Saturday, October 29, 2011

December Daily ...

So this year with Christmas at our place I am going to do a December Daily ...

I have bought a kit from Studio Calico ...

Sc nov 2011 dd (2 of 3)

and have ideas of creating the cover of my album like Ali Edwards did ...

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I made a December Daily a few years ago, I have done a total of 2 although I'm not sure I have fully completed either of them ... LOL

But this year with my family coming it will be great to make one ... so stay tuned!!

Another Studio Calico DT who has created a great album is Jen Jockisch

Yummy summer slalad ...


Recipe and photo found at Pioneer Women

Saturday, October 22, 2011

totally gorgeous darling ...


Inspired by a layout by Brianne Nevill in September 2011 Scrapbook Trends.

Transition girl ...

First week of school ...


 for all four!!

I don't think I magically had lots more time but it was a busy week with a student free day, a trip to Port Lincoln and 2 busy days at work so I suppose that filled in a fair bit of the time!!

I'll see how next week goes!!

Hannah was so excited about going to school but I think the excitement turned to overwhelm-ment once she was there at the beginning of each day. By the time she got home she was telling us that she had a good day!!

And thank you to at least 2 teachers who gave her a hug ... her own teacher and then yesterday a secondary teacher :-)

Friday, October 14, 2011

Boarding school memories ...

The boarding school I went to no longer operates as a boarding school but there is a 


Facebook page and some of the girls have been posting memories ... oh my goodness it has 


brought back lots of memories of those days!!


I spent 5 years at Boarding School ... from year 8 to year 12.



  • A special birthday cake from a shop on Jetty Road, Glenelg ... I think it was Wenzels (when there were 3 terms of school I always had my birthday at boarding school!)
  • trips down to Jetty Road to go shopping and buy a bag of hot chips and on the way back eating them even though we weren't meant to eat in the street
  • trips home on Stateliner from the old bus depot for the school holidays ... we had to wear our uniform home on the bus but lots of people changed in the toilets ... we had a long trip to Woomera!! 
  • the fashions over the years ... most memorable ... socks tucked over the bottom of jeans and little scarves over the top of the collar of our shirts and tied at the back ... what were we thinking!! Really wanting the trendy jeans but only having the basic ones in the range ... can't remember the brand ...
  • running to the letterboard each Recess desperate for a letter or even better a parcel ... I still remember the girl who had a pen friend in South American who received a broken card board box of pistachio nuts before we had even heard of them!!
  • claiming to have periods on swimming carnival day!! Or actually having periods when the swimming carnival was on!!
  •  standing under the huge Morton Bay Fig tree ... it was spectacular!
  • shopping just before I started in year 8 for each and every essential item on the list ... I can remember the shop on Jetty Road (no longer there) where Mum took me to buy most of it, I think it was pretty trendy at the time LOL
  • midnight feasts 
  • Fried eggs that looked very much like plastic and oh so oily that we had to use the paper napkins to de-grease them and the infamous fritz fritters
  • watching Prisoner in the common room 
  • Dancing classes with Saints boys 
  • having only about $1 pocket money each week and from not being allowed to make more than 1 phone call per week (to parents only) 
  • going to chapel 13 times per week 
  • going to the Style Council for hair cuts with the spunky male hairdresser who I saw was in the top stylist a few years ago!!
  • finding the cigarettes and Summer Wine that the year 9's had hidden under the floor boards when I was in year 8
  • the year 9's (again!!) piercing each others ears with an ice cube and a needle!!
  • the entrepreneurial year 9's who made and sold tissue box covers and fabric photo frames!!
  • listening to the radio on Saturday nights ... can't remember the show but basically a countdown of music I think
  • the smelly bed lights in year 10 and 11 ... commonly referred to as the fanny lights!!
  • a girl that had to be taken off early from the social to the FMC to have her stomach pumped after drinking too much at her grandma's on a day out ... definitely not me!!
  • the same song being played at the end of a boarding house social every time ... American Pie by Don McLean
  • going to the Academy Picture Theatre ... not there now!
  • Friday night trips to the Mall ... took so much time catching the tram in and waiting to get the taxi back and time in the taxi  I'm not sure why we bothered!!
  • once in the city spending time in the down stairs The Gallery (it was under John Martin's I think) checking out boys etc!!
  • going to Marion Shopping Centre in a taxi ... much better time spent but no boys to check out!!
  • 1980's music ... great site here with most of the ones I remember ... http://www.afn.org/~afn30091/80songs.html
  • the house mistress who wore the highest of heels and long manicured nails and had her hair done very week ... she looked really old  at the time! And the other house mistress who would call down the corridor "nighty night" and we would call back "pajama pajama"!!
  • Being sent to the sick bay when you were sick and the 2 girls who overdosed on Vitamin C tablets and had terrible diarrhoea!! (Again not me!!)

So many more memories but just a few that I can recall for now!!

Must be the basis of the Ramblers song ...

Over here 


Rye Whiskey

I'll eat when I'm hungry,
I'll drink when l'm dry,
If the hard times don't kill me,
I'll lay down and die.

     Rye whisky, rye whisky,
     Rye whisky, l cry,
     If you don't give me rye whisky,
     I surely will die.

I'll tune up my fiddle,
And I 'll rosin my bow,
I'll make myself welcome,
Wherever I go.

Beefsteak when l'm hungry,
Red liquor when l'm dry,
Greenbacks when I'm hard up,
And religion when I die.

They say l drink whisky,
My money's my own;
All them that don't like me,
Can leave me alone.

Sometimes l drink whisky,
Sometimes l drink rum,
Sometimes l drink brandy,
At other times none.

But if I get boozy,
My whisky's my own,
And them that don't like me,
Can leave me alone.

Jack o' diamonds, jack o' diamonds,
I know you of old,
You've robbed my poor pockets
Of silver and gold.

Oh, whisky, you villain,
You've been my downfall,
You've kicked me, you've cuffed me,
But I love you for all.

If the ocean was whisky,
And I was a duck,
I'd dive to the bottom
To get one sweet suck.

But the ocean ain't whisky
And l ain't a duck,
So we'll round up the cattle
And then we'll get drunk.

My foot's in my stirrup,
My bridle's in my hand,
l'm leaving sweet Lillie,
The fairest in the land.
Her parents don't like me,
They say l'm too poor;
They say I'm unworthy
To enter her door.

Sweet milk when l'm hungry,
Rye whisky when l'm dry,
If a tree don't fall on me,
I'll live till I die.

I'll buy my own whisky,
I'll make my own stew,
If I get drunk, madam,
It's nothing to you.

I'll drink my own whisky,
I'll drink my own wine,
Some ten thousand bottles
I've killed in my time.

I've no wife to quarrel
No babies to bawl;
The best way of living
Is no wife at all.

Way up on Clinch Mountain
l wander alone,
l'm as drunk as the devil,
Oh, let me alone.

You may boast of your knowledge
An' brag of your sense,
'Twill all be forgotten
A hundred years hence.

(Negro Variant)
In my little log cabin,
Ever since I been born,
Dere ain't been no nothin'
'Cept dat hard salt, parched corn.

But l know whar's a henhouse,
De turkey he charve;
An, if ol' Massa don' kill me
l cain't never starve.

(Variant chorus)
Rye whisky, rye whisky,
You're no friend to me;
You killed my poor daddy,
Goddamn you, try me.

Additional verses

O Mollie, O Mollie, it's for your sake alone
That I'd leave my old parents, my house, and my home.

I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry
And when I get thirsty I'll lay down and cry

O baby, O baby, I've told you before,
Do make me a pallet, I'll lay on the floor.

I will build me a castle on yonder mountain high
Where my true love can see me when she comes ridin' by.

Where my true love can see me and help me to mourn.
I'm a rabble soldier and Dixie's my home.

I'll get up in my saddle, my quirt in my hand,
And I'll think of you, Mollie, when in some distant land.

I'll think of you, Mollie. You caused me to roam.
I'm a rabble soldier and Dixie's my home.

But the ocean ain't whiskey, and I ain't no duck,
So I'll play jack o' diamonds and try to change my luck.

I have rambled and gambled all my money away
But it's with the rabble army, O Mollie, I must stay

It is with the rabble army, O Mollie, I must roam.
I'm a rabble soldier and Dixie's my home.

The Union men and Yankees have forced me from my home.
I am a rebel soldier and far from my home.

I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry.
If those Yankees don't kill me, I'll fight till I die.

From American Ballads and Folk Songs, Lomax
Note: One of the more exhaustive texts.
RG ,XX

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Coffin Bay ...

has been about ...

enjoying this yummy Bircher muesli for breakfast (thank you Amanda for the recipe!!)


boys heading to the jetty ...


boys enjoying the boat ...


girl enjoying the boat ...


a bit of canoeing and taking each other for little trips out the front of the shack ...


more trips to the jetty ...

(yes it is as hectic as it looks!!)

tea at the yacht club ...


a trip out from Farm Beach fishing ...


taking some photos with my new camera ...


Lachlan's favourite thing to do once we have caught fish ... fish handling!!


there has also been a lot of arguing and fighting and telling off but hey that would happen at home too!!

Must do this ...

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Great post by Stephanie Howell ... stay tuned!!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Update ...



We had the 3rd Escape2Create scrapathon on the weekend of 23rd - 25th September ... was a great weekend of yummy food, good times and a bit of scrapping thrown in!! 
Thank you to Sue, Kathryn and Amanda!!

The crops are growing on the farm ...


School holidays started on Friday 30th September and we headed to Coffin Bay ...

There has been a bit of chess played ...

 But mostly lots of card playing!

I have learnt Warlords and Scumbags (LOL) and John and I have taught the kids Coon Can!!


Sunday was my birthday ...

So John and I shared a bottle of Moet and ended up all going to have tea at the Yacht Club (not the original plan but it was easier!!)

I slipped into the Blue Bird Markets on Sunday and bought a few things, including this dress for Hannah from Green Dandelion!


Yesterday we headed out in the boat  ... John, Lachlan and Rohan left from Coffins and Hannah, Jack and I met them at Farm Beach ... we caught enough King George whiting for tea last night!! Yummy!!


Today it is raining ... so it is fairly hectic in the small shack with 4 kids!! Just planning our day now!!

Sorry about the false start to this post ... internet is fairly unreliable here!!