Trip to Perth

I used the time-lapse feature on the Canon G9 camera to film my trip to Perth on Thursday evening. The camera was jammed on the dashboard of the car, so there are a few smudges visible on the windscreen. You have here about 2 hours worth of travel in just under six minutes. What I noticed most in watching it was that the roads are tree-lined nearly all the way.
I left the farm at 4:50pm and the film finished at 6:50pm just before I reached the first traffic lights of the metropolitan area at Armadale.

Hollywood

I have been to Hollywood! OK Hollywood hospital is not so good as going to the real HOLLYWOOD!
The only bright lights shining on me were the operating theatre lights.
I had to have bilateral duct excisions (bits cut out of both breasts). I have been extremely stressed about going to have the operation done. It was basically the same thing that I had last March, but on both breasts. Last year I didn't worry at all - it was just a little inconvenience which delayed our departure for France.
Anyway, no use worrying! It has been done, and I have a follow-up with the surgeon on the 19th of May.

More School Holiday Fun

After our day at the zoo, we went to York to stay with my parents at their Hope Farm Guest House. The kids were keen to swim in the pool, even though the weather was not hot.

Granddad took the kids to the lolly shop while I helped my Mother do computer work. Matthew and Michael helped my Father do some paving and some digging in the garden. The kids sat in the little garden trailer behind the rid-on lawnmower and had fun. They collected the eggs. They dressed up in Nana's collection of costumes and clothes, and they put a lot of work into a play that they performed. Written and directed by Sophie of course.

Sophie being kidnapped by two "baddies"(Michael and Matthew).

Hugh and Odette dressed up for a dancing concert.

Then everyone got up to dance!

On Friday we all had lunch together at Café Bugatti before having one last swim in the pool.
Roger has stayed home, and no doubt he was pleased to have us all back again on Friday night.

Matthew and Hugh in York.

Bonnie choosing from the menu at Cafe Bugatti.

Williams Gateway Expo

The children have been on holidays for nearly three weeks. School went back on Wednesday this week. During the holidays we did a few fun things together, and Matthew was at the farm, which is always nice.
On the middle weekend of the holidays I took the kids, and Michael our French visitor, to the Williams Gateway Expo. It is really a country fair or show, but the official title sounds like it is much more.
The best thing about the expo was that there were lots of free activities for the children, like an baby animal farm where they could touch and feed the animal, the Scitech display (hands-on science), a bouncy castle, face painting and roller-blading.

Odette experimenting with magnets

Odette on the bouncy castle

Matthew playing laser games

Hugh in roller-blades about five sizes too big

Odette fitting all the protective gear

Hugh touching a piglet

Sophie trying to climb a rope ladder at the Gymbus

Bonnie trying the rope ladder climb - the goal was to hit a bell at the top to win $50.

Wild Animals

OK. Those last three were not so wild.
We had fun at the zoo last week.