Do you wear an apron?

I do usually on the weekend when I am cooking for the family, I think many people nowadays don’t but I may be wrong about that so I am putting the question out there and we will see what others say.

How about paper on the kitchen sink or bench, on which you place rubbish to be wrapped before thrown in the bin.

I do, I remember my great aunt Joyce use to have paper on the kitchen bench and now I do.

When you peel vegetables do you peel them onto paper, or into the sink or maybe you peel them straight into the bin? I prefer to peel them onto paper or into the bin my mum likes to peel them in the sink under running water that I find annoying.

The girls were here early and as such we had an early lunch more like brunch, this was because I said tell me when to cook lunch and they said now please so I did, now I wonder how much longer they will stay here, not that I am bothered by them being here, although if I knew they would be here so early I wouldn’t have had breakfast oh well I will not eat again till late this afternoon.

Now they are having an argument about parenting styles and giving me a headache., trying to change the topic didn’t help. Now though they are all leaving and I will have a quiet house and it is only 12.15pm.

Hey Hey it’s Saturday, now I am starting this at 7.40am and will write about my day during the day and let’s see how we go, first thing I just took my morning tablets and for some reason they wouldn’t go down and I had to spit them out now I have a terrible taste in my mouth. So I have popped in a fresh mint to get rid of the taste. I am busy reading blogs as I do each morning, well I try to spend a couple of hours reading blogs of a morning, some days of course I don’t have the time.

Just had to go down and bank some Avon money and pick Tim up some money bags, he has only been asking me to get them for a month.

I don’t have much planned for the day, Kathy just rang and said she would be over this afternoon to talk to her dad about something.

I spent a bit of time researching my grandfathers RAAF service recorded during WW11took a while but found something, he was a leading aircraftman and enlisted by lying about his age which on one site has it listed as the 4^th October 1924 but on another it says 10 April 1924, this is the one we all know he used so not sure where the 4^th October date came from.

Anyway it is now 3.20pm I just had a lay down for about an hour, didn’t sleep just laid in a dark room but when I heard Tim’s motorbike I got up and decided to finish this off and post it, not much happened today but that is ok we all need nice quiet nothing happening days don’t we. Tomorrow the girls and grandchildren will be here for lunch I have already taken the steak out of the freezer, yeah I am doing steak and veggies for lunch.

Well here we at Friday, some weeks seem to go by pretty fast, well here are this weeks five things for Friday

Coolish to quiet warm and back to cool and wet

When one chemist doesn’t want to sell you what you want go somewhere else and lie

Going grey, no more dying my hair

Notebooks

Cold feet

Do you believe in yourself?

Do you believe that each new day brings new possibilities?

I do, it has taken me most of my life to come to this point, for most of my life I would just drift and go through the life not thinking of what each day could be. Now I realise that each day is a blessing, we can do so much during a day or we can do very little, sometimes doing very little is a good thing we all need to be able to just chill and do nothing during a day.

I feel that often we are so busy each day we don’t realise how much we do, we don’t think about all that has happened in the day.

When we fall into bed at the end of the day we give little to no thought about what the next day will bring, we generally just accept that the next day will be pretty much the same as the day that has just past. However, each new day brings it’s own set of highs and lows, we usually don’t like the lows but the lows in life help us appreciate the highs more, well I think so.

We need to believe that we are entitled to all the good things that come our way, when we don’t think we deserve good things in life then instead of seeing things that happen as being perhaps a good thing we tend to only see the bad things. Believing in ourselves allows us to accept that good stuff is allowed in our lives.

We need to face each day as a day that has so much in it for us, good stuff, bad stuff, happy stuff and sad stuff but each day is a good day we are alive and we should embrace each and every day.

Hi all for some reason I didn’t get around to doing a post yesterday, I don’t know why that happened after spending a couple of hours first thing in the morning reading blogs I decided to make a start of answering my mail.

Well around midday Tim said he wanted to go to the local hotel to have a couple of beers and place a couple of bets on the ponies, he has never wanted to do this before in his life. That said we went after sharing a bowl of chips and gravy I was pleased that the gravy came in a small jug on the side as I don’t like soggy chips, after watching one race I left him there and came home and but my feet up and watched a recorded show on the telly and then Tim rings for me to go and get him.

Then just after getting back Kathy-Lee and Summer turned up, Kathy wanted some arts and crafts stuff for Summer to use and I had a bunch of scrap-booking stuff I didn’t want, so I gave that to her.

By then I had started to feel unwell and Jessica turned up with Leo, he stayed here last night to give her a break, no one took my girls to give me a break but I am a big softy and will take my grandchildren when asked. We will have Blain on Wednesday night, we have never had Sydney-May and Summer but that will change on the 17^th when we are suppose to have both girls for the night and the following morning.

Tim is on late starts this week so he is in bed at the moment, he will have to leave around 9.30am for work and I will take Leo back to his mother around 10am and then I should have a quiet day.

In other news Natasha has advertised her car for sale, she wants around $3,500 but she will be lucky to get $3,000 but I said no harm in first advertising it at a higher price so she has advertised it for 4,000 to start with. It is on https://sellmycar.carsguide.com.au so we will see how she goes.

As far as I know my sister Sandra and bro in-law still want to buy Jessica’s Falcon for $1,500 but she wants the money paid in one go and not have it paid off as she has been burnt in the past with people saying they will pay something off and her not getting all the money in the end so she will not do that again.

Well that is all I have for today’s post, I know it may not be the most interesting of posts but such is life, well such is my life since this is what the post is about my life.

Welcome to my Sunday, it has been truly a lazy Sunday. I have spent most of the day watching telling after blogging for a couple of hours this morning and doing a load of washing. Thankfully it has been a fine day and all the washing dried on the line also after a few weeks of having my washing machine not spin drying the clothes I have figured out what to do. Last week when I did the washing I did a small load of just Tim’s work shirts and pants and that load spun dried so this time I tried doing a couple of small loads and yes that worked so now I know to do small loads instead of a large load.

Tim has been at work all day and I have just chilled doing very little I like days like this, tomorrow Tim is off again so not sure what we will be doing.

Yesterday I had all the girls and grandchildren here for lunch, I did a beef casserole as requested by Jessica, at the time I was dishing up Tim said he didn’t feel like anything and would have some later. Well what did he do after a few hours he decides he doesn’t want any casserole as he doesn’t like casseroles, so I ended up having the last of it for tea.

Also last night it was quiet cool here and I would have been fine in my nightie and ¾ pants but Tim decided it was hot, meaning he was hot and wanted the front door open, so I had to go and change my pants into some long pants.

I was also annoyed when at 7pm he said you’re going to bed so I will pick something to watch I was like I am not going to bed right now. I hate it when he says things like this it really pisses me off but it was ok we watched the old Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz movie The Long Long Trailer.

So that is all I have for today’s post

Welcome to Five things Friday, it is a coldish, wet day here in my corner of the world but thankfully I have not had to go out today. Although too bad if I wanted to because Tim took the car to work and it is Good Friday so nothing much opened anyway. So here is this weeks five things.

No Meat today

Eggs and chips instead

Catching up on recorded programmes

Dark and wet today

A lazy day

Hello everyone, what a couple of days I have had, on Tuesday I went out to Sydney-May’s school on Tuesday afternoon for her Easter Hat Parade have to say I am glad that she walked past us during the parade as we were sitting near the back. She had a dance act as well but during the act she was at the back behind a girl much larger then her, remember Sydney-May is a tiny little thing so it was impossible to see her dance. Michael took some video of her dancing but it turned out shit all grainy and really you couldn’t see anything. It was also Leo’s Easter Hat Parade on Tuesday but I couldn’t split myself in two and go to both, so had to give Leo’s a miss this year.

Yesterday it was Blain’s Easter Hat Parade, and yes I went to that, but before that I went to see my nan, but before that mum had to take Landon to day care, Kayla and Liarna to school and then we went to the nursing home. Since it was raining in the morning and had been raining pretty much most of the night mum told Dawson that she thought it wouldn’t be wise to go to work experience, he does lawn mowing and thought that the ground would be too wet to mow. If she had the guy he does it with she would have rung him but she didn’t since her phone is in being repaired and she is using a back up phone.

Oh yeah yesterday I had the lights on in the car, I usually have them on auto so they turn off when I turn the car off but when I was sitting outside Blain’s school waiting for Natasha to turn up I forgot to turn them off and must have had the car on accessories as when Natasha turned up she tells me I have my lights on what the hell, I turned them off and tried the car and of course it wouldn’t start. I told Natasha I would do something about it after Blain’s parade, which I did I rang the NRMA and they came in less then 20 minutes to start the car. The guy who came told me I should leave the car running for an hour or more so I did even though I thought it was a bit long but still I did it and of course when I told Tim how long I left it running he said what the hell you should have only needed to run for say half and hour, oh well it is done now and it hopefully should be ok today when I go out to take Leo to his dentist appointment.

As I said Leo has a dentist appointment this morning he needs two small fillings, so I don’t think he will be off school today and today is the last day of term one so he will be off for a couple of weeks.

I hope it all goes well for him at the dentist, although the guy he is seeing is super nice.

In other news Tuesday night I was so sick with a headache and reflux that I was in bed at 5.15pm, in fact at 4.20 when I went to have a bath I felt fine, by the time I got out of the bath I felt like shit and by 5.15 I could barely function so I said to Tim if I go to bed will you be ok with Blain, he of course said what it is only 5.15 but I said I felt that sick I just had to go to bed. Well at 6.30 I was up throwing up in the bathroom and Tim was so concerned coming in and rubbing my back and bringing me water. After I threw up he tells me to go back to be with concern in his voice.

I see the gastro specialist on the 15^th and the diabetic specialist on the 11^th so I am hoping to get some answers, when I saw the doc on Monday he didn’t want to give me anything different for the nauseousness instead telling me it would be better to see what the specialist has to say. I get that I just am so fed up with felling nauseous all the time and throwing up at least once sometimes twice a week.

Good afternoon, how has everyone been? I have had a good weekend doing this and that, we had plans to go to the Reptile Park with Jessica and Leo but as Jessica was sick we cancelled and we will do it in a few weeks time.

So next weekend is Easter, did you know that Easter is considered to be the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church. It is the time when we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and held in the Western Church between the 21^st March and 25^th of April the date is based on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equinox. This I found out via Google.

Now I am sure most people when they think of Easter think of the Easter Bunny and chocolate, but have you ever wondered what the hell is with the Easter Bunny, like what does a rabbit have to do with Easter. You may think this is some kind of modern invention but you would be wrong, most popular Easter traditions have their roots way back in history, like the Easter Bunny.

 

In fact the Easter Bunny can be traced back to ancient Anglo-Saxon times, way back when the hare was an important symbol of fertility so it played an important role in the pagan festival of Eostre, whatever that was.

Legend claims that this mystical goddess found a wounded bird and turned it into a hare so it could survive the winter. When this very same hare found it could lay eggs it made a gift of its eggs to the goddess who had protected him. And so the tradition of the Easter hare, or bunny was born.

Eggs have been an important fertility symbol for millennia,and they have always been associated with the rebirth of spring. And as eggs are associated with new life early Christians used them as

a visual symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. When people first starting giving eggs as offerings and gifts at Easter time they used birds eggs. They were painted bright colours to echo the vibrancy of the colours of spring after the darkness of winter.

In the UK and Europe early Easter eggs took the form of duck, hen or goose eggs. These were later replaced by artificial eggs until eventually, as chocolate became a more widely available foodstuff, the first chocolate eggs began to appear, in the early 1800s. The vogue for exchanging chocolate eggs at Easter quickly spread right across the globe so that by the end of the century chocolate eggs became the ubiquitous Easter offering.

Have you heard of egg rolling the tradition of egg rolling on Easter Monday dates back to Anglo-Saxon Germany. Although historians are unsure of the exact significance of egg rolling, it’s believed that for the early pagans the activity was seen as a way of bringing new life to the land at springtime. For early Christians, meanwhile, egg rolling could have been a representation of the stone being rolled away from Jesus’ tomb.

The tradition of eating hot cross buns on Good Friday has its roots even further back than early Christianity. Buns marked with a cross were eaten by the Saxons during their spring celebrations – it’s believed that the bun represented the moon and the cross the moon’s quarters. Christians continued the tradition but to them the cross symbolises the Jesus’ crucifixion.

Although chocolate eggs tend to the gift of choice at Easter time today, coloured, decorated eggs have also been an important symbol and gift shared at Easter time. The tradition of colouring and decorating eggs dates back to the Middle Ages when eggs would be painted bright colours to welcome in the new spring. The tradition continued and was adapted by different countries; in Germany, for example, it remains a tradition to paint eggs green and eat them on Maundy Thursday while in Greece and the Balkans eggs are dyed red to symbolise the blood of Christ.

But the most elaborate take on the tradition came from Russia, where in the late 1800s/early 1900s Russian aristocracy commissioned the French jeweller Faberge to create an egg like no other, fashioned from enamel and encrusted with the most dazzling jewels. These incredible Easter gifts are worth millions of pounds today!

The special fruit cake eaten at Easter, known as Simnel cake, is steeped in traditional symbolism. Traditionally the cake has a layer of marzipan on top and is decorated with marzipan balls – these symbolise the disciples, though Judas is left out and only 11 balls are added to the cake.