Dogwatch

Its been a while since we had any canine action here on the blog, here are the two lads after a run in the park

and here they are in their favourite perch just outside the kitchen.

A star is born

See any resemblance here?

Finns Birthday

Here are a few pictures from Finns 1st Birthday! Doesnt seem long since his last one. Here he is blowing out his first candle.



And here is all the immediate family, parents and grandparents and one slightly mad uncle

And here he is with his buddy Oliver demonstrating his new hat

Wild wild west 2

Some pictures were not working on the wild wild west post last week so here they are again

Flora update

The veggies are doing reasonably well, i am going to replant a new set for the upcoming spring/summer season. As you can see here the rocket has gone absolutely nuts!

And here is the lemon tree sporting a few flowers, indicating where lemons will be in a few months time

Whats on the menu this month

Just to keep everyone updated, the brew of the month is currently ULLA, a stout named after the battle cry of the martian invasion machines call from that war of the worlds gig I did and the other beer is a full malt wheat beer by the name of "Golden Sheaf". I have a few more kegs now so the stockpiling for the wedding of 2009 has begun.

Students Excuses

The dog ate it, i lost my books, we have tried them all. Check out this one though. In one of my schools, all the students have to fill in how much practice they do in a journal, check out this 6 year olds busy weel. 19 mins on wednesday, a full on 20 on thursday, a busy friday of watching football and a non stop 24 hour party on saturday it would seem. I had to leave the room to laugh at this one.

Last batch of party shots

Here is Adam and Steve in their regular day to day garb.....

Here is the other Adam, our mandolin player, who turns out is Ben Eltons brother in law. What are the odds!

Here is Faye and Barbera, our favourite octagenarians. They are nadines aunts and live just up the road. We first met them about a year ago at Fins christening. They LOVE parties and are great fun!

And here is Finny the Kid being helped up from the bar floor by a fellow cowboy after a busy cowboy day of boozing and gambling.

More party photos

Here is the wanted sign we had up all over the place. A bargain of a bounty too at $60.

The meeting of ethnic minoritys in the bar went well....

Jane and one of our harp friends Yi Yun provided the music early in the evening, then we had hank williams and other such western stuff piped through the band PA system for a few hours then Adam and out mandolin player did a set. Everyone thought it was great

Denis's birthday photos

Here is janes mom Ann and her brother Big Chief Sitting Mike

Here is Micheal again in search of the birthday boy

Here is Fin the Kid moseying with hsi posse

Denis arrives, check out the manly moustache on Fin

School staff room

One of the schools I teach in has about 15 teaching rooms, all named after a famous composer. I get the kids to remember the names by making up stories like "Debussy was a famous composer who played the violin and liked chocolate cookies", that kinda stuff, they think its great. The staff room is particularly well named on account of how we all hide there between lessons.....

Last post of WOTW

The gig went really well last week, 15,000 people came and saw it. This is how close I was to the giant screens.

Here is the airlock we had to enter through. Just like doing a gig on a submarine!

And here is a shot from backstage just before we went on. Hello Perth!

Welcome to the wild west.....

Twas Janes dads 60th last weekend so we had a fancy dress suprise party for him, western theme.

we decked the bar out like a barn, bales all over the shop and even got a noose for the ceiling.

It all went well, everyone put in a real effort in the costumes and if anyone wants a good deal on straw I can help them out.......

Stuff i did today

HOT off the press, a few of the more random things i experienced today

I bought 10 bales of hay (thats $85 bucks of cow munchies) as props/scenery for Janes dads 60th birthday party which is a western themed fancy dress party, so we are decking out the bar like a barn (sans mooturd)

Found a backdoor shortcut to the place where I am doing my war of the worlds gig, unfortunatly i forgot my ski's.

Climed to the peak of hamburger hill (its a real hill with steps and altitude and everything) and had a 'kitchen sink', the burger that has it ALL, AND more. I think i may have found the antipodean successor of matie kiely's!

and, came across this sign at the rehersal this afternoon, a sign that all conductors should wear when giving involuntary double-downbeats.

Well, thats pretty much it for today, at home now, not at my usual friday gig on account of a late reheresal in the dome, so kicking back in my comfy chair with the hounds, having a few beers, making 2 new batches of brew, should be ready in a fortnight, kegged two other beers which have been fermenting for two weeks (twice as long as normal so theey should be eeexxttrraaaaaa nice) a stout called ULLA (the call of the martians in the gig I am doing, its a nice robust stout, nice bitterness and about 4%) and a delightfull belgian wheat beer called 'Yellow Snow', you all know the winter rule 'never eat yellow snow', well this is a 9% cloudy beast of a beer and unles you have a few days free stay WELL away from this one.

Tarraa all, its been a nice week keeping the blog updated, i hope you all enjoyed it, i play here all week, dont forget to tip your waitress's, taxi for McCarthy........