An Interesting Day

What an interesting day!

Any day when four students are charged with offences under the Explosives Act has got to be action packed. Going home in the middle of the day to have a shower - that's fun too. Dropping a bottle (that a student has passed to you) because it is bulging, bubbling and getting warm is always a real highlight. Having an explosion that is so loud it could be heard in the staff room (150m and two buildings away) occur before the bottle hits the ground next to your foot is an absolute blast! And learning how easy it is for kids to make a chlorine bomb - that's always interesting. Fortunately I wasn't hurt, and neither was anyone else.

Camp & stuff

Even though it was "Mylor again!" We had a great family camp, just one night sleeping over-good idea!It was nice and green by the fast flowing river and the temp not too hot or cold.The summer fire ban started at midnight so we got to have the last fire for a while. Our speaker was the same guy as last camp-Gill Camm, he continued on the same topic of making the church( us people!) adaptable and relevent to current times. Very good and challenging. Dad I would like to get you a copy of what he had to say I think it would be very helpful for the Orroroo church too!
The kids had sportsday yesterday and their house -Topaz won and they both did very well.Zac had a very exciting race as the fourth batton runner in the relay and came from behind to hit the lead at the very last second!No surprises that Annie easily won the shot put:)
I still cant say I've fully recovered from op.Havent got all the feeling and taste back in my toung yet and still hurts to talk a lot and swallow and hurts a bigger lot when I yawn which I seem to do a terrible amount of times a day.
Hope all is well for everyone. Take care and lots of love to all.
Kezza xxxxxx

Ambos to the rescue at Park Tce.

As you can see a painter came to grief doing some work on the house but he was lucky enough to have an Ambo arrive some 24 hours later. This scene is just one of many around the town as people get involved in creating a scarecrow as part of the Quilting and garden activities in Orroroo and districts this week. There are quilting displays in the town hall, Uniting church Hall, spinning and weaving the CWA rooms and a display of Bridal gowns in our church hall.
Grandma Jeanie and your mum had a look around most of them today. The Scarecrows have many themes like water skiing, painter, surfer, silo worker, council worker, bank robber, bride plus a number of traditional scarecrows may get some more photos later.

Still Alive

Well, just to let you know that we are still here. The kids have been back at school since last Thursday and seem to be coping okay. John was much more relaxed about moving up to the Senior school than I thought he would be and Jessie is managing without her big brother in the Junior school, although she still looks for him on the basketball court at breaktime.

We are getting absolutely soaked with three solid days of rain and thunder storms, starting with a great electrical lightning show on Saturday night. Went from hot humid days last week, to cool wet ones without any real autumn in between.

Apart from that there is nothing new. Wadih is still looking for work and I will have my first day in school in Tyre on Thursday.
Bye!

Out on the town at 91

Grandma Jeanie celebrated her birthday with a lunch at Maggie's yesterday. Before we went she enjoyed watching a birthday dvd that Debbie had prepared for her.
Very hot day for Oct. with strong north winds, much cooler today which is good as I have a wedding in Murraytown at 3.30pm and which is outside in the sun.

Isaac says

I went to Orroroo we had a Bonfire it was very hot, I looked after Mum while Dad was at work its a shame she didnt get to keep her toncils ,I also went to the movies to see Stormbreaker and I thougt is was a good funny intence action movie , I went to Net-Lan and played Dawn of War and Counter Strike with my friends and stayed home and watched movies with Mum. I havent played any risk lately because there has been noone to play it with. love Isaac B+C=P

We've been on holidays!!

Well, we finally managed to get a few days holiday down in Tyre. ALL of us!! We left Tuesday morning and due to traffic in Beirut and crossing the Litani river, took two and a half hours to reach Tyre. Nig and Annette very kindly let us use one of the flats below them in school to stay in and the kids actually slept upstairs with Nadine, Maria and Sam on the first night. The kids had a great time, playing and watching movies together. The girls as the Copy Cats, with some help from John, gave us a lovely show of singing and dancing (just like Merise and I used to do!!)
The roads have changed quite a bit since I came down last, as you can see. There are quite a few of these French Army bridges and the one across the Litani has been there almost from the first week of the cease fire. They have done a fair bit on fixing the roads and highway, although you still never know when you will have to swerve around a huge crater or move over to avoid someone coming down the wrong side of the highway because their side is impassable!! Welcome to Lebanon. I have done a few other enteries about the rest of the holiday, so I could put up photo's. Much more interesting than me writing loads. All in all it was lovely and I could have used about three more days of it!!

Holiday Part Two

One of the things we enjoyed was going out for a meal and then we met up with the Whites, Correia's and a couple of other people for really good ice-cream, very cheap too. Then we walked along the corniche (by the sea) and back to school. That was the first night, the second night we had dinner with all the school volunteers and then had a walk around the old city port, stopped for a drink at Le Phonician restaurant on the sea front, then came home for an evening of card games in our little flat. Lovely!!

Holidays Part Three

The other thing we did which was great was hit the beach in Tyre. As you can see, we have beautiful beaches here and the kids had a great time with their friends. We were able to share it with the UN soldiers and Lebanese teenagers, anxious to show off their football skills. We went there on two days and it was one of the highlights of the holiday!!

Black Rock Bombfire

The Hogbens joined the kittos at Orroroo for the Oct Long weekend The Hogbens + Rachael Fergusson stayed with us with us and the Kittos along with three other couples from Whyalla stayed at a B&B house owned by Lisa & Keith Slade (Edna Probert's granddaughter)
We had a bombfire down at Black Rock Sat. night burning up some of the pine trees that we had bulldozed down to stop blocking up the gutters with pine needles A lovely calm night I was a bit worried because they were forcasting strong winds coming up in the night but fortunately they didn't arrive until lunch time on Sun with a few spots of rain. Still no rain turned 900 sheep onto 400 acres of crop Sat morn. Some photos of the bombfire hopefully as the week goes by there will be other entries.
The gathering was to help Stuart celebrate his birthday