Today this morning I thought I would go totally crazy with the huge number of house flies. They are hungry little buggers too, who have been invading my cups of tea all week and this morning were attempting to drown in weet-bix and porridge. So the first port of call and vital trip out of the house was to purchase a refill for the rabocan and get some more death in the house. And tonight, you can feel the difference as we have lost the Sydney wave. Or wherever it is that they wave at the never ending flies...
H went with dad to get a haircut. Haircuts for the two year old set are often about speed. Its not style that counts, and the evenness and skill of the hairdresser are totally irrelevant. The only thing is the ability to trim all of the hairs on the head of the child before they leave. Or start screaming or what ever that particular child does when they have had enough of what is happening to them.
While they did that I bought U2 18 Singles, DVD. C thought it was totally disgusting that I had not bought a movie, but then this is the first music DVD I have bought so he didn't know what it was about. We played a few songs at lunch; he was in love. By the time we saw the rest tonight he is dressing up so he can look like the band and sing along. All is good.
We spend the afternoon at the Big Digger Day. They had articulated trucks to ride in - that was really fun doing four wheel driving and gratuitous sliding around a track in a 31 tonne truck. Air conditioned too.
And we also got to drive a digger. That was definitely cool, and surprisingly simple to do digging with. more complicated tasks would take a great deal more practice, but scooping sand and putting it next to the hole I had dug - achievable.
While out this morning we bought a new and fancy compost thingy www.earthmaker.co.nz . I was really very keen to put something into this new toy, so we ended up pulling out a whole lot of weeds and emptying our two old compost bins tonight to tidy up the area behind the dog kennel. Five rubbish sacks of weeds is a good haul. I've always fancied one of these composters because there is so much less digging involved. Here's hoping I produce better compost - mine has never had enough air in it.
Posted by Toni at February 24, 2007 07:45 PM