only a couple of friends

Why is it that any birthday for a teenager is so important?

Statistically, it will only be a small percentage of their lives.

But #2 child, #2Son, has had two birthdays that needed a lot of friends to help celebrate. In my back yard. What will next years 18th be like?

It will probably another Ben Hur epic like last weekend.

"Only a couple of friends" were supposed to be around.

Like- three times what the original "guestimate" was...

At least another adult joined in at some time for a while.

I think we had a nice night.

The night before there was a quick pizza dinner with the family- without a cake.

I buggered that up! At least his grandfather and Brenda brought some cake!

Just did not think to pictoralise it nor add candles.

Epic fail I think.

But I think he enjoyed getting the guitar he got from us. And having his aunt and little cousin there too, and girlfriend L. With a call [on the speaker phone- haha] from his Big Brother back in The Big Smoke.

His mum would be proud him and of the lot of them

Enjoy Frizle!

diy or not

Expensive month of Sundays really

Blue moon month of Sundays anyway.



About.
You know, 5 weegens worth of pain suffering success and lack of adulation. 
Had some money left over after tax and pension pay out adjustments and trying to be...cheap. And it is only the start of the financial year...
PS: a Lotto win paid for itself, only, like, the ticket entry....



Whinge needs rants wants and had to be dones...




Ideas/Tasks	DIY?	Follow up	Bargain	success	cost
new 55" LCD 3d smart tv	no	no	blank	blank obviously	yep...
Fix the windscreen of the family car	no	Yes	Yes	Yes	250
Kitchen spout and taps [FAUCETS for the yanks]	yes	Yes	No	Yes	75
Shower head	yes	Yes	No	Dunno	22!!!!
Shower taps	yes	Yes	No	Dunno	43
cracked window pane in Piano room*	no	Yes	Yes	Yes	110
Laundry window pane **	no	Yes	Not really	Yes	110
Front door Side Light Window panes***	no	Yes	Spose	Yes	180
New computer	yes	Tomorrow	Nearly	Hope so	~500?
Fix memory in this computer	yes	Tried	No	No	90
Expand memory in gels pc's	yes	Tries to	No	No	a/a
MCC annual	no	Yep	No	yep	###
Car rego	no	Had to	No	Yep	150
Phone/net/mobiles	no	Had to	Nup	Spose	250!
Water	no	Had to	Nup	Spose	445!!!!!!!
Power	no	Had to	Nup	Spose	450!!!!!!!!!!
Service the car	no	Should	Wont be	Will see	Argh
Girls' new pc's or tablets	no	Maybe	Should be	Could be	Argh
#2son's birthday pressie- acoustic geetar?	tes	Will have to	Hope so	We'll see	Cheapo soonish!
Windows7 64bit, usb3 4port for nu pc	yes	Yes	Yeah	Hope so	110
Plastic stakes for portable Vineyard Pots	yes	Hmmm	Maybe	Hope so	Dunno yet
fix shed lights	yes	have to	no	hope so	dunno yet

 Used the modern way to pay bills, amazing the frequent flyer points accruable doing it that way. Just wish I flew more instead....

*****I finally noticed the OTHER DAY- Cracked and nearly falling out, fixed after too many years!!!!!!!!! Bloody kids fault too!

So the start of Spring was four really nice warm days. Fingers crossed for next day or two...

  

Spring is Sprung In The Portable Vineyard

Wondering around the yard today and Surprise!

Did not notice any activity during the week and then...

Buddding vines! 

Shiraz

Pinot Noir

The Pinots

Mulched the pots today, beautiful first day of spring!

Junk week

Junk week

Recycling "recycling" junk and or just throwing out some personal history.

The old sofas and dresser go back to Tarn's first Adelaide purchases with her "own" money.

A shame, but when it's worn out, it is worn Out.

car seats and the old sofas from '87

bike parts and cubby house kitchenette

The kids stuff, well, they have outgrown the cubby house kitchenette- a hand me down from their older twin cousins, sorry girls, and the little doll-house- again, sorry about that, but its been out of use for far too long!

The tyres- a few  of the many- I was going to reuse them as vegetable patches for strawberry or tomatoe plants... The hard rubbish collectors will only take four a year.

A nice old bike lasted less than half an hour- dang- should have done a yard sale-  same with the stereo unit sitting on the old speakers!

Will be interesting to see what is left for the Official Hard Rubbish Collectors later on in the week.

An old clothes drier needs parts- replaced with a newie, bugger it. A stove top way past its use by date.

And then the recycled sitting apparatus picked up by the boys were not used or utilised- Out They Go too! Who really wants to sit in an old rocking chair [that still works] or car seats? Really?

The gels tried to smuggle the car seats back into the cubby hut, but I put my foot down hard- NO!!!! LEAVE THEM OUT THERE I said ore than once to #3Eldest Girl Child.

I was thinking of removing the speakers and recycling the magnets for the notes on the refrigerator...

What may be unappreciated is the fact that there is several thousands of dollars worth of stuff being junked, and I do not want to do a garage sale. My loss if stuff/junk is nicked and sold on!.

4 of 12 tyres and some old speakers and stereo