We have just come back from the ultrasound and we know that little Bob/Bobby is a

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I saved my pennies ages ago and bought 8 X 30 min personal training sessions for Allen. He never ended up using them so I have started. My first session was today and wow - I now know how the other half lives! You get a programme that is tailed to your exact needs, and someone is there every step of the way making sure that you do all the ( Read more... )

Some hubbies are so over protective! The other day Allen boiled up two eggs too many for the potato salad, and left them in the fridge, with strict instructions that he may eat them later with a sandwich, but I am NOT to touch them, and am only to eat FRESH eggs ( Read more... )

I think I felt Bobby today! I was taking a nap, and woke up, and turned over, and was lying there, and felt something like butterflys. I turned off the radio so I could feel it better, and it was so subtle, hardly there at all, but it was something moving or doing something ( Read more... )

Here's the deal, we have been offered my father-in-law's old car, a 16 year old mazda with relatively low milage. ( He walks to work.) We don't need a car, my residence has been carefully chosen to make a car unnecessary, and we are not moving out woop-woop (eg Templestowe) in the near or distant future. We would only use it for weekends ( Read more... )

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I went shopping today, and bought a new summer wardrobe. There was a sale on and a bought 6 items for $205, not bad going. Things were getting desperate, I had nothing to wear except my old gym shorts, which were starting to get too small as well. All the new items are things that I will get a lot of wear out of and most are 100% cotton ( Read more... )

People often said we should get a new dog before the old one carked it - so we have done just that. We didn’t get a puppy, -too much training- so we got a middle-aged dog. Such a pleasant change from that elderly mutt.

What our new dog is like (and the old one wasn’t)This dog can get up and lie down without assistance ( Read more... )

Please help, my sister adnarim_abroad and mother ogram are travelling in the US now. The origional plans were to go to New Orleans, but for obvious reasons that is being reconsidered. The question is, should they still go? I know that a lot of readers here are American and would have a greater knowledge of the situation than I do. (Though others can still ( Read more... )