Month: July 2014

Life and Chocolates
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/life_is_like_a_box_of_chocolates

That quote about life being like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’ll get, always makes me think of Winter in Melbourne.
You never quite know what you’ll get – this morning certainly proved it.

Looking out the window first thing I couldn’t see the end of my nose through the dense fog  – two hours later it was entirely different. Blue skies with not a cloud in sight.  If it hadn’t been so cold (1c/33f, yes, a bit nippy) I might have gardened in a tshirt lol

Winter sunshine at its best!

Not to be though – things to do, places to go.
As I left Kiera enjoying the fresh air and sunshine on the back deck.

I drove off down the road with this tune running through my mind

 

Come on let’s go down to Frankston
a walk on the beach always cheers you up, he said!

The beach in winter – Mmmm….maybe.

Why would you go though – there won’t be a soul there
It’ll be blowing a gale – the beach will be empty
and the water too cold to paddle

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You can walk along the pier
and possibly see the cars in the distance going up Oliver’s Hill
Mmm…. maybe

 Not a soul over there either
the sky looks so heavy I think it could fall down to earth any minute
and that water definitely looks cold:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivers_Hill,_Victoria

Oh look there’s the footbridge over the Kananook Creek
With some very hardy fools folk all rugged up, battling the gale
to be able to ‘take in the rather cold sea air’

Not a soul to be seen in the foreshore park
and certainly nobody sitting on the rather nifty bench
complete with what looks like a boat hull underneath

Why on earth would I leave my lovely warm home and drive for an hour
just to go to the beach in winter?

To see my baby brother’s boy – aka my nephew Lee
He lives interstate and was visiting Victoria for the first time so ‘our little girl’ arranged a super surprise for us by arranging to meet up with him.

There was a lovely meal, a long chat
and then (as the wind had died down)a short walk
Complete with coat, scarf and hat. On the sandy beach of course 🙂

Such a pleasant way to end a yucky week
I did draw the line at paddling in the cold water though lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankston,_Victoria
http://www.family-getaways-melbourne.com/frankston-beach.html

linking with Our World Tuesday

When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Paradise God appeared and said, ‘I want the men to make two lines’

‘One line for the men who were the true heads of their households – and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women.’

Then he said, ‘I want the women to report to St Peter’.

Soon the women were gone and there were two lines of men waiting in front of God.

The line of the men who were dominated by their wives was thousands of miles long – in the other line of men (those who were truly heads of their households) there was only one man.

God said to the long line,

‘You men should be ashamed of yourselves – I created you to be the head of your household.  You have been disobedient and have not fulfilled your purpose.’

‘Of all of you before me only one obeyed.  You should learn from him.’

God then turned to the one man and asked,

‘How did you manage to be the only one in this line?’

The man replied,
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‘My wife told me to stand here !!’

 

Poolside chatter last Tuesday about old television series and the news of another grandchild for one of the girls reminded us of this scene from an old Cosby Show episode.

It is a cold wet Monday morning here so I need something to make me smile – remembering this made me smile, hope it does the same for you

Olivia’s take on How mothers deliver babies 
(Raven-Symone with Bill Cosby) 

Oh dear, if only it had been that simple!