Early to Bed

Early to Bed
Early to Rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.       Really????   Why????

Just another saying from my childhood that makes little sense to me.  I can understand the 'healthy' part because sleep allows your body to heal itself, and your mind too ... but wealthy and wise??  How?

Anyway, the reason I say this is because I plan on being in bed before 10.30pm.

We are going out tomorrow night and it's the beginning of a big Easter weekend in town.

The Easter Classic Fishing Competition is on and the crowds are already filling the caravan parks and the holiday rental homes.

I think I'll spend a bit more time out and about with my camera.  There should be lots of opportunities for some portrait shots and even action shots with kids catching fish and casting nets and lots of boats in the water.

The river bank is usually lined with people sitting in folding chairs and holding fishing rods and the park is full of happy energy with families having picnics and barbecues.

Kids on bikes and skateboards, dogs on leashes, lots of colourful floating devices with kids jumping and swimming and laughing, building sand castles, splashing each other, pumping for bait, chasing each other over the sand.

It's a happy novelty for the first day or two, but then I start to feel claustrophobic and like my town isn't my own any more.

I was going to list all the things that annoy me about the weekend, but that's a bit too negative, so I'll just say that by Easter Monday, when the tourists start to trickle out of town, I breathe a sigh of relief that things are getting back to normal.

Two shots from today.  The April challenge ...

4. Someone who makes me happy (two for one)

and some random kids I watched playing with their dog in the sand this morning.  Their Mum and sister were sitting nearby watching them play.

That's all for today.  Short and sweet.  I'm yawning as I type and keep looking at those three words ... "early to bed".  I can feel my eyelids closing and I've just remembered that there are fresh sheets on the bed tonight ... and we all know how wonderful it is to slide in between fresh clean crisp sheets :o)

Nite all.

Finally!!

I'm a winner!  Finally!

I won the flickr group monthly challenge with this photo ...

I can't seem to find anyone who wants to celebrate with me, so I hope somebody out there is as excited as I am :D

Woot!  Woot!

Today I enjoyed a one hour pedicure.  Vegan Chickie and fam gave me a voucher for the pedicure for Christmas and today I finally got to enjoy it.

It was bliss .. well, it was a little bit painful sometimes, like when she was sticking that wooden stick under my toenails to clean them and then when she massaged my calves ... you know those nasty little knots that you get in your muscles sometimes, that only require minuscule pressure to cause intense pain???  Hmm.

No.  Really, it was pretty darn good.  Why is it that when something feels that good, an hour passes in a flash, but when you're at the dentist, an hour feels like three hours??

Afterwards, I met Vegan Chickie and Chicklet outside the spa and then we all walked to the cafe where we met Adoring Husband for coffee.

I had Chicklet on my lap for a long time!  She usually gets restless and wants to be on the move, but she sat with me for about an hour.  It was so nice!

How precious is this??  

We eventually had to make a move, although I could easily have enjoyed Chicklet for another hour, but Psychotic dogs needed to be fed and we had dinner cooking in the slow cooker.  **sigh**

April Photo a Day challenge ...

3. Mail
My Canon lens travel coffee mug!  Got it on ebay.

I've already used it twice and it holds the coffee well ... I'm very fussy with my coffee cups ... mostly I prefer a take-away coffee.  I will almost always ask for a take-away cup when I go to a cafe for coffee.

In some cups, coffee doesn't taste good.  It tastes good in this cup.

Well, after finally winning a challenge, wahoo, I am off to watch some more Greys before bed.

Nite all.

Addicted to Greys

I have just watched two episodes of Grey's Anatomy and I HAVE to watch the next episode.  I will never be able to sleep tonight if I don't see what happens next!!

As a token gesture, I am posting the first two photos of the April Photo a Day challenge and another photo that I took this morning on my ride.

1. My Reflection
(I look evil enough that I expect horns to poke through my hair!)

2. Colour

I found these on one of the picnic tables at the park this morning.  They were highlighted so beautifully by the morning sun, I couldn't resist taking the photo.  One of my photographer friends from the course that I did in Toowoomba in 2010 has a fetish for taking photos of random shoes - so I thought of her when I took this :D

Now if you will excuse me ... my Grey's addiction needs to be satisfied!!

Nite all

Blog Spot - The Little Gnome

I asked the birthday boy some questions, telling him that he would be the star of my blog post tonight.

I think he was a bit chuffed, until we got part way through the questions and he realised that he had to put his thinking cap on and it wasn't going to be as easy as he thought!

So The Little Gnome turned 78 years of age today.

Here are the answers to his questions:

Q.  Where were you born?
A.  Cecil Plains QLD (45 kms south of Dalby) in 1934

Q. What was your main occupation?
A.  Rodent Control Operator (Rat Catcher)

Q.  When did you move to Burrum Heads?
A.  2006

Q.  Favourite food?
A.  Roast Pork - especially the crackling.

Q.  Favourite music?
A.  Country and Western.

Q.  Favourite movie?
A.  Australia

Q.  What was the last book that you read?
A.  I don't read books.  I read the newspaper every day.

Q.  What are you most afraid of?
A.  snakes, frogs and toads.

Q.  What are you really good at?
A.  Wheeling and dealing.  I buy used machinery like lawn mowers, fix them up and sell them.

Q.  What do you do for fun?
A.  Come down to the Seat of Knowledge every morning.

Q.  Not counting your children, what is your greatest achievement?
A.  My charity work.   (The Little Gnome has received two awards for charity work)

Q.  If you were going to get a tattoo, what would you get and where would you get it?
A.  I already have wolves all over my body.  I guess I'd get another wolf on one of my butt cheeks  because that's the only spot left!

Q.  What country would you most like to visit?
A.  New Zealand.

Q.  What famous person, dead or alive, would you most like to meet?
A.  Drew Barrymore.

Q.  You're having a dinner party for ten.  Five family or friends and five famous people.  Who would you invite?
A.  Friends - Roz, Hilda, Robyn, Ray and Merv.  Famous - Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Alfie Langer and Wally Lewis.

Q.  If you had the power, what one thing would you do to try to save the planet?
A.  Stop destroying rainforests.

Q.  Who do you most admire and why?
A.  My Grandson, for his achievements.  Rising above his background, getting a good education and working his way up through the ranks.

Q.  Scrunch or Fold?
A.  Fold

The Little Gnome struggles with his literacy skills, so I wrote his answers out for him and I gave him no warning about my little questionnaire, so sitting in front of all of his friends and having to answer twenty questions off the top of his head, was a big stretch for him.

I've warned my other boys that they are next, so they'd best get their thinking caps on!

Today, Adoring Husband was working in the yard and cleaning up behind the shed.

He found some eggs and all but one of them was broken ...

I posted it onto the flickr group and one of the girls thought it was a gecko egg.  It's very cute :D

I did go for a ride this morning and it really was a glorious day.  The sun was shining, the sky was a vivid blue, there was a nice cool breeze and there were lots of bird sounds everywhere.

The tide was out, so I walked out along the sand flats and spent about 40 minutes exploring the rock pools, following the oyster catchers and chasing soldier crabs.

I took quite a few photos, but none of them were really worth sharing.  The light just was too bright!

Still, it was a most pleasurable morning and sunshiny days have been rare so far this year, so I soaked it up.

Bed time for me.

Nite all.

Not Churchy!

Tonight, my X-mother-in-love (or Grannymus as she calls herself when commenting on my blog) and I had a little email chat to catch up on some news.

Just when I thought we were finished for the night, she sent one last message...

"One thing on your blog made me laugh in a knowing (smarty pants) sort of way.  It was your

comment that you are not religious.  I would agree if you said you weren't 'churchy' but I

reckon you ARE religious or you wouldn't go sitting waiting to see a particular bird while

being bitten by insects......  You have a very reverent attitude to beauty and find it in all

sorts of places and to me that means you ARE religious. Particularly when I see what captures

your imagination.

signed smarty pants :-)"

This was in relation to a recent post where I talked about my maniac bus driver who caused me to pray that I would arrive at my destination safely - and where I cited that I was not religious, but still, I prayed.

Coming from Grannymus, I take this as a huge compliment and in future, I will replace my 'I am not religious' statement with 'I am not churchy'.  :oD

The final four photos from the March Photo a Day challenge...

28. Trash

29. Feet

30. Toy
(A special tribute to Bubbles AND Chicklet, who both love ducks!)

31. Where I relax

April Fools Day tomorrow and the start of a new challenge.

It's also one of my boys' (from the Seat of Knowledge) birthday tomorrow.  April Fools day is such an appropriate date for his birthday .. and I mean that in the nicest way ;)

I had a lovely couple of hours with Chicklet and Vegan Chickie this morning.  Vegan Chickie was feeling a bit exhausted after Chicklet had a restless night.   Even though Chicklet was very tired and grumpy today, she still had trouble falling asleep for her nap.  Maybe a bit over-tired.  I have trouble sleeping when I am over-tired too!

Even when she is tired and grumpy, she is still the most adorable child ever!  In between her grumps, appear the most vibrant and beautiful smiles.

No photos taken today though.  Not of Chicklet and none outside the house.  My day was feeling so incomplete, that I got my camera out at 8pm and took two shots (toy and trash) for the last of my March challenge photos.

Now I can sleep in a 'not churchy' kind of way, knowing that I have fulfilled my psychotic photographic requirements for the day!

Nite all. 

In the nick of time.

I spent all afternoon trying a gozillion different ideas for the challenge and none of them were quite right.  There was always something just a little bit off and I was getting more and more frustrated as time was running out fast.

Adoring Husband was being anything but Adoring, so I had a little tantrum and took an enforced break from the job at hand.

Very sad that something that I love so much should be causing me such angst!

First attempt:

Adoring Husband balancing on a golf ball.

Second attempt:

Adoring Husband sitting on a bongo drum with a green lady.

Third and final attempt:

Adoring Husband trapped in a wine glass.

This is about when my brain started to hurt and I just had to make do, because I didn't want to have to think about it anymore!

There were other less successful attempts in between these, that aren't even worth sharing.

So, thank goodness, that challenge is now over.  This one will not be judged by our tutor, but will be judged by our peers.

I'll let you know the result on Sunday (I think).

Tonight, about ten minutes after Adoring Husband went to bed, he suddenly burst out of the bedroom door, naked, and carrying something large and black in his hands.

I called out "What are you doing?" and he replied "The TV just blew up!"

At that moment I could smell that horrible toxic burning chemical smell.

I called out "Yes, but what are you doing?" and he replied "I don't want a fire to start in the bedroom!"

"So do you think it's a good idea to carry a burning television through the house with your bare hands and while naked????"

Luckily the TV was not burning and Adoring Husband was not injured in this particular story, however, the smell permeated through the house.  Ugh.

Also luckily, there is a strong cool breeze blowing tonight so it carried the horrible smell out of the house quickly.

So that was a little bit of excitement for the evening and now he has taken the TV from the outdoor area and set it up in the bedroom to replace the broken one.

Tomorrow is Chicklet day, so it's time for me to get some sleep.

Nite all.

Still Wide Angling

Firstly a couple of photos from the pier yesterday.

It doesn't look THAT windy does it?!

I had a good morning with the camera today, but I STILL don't have anything for the flickr group monthly challenge.  Tomorrow is the closing date, so I really have to get cracking!

These are my wide angle shots from today, but none good enough for me to choose for the challenge.

An idea was suggested to me by one of the flickr group members today, which I am going to try tomorrow.  Hopefully, it will be a success and I can use it in the challenge.

The caravan parks are beginning to fill up with tourists.  The school holidays begin at the end of this week and my lovely little town is going to be turned upside down with the Easter Fishing Classic crowds.

If I recall correctly, the population triples at Easter.

Ugh!

So I guess tomorrow will be one more day of wide angling, finishing off the March Photo a Day challenge and after that, concentrating a little harder on the 104 challenge.

Thirteen more sleeps til the holiday begins!

Nite all.

 

Three Hours of Bliss

Chicklet and I spent three hours together today.  Poppy was with us for the first hour, and then he had to leave for an appointment, so we had two hours alone.

Vegan Chickie and the Bare-chested Chef went to the movies to see 'The Hunger Games'.

So Chicklet and I read books, danced with the dollies, put things into and out of boxes, sang 'Old Macdonald' and 'Incy Wincy Spider', played horsies, ate some cucumber and crackers, watched 'Chuggington' and 'Giggle n Hoot' on the ABC, made the ducky quack, found the key, the lemon, the nuts and the orange on the outside of the box and we had nice cuddles together.

At the end of the three hours when Chicklet was getting tired and clumsy, she fell on her face when she went to crawl and her head moved faster than her arms.  She cried a little bit.

Then she didn't quite have her balance near the coffee table and slipped onto the wall.  She cried a bit then too.  But cuddles make things all better.  No big deal really.

She stood up and tried to walk everywhere today.  She fell down a lot, but she didn't care.  She just got back up and tried again.  She's so cute!

She was very happy to see her Mum and Dad - especially her Mum - when they came home.  She practically threw herself into her Mum's arms.

I had a lovely time.  I was a bit worried that Chicklet wouldn't last out the three hours without crying for her Mum, but she was fine :D

I love my little baby so much.  She is such a joy and I can watch her for hours.  Every movement, every facial expression, every sound ... they are each a little miracle and she reminds me of the joy that I felt when her Mum was that age, learning new things every day.  Amazing little human beings.

I did get a couple of photos ...

and before Adoring Husband returned from his Drs appointment, I got to spend some time on the pier getting some photos.

The conditions were dreadful and I was almost blown off the pier.  My hair was blowing everywhere and by the time I walked off the pier, my hair was a matted tangled mess that I couldn't even run my fingers through without pulling some out.

I took a lot of photos while I was there and I will post a couple of them tomorrow.

For now though, the babysitting has worn me right out so it's time for bed.

Nite all.

The Big Walk in the Red Robe

Watch this!!

Still a little unsteady, but it won't be long before she is tearing all over the place!

I have a big babysitting job tomorrow which I'm very excited about!

I spent a lot of time riding around this morning and time got away from me ... it was almost 12pm when I got home.

I did do morning tea with the girls, but it was 10am when we finished our coffees, so I spent almost 2 hours riding and shooting, for not much of a result.

Dragonflies can be interesting.

Especially when the birds won't co-operate!

Wildflowers - Photo 77 of 104

... and that was the long and the short of it!

I do have to catch up on my March Photo a Day Challenge ...

23. Moon

24. An Animal

25. Breakfast

26. Key

27. My name (which I won't post here)

The April Photo a Day Challenge is ready to go too!

Adoring Husband spent the time very productively doing some housework.  How nice was it to come home to 'neat and tidy' :D

I hope you enjoyed Chicklet's big walk on video.

Nite all.

Remember the 70s?

I've just spent quite a bit of time on facebook talking to an old work mate about the 70s.

Her status update read "Contemplating ... what was my favourite song from the 70s.  What a classic time.  I'm going to start with my favourites ... feel free to share yours".

Ah the memories!

• Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin 1971)
• American Pie (Don Mclean 1972)
• Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd 1975)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen 1975)
• Khe Sanh (Cold Chisel 1978)
• My Sharona (Knack 1979)
• Imagine (John Lennon 1971)
• You've Got A Friend (Carol King 1971)
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John 1973)
• Heart of Gold (Neil Young 1972)
• Black Betty (Ram Jam 1977)
• Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd 1974)
• Hotel California (The Eagles 1976)
• Gypsy (Fleetwood Mac 1979)

... and the list goes on and on.  The best era EVER for music!

What a great trip down memory lane.

A funny thing happened today in my facebook 104 challenge group.

One of the things on the list is 'A Nude Human'.  A few of us have taken the easy option and posted photos of nude babies and there has been lots of discussions on how to go about asking people to be nude subjects.

So it has been a hot topic and most of us are leaving it til last, trying to work out what to do.

Anyway, today I posted a photo of some mushrooms, using my new lens ...

The Mushroom Trail

... and after yet another discussion about nudes, one of my flickr friends made an addition to the photo and posted this ...

For those of you who don't know him ... that's my Adoring Husband's head.

I couldn't stop giggling!

So today has been a bit of cyber fun.

One more funny photo to finish off ...

I think one of our chooks has a calcium deficiency!

Enough frivolity for one day.

Nite all.

Multi-cultural Fun

The Multi-cultural Festival was on in The Bay today, so Adoring Husband and I drove in to check it out.

The parade started at 10am, so we made sure we were there for that.  One of the photos on my list is 'A Parade'.

A Parade - Photo 75 of 104 (Colombian Dancers)

The Polish Dancers

It was just like the Olympic Games' opening ceremony with a person walking in the lead of each group, holding a sign with the name of the country.

The costumes and traditional dress were so colourful and the people participating in the parade were all so happy - even though there was a light rain falling and the clouds were dark and heavy above.

The parade didn't last very long.  There were about 20 countries in all.

Then we headed over to the market stalls.  Another photo on my 104 list is 'A Colourful Market Stall'.

A Colourful Market Stall - Photo 76 of 104

There were lots of stalls, but the best were the food stalls.  Thai, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, German, Polish, to name a few.

I tried the Mexican because they had gluten-free soft corn tacos.  The tacos had been freshly made that morning and I had chicken with coriander and lime salsa and the 'secret recipe' chilli sauce.  O-M-G to die for!!

Then we got a coffee from Lisiana's mobile van, which was delicious.

We were there for about an hour and a half.  There was entertainment happening throughout the day, but we decided to head off.

We met Vegan Chickie and Chicklet for a drink so that I could give them some mail that I'd forgotten to take yesterday.  It was nice to have a quick catch up with them.  Three days in a row!!

Then it was time to come home.

The Childer's Multi-cultural Festival in July is much bigger and brighter than the one in The Bay, but it was still a nice way to spend a Sunday morning.

Seventeen more sleeps til my holiday ... but who's counting??

Nite all.

A Big Day Out

No ... not THAT 'Big Day Out'!  Just 'A' big day out for Adoring Husband and I.

It started with a very pleasant bus ride into town (Rocket Rod was not driving today) and I thanked the driver for providing me with my first enjoyable bus trip into The Bay for weeks.  He was very pleased and thanked me for saying so.

I spent an hour with Vegan Chickie, the Bare-chested Chef and Chicklet.

Chicklet played with her stackable boxes, her golliwogs, read a book, practised some words, giggled a bit, talked a bit, crawled a little, did some walking until she was all tuckered out and had to have a nap.

After her nap, I had about 20 more fun minutes with her, before Adoring Husband arrived to pick me up and we headed off to Maryborough for a photo shoot.

Our plan was to get a good shot for our flickr challenge this month.  I failed to do that.  I got some OK shots for my other challenges, but nothing that I would happy to submit for the flickr challenge.

I don't think Adoring Husband was happy with his shots either, because the last thing I heard him say was "we still have six days don't we?".  I assume from those words, that he wants to try something different.

So here are my Maryborough shots so far.

Railway to nowhere

The view from Muddy Waters Cafe/Restaurant where we had lunch.

There may be others later.

We arrived home quite late, around 4pm.

The football started at 4.30pm and it was Super Saturday, so we had 3 footy matches to watch.  Adoring Husband doesn't know it yet, because he went to bed early, but his team 'Cronulla Sharks' won their match 20-14.  He'll be very happy about that.

The Multi-cultural Festival is on in The Bay tomorrow, so we will probably duck in for a look.  I need photos of 'a colourful market stall' and 'a parade', so hopefully I can get them tomorrow.

Definitely time for bed now - I almost needed a nana nap after we got home this afternoon.  I am feeling decidedly weary tonight after our big day out!

Nite all

Happy Birthday Vegan Chickie

Even though I'm going to visit Chicklet and Vegan Chickie tomorrow, I wanted to see her for her birthday today ... as I told her, this may be the last birthday I get to spend with her for  a while, because they plan on moving as soon as they can afford it!

So we drove into The Bay and went to the Cheesecake Shop to get a Black Forest Cake, because that is one of Vegan Chickie's favourites and then we met for coffee at one of the restaurants downstairs from their home.

It was a short visit, only an hour, but it was important, for me, to spend some time with Vegan Chickie on her special day.

I even got to cuddle Chicklet for a little while, until she decided to go off and explore the area, with the Bare-chested Chef hot on her heels.

Happy Birthday Mumma

Look at my amazing eyes!

Happy Birthday Vegan Chickie!!

After the visit, we drove to the Butcher where Adoring Husband had won a voucher, so that we could spend it before it expired and then came home.

It was raining ... again.

Got an early start tomorrow, so ... Happy Birthday Vegan Chickie ... Olive Juice xx

Nite all.

Life Events

It feels very strange to talk about certain life experiences in here... and then receive kind comments from people who care.  It kind of jolts me and triggers a mini grieving process.

I was taught to be tough.  Don't cry, or 'I'll give you something to cry about'.  Talking about such things is 'attention seeking' and I should stop being a sook, shut up and just 'get on with it'.

As I get older, I look back on my life and the events that shaped me, and more and more, I wonder how I survived to this point.

There are so many traumatic events in my childhood that were 'shoved under the carpet', so many times that my life was dramatically tampered with, and looking back, I don't remember ever having any control over a single life decision.  

Today, I started a time line from my first memory as a three year old, to help pinpoint all of these events and how they may have affected me.

One day, I may share it in here, but for now I need to process it myself.

I know that there are people out there whose childhoods were a lot worse than mine, but today, I felt sad for me and all that I had to contend with as a child.

To the people who read this blog and who care enough to either comment or email, to lend me your support whenever I open up about something new in here, I thank you.

I cry every time because you say the nicest things :D

ANYWAY!!!  Enough melancholy!!  Let's get this show on the road!

Sadly, it rained today, so no riding and no photography for me.  I have updates on the challenges and an old photo that I played with and want to share.

March photo a day challenge ...

21. Delicious (my favourite salad)

22. Kitchen Sink 

104 challenge ...

A Flower Garden - Photo 72 of 104

Me mucking around with an old photo.

An ocean snail and a garden snail.

It's pouring rain again now, and even though I made arrangements to play golf with Woman of Many Talents tomorrow, I believe that after tonight's rain, the course will be too wet to play on.  I think I will text her tonight and cancel.

I just looked at the Bureau of Meteorology website and the radar shows a very big rain event over the top of us right now with heavier than usual rainfall.  The road to golf will probably flood.

My big road trip is only 3 weeks away now.  I think I'd best start making a 'to do' list.  So much to do, so little time!

It will be another life event ... I'm planning on it being a good one!

Nite all.

Allow me to expose myself

My little brother writes a blog.  He is still doing it tough after losing his soul mate in October last year, to a brain tumour.  He writes very honestly and from the heart.

He began his new blog with the title 'Allow me to expose myself' and he gave lots of interesting facts about himself, which also included some sad and scary stuff from his past.  I knew most of it, but I thought it was an interesting beginning to his life journal.

So I thought about 'exposing' myself here.  I've thought about it a lot.

I can't expose myself as honestly as my brother does.

Taking into consideration the people who I know read this blog regularly, there is stuff that I couldn't or wouldn't share with them.  Not because I don't trust them with the information, but because some of it would be upsetting for them (and I don't just mean you Grannymus), and then I would be worried about how they were feeling.  I don't want the worry.

So I can share 'some' stuff ... but not 'all' of the stuff.

• I am short.  155cm or 5' 2" in the old scale.
• I was sexually abused as a child.  The first time, I was aged 8.
• I went to 17 different schools while travelling around Australia in a caravan with my parents.
• I was a competitive swimmer and was fast enough to enter the Australian Championships, but my interest in boys took precedence.
• I have struggled with fluctuating weight all of my life.
• I was the oldest child in my family.
• I have no tattoos.
• I have never had a driver's licence (I had my 'L's at age 27 but it expired)
• I have been married twice, with a 12 year relationship in between.
• I have given birth to four children, had two miscarriages and one termination.  
• My first baby died of SIDS at 16 wks of age.
• I love photography.
• I like frogs (a lot).
• I'm a good listener.
• I worked for the CES and Centrelink combined for 16 years (and loved it).
• Even though I wasn't diagnosed until I was 45 yrs of age, I believe that I have suffered from depression my whole life.
• I don't trust Doctors.
• By the age of 45, I had lost both of my parents.
• Apart from the odd marijuana joint (maybe 6 in my life),  I have never used recreational drugs (unless you count tobacco or alcohol).
• I'm a lounge lizard sports junkie.
• I met my Adoring Husband in a free 'over 40s' internet chat room.
• I hate camping.
• I hate talking on the phone.
• I hate celery.
• I hate housework.
• I love being a grandmother.
• I love Spring.
• I love rivers and oceans and clouds and trees and nature's happy energy.
• I love my life.

So there's some 'stuff'.  Stuff you may or may not have known about me.  Some heavy stuff, but mostly light stuff.

I have been quite distracted tonight and am thinking that I probably should have left this particular post for another day when I could focus properly on it, however, what's done is done now.

So perhaps it's been more of a sneak peek than actually exposing myself.

Maybe another time.

Nite all.