tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86337765449643534022024-03-06T02:47:42.828+11:00Rugrat RodeosRugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-73313241029974537612020-02-29T20:40:00.001+11:002020-03-01T09:47:55.359+11:00Brain dead and unpervable<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What to expect when you’re expecting indeed. </span></h2>
After joining the legion of pram-people I managed to bugger-up breast feeding, stuff-up the whole sleep scenario (everyone's) and I'm still clinging on to chronic dose of mumnesia, and tangentitis. (the latter being the non-medical term for going off on a tangent every time you try to complete a train of thought out loud or in your head.)<br />
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Now apparently iodine supplements help both those things and I’ve tried that with reasonable success but I sometimes forget to take it then I get all absent minded and tangenty again..<br />
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Ooops lost my train of thought, where was I?<br />
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Oh yes, my parental journey out of the workforce and into what? My new roll as a cullinarily challenged jigsaw jockey and pram co-pilot? Still fooling about with make-up and new hairdo’s even though<br />
I DON’T HAVE TIME ANYMORE!!<br />
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Besides, walking at the business end of a stroller deems you un-pervable anyway so who the hell cares what your hair or face are doing? And any dude who does perv on a woman pushing her kid along is just icky if you ask me, so who wants to encourage that sort of deviant behavior?<br />
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Still, life is good (apart from the continuing sleep deprivation) and even though my maternity leave morphed into unemployment (of an official nature) I can't remember how to do my old job anyway.<br />
But if I could still rake up a whisper of interest in writing about what the pointy heads are saying about the economy (I don't think so) it's probably even more boring than talking about pooh and vomit all the time.<br />
But certainly not as much fun.<br />
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I am renowned amongst family and friends for bringing up the subject of ‘pooh’ in its many comical forms, whenever I am tired, or pissed. Two states that go hand-in-hand me being permanently tired and, ever since pregnancy, a two glass screamer.<br />
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When perky and sober, I prefer to mull over my redecoration plans for the cubby house, child's bedroom; both of which are looking very busy.<br />
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Well so much for introductions, all I can say is; "I am an imperfect parent and proud".<br />
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Well ok I wish I were better organised, a better cook and I could improve my score on arriving at pre-school before 9am like they ask you to.<br />
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But some days we just need to finish a really good dance session or dash back upstairs for Foxie or someone else who's only along for the car ride because "Toys are not to come to school".<br />
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Sensible rule that one; 'cos there's nothing like the embarrassment when you find Barbie's missing pink stiletto in little miss' jeggings pocket after three teachers have been scouring the playground for it.<br />
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So I had all these altruistic intentions for this blog but it's turned out to be just a bit of a crazy rant, with a side order of a few useful tips and add-ons.<br />
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Feel free to laugh at my expense - I guess that's about the best I can offer considering my recipes would hardly make Master Chef & my craft section isn't exactly Mr Maker.<br />
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Mind you I don't know if Mr M could manage a block- out circus bed tent & he doesn't do hobby horses either...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I guess the bottom line is that I am an imperfect blogger too.</span><br />
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<br />RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-45224584061214583662019-11-20T17:51:00.000+11:002019-11-20T17:51:30.567+11:00My Musical Meltdown<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A Guest Post by the Pinkster:</span></div>
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God damn it! What the heck is wrong with me?! </div>
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How did I come
to be hiding in a dark car park, sobbing uncontrollably when just 30 minutes ago
I was telling myself, utterly convinced; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you
have SO got this</i>”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me back up just a little. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I didn’t exactly breeze into my piano recital this
afternoon. But as the sun went down and the line-up of small musicians went
through their cute and often clunky performances I started feeling the bar was
restricted to a manageable level. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old MacDonald,
Mary had a little lamb, and the more sinister Mary ate her little lamb, were
performed at varying lengths and levels of proficiency and nervousness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But let me just say, they were all so very cute especially
the one little guy playing his entire piece with his right thumb. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So what nervous tension I felt, slowly disappeared as I
watched these adorable mini-muso’s quietly announce their pieces in shy voices
before strutting their stuff. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I waited patiently as we worked through the program getting
closer to my turn. I was ready I’d practised Beethoven’s Für Elise until I
could almost play it backwards. “<i>I have so got this</i>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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My mum was proud as, reminding me in whispers how glad she
was I skipped the whole Twinkle Little Stars bit and jumped straight into Evanescence’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Immortal</i>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks for that kick start YouTube! <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, it was getting close, only one more performer and it was
my turn. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Then this little guy marches on to the stage shoulders back
with an expression like a stern bank manager about to tell someone they didn’t
qualify for a mortgage. His voice was strong and confident as a presidential nominee
confident of being elected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My name is Ruben Sledinowski* and I am six years old. I will
be playing Beethoven’s sonata 27 in E minor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What the flock?!! </div>
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Talk about a change of pace. Just his
expression and his voice was enough to scare me to bits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He hit that piano with fingers on fire burning up the
ivories, with a jaw dropping performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I swear Beethoven was rolling in his grave shouting “I never played that
good!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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At first, I was in awe. </div>
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Then a sinking feeling started to
creep over me: “I am the follow-up act to baby Beethoven.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I started to shake, I told mum: <i>“I don’t want to do this, we
have to go..”</i> WHAT HAPPENED TO FLIPPING MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB?!<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s when my music teacher called my name. All the blood
ran from my face. My knees were shaking so much I could barely WALK. When I was
about to press the first note all of Mini-Beethoven’s notes came flooding back
to me - every single note that wasn’t mine.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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My hands couldn’t move. I tried to play what I could, but my
fingers didn’t land in the right places; they forgot where they belonged.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was ghastly. </div>
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It was torture. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So I hid in the car park until intermission.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then I needed comfort food. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like an ambulance driver, Mum rushed me to Woolworth's, if
we’d had sirens and lights on the Toyota they’d have been blazing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was so shell-shocked, ignoring the huge box of chocolate
chip cookies already in the trolley, I wandered off and came back with
Pringles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Spaghetti Bolognaise flavour no less.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I couldn’t wait; I opened them as soon as
they were scanned. Hmm different. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I could actually taste tomato, onions, mozzarella and MEAT! <br /></div>
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I offered one to mum while she was getting her credit card out to pay. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I swear you can feed my mum anything while she’s digging in
her purse. She just opens her mouth automatically.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She bit into it and promptly spat out, almost spraying the
cashier guy’s face; “Oh God, that’s just so wrong.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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She looked like she was going to barf and kept sticking out
her tongue and muttering “so wrong” still digging for her card.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I started laughing and the cashier guy grinned trying really
hard not to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I guess chips really aren’t supposed to taste like meat, but
tonight it seemed just right. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Ruben's name has bee changed to protect his genius</span></div>
<br />RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-56951726710540953062017-10-03T15:16:00.003+11:002017-10-04T12:14:18.317+11:00Emotional Coaching 101<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Today’s drop off taught me two things;</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I get a C minus in</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emotional Coaching 101</span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Pinkster has inherited my Spidey Senses without being
bitten by a radioactive spider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This morning I broke three of the </span><a href="http://www.parentingcounts.org/information/timeline/five-steps-of-emotion-coaching/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">five rules of emotional coaching</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">. It just goes to show that when everyone’s
a bit freaked out in a new situation, that’s really not the time to ignore gut
reactions and turn to avoidance and/or slapping on Band-Aids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s the big departure of Pinkster's first away camp this
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says in the car “I’m scared
mummy.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">At this point I’m pretty good - I don’t dismiss or avoid her
fears, I sympathise and assure her it’s normal to feel nervous and scared doing
something you’ve never done before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We’ve had a few chats lately about pushing boundaries and
busting out of comfort zones, leading up to this big step. I remind her of how
she felt, first day of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>day time holiday
camp, the previous week, and how many new friends she made - how much fun she
had. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Inside I’m quaking in my boots, thinking: Oh Em Gee - she’ll
be in the mountains, only just recovered form a nasty virus, sleeping in a dorm,
without either of her parents close by. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we got closer tho the drop-off, I tell her about a lady
who’s made millions of dollars writing a book called </span><a href="http://www.susanjeffers.com/home/books.cfm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">.
I tell her of the millions of people that love that book because it got them
doing and loving stuff they were scared to try before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As we pull up, she notices one of her school friends, a
particularly kind girl with a bunch of other nice girls from school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’m heartened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then we meet the slightly ‘creepy child’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A kind of nice looking little boy, baseball cap turned backwards, makes a
b-line for Pinkster who doesn’t react well at all. This, being so out of character for Pinkster, should have rung alarm bells right there. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He follows her closely and Pinkster responds by constantly moving
away – trying to create space - stepping over bags and through people continually moving with the little boy in her wake.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">She approaches <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her friends, doesn’t really engage with them
and drifts away again; an opportunity immediately seized upon by this other
child.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So instead of my following the emotional coaching rules of:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paying close attention to her emotions and taking
them seriously,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Not judging, criticizing, avoiding or worse,
dismissing them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Respecting her feelings by actually listening
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>carefully,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Showing Pinkster I understand what she’s feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nope, I don’t do any of that – I tell her the little boy is
probably scared and nervous too and maybe she can help him settle in by being
a bit friendlier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">She insists “Its freaking me out, I can’t, “ and Pinkster
starts to cry. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Meanwhile, Pinkster’s dad is trying to be inclusive and engaging
the other child in conversation, during which we discover ‘he’s’ actually a
girl, called Emma<span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s when I move closer, join in speaking with Emma, I immediately
feel it too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she tells us what to expect
at camp, I am irked by something more<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>than the officious, authoritarian tone and the
jabbing fingers pointed in my still cringing girl’s direction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about his child’s energy is all
messed up. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Pinkster felt it and reacted; now I’m experiencing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the same internal cringe and shrink back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Something about Emma is NQR (Not Quite right) and her borderline
aggressive play for Pinkster feels 'off'.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Emma says: “ya get put in dorm rooms and you have
to sleep <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and eat with the same kids for FOUR
WHOLE DAYS <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and THREE NIGHTS,” finger
with black chipped nail polish, is again, stabbing towards Pinkster’s chest; “whether
ya like it or not!’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> She/ he (I'm still confused so I focus on the chipped nail varnish for confirmation) then goes on to Lucie how little sleep she'll get in a dorm and other unhelpful unappealing tit-bits of camp-life.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I feeling now, this kid’s like a sinister version of Punky
Brewster – she could be cute, and plucky, but something’s NQR. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Punky Bruiser?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Pinkster’s dad asks Emma to give her some space, but undeterred, she
hovers </span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">like Donald
Trump behind Hilary Clinton during the second presidential debate.</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Back then, Hilary said Trump’s behaviour made her skin
crawl and this kid was starting to make mine crawl too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So leaving Pinkster with Daddy as a blocker, I go talk to
her school gal-pals. I call out to the taller and most popular girl. I know she's a fan of Pinkster's from when she helped her mum and I worked a ticket booth at the
school fair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I explain that Pinkster’s very
uncomfortable about camp and ask if they can keep her under their wing. This
they do in spectacular fashion and tell her one of the other school pals is a camp newbie too.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So our mini stalker slinks away, as Pink is absorbed into the larger group of smiling chattering girls, and I have to leave for work,
praying they’re in different dorm rooms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span>Emma isn't, of course, slightly creepy child's real name.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And in fairness, she's probably a perfectly nice girl. Just your everyday androgynous child with an awkward disposition who needs to work on reading social cues. And probably brush up on her conversation skills. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I'd recommend watching all 8 series of Charlie and Lola - lots there about friendships, boundaries and polite behaviour.</span></div>
RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-19946148085511237162017-08-28T16:48:00.001+10:002017-08-28T16:57:17.005+10:00The Big Squeeze<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
Today I am summoned to the bathroom where my little princess is on the throne,
face alight and legs swinging enthusiastically.<br />
<br />
“Mummy, you’ll never guess what?!”<br />
“What?” I gasp imitating her intensity.<br />
“I squeezed my first PIMPLE!!!”<br />
“Nooo!” I whisper, “The one on your knee? Let me see!”<br />
<br />
It was very exciting. My girl has the lowest pain threshold, rivaled only
by her father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the second pimple/boil
thingy she’d had on her knee and generally I’m not allowed near enough to look
at it let alone gently dab on some antibacterial cream.<br />
The first one, after much negotiation, I’d pricked with a needle and she’d
responded as if I’d gone at her leg with a pruning saw.<br />
<br />
<h3>
Child Abuser, Me? </h3>
<h3>
</h3>
She recently relayed this trauma to a doctor who was trying to get
her to take a tiny needle in her arm. Her version began with “I’m scared of
needles after when mummy hurt me with a big pin…” <br />
<br />
The doctor responded seriously and soberly, asking her to tell the story slowly, her tone giving
me no doubt she was mentally preparing a child-abuse report. But the truth will
out and the doctor, with obvious relief in her tone, told my little drama queen
that it was important to poke boils with a needle then put disinfectant on
them. ‘Mummy was quite right to do that,' she said.<br />
<br />
<br />
So here was my little soldier, proudly announcing her first pimple squeezing
event and showing off the tiny dried spot to prove it.<br />
<br />
She looked up at me hopefully; “Do I get pocket money for squeezing my pimple?”<br />
Is it just me? Or is this the most random and bizarre conclusion for her to
have drawn?<br />
<br />
<h3>
A Pimple Popping Payoff</h3>
<h3>
</h3>
She plied me with logic and big Bambi eyes, and when she was off the loo, pants
pulled up, we went down stairs and I gave her a diamond.<br />
<br />
Not a real one – what do you think I am?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have a rewards system at home, whereby random acts of goodness,
helpfulness, homework done unasked, are rewarded with little acrylic craft diamonds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several different sizes have different values
starting at 50c up to $1.50. <br />
<br />
The diamonds she earns are put into a pretty crystal bowl and when it’s full
we tally up the value and I transfer the pocket money into her bank account. It
never adds up to a huge sum, at the end of a month it's perhaps around $20-$30 at the most. But she
loves to see the diamonds pile up knowing that as it grows so does her bank balance. <br />
<br />
She quite the negotiator my little girl, she can put the
squeeze on without you feeling it, but I have to admit her logic was
sound.<br />
Taking it upon herself to do something necessary
and difficult without being asked was worth the reward of
a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>50c diamond.<br />
<br />
And so enthusiastic about her earning potential, she also washed up after dinner - for another little diamond of course! RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-17619731791453960562017-04-07T20:12:00.000+10:002017-04-20T17:08:17.262+10:00Not desperate - definitely dateless<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://emjoi.com/AP-9PB/emjoi-gently-silken-epilator">*I don't actually shave my legs-I use an Emjoi (not so) Gently</a></span></span></td></tr>
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I don't think it's a normal reaction to a cancelled Saturday night date, to think to oneself: <span style="font-size: large;">YAY.</span><br />
<br />
Yay, I have the entire evening spread ahead of me where I can catch up on work!<br />
<br />
I'm thinking YAY no makeup, no leg shaving* no locating of best silky hipster undies - you know just in case..<br />
My dog wont get lonely...<br />
<br />
I don't see a downside at all and I'm sure that's not normal for a single mum in her prime.<br />
The desperate and dateless single mummy - who's struggling to muster up a teeny bit of desperate.<br />
<br />
My X-PNS (Potential New Something) just texted after backing off AGAIN!!<br />
I feel a yawn coming on.<br />
Honestly I'm not fussed either way.<br />
<br />
Every time we look like getting close - he does this cancellation thing followed by a period of radio silence. <br />
<br />
First time I noticed. That time I did care - it had been a hot and heady thing and he'd charged into it like a bull at a gate, swept me up in it then slammed it into reverse gear. I was very upset for almost a week and that's when he was downgraded from PNS to XPNS.<br />
<br />
The second time - I didn't notice at all: busy with
work and child a week flew by, then I get this text; '<i>You probably noticed I've been
quiet ..</i>', um no, sorry, not really.<br />
<br />
This one happened some six months after his downgrade, when a chance meeting triggered something, but this time slower more reasonable. But the moment we began to get close...<br />
<br />
Well this third time I noticed, only to be relieved of the cancelled date equating this epilation and other feminine preparation reprieve.<br />
<br />
As my mother would say: "he SEEMS nice..."<br />
<br />
Forget gluten - I'm pretty certain I have become romantically-intolerant. <br />
Or maybe I"m just having a massive attack of ambiguity? I cant decide.<br />
<br />
But one thing is for sure, whenever I've felt cosy with him and started to think a reboot might be a good idea, there's been a bit of alcohol involved. <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Surely if one needs to be half cut for a thing to seem like a good idea, then maybe it's not? </span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Maybe I'm just not that into him? </span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><br /></span></span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNe0_asroUrlbDzRhE8apG8mcUb8_IL18yWGmukL46clBMgBwqBQuXJXbDoAUpNMBERDsxoaiFsw-qYg7Bh3UJ8lK6ScNvAJTXqCt7k8QMQz96b7jytHjqAPZWRCzeQkncw1xgXg2ascw/s1600/48964887_s+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNe0_asroUrlbDzRhE8apG8mcUb8_IL18yWGmukL46clBMgBwqBQuXJXbDoAUpNMBERDsxoaiFsw-qYg7Bh3UJ8lK6ScNvAJTXqCt7k8QMQz96b7jytHjqAPZWRCzeQkncw1xgXg2ascw/s640/48964887_s+%25282%2529.jpg" width="402"></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">A friend sent me a blog link and I’m not sure why. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The</span> pitch was something along the lines of ‘fabulous and inspiring…’</span></span></span></div>
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<br></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">Seriously, after 300 words my first thought was
this; what is so inspiring about a smug, self-congratulatory blog written by a
woman with not only has a husband but local family to share the wear? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">In her happy little child rearing community she’s able
to pump out offspring with more efficiency than a production line in a
Taiwanese toy factory.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">And her perfect
husband helps sufficiently with their brood and housework, not to mention their renovations,
that she has ample time to sew clothes for her litter, quilt and blog and restore
antique furniture<span style="font-family: inherit;">,</span> while whipping up culinary triumphs in her Thermomix. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">Bet
she’s never been late on the school run in her whole perfect life.</span></span></span></div>
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<br></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">Excuse me if I don’t feel inspired to do anything
more than run gagging to the bathroom.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">In all of her <span style="font-family: inherit;">pomposity</span> she has no idea what it means to have one child, one dog, one cat, six snails and a no-longer-husband. And there are plenty of single mums and dads out there doing it tougher than I am.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">Actually I don't consider that I'm doing it tough at all, even though my kitchen <i>is</i> too small to accommodate a
Thermomix. (I have seen caravans with bigger kitchens
than mine). </span></span></span></div>
<br>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">What I have found tough, is diving back into the shallows of the dating pool; talk about your
mid-life crisis.</span></span></span></div>
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<br></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">It was something like fifteen years ago, my last
first date. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">I honestly don’t know if I can cope with the untidy
selection of discarded outfits all over my bedroom when my eight year old
daughter is already on that chuck-stuff-everywhere theme with the living room, and well, every other
room in the house. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">I’m just too old for this shit. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">No really.</span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">I try for 'understated sexy', without dressing
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;">And as much as I <span style="font-family: inherit;">would <span style="font-family: inherit;">greatly benefit from</span></span> a stiff drink to relax
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bed daily at 6am, you soon realise that hang-overs and young children do not mix.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">This leap back in time to my single twenties and thirties
just doesn't seem as much fun as it was back then. I'm <span style="font-family: inherit;">more</span>
self-conscious now<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and</span> for many different and uncomfortable reasons.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">To shave my legs or not to shave my legs? - that is
the question. On one hand it is just asking for trouble; there's that expectation that he<span style="font-family: inherit;">'</span>ll know <span style="font-family: inherit;">either way</span>. But if I don't, what if things are going so well he
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">Not conducive to getting a second date.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">If I wanted one.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">And even before leaving the house, I’m already thinking;
Not.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">I'm just not sure dating is worth the trouble. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">I suppose it's validation - it has the potential
to show me I'm still a desirable woman. That I'm something other than than a cook, cleaner,
handyman, playmate, homework supervisor, dog walker and dishwasher.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">But getting ready for a date knowing I'm
paying someone, by the hour for the privilege, even if
it turns out to be awful<span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is a bit of a downer.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">Maybe I should just stay home, reorganize the kitchen
and put that babysitter's money towards a Thermomix? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">Or maybe I just don't date at all. I mean I've had enough dates to last a lifetime and I'm not a huge fan of sitting awkwardly in restaurants with virtual strangers anyway...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">I guess my ideal would be a <i>special friend</i> with a nice kid of their own where we could just hang at each others place, and or go to movies, when we're both on childless weekends - and have play-dates when we're not.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">No marriage, no cohabitation, just hanging out: Friends With Benefits. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #222222;">I guess that makes me the perfect woman in many male circles. But where to meet a potential special friend?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well lightening may strike.</span></span><br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQbZJQLVQ5r1dFasUzAjISdrYtO7CtpOSElIf8I2s_09KRq7mFhNO75xUF4yxUG-LvF_lYoWJcgeGBkqAmEJlhTTuB7_xqAJFI3p7CmqoeA36wE7swKMis2bLc60eI4Wyhil7AdEx1Ko/s1600/reboot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJQbZJQLVQ5r1dFasUzAjISdrYtO7CtpOSElIf8I2s_09KRq7mFhNO75xUF4yxUG-LvF_lYoWJcgeGBkqAmEJlhTTuB7_xqAJFI3p7CmqoeA36wE7swKMis2bLc60eI4Wyhil7AdEx1Ko/s400/reboot.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">It’s been a long time between posts and I’m
thinking that it’s time to officially come out and say it. </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Out loud. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Even though it’s been what? </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Counting on fingers here… </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">HIT ME WITH A WET MACKEREL; 3 years and 10
months sans-spouse!? </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">You’ve got to be
kidding me?</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">I guess time also flies when you’re
squabbling and bending the ears of very expensive lawyers. </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Well it wasn’t all squabbling, but without
getting into the nitty gritty, my life-re-balancing act has definitely taken more
time than I would have imagined. Then
throw a full time job into the mix and everything tilts precariously sideways
again.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU"><Standing up hand on heart> ‘My name
is Suzy Mac and I’m a single parent.’</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">OK it’s not Alcoholics Anonymous, more like
un-Married with Children anonymous.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Not that I’m complaining: no sireee. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">I know how to count my blessings.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">This work gig was a long time coming and as
flexible as full time employment can get. And let’s face it, financial
independence is nothing to be sneezed at (especially after all those legal
retainers) for a <span style="font-family: inherit;">spasmodically</span> working single mother.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Also, thankfully, now I have She-Who-Used-To-Worship Pink’s
daddy back as my wingman; so there’s a backup plan to school drop-offs and
pickups versus truly hideous traffic.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">I also get time off for good behaviour which
is as necessary as it is bittersweet. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Our co-parenting arrangements meant that
two nights out of each week </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Pink</span></span></span>ster is at her dad’s place. As two of those nights,
every fortnight, land on a weekend I can ‘go out’ on the town and reboot my
social existence too.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">But the first childless nights were awful. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Home Alone. </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">It’s kind of Empty Nest Syndrome come 10-12
years too early’. I’ve never been
separated from </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Pinkster </span></span></span> before, bar one short hospital
stay. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">But that empty bed, without the tiny
sleeping face to stroke and kiss, was pretty hard to take. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">The first few
weekends, Orange Dog and I were both despondent and lost, wandering around our
home in deafening silence. </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">I had to develop coping strategies that involved a
lot of exercise, which agreed with both the dog and my waistline.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">It’s better now; I’m in a better place,
having managed to poke a proverbial paperclip into my factory reset, I’m practically back
to the store version of myself. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Just 15 years older (shhhhh).</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Reboot sanity – tick</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Reboot career – tick</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Reboot physical self – tick: Thanks to this terrific weight-loss programme
called ‘divorce’, great genes and a little botox.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Reboot social life – (post plethora of work
Christmas parties) another tick</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-AU">Reboot self – well that’s still a work in
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This is the reason why I actively discourage my child from taking up the Violin:<br>
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Last week she went to bed almost sobbing.<br>
Was it a scary movie?<br>
A <i>'no you can <b>not</b> eat an Oreo on the way to bed'</i>, tantrum?<br>
None of the above.<br>
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We'd stumbled across a U-Tube Reef Conservation advertisement that used <span class="st">the romantic aria from the third act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca and she started to cry.</span><br>
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As the ad vanished, as only ads on U-Tube can, she begged me to find the beautiful music again; "it's Erik's from Happy Feet Two mummy." she sobbed<br>
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So I found Pavarotti singing <span class="st"><i>E lucevan le stelle</i> and the tears continued to roll. Such a sensitive little thing. Wonder where she gets that from?</span><br>
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<span class="st">OK so she thinks Puccini is a penguin thing; That's not the point. </span><span class="st"><span class="_xdb"></span><span class="_Xbe kno-fv"><a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwjQucL8x_LNAhWGF5QKHQBOC7wQmxMIsQEoATAZ" href="https://www.google.com.au/search?client=firefox-b-ab&q=Village+Roadshow+Pictures&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LSz9U3sCwqKyvIVeIEsU3MkgyKtRSyk6300zJzcsGEVUFRfkppcklmfp5Ccn5uQWJeJQBtruMROwAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQucL8x_LNAhWGF5QKHQBOC7wQmxMIsQEoATAZ">Village Roadshow Pictures</a></span> are nurturing an appreciation for the beauty of opera in my eight year old. </span><br>
<span class="st">I cant see any harm in that at all.</span><br>
<span class="st"><br></span>But still she asks about violin lessons and we joke about the potential embarrassment during concerts where her mother is causing a scene sobbing loudly, openly. Probably even beating my fists on the floor wailing; as I do when I watch sad movies or even TV commercials for the RSPCA.<br>
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She likes the imagery- it makes her laugh because I really am a sook over some seriously random things, but mostly violins, cellos and opera.<br>
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RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-58095632618997390392016-07-13T09:59:00.003+10:002016-07-13T09:59:49.112+10:00Blythe Spirit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finally got to use my beautiful antique coffee grinder.<br />
But not in the way you might think.<br />
Well I have a Nespresso machine so why would I grind beans?<br />
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No grinding.<br />
Just covered in glue and clamps, trying to hold a small fragile body together while I found a safe place for her to reside for the next 48 hours. <br />
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Ironically the last post she starred in was called <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2014/05/let-it-go.html">Let it Go</a> but this time letting go was not an option since the poor thing was going to pieces. so that beautiful piece of antiquity was (a) the closest thing I could reach and (b) actually perfect.<br />
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Blythe was born in 1971 and she'd been in storage for long years. Until In the Tate Modern Gallery I found a photographic book by US photographer <a href="http://www.blytheworld.com/eng/index.html">Gina Garan</a>, filled with her images.<br />
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When I got back home, I trawled the attic until I found her and lifted her gently, proudly out of the suitcase.<br />
Whereupon she fell apart.<br />
Her bum broke in half, her legs fell off and her head too, though not in that order.<br />
After pricing body parts online (on a Japanese collectors site), I took her to the Dolls Hospital.<br />
She returned some months later with her head bogged up with epoxy resin and a metal shank, and a big ugly industrial staple in between her legs.<br />
And the first time Pinkster tried playing with her, her left leg fell off. Eventually her head fell off again too.<br />
So poor Blythe went back in storage, in a too-hard basket, and every time <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290841.This_is_Blythe">Gina Garan's coffee table book</a> came out Pinkster got sad all over again.<br />
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So this is how these school holidays I came to use an antique coffee grinder as makeshift hospital equipment. <br />
This is also how I came to the realization that specialized plastics glues are NOT useful for mending dolls.<br />
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I was also surprised at the Dolls Hospital approach of stuffing a metal pin up Blythe's neck then bogging it up with with glue, when there are two screws at the back of her head so her head can be taken apart. Incidentally her little broken neck was rattling round inside her head and this was the easiest part to reattach, admittedly using their metal pin down the hollow center of her neck.<br />
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So with Selly's Liquid Nails, some modifications to her leg joints and around 52 hours in two clamps produced this result:<br />
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Since it's been a while since I hit the sewing machine and Pinkster has suffered the loss of her Blythe twice now, I used the Simplicity pattern below and made her a new outfit to celebrate her rebirth.<br />
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RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-82585747519799633152016-06-24T22:39:00.001+10:002016-06-27T12:57:41.992+10:00UFO: Unidentified Fetid Object<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As we drag our weary arses towards the end of another term...<br>
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How was it that at the beginning of this term Pinkster and I were walking to school every day and we were not just on time, but early most days?<br>
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And now we're just making it before the bell, and sometimes not and that's with me driving the whole 980 meters?<br>
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Why are we so disorganized with homework all of a sudden? why do I have to lever her fingers off the iPad with growing frequency?<br>
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Why is it I cannot leave my child watching Horrible Histories so I can get some work done in my office, without coming down to the living room 30 minutes later to find it's been hit by a craft tornado?<br>
Scissors, paper, string and googly eyes are sticky taped to everything. The living room rug has become a storage facility.<br>
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WHAT'S GOING ON?<br>
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Phyllis Diller once said:<i> "cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing"</i><br>
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Truer words were never spoken.<br>
In my usual post-child's-bedtime-clear-up, that would be the one completed around two hours after the craft tsunami clear-up, I was digging the remote control and some playing cards out from where they had been sat-squashed behind the sofa cushions.<br>
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I not only found my long missing nail clippers, the ones that actually cut, rather than chew off fingernails, and I found this UFO (Unidentified Fetid Object) pictured above (and in part below). <br>
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I couldn't tell what is was, without my reading glasses and I couldn't identify it by touch. It was just a mass of black stringy crispiness.<br>
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See if you can guess from this next picture:<br>
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I always thought I was quite a good housekeeper.<br>
I'm fairly fussy; or so I thought. <br>
And I swear I only had all the seat cushions off the sofa to wash their covers a couple of weeks ago.<br>
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Still there it was, with a number of other delights, most of them teeny tiny toys - the sort that get Hoovered up when someone smaller than myself mistakes the living room rug for a storage receptacle.<br>
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I'm now blaming everything on End of School Term:<br>
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The melt-downs (her's <i>and</i> mine),<br>
the tardiness, (lets not name and shame on this one)<br>
the inability to get out of bed (I only wish it were her's),<br>
the growing addiction to mind-numbing distractions (her's with that bloody iPad)<br>
the increasing desire for alcohol (definitely mine - she's going heavier on the milk though)<br>
the nagging (me mostly, but she'll put in a good effort the minute I answer the phone)<br>
the short fuses unleashed upon the pets (her's more than mine - except when I'm trying to work and the cat insists on taking a stroll across my keyboard- why cant she just curl up on the printer?)<br>
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So a week off end of term I feel as always like the wheels are coming loose on our family cart.<br>
However, considering we drive past so many parents walking their children, and only halfway up the hill, to school on those very late morning's - I know its not just me pushing the pain barrier.<br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How is end of term working out for you? <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leave me some comments to let me know I'm not the only one going mad - <span style="font-size: large;">please?</span></span></span><br>
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller<br>
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller<br>
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller<br>
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller<br>
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Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller<br>
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Two weeks back I almost died.<br />
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First let me pre-empt this sorry tale with a run down on my preoccupation with health & longevity.<br />
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For years I've read all I can about health. I'm a big fan of healthy diets, which don't include KFC or Mackers, but somehow I manage to make excuses. <br />
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I'm heavily into Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and I have the impossible offspring to prove its efficiency. I take lots of Chinese herbs and other supplements.<br />
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I see a Doctor who specializes in Integrated Medicine: which means he sends out for blood tests every six months and prescribes supplements and tailor made pills from a compounding pharmacy.<br />
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The result is that I stay young(ish), slim and healthy despite my love of a glass or two of wine and the, probably too frequent, indulgences from Colonel Sander's kitchen and the Golden Arches.<br />
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TCM takes care of my liver, digestive and immune systems and Dr Integrated gives me sips from the fountain of youth.<br />
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That I should collapse to the floor gasping for breath with a multi vitamin pill lodged firmly over my windpipe; well surely that defines the term Irony. You might look Irony up in the dictionary and find a picture of me on all fours in my dining room hands at my throat turning blue. Child at the table playing with an iPad..<br />
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OK maybe not. <br />
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But they were the longest 60 seconds of my life, there on the floor literally
gasping to draw breath. <br /> <br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>I was making some really odd noises too
trying to suck air past the obstruction. That continual squeaking, sound you can make with an inflated balloon when you pinch the open end between your fingers to let the air out slowly? Yeah like that.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>She-who-worships-pink, didn't look up from her
iPad until The Orange Dog leaped to his feet whining in a panic and began dancing around me wall eyed with his tail planted between his butt cheeks. <i>"the food pourer is dying!! </i></span></span></span></span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><i><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><i>the food pourer is dying!!</i></span></span></span></span>"</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>The second irony of this story is that Pinkster and I make jokes about the <a href="http://preparednessadvice.com/medical/learn-heimlich-maneuver/#.V2zuPzXpVHo"><i>Heimlich maneuver</i></a> all the time. We are forever pretending to perform it on inanimate objects, on each other, sometimes the pets too. It's one of our weird private joke things, like when we put our faces together so close that we can only see a single eye on each others face and we shout in unison: <i>'</i></span></span></span></span><i>Mike Wazowski!'</i><br />
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But in reality, we don't really have a clue when it comes to performing an effective <i>Heimlich Maneuver</i> and I don't think for one minute that, a smallish eight year old would have the strength or stature to make that work even with a full grasp of the proper technique. <i> </i><br />
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These were some of my panicked thoughts during that long sixty seconds. <br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>With the Orange Dog having a conniption, Pinkster finally reacted: she rushed
about the room with her arms waving and yelling <i>"Get the puffer!</i></span></span></span></span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><i><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><i> Get the puffer!</i></span></span></span></span>"</i> to no one in particular. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Not asthma honey, mummy's choking on a vitamin pill. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>I
can laugh about it now, because I'm alive (obviously) to tell the tale. I managed to drag just a little air past the obstruction, enough to cough and dislodge the pill which was roughly </span></span></span></span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>the size of suppository.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Bravely I took some water and swallowed it again, down the right pipe. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Hey, waste not want not: after all vitamins are good for you!</span></span></span></span><br />
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It is summer in Sydney, it's hot and humid and everyone is wearing shorts.<br />
Except for me.<br />
I'm wearing jeans to cover the bruises and scratches from my latest extreme makeover...<br />
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Here's a snippet of related bedtime conversation last week;<br />
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<i>"Mummy can you read me a bed-time story?"</i><br />
<i>"Sorry Darling, Not tonight; I have to go on U-Tube to find out how to lay floorboards."</i><br />
<i>"Oh yeah. OK mummy, goodnight."</i><br />
<i>"Goodnight sweetie; Love you"</i><br />
<i>"Love you to the moon."</i><br />
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It was time for Pinkster to go into a bigger bed and she wanted a loft bed, but I just couldn't bring myself to build something that permanent over, God knows how old and how dust mite infested, carpet. I think the carpet is probably 20 years old. It's wearing OK but it's wool and she's allergic to that (or maybe its dust mite population).<br />
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So I pulled up a corner of the carpet and checked out the boards- they looked quite alright and I decided- it's time for bare boards.<br />
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But you never know do you until all the carpet is up, just what sort of mess you're getting yourself into. I'd trawled U-Tube for video tutorials of sanding floor boards one evening when I'd gotten just half the carpet up.<br />
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Later I discover there appears to be a lack of U-Tube tutorials dealing with holes, huge gaps and badly patched areas using boards that don't come close to resembling the originals.<br />
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And that, my friends, is how I came to lay my first floating laminate floor.<br />
I wont go into the grim details, but after two days my legs were not pretty. Big yellow and purple bruises, nail scratches, and my hands didn't fare any better. And this was all before I could get down to the nitty gritty of the bed building project.<br />
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The seven boxes of bed had resided for two weeks in my guest room where myself, a dear friend and a trolley with flat tires, had wrestled them in.<br />
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The journey home from the bed store was interesting; just because the Toyota can fit what feels like 200 kilos of flat-packed furniture in it, doesn't mean it should. I don't know if the suspension will forgive me but I know the auto-transmission wont.<br />
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The next fun part in Project New Bedroom was getting all the contents of these boxes, a couple of them bigger than me and most of them heavier, upstairs.<br />
My narrow staircase.<br />
My very steep, narrow staircase.<br />
The very stairs that thwarted all attempts, a few weeks ago, at moving any of my armchairs to the second floor.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The day I broke my back</td></tr>
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So I broke my back again and added some more rainbow colors to my legs.<br />
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The instructions; when I found them (was that in box five or six?) said this flat pack assembly will take 60 minutes and two people. <br />
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I was at it all day. I'm used to IKEA flat-pack instructions, so I thought; I'll manage this, I'm no stranger to building stuff - I can follow instructions.." and there I was in Flat Pack assembly hell for two days.<br />
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IKEA instructions identify all the pieces involved. These were not IKEA instructions.<br />
Pieces were not marked.<br />
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Diagrams of pieces often didn't show them entirely, severely limiting the possibility of telling them apart from the many similar pieces.<br />
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Diagrams of fully assembled items didn't come close to showing what you were building.<br />
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The list of hardware had all those items depicted and numbered in the glossary, but the part numbers changed throughout the instructions.<br />
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The pages of the instruction booklet didn't even run consecutively ie: 1,2,3,4,5,7,6,10,9,8<br />
Each box, sometimes two boxes, were supposed to contain all parts of a particular section, but it's as though some smaller bits got left out so they were hidden at the bottom of the packaging of other non-related components.<br />
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So yes it took two full days with many calls, hand-holding and advice given by my local friendly experts and all round nice guys at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CreativeSpaceConstructions/?fref=ts">Creative Space Constructions</a>. I also made a couple of trips to the hardware store for extra random screws, bolts and more advice (I try to share the wear).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you can build this - you can build absolutely anything!</td></tr>
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And after I put my girl to bed for her first night in her new Sigma Midi Loft bed, I dragged my weary arse downstairs to clear the guest room of a mountain of cardboard and I filled five extra large garden bags with the Styrofoam packing I broke up into little pieces. When it came to dealing with the teeny tiny balls of Styrofoam I discovered my Dyson vacuum had died an untimely death.<br />
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The next morning, She-Who-Used-To-Worship-Pink&Now-Worships-Animal-Prints, asked me when I would make her leopard print doona and pillowcase.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I would blitz this IKEA interview</td></tr>
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Thanks to IKEA flat pack assembly service for the awesome photos - you feel my pain clearly!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dogs, like children, can really take you out of yourself, show
you a lighter side of any situation. On the other hand they can drag you out of
peaceful Zen moments so abruptly, leaving you pissed off, drenched in shampoo and baking soda, wondering what you did to deserve the affront....</span></div>
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We were on the waterfront Orange Dog and I, taking a moment
in the park on a rare Child-free Saturday afternoon. </div>
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I was walking back to the stairs when I
realised my shadow was no longer attached to my leg. I looked around and there
he was by the water, on his back, those long orange legs kicking joyfully into
the air, his body flipping from side to side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I forget how much he loves a good roll in the grass. We don’t have grass
in our garden.</div>
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As we came up to the street a cute guy smiled at us, Orange
Dog smiled back and promptly attached himself to his new friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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The guy’s smile sort of tumbled off his face
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I stopped and checked under my runners. </div>
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Nope,
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But there it was again, pwarrrh! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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What was that?! </div>
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Smelled like a corpse. </div>
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A very
old corpse.</div>
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By the time we got home, I had him leashed - to quarantine him from humans. </div>
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I tied his leash to the car port pillar and grabbed the
hose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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I cursed him and I blasted him
with cold water, and the smell of rancid fish guts (could have been rat too I
guess) began to fill the front garden.</div>
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After half a bottle of shampoo, and a couple of cups of
baking soda, blasted him again withthee hose before I rubbing the monster down with a towel. </div>
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Still the rancid smell of rotting
flesh still hit my nostrils. </div>
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I pulled off his leather collar,sniffed, almost fainted, and threw that in
the washer with the towels for a thorough fumigating.</div>
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I sniffed his neck, my nostrils protested again so I raided
the bathroom cabinet. </div>
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Issey Miyake did the trick. I know I had a big bottle of CK
One in there somewhere. </div>
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He was one miserable individual as was I when I went to the
front garden only to be overwhelmed by Rancid fish guts again. No way was I
going to empty a bottle of L’eau D’Issey onto my pavers, so I shut the door and
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Meanwhile the Orange stinker was trying, for all he was worth, to bury his snout in his bed .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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‘Serves you
right, you creep’ I told him.</div>
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White vinegar was always my de-stink go to, but this situation,
this level of utterly devastating and hair curling stench was way beyond
vinegar. </div>
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Later on an emergency food run to the pet store I thought, I wonder…. And
there, to my utter amazement, (or maybe not) I found a Pet Perfume aisle. (!!!!)
OK I wasn’t all <i>that</i> shocked. What <i>was</i> shocking were the prices… the first one
I picked up was just under $20 for 100ml of something that smelled like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVy3GTnsGlA">Brut33!</a></div>
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I did the math. That’s the price Chemist Warehouse sells Calvin Klein’s
CK One/ per 100ml for and to say that smells way better is a gross
understatement. I didn’t need to open the bottle; my frightened furperson was backingup as soon as I pulled it off the shelf.</div>
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<i>‘I wouldn’t do that to you, big boy,even humans
shouldnt smell like that.’ </i></div>
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Most of the Canine Cologne’s smelled like the stuff middle-aged letches marinated in;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the kind of aftershaves
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I chose one with a subtle fragrance with coat conditioner in it. It was mid-range at $15 per 100ml.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it doesn’t live up to
its promises of deodorising, non-irritant and coat conditioning, I will buy CK
One next time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At least this one gives some of its profits to the RSPCA. I
like that.</div>
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RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-62706226714770862572015-11-03T17:30:00.000+11:002016-09-04T19:08:22.679+10:00Fairy Pen Pals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She-Who-Worships-Pink, still not content to wait for that very wobbly tooth to come out, (no; still not!) is writing again. This time to another friend of her tooth Fairy..<br />
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It took a while to get a response, fairy mail I guess is hard to address properly, so it can be a bit hit and miss. But the mail does get through. Apparently rather than ponies they have an Owl Express...<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">Dear Lucie,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">Thank you for your letter, I was just too excited
when it was brought to me! </span></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">It did take a while though, one of our friendly owls
found it tied to your swing (?) then she dropped it off here at the fairy
library because owls can’t read so she
didn’t know who it was for. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">So it took a while to find its way to me. But I’m super-excited to have my own letter
considering I’m not your actual tooth fairy. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">I wish I was; Alice is so lucky! And now Annabel can stop bragging about
getting a letter and teasing me because you wrote to me too!!! It’s like a
little club isn’t it?!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">What do I like to do? Well my favourite thing is
riding dandelion spores. If you didn’t know, they are the tiny little wafty
things that come away from the dandelion in the wind or I guess when you humans
blow on them.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">I’m quite sporty for a fairy, and I love when its
windy. As the spores come away I try to grab the bottom of one and see how far
it will carry me. It’s the best fun ever. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">I sometimes try hang- gliding from
maple seeds but they spin around so fast it’s hard to hold on and if you do you
can get pretty dizzy. And feel a bit sick too!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">Annabel and Alice think I’m crazy!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">Well hope that next tooth doesn’t take too much
longer to come out – Alice is getting impatient. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">Take care Lucie, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;"> Amber.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; line-height: 115%;">PS I loved your flower, you’re really good at
drawing – I wish I was as good. </span></i></span></div>
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I have to pick her up from school now, and I'll keep this tiny thing in my back pocket, she'll be thrilled when I show her what I found while making her bed. She doesnt always check under her pillow! RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-70977243840306787002015-10-21T13:49:00.005+11:002015-10-21T14:00:14.242+11:00Fairy Small Letters<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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These darn wobbly teeth have been wobbling for months now and still no
definitive movement! Pinkster is getting so frustrated, waiting for another
coin and more importantly, a letter from the tooth fairy. </div>
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During the first spate of lost teeth - sometimes two in a week, there was a lot of correspondence, drawings and pressed flowers exchanging hands. So missing all that tooth fairy social interaction Pinkster has taken to leaving notes in the garden addressed the tooth fairy. And to the tooth fairy's friends for that matter.</div>
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It often takes a while to get a response, since
the fairies have to be flying over our place and notice the notes, in the
dark, while avoiding the cats and the possums.</div>
But still they manage these clever little things,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> and this tooth fairy although she's only a friend of 'our' tooth fairy (Alice) she replied...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Hello
Lucie! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"> I’m sorry it has taken me so long to write
back to you, I’ve been having a holiday and visiting my family in the Magical
North.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Alice
is indeed my very good friend, she’s very sweet, and it was Alice who has been
saving your letter for me since she found it in your garden. She was flying
past on the way to collect another little child’s tooth in the same area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I
love, love LOVE the pretty sun flower you drew for me and I think I might hang
it up on my wall! Alice loves it too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Maybe
if I’m not busy next time you lose a tooth, I can come with Alice to collect it.
She did say that you seemed to have some more loose ones so that might not be
long away. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">By
the way, do you like my typing? YES! I’m typing not writing! ! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I
have only learned how a short while ago. we have typing machines in the Fairy
Library and I’ve been teaching myself in my spare time. You write a bit on the screen first and then the machine actually imitates
your own handwriting while you type – its’ so cool. (and so much n eater!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Alice
is good at typing but she likes to write everything by hand with that magic pen
of hers - when she has time that is.. I don’t like the pens because they’re still
quite big for our hands and I have so much to say I get achy hands by the time I’ve
finished! Can you type? I think it’s kind of hard when you first start
trying. </span></span></div>
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I’d better go for now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Take
care,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Love
Annabel xx</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">PS
I found a big yellow letter for Alice, it just said Dear Tooth Fairy, but since
she’s assigned to you (and your teeth- Ha Ha ) I guess it’s for her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">I
hope you don’t mind that I took it to give to her. She will really be thrilled
and your picture is super gorgeous. xx</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This was that yellow letter..</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And fairy Alice, reliable as always replied too on that same almost transparently fine stationary they use...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Dearest Lucie, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Thank
you for your lovely letter, Annabel found and brought to me. Such a pretty picture
of you! Thank you so much!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">I
laughed at your idea about magic runners, that would be a great idea for those
times we get caught in the rain and our wings get wet. You have no idea how
that messes up the tooth collection schedule!
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">So
Anabel insisted this time, I go to the library and use the typing machines because
she says my written notes are all wonky. I didn’t think they were so bad, maybe
my lines aren’t very straight, but she’s right- the magic pens are hard to use
if you really want neat writing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">And
anyway it’s been a busy week for us, on account of it being so windy these past
weeks! Simply awful tyring to fly in the
wind, but especially carrying coins, not to mention paper and magic pens! I lost half my paper to a gust of wind just
last week!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";"> One night I was so late and it was so windy, I
had to hitch a ride on an owl. Owls are
really quite sweet and helpful when you ask nicely. And they are very strong
flyers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">So
how long do we fairies live? We don’t measure our years the way you do, but I
suppose in human years, it would be maybe 300 or so?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">So
I have to wonder… are those wobbly teeth of yours every coming out?!?! <br />
I’ve been waiting ages! I’m so glad you wrote to me anyway if I had to wait for
a tooth much longer I would have to fly past and wobble them myself just to
hurry things along so I could have a note from you. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">We’re
actually not supposed to wobble children’s teeth- it’s breaking the rules. The boss
says: “they have to come out when they’re good and ready!’</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Also
I must say, your cat is a bit scary! I
stay well away from your mum’s room when I come. Your dog I have met and he
wagged his tail so much, it was like a fan and I got blown backwards. I had to
flap my wings quite hard to get close enough to him to pat his nose! He’s a
lovely boy and I don’t think he’d let the cat near me, but still…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Well
as I said it’s a busy time because of all this crazy weather so I’d better get
going. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Take
care Lucie, and I look forward to your next tooth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Lots
of love</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC";">Alice
xxx</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">These letters are so tiny I have to wear seriously strong glasses. When Alice writes by hand I have to wear those glasses and hold a magnifying glass over the tiny page to read it at all!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I thought it was interesting the mention of <i>The Magical North</i>, which is a place mentioned in Jaclyn Moriarty's Colours Of Madeline Trilogy books. Maybe Jaclyn pulled the name from a childhood memory of her Tooth Fairy? Perhaps that's where fairies come from - through cracks between our world and the Kingdom of Cello... </span></div>
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In a savage attack of community spirit, Miss Pink and I have
flouted the fine print on the Local Council’s OH & S charter and erected
two rope swings in our local park. </div>
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To hell with the rules: there’s that big old fig and all its
thick curling boughs, just begging for action.</div>
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So we did it; recycling timber from the side of my shed and
some rope I used for our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2013/09/swinging-in-rain.html">IKEA Hack porch swing</a>. Pinkster was my pilot, helping me position both swings for little legs
to reach the ground.</div>
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They’re very simple, one a traditional swing with rope
attached at each end of the seat (and I do use that term loosely) and the
second for bigger more adventurous kids/ adults/ drunkards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A single plank with one rope attached through
the centre, for some serious out-of-control- in- all-directions swinging! </div>
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So each day since, playdates or solo, has ended at this lovely
park. And so far the council sphincter police have not removed our swings. </div>
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The Orange Dog is loving it; where he never got used to
missing walks on school holidays, especially those days when we were entertaining
small people, now everything ends with<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> ‘mummy
can we go to the park and use the swings?’</i></div>
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Our other big project this week was the renovation of <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2013/08/take-it-outside.html">the cubby house</a>, which is now Cactus Café and Organic Grocer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pinkster and her friends have always been keen
food servers, so after I found a blow up cactus on the roadside during a council
clear up, we renamed and renovated. </div>
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Adding shelves inside, an outdoor grocery stand, and long
timber bench (also curb-side finds). I bought an outdoor setting from Aldi and
IKEA sold us our DUKTIG cash register.</div>
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Another curb-side find was a gorgeous rustic timber picture
frame that morphed into a stylish ‘specials’ board with the help of timber I
had lying around and <a href="http://www.whiteknightpaints.com.au/specialty-paints/craft-and-decorative/chalkboard-paint">White Knight Black Chalkboard Spray Paint</a>. (which doesn’t
need leaving overnight between coats like the paint of stuff.)</div>
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The open closed sign was more elaborate than we’d planned,
Pinkster and I, but that’s par for the course with our projects:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I cut a cardboard template and cut out two cacti from craft
wood, shaped these with an emery board before paining. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I glued these to a make-your-own doorknob
sign from the hardware store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t trust
my hand writing using a paintbrush but fortunately we found some foam letter
stickers in a craft shop in the perfect colour. </div>
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So between our renovated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>café and our park swings <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>we’ve kept busy, had a lot of fun and so have Pinkster’s
friends. </div>
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I think we should start a community spirited movement: Random Acts of Swinging where everyone who can, puts up a swing in their local park for the kids to use. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! I really hate starting my day with a telepohone screaming match...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been paying just over $24
each month for three years for an accident policy for The Orange Dog. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If I had put this money into a regular
savings account I would still have over $1000 that I've paid in premiums and I wouldn’t
have to spend my time screaming at my insurer's call centre people and
threatening law suits. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would have benefited from the
compounding interest on my money and I would have had the ready cash to pay his
vet bill after his accident.</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been fighting with Pet
Sure (under the comforting guise of RSPCA Pet Insurance) and I’ve come to
the conclusion that PetSure is benefitting from and tarnishing the good name of
The RSPCA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I discovered their other
‘brands’ all credible reputable trusted company names. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what happened? We had a
playdate, the kids were playing totem tennis, Orange <span style="font-family: inherit;">D</span>og was with me and the
other mum, having a cuddle on the deck, then he jumped up and ran to the kids
catching a racket backswing in the face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was awful, Buddy shrieked, and staggered backwards, he couldn’t open
his eye the little girl, who couldn’t possibly have seen him behind her, was
sobbing her heart out… it was an awful accident. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the morning his eye was still
closed and his face was very swollen, so I took him to the vet. The child’s
mother texted me, asked after him and offered to pay the vet bills. I told her
not to worry, it wasn’t her or her child’s fault <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘and anyway Bud is insured for this so please don’t worry.’</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pet Sure refused my claim saying this was not
classed as an accident but an illness. So I called them and informed them that
being struck in the face was neither viral no<span style="font-family: inherit;">r</span> bacterial. They said they’d look
into it and I heard nothing for months. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">On my second call I was told
that the Vet nurse hadn’t sent through the case notes, that is why the claim
was rejected. To cut a long story short this went back and forth until this
year the vet took over and spoke with the Pet Sure people, asked what they
wanted exactly and sent exactly that. Then nothing for another seven weeks.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So today I called to ask why
they hadn’t paid my claim or provided any feedback. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pet Sure told me that they did
not and would not pay the claim because they consider this to be an illness because
there were no fractures involved. I told them that was irrelevant; an accident as
defined in their product disclosure brochure is this:</span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Certain
words and expressions used in this policy have a specific meaning: Accident</b>
means sudden, unforeseen, and unintended specific event causing Injury to your Pet
as Specified in Section 2 which occurs at an identifiable place and time.”</i><br />
I won’t bore you with section two it’s longwinded, but it covers seven ways in
which the injury must have resulted.. "OR involve:<br />
<i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> 1. A bone fracture (excluding teeth)</i><br />
<i></i><i><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>A traumatic ligament or tendon injury; or</i><i><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></i><br />
<i><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Lacerations, abrasions or wounds”</i>
<br />
<br />
In Buddy’s case it was a combination of 2 and 3 to the lens of his
eye and his cheeks, which did take a while to recover. If you ask me, facial abrasions are hard to locate
underneath thick fur.<br />
<br />
They claimed it was written up (by the vet) as a soft tissue injury and therefore was refused because the pollicy only allowed for ligament injury: <br />
<br />
<i><span class="_Tgc"><b>'</b></span></i><i><span class="_Tgc"><b>In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy" title="Anatomy">anatomy</a>, <b>soft tissues</b> are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_%28biology%29" title="Tissue (biology)">tissues</a> that connect, support, or surround other structures and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_%28anatomy%29" title="Organ (anatomy)">organs</a> of the body, not being <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osseous_tissue" title="Osseous tissue">bone</a>. Soft tissue includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendon" title="Tendon">tendons</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligament" title="Ligament">ligaments</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia" title="Fascia">fascia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin" title="Skin">skin</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrous_connective_tissue" title="Fibrous connective tissue">fibrous tissues</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat" title="Fat">fat</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synovial_membrane" title="Synovial membrane">synovial membranes</a> (which are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connective_tissue" title="Connective tissue">connective tissue</a>), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle" title="Muscle">muscles</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve" title="Nerve">nerves</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_vessel" title="Blood vessel">blood vessels</a> (which are not connective tissue).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_tissue#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></b> </span></i><span class="_Tgc"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_tissue">Wikipedia</a></span><i><span class="_Tgc"><br /></span></i><br />
<br />
Since this farce began I started putting money into an interest bearing
savings account which has generated more interest than the payout I should have
received from RSPCA Insurance.<br />
<br />
My conclusion is that anyone considering insuring their pet, on the off-chance
they have the right kind of accident, resulting in the very specific injuries allowable, and they have located and read all the fine
print, followed the trail of additional clauses, and they can persevere for years to get the claim paid.. is crazy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Far better to create your own insurance policy
in a bank earning interest where there is no fine print, no excuses, no
cheating and you keep the money you don’t spend directly at your vet. <br />
<br />
Furthermore when I looked up PetSure I was staggered to see most of the
other pet insurers are their own ‘brands’ and all underwritten by Holland
Insurance.<br />
<br />
So I can’t say I have any confidence in any of them being fair and honest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Isn’t life is hard enough without cheaters?<br />
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EPILOGUE:<br />
After launching my social media campaign which involved, emails, blogs, Pinterest posts and tweets to everyone including the CEO of underwriters Holland Insurance. PetSure have revoked their refusal and scheduled the claim payment of $124.00 - "as a good-will gesture- Not an admission of any wrong doing'. I cancelled my policy immediately; I told them neither their service nor their product are worth $24 a month.<br />
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They really wanted to keep that $124. Well from now on I'll keep my premiums.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Three Sisters: 21 books; six international best-sellers; two Number-1-New York Times bestsellers and a multitude of literary awards..surely these authors were just born supremely talented.</i></span><br />
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<br />
This week’s author event at the Warringah Library was the
second<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in my life.</div>
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The last author event I attended was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 2009. That was Emma Tom talking about her
then latest book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Attack Of The Fifty Foot
Hormones</i>. I had a sickly toddler in tow, who succeeded in making it <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2009/11/i-will-never-starve_648.html">'her'show</a>, rather than the author's. </div>
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But this one I wasn’t going to miss: it was after-all the
Moriarty Sisters!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><fanfare
playing></div>
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I adore them, not just as fabulously talented authors but also
terribly nice women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially Jaclyn
Moriarty who is 50 shades of awesome and just so happens, used to be just my
lovely next door neighbour . </div>
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I was told by the real estate agent who sold us the house;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>“I think the woman next door <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>writes children’s books or something”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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As I became friendly with my new neighbour, I
thought I’d better take an interest and read at least one of her books; so
during a week in Bali I got lost in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dreaming
of Amelia</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
It was the most
beautiful, intriguing and original story I’d read and I posted as much on Face
Book. Immediately my Facebook page was
bombarded with fan-spam, gratuitous use of exclamation marks and comments like ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">OMFG! Do you know Jaclyn Moriarty?!?!?’ JM?
She’s amazing!’ ‘Oh , I LOVE her books!’. </i></div>
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There were more LIKE clicks than when I post pictures of the
dog wearing wigs, and those are mighty popular (especially when he was Katy
Perry).</div>
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Oh, I thought; seems<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>my friend Jaci-Next-Door is kinda famous, why am I always so slow on the
uptake?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well since then I’ve continued
reading and relishing her books. And re-reading and re-relishing them. (I’m on
my third run of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Corner of White</i>) </div>
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Eventually I became curious about Liane’s books and Jaci
recommended<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> What Alice Forgot</i> & <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hypnotists Love Story</i>, both of which
I read, feet up on the dashboard, totally shirking my duty to take some turns
at driving the long way to and back from Melbourne. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Back in Sydney I immediately downloaded <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Husband’s Secret</i> onto my E-Reader
and did nothing else with my life or family until I’d devoured that one too. </div>
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So an author event with all three was not to be missed.</div>
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I text Jaci-Next-Door: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m
super super super excited: eeeeee</i></div>
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And Jaci being Jaci, never mind prepping before heading up
to the podium: texts right back. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Nervous!’</i></div>
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It’s a fascinating and rare opportunity to hear three
successful authors from the one family talk about their individual experience of
the writing process.</div>
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Liane Moriarty apparently is a rough outliner. She’ll come up
with a plot premise, adding bits and pieces of inspiration that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>day to day life throws in her path, but still
lets the story take its course. Jaclyn related a wonderful quip about describing to
Liane her amazement at a twist in her book,: '<i>I couldn't believe when this happened'</i>, and Liane responded;
<i>'I know! Me neither!’</i> </div>
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Jaclyn Moriarty is a planner: she plans her plot, her
characters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But responding to a question
on this she told the audience for the most part her characters do as they’re
told, but sometimes she might have to wrestle them back on track or
occasionally let them wander off on their own.<br />
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Nervous she may have been but
Jaclyn Moriarty is as charming and engaging speaking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as are her words on the page.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mae West once said,
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep
you”</i>, and Nicola Moriarty’s latest book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paper
Chains</i> apparently grew from her own diarised (and blogged) struggle with
post-natal depression. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">She explained how
interesting and a little therapeutic it can be to take your own life dramas,
your choices and turn them around on themselves in a big ‘what if’, to create a
work of fiction that explores what might have happened. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sort of like a Sliding Doors treatment I guess. Like Nicola, I’m a
diary keeper when times get tough, so <i>Paper Chains</i> is definitely next on my list. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The next time these
three appear on stage together, I’ll be there again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Listening to the three of them relate stories of their family life
growing up together is a treat in itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the stories of their struggles to get published before success and
the reality of writing fiction<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for a
living, is an eye opener for their fans and an inspiration for any aspiring
writer. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m so very lucky to
have that inspiration on tap walking back home from the school run and over the
occasional cuppa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jaclyn Moriarty, my
very clever gifted friend, who’s taken more literary prizes than Venezuela has
Miss World titles, will ever be in my mobile contacts as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jaci Next Door</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It makes me smile to
remember how much I liked her, long before I knew her last name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If you 'd like to read more about these awesome authors:</span><br />
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RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-44827270365846512772015-09-04T21:07:00.000+10:002015-09-04T21:17:48.935+10:00More Bambi than Bond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">If Idris Elba is too gritty, too 'street' to play James Bond, then what was Daniel Craig?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK I’m going to jump right in and join this ‘Idris Elba/ James Bond’ debate. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think the actor’s been handed a packet of short
straws.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">But Anthony Horowitz the newer
gen Bond Author says he’s 'too street'. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What then was Daniel Craig if not the grittiest roughest
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<span style="font-size: small;">Elba has played Nelson Mandella for goodness sake; a man of great
elegance nobility and strength. It is acting after all and that is a craft at
which Elba has proven his enormous talent and versatility over and over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But Adrian Lester? Seriously? He has more of a puppy face
than a ten week old Beagle. I suppose he could be effective in that the bad
guys wouldn’t </span><span style="font-size: small;">be able to aim a gun at
him – they be too busy pinching his cheeks and going ‘awwwww”. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adrian Lester's: more Bambi than Bond</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I’m sure it's </span><span style="font-size: small;">just one
of those, I’ve been put on the spot moments; clearly Horowitz was not
familiar with Idris Elba’s other work beyond ‘Luther.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have to confess my familiarity with Elba doesn’t go much
beyond his portrayal of Heimdall in the Thor movies (and most of the time I’m
heavily distracted my Chris Hemsworth) but that character is anything but
gritty and street. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Idris Elba positively ooozes suave.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You might even say he’s suave.. as much as any man could be,
wearing </span><span style="font-size: small;">a golden mardigras helmet and
matching armour; sort of Iron Man meets Aztec.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But in my humble opinion I really did and still do feel less
than comfortable watching Daniel Craig play Bond. Craig doesn't have that natural suave and well he just seems <i>'a bit too street – too gritty'
</i>if you ask me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Roger More was so smarmy and sleazy I couldn’t bear it. The way he smirked at women was so cringe worthy I’d
have this overwhelming urge to put my fingers down my throat just to speed up
the process.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>How that man ever got laid is beyond my comprehension. Last time a man in a bar leered at me that way, I discreetly blacked out two of my front teeth with Kohl pencil and smiled ingratiatingly back at him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The problem is that men ostensibly
struggle to differentiate between suave and sleaze; that has to include casting agents, directors and authors.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">And that is why I avoid bars like Establishment here in Sydney; ever aiming for suave but entirely missing the point and ending up just plain sleazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton were better cast in my
humble opinion but then I was a reader of Ian Flemming’s original character;
I’m not so familiar with Horowitz’s take on the character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Idris Elba said in a recent interview that he can go to a
bar and no woman will approach him; he’s apparently <i>“not getting the love”</i>. Not
until someone recognises him and then he draws a crowd which he describes as <i>‘bullshit’</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I think he needs a visit down under – I’m sure he’d get
plenty of love here without being recognised. What's not to love?</span></div>
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</span>RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-34966610185793853852015-08-25T00:30:00.000+10:002015-08-25T00:34:21.546+10:00The Stinky Pact - Retro Post<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Pinkster
and I have made a pact; she cannot kiss any boy on the lips until her
feet stink. And she has to go wash them first while she has a good think
about it...</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">I would say 'not to kiss any boy at all - period' but she <i>is</i>
half French so there's the double cheek kissing stuff going on and she
has male cousins. She also takes this stuff SO literally.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So during one of those meandering discussions that I get roped into </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2014/02/dentist.html">(like the petrol thing)</a> ; Pinkster contorted herself into some sort of advanced Yoga stretch, sniffed her feet, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">and then <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">asked me why only grown-ups have smelly feet. I told her that when you grow up your feet and your armpits get smelly.</span></span></span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was bath-time and we'd just been watching Cinderella that ended, as all Disney Princess movies do, with <i>'the kiss'</i> and <i>'the wedding'. </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The kissing and marrying thing has become another minor obsession, </span></span>thanks to Walt Disney. (And to think we'd been concerned about Barbie movies). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">So she's in the bath chattering away about when she gets <i>'maaa-ried</i>' and does kissing and I tell her;</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Not until you're grown up, my darling."</span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Not until my feet stink?"</i> she asks.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have to laugh,<i>"And your armpits too,"</i> I say.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">She giggles and splashes around hunting for the sponge. <i>"I'd better wash my stinky feet first.." </i>she chuckles.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes
we are so in sync with each others thoughts it's scary and both using
our 'silly voices' we say pretty much the same thing at the same time:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Noteworthy; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"No one wants to kiss someone with stinky feet!"</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><i>"Or smelly armpits"</i> I add, holding my nose.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">Then she cracks up - laughing that laugh that comes right up from her belly and gives her hiccups. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">Bath-time is often a kind of hostage negotiation. Nights like this it's a total riot.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">:0)</span></span><br />
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I cant help but wonder, what life would be like without, packets of tiny
pompoms, pipe cleaners, scraps of ribbon, random feathers and balloon sticks?<br />
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She-Who-Still-Worships-Pink broke <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2014/10/six-million-dollar-kitten.html">The Six Million Dollar Kitten’s</a> favourite toy this week and she was distraught - far
more so than the kitten, April. <br />
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But mummy-fix-it, pulled out a hollow plastic stick, that had previously
held a balloon, and within seconds the Cat’s wand was longer, stronger and
swishier than ever.<br />
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You may consider yourself a hoarder, you may even have saved the sticks that
hold non-helium balloons. But I bet you haven’t thought
of saving those annoying ribbon loops that you clip out of the shoulder seams
of your new sweaters though - eh?<br />
<br />
Didn’t think so.<br />
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One of the easiest fastest and most gratifying projects we took on this
school holiday was making cat wands. <br />
Pinkster had a play date with another cat owner and, following on from our
successful fix of the broken wand,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
girls spent hours designing and making new wands.<br />
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The filles and felines were united in their mutual delight.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cat toys from scraps of everything</td></tr>
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With our many, many trips to Bunnings hardware lately (three of those just
on the <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2015/07/avoidance.html">picket gate procrastination project</a>) and Pinkster's enduring balloon fetish, we
have many many sticks saved up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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We also have a take-out container
full of ribbon scraps, many clipped from the shoulders of new sweaters.<br />
There’s another container of random items like feathers, odd beads and a small tub of googly eyes - another full of pompoms.<br />
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Here are some of the tips ideas the girls came up with making wands with ribbons - wands with insects attached to the end of twisted pipe cleaners - and combinations of both.<br />
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<ul>
<li>Everything holds together better (and neater) if you can get it all into one end of the balloon stick. Wooden skewers are good for stuffing it all down the chute then plug it up with glue.</li>
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<li>Two pompoms either stitched or glued well together with either googly eyes or two smaller pompoms make great little insects. Stitching makes a more durable toy and you only need run the needle and thread through the centre of the pompoms and back. If you want to add legs you can glue or just these in between pompoms. (see below)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Apply a blob of glue onto the end of a pipe cleaner and thread it into one end of a balloon stick - once that's dry wrap it evenly around a pencil to make 'the twist'. Making a small loop in the other end of the pipe cleaner (I use jeweller's pliers) gives you something to sew your bugs onto.</li>
<li>Another bouncy bug style uses a length of shirring elastic. (see below) Shirring elastic is safest because it breaks more easily which is what you want with any cat toy that may get wrapped around their necks. (ideally don't make them too long for that reason; maximum 15cms)</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bouncing bug on shirring elastic with ribbon legs</td></tr>
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As an aside; I have to say I'm really loving store bought pompoms; there's just so much you can make with/from them, like Pinkster's microscopic cat from <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2015/07/on-house.html">this post.</a><br />
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We have however been making our own adorable pompoms: if you missed the PomPom Pups in tea-cups post <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2015/07/pup-in-tea-cup.html">click here </a><br />
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<br />RugratRodeoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840877033987139962noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633776544964353402.post-69604054816893031432015-07-22T11:59:00.002+10:002015-07-22T12:01:42.102+10:00Dawdling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You know those notes that keep turning up in the school bag?
The ones that remind you to have your child at school before the bell? We
get them a lot. They come in many, bright colours - so that they get noticed
and read.</div>
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<i>"Dear Parent, please ensure your child arrives
promptly for a 9:10am start. </i></div>
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<i>Late arrivals are not only a disruption for the child
involved, but the whole class is also disturbed as they wait for instructions
to be repeated..." </i>And so it goes on, generally for another
paragraph. </div>
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So these notes are working on the assumption that it's the
parents who are tardy, disorganised, late sleepers. </div>
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<Clearing of throat> </div>
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I beg to differ.</div>
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I don’t know about you, but I have a child who could win a
place in the <a href="http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/">Guinness Book of World
Records</a> for the slowest consumed slice of toast. Forty five minutes remains
her record; thirty minutes is the norm as she says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"I'm full!"</i> halfway through. Ok it is thick cut
raisin toast topped with mashed banana but seriously; just two corners? That's
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I have to nag and nag and nag...</div>
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<i>Can you PLEASE hurry up? You're moving like a SNAIL! </i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Put your shoes on!' </i>proceeded
by the mandatory 10min follow-up: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'why aren’t
your shoes on your feet yet?'</i></div>
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Any my old favourite; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Brush
your teeth!; that toothbrush only works if it's in your mouth and moving!'</i></div>
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Four years with a mouthfull of choppers you'd think she'd grasped the concept by now. </div>
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Nope, she still thinks that wandering around the
bathroom waving her brush around in the air, like a frenetic conductor at the
tail end of <i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Tchaikovsky’s
1812 overture, </span></i>is actually doing anything but driving her mum nuts.</div>
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I’ve even stooped to tacking <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘I am BEGGING you!’</i> on to the end of my repeated requests. So I
told her this morning about the notes. And how parents get the blame for their
kids being late.</div>
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She was mortified: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘
YOU get in trouble when I dawdle?!’ </i> </div>
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She takes school notes more seriously
than Moses took the Ten Commandments.</div>
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So running now for the school gate, she shouts me a promise
over the booming peal of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the school bell;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />‘I promise to try not to dawdle anymore
mummy.’</i></div>
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I know my little angel sincerely means this, but she’s seven…</div>
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I won’t hold my breath.</div>
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Pinkster and I discuss a lot of things I don't suppose many mothers discuss with their seven-year-olds. <br />
I'm not saying this is good or bad practice; it's just US.<br />
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The rapid fire questions are at times pretty tiring, but I love that she's curious and endlessly interested in the larger world and the way it works. These discussions usually start out as a small issue, a random observation and the many, many questions that follow. Her environmental awareness for example came from flying home from France and passing over some open cut mines, Pinkster asked me; <i>"Mummy! why are there big ugly holes down there? Where are all the trees?"</i><br />
I explained about mining; the digging up of stuff to sell to people and countries that don't have it and want to buy it.<br />
<i>"It's horrible,"</i> was her verdict and she's been a budding greenie ever since.<br />
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I was reading about the government awarding the environmental vandals Adani to expand and oversee the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/28/largest-coal-mine-in-australia-federal-government-gives-carmichael-go-ahead">worlds largest coal mine</a> on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef.<br />
You may or many not be aware of Adani's rather less than exceptional <a href="http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2015-06-over-670000-call-on-ex-im-bank-to-reject-coal-project"> environmental track record</a>, but the more I read about their damage tally on so-called protected and delicate ecosystems, the louder I cursed. Until my curious offspring asked me to explain what was upsetting me, and then the outrage really hit the fan.<br />
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Then there was the issue of the government posing as an environmental group to recommend chopping into the 70,000 hectares of forest from <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-24/unesco-rejects-bid-to-delist-world-heritage-forest/5538946">Tasmania's World Heritage Area</a> for logging. I was cursing again so I had to explain. The poor little lamb. At seven you think the work is a fair place and the people in charge are to be trusted. She knows nothing about overreaching ambition or greed.<br />
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Pinkster and her friend Muso, (a slightly older boy who's a pretty wicked guitar player) got into a lively <i>Tortures for Tony</i> discussion.<br />
Now Muso has always been partial to making the prime minister walk the plank into a pool full of great white sharks. Where Pinkster yearns to sit him on a cactus in his underpants (I suggested his budgie smugglers - but turns out she thought <i>were</i> his underpants). But it doesn't stop there, no; then she'd drop large coconuts on his head while he was still perched on the cactus. She's an imaginative torturer; what can I tell you. Muso and Pinkster decided to just make him do the lot keeping the sharks for last.<br />
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So recently Pinkster heard about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/17/tony-abbott-backs-other-countries-turning-back-asylum-seeker-boats">8000 asylum seekers</a> including women and children trapped on boats with no more food or water - as she tells it: <i>'trying to escape bad people who wanted to hurt them. Even maybe kill them and Tony Rabbit pushes their boats away</i> <i>and that is horrible.</i><br />
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She may not have the vote, but she has a voice none the less:<br />
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Just an end note - she's very impressed with the word 'persecuted'; <i>"it's a lot shorter than writing people running away from bad people who dont like them and want to hurt them."</i><br />
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One good thing about my not having sponsored posts is that when I write about a product, you know that I've been motivated purely by my need to share in its awesomeness. So let me tell you this one is a gem and after learning the technique it inpired my 7-year-old to make up her own designs...<br />
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<i>She-Who-Still-Worships-Pink </i>found this wonderful Pompom Puppies kit, in a local book store, and not only has given her hours of delight, but it's been a stand out winner for birthday gifts. The parents of the recipients may not thank me for the mess, but what little girl doesn't like this tri-fecta; making stuff, puppies and soft toys?<br />
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The kit contains everything you need, instructions and
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Be warned though, these projects are something you'll need supervise and/or help with; for under-nines. Tying off pompoms can be very tricky and the trimming instructions, especially on the tri-coloured pups, take a bit of concentration and patience. But the results are
uber-cute. I would suggest anyone start with the<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Chihuahua</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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Pinkster has made up some of her own, her first attempt at design was the little blue pup below, with hand-made felt eyes. We've also been up cycling cat food tins to make tea cups.<br />
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I've shown her how to cut out the ears more efficiently (so as not to waste fabric) and how to part and position the fur before gluing eyes and ears on. Now, so long as she has help tying off the pompoms, at seven years old she can pretty much handle a single colour puppy by herself.<br />
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If you're looking for this kit, we seen it in good bookstores and toy stores all over and if you Google it, you'll find loads of sellers on the Internet.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One minute we're enjoying a movie and Suddenly we're Building ...</span><br />
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Now that Pinkster and I watch 'some' of the same movies, I came across and old favourite of mine starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Rafallo: <i>Suddenly Thirty</i> (Also known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Going_on_30"><i>13 Going On 30</i></a>).<br />
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It's about a typical preteen girl who wants more than anything to
be grown up and popular. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, she wakes up the next morning; a 30-year-old,
successful magazine editor, friends with Madonna and dating a famous hockey player. Terrified, she asks her personal assistant track down Matt, her best childhood friend, to try and figure out what
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It's a cute and engaging story with a very self-empowering message at it's core, so it ticked all my boxes. <br />
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Pinkster loved it: She loved the music (there's a wonderful dance party sequence to Michael Jackson's Thriller), she loved the story, also the idea of stuffing tissues down your top, but most of all<i> </i>she loved <i>'Jenna's Dream House'</i>.<br />
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Jenna's very best friend Matt, gives her a dream house he's made himself. He's included a miniature of her and everything she wants for when she's grown up including her favourite pop-star sat on her sofa.<br />
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Suddenly this has become our school holiday project.<br />
Off to Bunnings hardware once again to buy balsa (craft) wood, PVA glue and teeny tiny nails, although we soon discovered cut down tooth picks work much better.<br />
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As you'd expect, Pinkster is as tough an architect as she is an art director: she wanted a fridge with opening doors and shelves inside (!!) -<i> 'sweetie, they just don't make hinges that small!' </i>(the appliance is only 4x1.5cm)<i></i><br />
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I'm quite proud of the bathroom vanity and concealed cistern toilet which is a replica of the one we had designed during the <a href="http://www.rugrat-rodeos.com/2014/07/flat-out.html">Flat Out apartment</a> renovation (feel free to click the link and compare).<br />
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But she hasn't assigned all tasks to me; she made <i>Snowy</i> her cat of the future..<br />
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I'm quite proud of her ingenuity of design here; putting two of the tiniest pom-poms together on a toothpick and gluing on a bead for the nose. We added another half toothpick, poked though and trimmed and painted the ends of those to make Snowy's ears.<br />
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Later in the week we added some essentials to the living areas, Harry Potter on TV (her new favourite), some books and an Adirondack lounger for the conservatory. We've borrowed some garden accessories from the Sylvanian families (who may end up moving in). <br />
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We still have to make some figurines, using photograph cut-out faces. She can't decide if Thor will be one or the "Mystery Boy" from school she has a crush on. Unless the next school newsletter includes <i>Mystery Boy's</i> photo from the recent eisteddfod, it may just have to be Thor. Or perhaps Harry Potter - although she says he's not funny enough to be a good boyfriend. Funny is her romantic priority, then kindness then good looks. That's my girl.<br />
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She's promised to be more hands on on this project and make all the soft furnishings and help paint and decorate.<br />
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