Aussie Jingle Bells

Colin Buchanan's great adaptation of Jingle Bells.

Dance Concert 2009

Tap - Rockin' Robin

How do you put a price on inspiration?
How do you capture the spirit of humanity?
How do you create a world of connection?
How do you light the fire of dreams?
You dance ...


Ballet - Beauty & the Beast

I dance to grow and learn
I dance to inspire the next generation
I dance for my story and yours
I dance for life itself
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak


Ballet - Beauty & the Beast

We dance to speak of the magic of the arts
We dance to speak of beauty and grace
We dance for peace
We dance for love
We dance for joy


Acrobatics - Mickey

Education is not the filling of a pail...
but the lighting of a fire
(from 5678 DANCE!!!)


At the tech rehearsal
(and a cute in-built border I found on my camera)

My wonderful big girl did brilliantly at her end of year concert. I helped out again, looking after her acro class. Of course that meant that I didn't see much of Niamh for the first half, as she had tap & ballet before acro, and initially waited with the tap class for their performance in the first half. As acro wasn't on until the 2nd half, the acro girls who did not have an earlier performance (14 out of the 16 girls in the group) got to watch the first half from out front. That was fantastic, I wan't expecting that I'd get to see much of the show, except on the dodgy TV screens in the dressing rooms.

And my little pro - she didn't have much time to change costumes between ballet & acro (5 songs, but they have at least 2 groups lined up ready to go on all the time), and she came flying back into the dressing room pulling her tutu off as she came in :-).

Another Christmas Video

I think maybe I'm just not getting the Christmas spirit yet, I'd better keep looking ...

(the song is Gothic Christmas by Within Tempation. Lots of people have had fun creating video clips for this one).

An interesting variation on christmas lights with music

Trying to get a bit into the Christmas spirit, I've been surfing around YouTube watching christmas videos. Then I stumbled into the section where people show off the light displays they've put up with the musical soundtracks. And I found this one. Christmas Lights and Star Trekkin.



Enjoy!

Passionfruit

I wanted to photograph some passionfruit flowers, they are such beautiful flowers.

But I was too late. Above is the only flower I could find on our vine. And it's past its best.

But in compensation for the lack of flowers, I did find the vine full of passionfruits, all looking very large & hopefully not to far from ripening.

Mykl update

Well, we finally picked him up at about 11pm last night. He went into surgery at around 5, was back to consciousness by 7, but had to stay for a few more hours for observation.

He can't drive for 24 hours. And he's finding it painfully to not hold his hand up high, so I will make him a sling when I wake up fully.

My poor Mykl

Poor Mykl - he managed to belt his finger pretty badly with a hammer yesterday.

We spent a fair chunk of our day waiting around the emergency department, thinking it would need stitching. But after a few consultations & an xray, he got sent home with a referral to return this morning to have surgery to repair the end of his finger. They did wrap his finger up quite nicely before letting him go.

We missed lunch and it was late afternoon before we got to leave the hospital, so we went to a nearby restaurant for an early dinner. M. had his favourite steak, and strangely for him, followed it with dessert, saying he needed to eat now, because it might be his last meal for a while (no eating after midnight for the surgery).

We dropped him off at Nepean Hospital just before 7am, and hopefully will be able to pick him up tonight. No certainty - he's in the queue, but will get bumped down for emergencies. I came back up here to get the kidlets to daycare & school, and am now doing a few things around the house before I go back down to the hospital.

But on the plus side - he did finish what he was working on! The netting around our chook run had fallen down near the gate & he was nailing it back up. He had already put in enough nails to secure it when he had the accident.

Just for fun

(and to see if this works)

More pictures from Glenbawn

Some more pictures from our camp at Lake Glenbawn, courtesy of my sister. I couldn't resist adding all of the pictues of the kidlets playing in the lake, they had such a great time running around the water & falling in.

Early morning cuddle

Ready to fish

walk by the water

playing by the lake

netting on the lake

netting on the lake

netting on the lake

netting on the lake (with C. about to fall over, again)

In the garden

Solomons Seal, growing over the pond