drawers at least but nothing accomplished. go through my clothes. nothing. my son is coming over tomorrow for breakfast and we are going to cut down the hedge/creeper thingy on the front fence. it's an australian native but it's really just a fancy potato vine. boring and looking really awful atm. there's a lovely star jasmine next to it that could do with a prune. it will make it grow bigger and better (i hope). i noticed i have four tomatoes on the bush the other day. four. but i'm not getting excited coz they simply don't get enough sun and will be horrible. i've really noticed a touch of autumn in the air of late. lovely and cool mornings and evenings. good sleeping weather.