It's 7.30 on a Sunday morning and himself had to get up at 4am and go to work, so after a little doze I decided that it was about time I got back into all of this.  It doesn't matter that no-one else reads it because it actually feels quite good to sit down and express myself.  I was laying in bed thinking what on earth can I write, at times my life seems almost boring, but then I went through all the things that have happened in the last few months.  Himself has got a job driving trucks and is also doing a training course which hopefully will mean a teaching job at the end of it so that the rest of his working life will be a little easier on the old body.  Our eldest daughter, who you will know from her blog, Inspired Kate, has done remarkably well with her photos.  She's won the top prizes at our local fair and has got a lot of interest off the net, does local school and family photos and for a girl whose photography claim to fame was taking lots of different shots of her feet and the sky, she really has achieved.  Our youngest daughter has managed to come out the other side of a bad breakup and come home, save up and has bought herself the most gorgeous little cottage in our little town.  She's incredibly excited and moves in on the 20th December.  Pretty damn proud of both of them.  So all is good with husband and daughters.

The beautiful granddaughters are just sensational little human beings.  Chloe, now 7, is gorgeous, confident, loving and just a treat to be around, the little one Summer, or Pingu as we call her (she has her very own "pinguanese language") is just a huge character, very independent and is soooo cute!! We are blessed I can tell you.

Then there's me and after all this is ALL About Me!!!! Well I've come to the conclusion that I'm a little boring.  I need to get off my backside and do something so I'm thinking next year, that I shall look into doing a language and trying to learn the piano.  I've had all these plans for ages and then something else happens and I have to put them on the back burner but not this time!!  I had the big 60th this year so time marches on and I need to achieve a few things.

Two things I'm very excited about is, going to a couple of concerts.  The girls bought us tickets for Bruce Springsteen, who I last saw in 1985 when I was 31 and he was 33 I think.  Well a bit damn different this time I can tell you but I'm really looking forward to that and then Ladies and Gentlemen it's the Rolling Stones!!!  It's cost us 3 weeks food money, (I told himself if he had just taken me in 1995 it would have been sooooo much cheaper!! ) but who cares.  For Gods sake they're accumulated age must be nearly 300 years, and I'm never going to see them again, while I can still stand anyway!.  I shall be Iboprufenned up to the eyeballs that night let me tell you, like most of the audience I would think.  It's no good smoking anything, we just go to sleep on it at our age, so painkillers it is.

Don't think there's much more to say except that Haven Hill is still going well.  Sometimes I get restless but the thought of actually walking away from my little house snaps me right back, so I guess I'm here for the long haul.  I have friends who are talking about moving into 'Lifestyle Villages' and that's pretty scary.  It feels a bit like saying 'well that's it life's over for me I'll just wait here for the call up ' and I'm afraid I'm not ready for that.  I look at the number 60 and all of a sudden it doesn't look that bad.  I'm feeling pretty good, and I'm enjoying thinking about all the things we'd like to do.  We had talked about getting a caravan and doing the old Grey Nomad thing but the son-law, a Harley rider with himself, came up with idea of a Harley Spider and trailer. Might be worth a thought, we'll see.  Do like the idea of a van with everything setup though, just walk in and grab a drink and everythings there!! We'll see.

Nan's Big Day OUt

Glorious day on Wednesday so why not take my gorgeous 5 nearly 6 year old grand-daughter out for morning tea.  Being a creature of habit we decided to go to our little local Cafe in Meadows which Chloe loves.  I have to say when I went down to pick her up she brought a tear to my eye.  She had got herself dressed in one of her prettiest summer dresses, brushed her hair back and put on her pink headband with the flower on it, had on sparkly black shoes (you would love them Jodes) had her pink and black handbag over her arm and her very pale purple (more lavender actually ) lipstick on.  She looked absolutely gorgeous and what made it more special was that she had done it all herself to go out with Me!  So off we go and she picks the tub chairs in the corner of Balance Cafe where we have an Iced Chai and out of her bag she pulls not one of those games the kids all play but a pad and pencil and starts to draw things that she can see.    Then we have to write down the menu for Pa's tea that night in order.  She's a corker let me tell you!!!

Well it was all too good so back into the car and off to the pictures.  We had a great time and afterwards she wanted to come back to our place for tea and then go home to Mum and Summer.

What have I been doing you ask??? Well.....

Since my last blog in 2012, yes I'm slack, so many things have happened within my family.  There's been a relationship breakdown, not himself and me thank goodness, one grandaughter turning 6 the other one turning 1 and starting to walk, jobs lost and then gained and then lost, another knee replacement, that makes four (no I don't have 4 legs it's 2 on each ) lots of rain then  no rain, daughters getting another year older and a big one looming for me!!!  I think that will do don't you?

Apart from all of that, we are all still reasonably healthy even though himself and I creak a bit more , and make that awful grunting noise when we bend down to pick something up.  We seem to have lost control of some of our bodily functions too.. What the???

I just love the way we force ourselves to stay up until 10pm cause we're all grown up now, even though we'd really liked to be tucked up by 6.30-7pm.  We stay home if it looks like rain or it's a bit cold, I stop drinking after 4 glasses because the hangovers last for a week now. And guess what I LIKE IT like that!!

I watch all the ads on TV with these fabulous retired couples canoeing and kayaking, skydiving and pedalling their way around and I think "Good on you!!!"  Just at this point in time I'm fairly happy just doing my thing.  That's not to say that one day in the future I might decide to bungey jump naked from a tall bridge, (possibly suffocating myself with the layers of flesh that roll down  as gravity takes hold) or squeeze myself into a wetsuit that makes me look like a rissole in a condom, and go diving with the sharks but right now I'm all good thanks.