Well it has been the birthday season lately with Daen turning 16 in September, Liam turning 2 in October, Rosie’s birthday in November and Bruce’s birthday in December. As most of you are aware Rosie is much older than Bruce and he likes to remind her of this. We had the usual adults party for […]
2000 October – Family life
Liam has been having a wonderful time at playgroup this term. All the little blond haired, blue eyed boys returned and totally ignored each other again for another 10 weeks. Sarah organised the activities this term and did a wonderful job. As you can see all the mother’s made hats for the children on this […]
2000 June Family News
We took a trip at Easter to visit Phillip, Kathleen and the boys in Kalgoorlie. We started out by going to Joondallup and letting me have a game of golf, which as usual was very enjoyable. I played a reasonable game but not spectacular. At least I didn’t lose the money in the bet, much […]
2000 – March
The fence around the property has now been completed and the new automatic garage door has been installed. This means that Liam can now be contained within the immediate confines of the house and we can relax a lot more when he goes out the back door. He has taken it quite well and as […]
2000 February – Rosie’s Diary
Bruce has started his holidays now, this is the holiday that he is having while everyone else is at work, not the holiday that he just had while everyone else was on holiday. Many people are conspiring to disrupt his poorly laid plans for his year off. It started with Grandma Darby having to go […]
2000 January – Bruce’s Reflections
Well the year 2000 is finally upon us, with no great fanfare or catastrophes. I remember as a child sitting back and calculating how old I would be when this event happened and just couldn’t conceptualise what it would be like. Now that it has happened, it seemed like just another New Year. It is […]