Harry stopped my world

Last Saturday the last Harry Potter book was released and I grabbed my copy with many other fans as soon as the store was open. I didn't have a chance to read it that day as it was Big Little Man's 6th birthday, but I did manage to sneak in the first few chapters during the wee hours of the night when The Man was on night shift and had to pry myself away from it at 2am to get some sleep. The rest of week found me with my nose in the book and all other duties left on the way side, everything literally ground to a slow grind whilst I tried to read.

I'm not a book spoiler so I will not give away any of the story but my review is positive. Of course I am slightly impartial to the Harry Potter books having been sucked in many many years ago and although it was quite a slow start, J.K Rawlings created a great book with the ending that warranted all 7 books. I'm currently reading the first book to Big Little Man and he is really enjoying and I'm finding it nice to go back to the beginning too.

The book is on the shelf with it's previous parts and now life can return to it's boring self again.

Here are some pictures from Big Little Man's numerous birthdays (3 days worth), with the finale at Hungry Jacks with his school friends.

I give up :(

For 4 days I have trekked all over Sydney to find a decent bike trailer and they simply do not exist for under $650. I was willing to go as high as $500 but this is not even enough and people obviously love them to bits as I can not even find any 2nd hand. Most of the bike retailers were really nice and 80% didn't even stock them as "they are just not popular enough". One retailer told me that Sydney was simply to dangerous and you would not want to risk your child as there were not enough dedicated bike paths and sadly he is right.

So I have given up my quest of the trailer, The Man sees my disappointment and was happy to see if we could import one from overseas but it would not be worth it. He is trying to cheer me up with the offer of a new iMac, it's seems to be working. But I would love a trailer, so if your reading my blog and would like to donate $650AU my way, I'd love you forever!

Thank you Scooter!

It is such a shame that here in Australia it is so hard to get Burley bicycle trailers, I would absolutely love to get the top of the line Burley d'lite but at $950AU and in another state (so extra with postage) it is completely out of my league. I was hoping on grabbing an ebay bargain in a Burley Bee from the USA but it's reviews are questionable - thank you Scooter , that if I had trouble with it it would be very hard to replace all the way on the side of the world.

I think I have convinced the The Man to buy me the most reasonable one I can find here in OZ The Croozer but still around the $500AU mark. I have to be realistic and know that I will only use it for another 1.5yrs as Little man will be 5 then and off to school and then I can ride on my own again. But The man said that maybe I could put the dog in it after the kids have out grown it and ride him to a big park for a good off the leash run, I like that idea.

So thank you again Scooter, I think it's best to stick with what's at home just in case I have troubles and need to return it etc and I think I've found a new blog friend in your friend Lissyjo.

Game addiction

At midnight on the 4th I queued in a ridiculous line to lay-buy a X-Box 360. (That shopping experience is another story altogether I can share later) As the thing cost so much, it shall be the group Christmas gift for the family but I told The Man that wasn't fair as I'm not really a gamer. Well he said that anyone could easily turn into be a gamer, I admit I was one in the past and so he went out and bought The Sims 2 on PSP to fire up my gaming attitude - bugger all to hell, I'm addicted to the stupid game!

Creepy crawly

Just sharing some pictures from a little bug show Little and I went to last month. I forgot I took them as they were on my mobile.

Knitting scarves are SO boring!

Now I recall why it took me 5 years to make a scarf, it's because it has to be the most boring thing in the world even if you have a fancy pattern it's the same thing over and over and over again! But I still like to knit, I made another sheep and searching the net for other toy patterns that even if no one I know wants them I'll donate them to charity and maybe another child can have it. Check out these groovy socks/booties! My niece just had a baby (no she is not old enough to have a baby but what's done is done) and if I speed things up he may get a chance to wear them.

I want again...

A few months back or possibly last summer I said I wanted to get a bike trailer and I want to get one again. Little Man is not that little and riding him on the back in a baby chair is almost impossible, our feet hit each other and if he leans to a side the whole bikes equilibrium is lost. also reading about Nod's riding adventures with his daughter in his burley makes me see all the positive reasons I can still have with one. So I just need to find a few hundred dollars to get one, even ebay second hand ones are on the expensive side so resale value is also very positive.

Thankfully everyone is no over the horrid cough virus that had invaded our home, The Man had to get chest X-rays and is too lazy to go find out the results but overall I'm so glad we all are human again.


My brother came down to visit us, sadly as we were all sick we couldn't really do to much, but the boys love catching up with their cousins and it was nice to have some girly chit chat with my sister-in-law.

We headed to the park and vandals have ruined the kids play equipment, why do these dick heads do this, really pisses me off and feel that for this sort of stupid crimes should be dealt with via extreme means, like breaking fingers, see really pisses me off.