Those lazy, sunny days that seemed to last forever | theage.com.au

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Those lazy, sunny days that seemed to last forever | theage.com.au

A great little reminder of what summers past were like.

Aloft in a hot northerly of nostalgia, I’m borne back to those distant days when the must-have item for any backyard wasn’t a water tank or a shade cloth. It was quite the opposite. It was a long strip of plastic called a Slip ‘N Slide. You’d bung the garden hose on one end and from hundreds of pinprick holes, the thing would spout fine arcs of water. Gallons and gallons of fine arcs of water. You’d take a run-up, go skidding the length of this glorified plastic shopping bag and continue out across the waterlogged lawn, through the prickly pear (from memory, always at its prickliest in summer) and straight into the crumbling side of the old Besa block incinerator.

Thanks to Lisa for the heads up.

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The “Santa’s little helper”, homemade photoshoot.

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Couldn’t resist a little Christmas cheer.

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We’ve been busy

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Spring - It’s the time to get stuff done.

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Go Doggies

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Sons of the West
Red, white and blue
We come out snarling
Bulldogs through and through
Bulldogs bite and bulldogs roar
We give our very best
But you can’t beat the boys
Of the Bulldog breed
We’re the team of the mighty West

A big thanks to Kylie and Mark for the Bulldogs singlets. They arrived just in time. Wilson wore it all day saturday and doesn’t really know what he is smiling about, but what the hell.

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Dont let this innocent face fool you.

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His head is starting to get wider………. whatever that means! (click on Clyde for a few more pics)

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The Dogs lost? WTF?

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What do you mean? They lost?

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The “K” Team

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Dont you be cryin’ in the “K” Team Fooooool!

One of “The K Team” went down!

Poor Bonnie - she blew a paw today……. Poor Bon Bon.  Haz was gratious enough to take poor Bon up to the vet to have her dew claw removed. I think she had the blow out while she was digging the great escape tunnel under the fence to let the dogs next door in.

She’s very sooky and very sore.

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Walking - It’s the new cycling!

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After twelve months of “nesting”, TK and I decided it’s now time to start getting back into the swing of things, and now that Wilson is a little more resilient to the elements, start doing some physical, family activity.

My preferred method of exercise is by stealth - and I like to ride my bike/s to work to get that endorphin rush. Wilson isn’t big enough to come on the bike yet and is still a few months off being allowed to travel in a trailer. Because of this, we cant all go for a ride. So we’ve taken up walking. Yep, two legs! Two legs and two hours.

Two hours of walking in the depths of Melbourne winter. Yesterday we took a long stroll along the beach from Seaford to Carrum, up along the path along the Patterson River then through Patterson Lakes back home to Seaford. All the while, black clouds followed us and to say it was cold was an understatement. It was so Cold that Wilson didn’t want to open his eyes on the beach.
(so bloody cold that Wilson wouldn’t open his eyes)

Wilson was a lot happier to be inside and warm when we got home. Especially when 5 minutes after walking in the door, the heavens opened.

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