Summer is here again

After looking at houses yesterday we cooled down in the pool for an hour - Amelia loves it (even though she can't swim or touch the bottom in the shallow end). Callum wasn't sure first time, so we let him watch from his bouncer.

Today, it is expected to 38degrees, so we might have to kick me dragon out of the pool early...

(hmm - air con looks like a useful option...)

redback

I forgot to say - we killed our first redback at the weekend - it was just sitting there on the pool fencing, looking very menecing (it was all of 4 mm wide at the body), and we were delighted when it jumped into the mortein spray, then rolled under my shoe...

NYE06

We ummed and ahhed about it, but in the end we bundled the kids into the car, drove to the nearest railstation and made our way into the city for NewYearsEve 2006. Given our late planning, we didn't have tickets for anywhere, and so decided to get to the grounds of the Opera House - where we should get a good view of the 9pm Family Fireworks.

And we did.

Amelia (and Callum) was very good considering she had to sit outside in a small area for nearly 6 hours.

We didn't think she would forgive us if we stayed another 3 hours for the main event (plus getting out of the city would have taken hours), so watched the midnight fireworks on the tv.

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