Last weekend

Got through Ishbel's heavy social calendar!!! She had a school disco on Thursday evening and a Tanderra one on Friday evening. Went in to the school one telling me that one of the boys in her year had not danced last time and what a waste of time that was . . . came home telling me she'd been too busy watching the video of the music to dance. Saw no problem with that!
On Saturday evening she was at her friend Jessie's for burgers and a movie. The parents were going to drop her off between 9 and 9:30pm. Ian and the boys were out at the movies in Penrith to see the latest Bourne movie and I'd settled down to cry over Sheila Hancock's biography of her and John Thaw, The Two of Us with a nice glass of red. At about 8pm I got the call to come and collect her; she'd had a fall, banged her nose and wanted to come home. When I arrived she was sitting with an ice pack to her nose, very subdued. Wouldn't say thank you to Lisa. Howled loudly as soon as we got out the door! Nose and girl fully recovered.
On Sunday it was the soccer team picnic. We went down to Euroka Clearing at the National Park at Glenbrook. It was a beautiful afternoon and we had a picnic and games in the sun. Not far away a HUGE kangaroo was lurking in the bushes. We took some of the kids for a walk down to the river. It's a fairly flat walk until you reach sight of the river bank it is a pretty shear walk down the cliff to the river bank. Luckily Elki fell a little way down the hill and, although her cut was miniscule, she carried on like she'd broken her ankle so Ian and I offered to walk her back to her Mum and Dad so we got out of the really steep bit!