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The MI Ts have gone on a road trip to Colorado. The G Family will be back downunder soon. Jarrah Kim arived safely. I'm heading North soon
Happy Birthday: AUGUST
GDAD: 9th. Me:8 on 10th (long story)thanks Bruce
Things I have learnt: I am not great in the cold. Chocolate is lethal for me. Pedicures/Manicures are really essentials! Ditto good haircuts.
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    Colour me Friday
    Friday, May 30, 2008
    A grey rainy day, and cold. Not worth getting out of the PJs so I didn't.
    storms and flooding on the sunshine coast and spreading south over the weekend.
    Hope the weather is better for The Wedding tomorrow.
    Tonights movie...








    I watched this movie today. Also made several digi scrap booking pages,

    however I am not on my computer so you will have to wait.





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    Colour me Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
    Thursday, May 29, 2008
    Brrrrr it's cold here! Well, OK not this cold maybe,
    but I have several layers of clothing on.




    Nice one Google -





    Mums furniture arrived on my door step today. Nice,
    but kind of sad. The experience not the furniture.

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    Colour me frowning
    Wednesday, May 28, 2008
    hmmm where has the baby count down gone?

    I will have to look into this....

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    Colour me Out & About
    Tuesday, May 27, 2008
    First stop
    was grandparents day at piggy pre-school...(oops I mean Prep ;) ) Here TNG #2 is painting an abstract representation of
    'mummy at the dentist'.
    It was a wonderful morning with shared activities, we did playdough and puzzles, then a concert of singing and performing
    songs with actions, even one we all
    joined in.
    we ended off with orange juice and cake.
    Thanks Miss A for inviting me.
    On the way south a visit to the famous Yatla Pie Shop.

    The old fashioned ovens are still used, but the modern doors are now around the back. These originals, are behind the counter in the traditional Queenslander building.


    sweet treats!!


    traditional pies








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    Colour me rushed
    Monday, May 26, 2008
    Yes, time really does fly. Especially when there is so much to do...



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    Colour me REunited
    Sunday, May 25, 2008
    Met up with R&L today...so great to see them,
    then B&B happened along...nice to see smiles in their eyes again. A few
    other faces from the past came my way and it was pleasant in
    the warmwinter sunshine catching up.
    Miss Jazz came for lunch bringing with her chinese vegetarian. The Chinese people are vegetarian for the next month in resect for the tragedy in their country. Though Miss Jazz lost no family of friends, she is feeling this rather deeply and our hearts go out to her, her people and her country.
    Good luck to Miss Choi (haha) I mean Miss A in her english exam for PR!.
    AND to Miss C for her architectural assignments. Year 3 already. Amazing.

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    Colour me Feetie
    'My feeties have headache' who says this?


    Evidence that washing machines eat sox!!!
    At the other end of the body wearing these sox is the yummiest scrummiest lil baby girl you ever did see...
    (I have another one to meet yet!)
    but whoa can she make a whole lotta noise!
    Not crying or screaming just comunicating
    & letting us know she is present and wants to join in.
    She is as ticklish as her sisters.


    Make it do or wear it out
    fix it up or do without -

    a little emergency eco-green making do going on here.

    The Orthopod is famous for being able to fix or clean anything....

    TNG#1 broke her favourite sandal while here,

    so here is the attempt to make it do/fix it up.

    If there had been more time it would have been fine...

    however.....

    and at 6 well a girl's favourite shoes matter...

    yes I know they matter to girls or any age really.

    Though I am so not into shoes....gimme a pc gizmo anyday!!








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    Colour it Family-Friday
    Friday, May 23, 2008
    Tonights movie is: In German with subtitles.



    Today around lunch time 'The Chef' and TNG 1, 2 & 4 came to sleep over.

    For a treat we had pizza for dinner:
    the closest to 'Chadstone' Pizza we have had
    in over 16 years.



    TNG 1&2 had fun drawing on
    the smoothed out wrapping papers
    used for The Orthopod's move East.



    They made an apparently yummy choc slice,
    with their mum, the Chef. I don't actually know
    the slice is yummy
    as apparently I am allergic (or something)
    to cocoa has I get worst hangovers,
    I don't know what else to call
    the response the next day....so no more chokkie
    for me!!!










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    Colour me annoyed/cheezed off
    Thursday, May 22, 2008
    I am almost out of BB for the month....grrrr

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    Colour me Cannes 2008
    Tuesday, May 20, 2008

    The name • The identity is based on one unique name "Festival de Cannes".
    All other name variants that employ the terms Festival, International, Film and Cannes
    are obsolete and are to be replaced by "Festival de Cannes".


    Bienvenue au Festival de Cannes - un événement important pour tous qui apprécient l'art du cinéma.


    Welcome to the Festival de Cannes - an important event for all
    who appreciate the art of film.

    (CLICK on Logo to visit the Official webpage)

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    Colour my emotions mixed.




    My heart goes out to China and it's people
    as they take 3 days for the Official Mourning of their heartbreaking loss.
    Especially to Miss Jazz and all her friends, who are so far away, but feel the sorrow just as keenly.

    Ok, so this isn't the freeway near me, (but neither is the baby below mine, or me, nor is the boy J; so I guess it's representations tonight.) However the freeway near me was bought to a standstill after an accident which involved loss of life. It seems to happen every few days. Very sad.




    I'm having a chat with a grief counselor
    tomorrow
    to see if I can unfreeze my memory....
    or get it back from where ever it went
    when mum died.
    Long term seems ok...but I have a long list of things I can't find...now where is that list?


    This could be the 12 year old boy
    that fixed our STB for me -
    it's not but I forgot to take a picture!
    Well done J. We sure appreciate you.


    I have added several Blogs to the Blog roll list over on the right.
    Now I find many of them don't work,
    but frankly I am worn out and nearly asleep -
    therefor the adjustments will be made tomorrow.

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    Colour me AUSTRALIA
    Monday, May 19, 2008
    Click on the movie title above to see the just released AUSTRALIA
    movie trailer.


    The romantic action-adventure is set in northern Australia prior to World War II, about an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits an outback property the size of Belgium.


    When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces.



    "The trailer presents all the elements of a truly epic movie, in the hands of one of the world's most visionary directors and two of the world's biggest movie stars," said Marcos Oliveira, managing director of 20th Century Fox Australia


    "It's a sweeping romance that is set in a far away time - it's far away now -
    which was just before the war," said director Baz Luhrmann of his new movie 'AUSTRALIA'

    "The sweep and the breadth of the story
    means that there's a sweep and breadth of the

    emotions.
    It's not naturalism, and it's not a documentary.
    The world in which we've set the story is factual,
    but I've taken those facts and I've made a world
    that is full of emotion.
    It's about the size and scale of the story telling."


    Australia is,
    without doubt, the most expensive and highly anticipated local film
    in history.

    This is going to be on a scale never seen before...

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    Colour Completed: Well done both Orthpod, & Le Chat Noir
    Sunday, May 18, 2008

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    Colour me Tallied.





    (Daylight come and he wan' go home)
    Stack banana till morning come (Daylight come and he wan' go home)
    Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
    (Daylight come and he wan' go home)
    Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana

    (Daylight come and he wan' go home)
    It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
    (Daylight come and he wan' go home)
    Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, BUNCH!
    (Daylight come and he wan' go home)

    Harry Belafonte - 'Day O' - thanks Harry

    Image from our weekly market visit.

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    Colour me blasé





    I don't know where you buy your sausages,
    however,
    we found a local butcher...just a friendly little shop...

    perhaps a cut above the others, one might say? (ha ha)



    ...and if one must wait for the exactness of one's order to be completed, then one waits in style, and comfort. That's a huge flat screen TV on the wall on the right. We found this place by fluke on the weekend.

    Honestly, it really is a butcher shop. By the time we marveled at everything,
    the place was quite full of customers.

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    Colour me Cake
    Friday, May 16, 2008
    Birthday cake for Miss 4 & Miss 6.
    Ice cream scoops are added just before the candle ceremony.

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    Colour 'The Orthopod's 'Helper - at it again


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    Happy Birthday Miss C
    6 today!!! Hurrah
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    Colour My BlogSpotAward
    *Colour My World Wednesday Blog Spotlight*




    Click on the banner or square image to get there


    This weeks choice, yes late again, but well worth the wait.... is a great site I found for those us needing some some help
    with how to do all kinds of things

    on our blogs.

    The next lesson I am going to refer to
    is how to put in my own banner across the top of my blog.

    so watch out for a change....




    you colour my world!




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    Colour Miss A: The Birthday Girl
    Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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    Colour me Restless

    well, my legs are. I seem to suffer from RLS.

    I did the test and sure enough; then I read the top 10 tips and so I got down on
    the floor and did the yoga stretches I was taught last year.

    I did some other exercises I know are good for me, yet remain safe, from a cardiac point of view.

    Then I stood up (slowly)and raised my hand up above my head. I stretched up as high as I could, then lowered my shoulders and my hands running them down the outside of my legs as I bent forward and downward, and YES!!!

    I could easily touch the floor, and hold the position to stretch out my calf muscles. I feel better, less jumpy already.


    Today was the day I decided to recommence my exercise program and an unexpected benefit is my legs have stopped 'jumping'.

    Italian marble floors are great, however carpet invites exercise.

    you colour my world!

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    Colour me Disbelieving
    Tuesday, May 13, 2008




    T
    his week:

    The Military Leaders in Burma are apparently prepared, at last, to take the aid offered. However, they will not the allow the International aid workers in to the country.
    Which begs the question why not?




    Thousands of people. including many school aged children
    are feared dead in this natural disaster in China.




    And yes, there is a major war going on,
    in case we had forgotten - with daily loss of life...


    Inspite of all these events,
    plus the horror of the kidnapped daughter in Austria,
    Madeline still being missing, etc etc

    this week is
    International Cocktail week~

    words fail me.
    I'm not even giving you a link on the subject.

    you colour my world!

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    Colour Me Budgeted
    www.news.com.au


    CLICK on the image

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    Colour me Startled.
    In Brisbane area there is a long, slightly rural road called Miles Platting.
    I always thought this was a person's name and I wondered for years about 'him'.

    Now I find a street named John Grey and have designated him a mate of Miles Platting. I have no idea why I have never researched Miles Platting but I haven't.

    Tonight it came up in conversation so I Googled the name. I am familiar with the road, but was surprised how many business and residences are in fact on it.

    This is what I found:


    Miles Platting
    Districts & Suburbs of Manchester


    MILES PLATTING
    Miles Platting was incorporated into the City of Manchester in 1838. The origin of the name is unclear as there are no early records of the district at all. The derivation of the word "Platt" however is from an old word meaning "a small piece of ground" and and "miles" is probably a corruption of the word "mills". Arguably, therefore, the placename might stand for "mills on a small piece of ground", but this is purely speculative. The District of Miles Platting came into being as a separate entity from neighbouring Clayton, Ancoats and Newton Heath during the Industrial Revolution and first seems to have appeared on maps in the 1820s.

    Miles Platting did indeed have many mills - Holland Mills, Victoria Mills and Ducie Mills being the most prominent. By the 1870s it also had a chemical works, timber yard, gas works and a tannery. Certainly the black grimness of the local landscape was its most notable feature. Its population was very large for the geographical size of the district and densely packed back-to-back houses were common. Railways tended to dominate the visual landscape of the district as the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway made its way out of Manchester Victoria Railway Station to Leeds and York. This main line and the innumerable sidings that accompanied it have been considerably reduced over recent years, and the local railway station has been closed and demolished for several years now.

    Contemporary Miles Platting is part of the East Manchester Regeneration Scheme and is undergoing extensive redevelopment and the removal of some of the last vestiges of the Industrial Revolution. New light industry premises are being made available and substantial incentives to encourage new business into the area. The area around Oldham Road, particularly, is undergoing extensive transformation as the old buildings disappear and new ones take their place.


    I really was quite surprised. So much for the personal history and story I had imagined for this 'man'.


    Just goes to show things are not always as they seem.


    you colour my world!






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    Colour Me Delicious
    The Quilter lapsed back into being The Chef
    for Mothers Day - and it was yummy.


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    Colour me INformed
    CLICK on image
    to go to website re the book etc

    I heard a review of this book tonight - it sounded great. Interestingly I had selected from the Library on Saturday,
    an older version of such places, but just in Italy.

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    Colour me laughing
    Monday, May 12, 2008

    I was really relaxing...but, ok if you actually
    need help with your jigsaw....
    yes thats the next piece you need.
    purrrrrfect

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