Not going to Victoria

It seems my chance of going to Victoria has been and gone, for the time being at least.

Jono comes down tomorrow and he and Ian are going down to Philip Island, Vic. for the motorbike racing so I've had to make myself unavailable. Anyway, I was stunned to get an email from our brigade Yahoo group to say that our time had been and gone and we were down at the bottom of the list again. Without any of us knowing anyone from our brigade had been sent anywhere. The captain's response to a member's query has been uninformative and unsatisfactory but he has shut down any further discussion on the topic. I sense that no one is happy. Unfortunately for the folks down south, their situation appears likely to continue for some weeks yet so once Ian is back I may be able to put my name down again with some hope of being sent on RRG.

We had yet another busy weekend. At RFS training on Friday night Rob and I got to go on a call out - to help remove a tree from on top of a car. It didn't take long and all I did was control traffic - all two cars but I got the opportunity to give a policeman directions!

Robbie had a cricket match most of Saturday - I don't know what the weather was like at Hazelbrook but it rained a lot here. It's a two day game so I will have to take him next weekend - yuk - I don't do cricket.

Ishbel spent much of the day with her friend Brittany. Brittany was going to choose hermit crabs on Saturday morning and wanted Ishbel to help her choose. Didn't know Ishbel was a world reknowned expert on hermit crabs and much sought after for her advice, did you? Anyway, as I suspected would happen, I got the call in the afternoon asking if Brittany could stay over.

We were supposed to be going to Music by Moonlight at Homebush for Latino Rhythm 'n' Groove with Sharon and Janet and Steven but it was wet and soggy and we decided early in the afternoon to bail out and have dinner here instead. We weren't much chop at thinking of latino food and just had paella, tacos and tortillas and the only latino music (and even this is stretching it) we had was Kid Creole and the Coconuts and Santana. The only dance we could think of we all knew was the conga line! Pathetic.

Unfortunately Sunday was pretty boring, especially for the girls. While Jamie headed off for a day out in Penrith with his friend, Chase and Robbie snored upstairs, we headed down to Penrith to look at flooring. We need to replace the lino here in the kitchen/family room and want to take up the carpets everywhere else in the house except the bedrooms. We were looking at floating wood floors but have been persuaded that wood-looking laminate would be much harder wearing, not to mention much cheaper.

We called in on Karen on our way back from dropping Brittany off and got our Xavier fix for the week.