Mum and Charlie

Just some photos taken of me and Charlotte playing. They are hardly ever done, cos I’m always behind the camera, so I wanted to share them :)

I’m convinced it’s a natural thing to blink when someone takes a photo. Why does that always seem to happen? o_O

A good long talk on random stuff

So… what’s with this server eh? Going all wonky n stuff. GAY. I emailed and txt my cousin, but heard nothing. I’ll see him at Nana’s on Christmas though.

Let’s see what random things I’ve been up to. First, on Sunday I was eating strawberries and there was one as big as my hand :o I should have done a better comparison, but I got hungry! ^_^ Tis not a very good photo o_O

Then what happened? Well, Charlotte drew a “nake”, and a “nake” goes ssssssssss apparently. Unsure how she knows what a snake is. And also what a scorpion is! ;)

My garden got nailed by the hot weather, and I had to have the sprinkler on most of the weekend. Which was okay, cos Charlotte and I sat under it ;)

Oh, and Dave made Charlotte a mini version of one of my handbags

Look at that, she’s totally not a baby anymore. She’s a real little girl. Ohhh my lil baby all grown up! Someone give me more babies!

Oh Christmas tree…

Compared to trees that I saw when I was in the UK, our tree is pretty lame. Yes, it’s not a real one, because real pine trees in NZ look like… sticks with random branches. Our little tiny fake one looks better than any pine tree I’ve ever seen. We don’t have Fir trees, or whatever you foreigners use ;) I don’t like the way my floor gets covered in pine needles too, and needlessly cutting down some innocent baby tree just to have it die in my yard, then having to pay $30 to dump it at the rubbish tip. It doesn’t seem the logical or sustainable thing to do. But I hope one day I can have a really bushy real tree that looks awesome, they need to genetically modify them so they make good Christmas trees. I saw a cool fake black one o_O

Anyway, take a look at our fake tree. The photo doesn’t really do it justice. I’m going to film it at night with the pretty lights flashing and going all colours. I also took the photo before I found a box with tinsel in it ;) So it is a bit bare. We’ve had this tree for about… 10 years o_O So it’s kind of old and worn out. But it’s a good tree, it fits nicely on the table in the corner and we only have a few decorations, all the ones we made as kids are all thrown out long ago. Plus, our cat likes to pull it over so it pays not to have a big tree. Charlotte already nearly pulled the tree over twice. Gotta keep an eye on these kids o_O

Charlotte made her first decoration at this Christmas party she went to, it’s a toilet roll converted into a Santa. He’s sitting up there next to the Angel. Santa is all coloured in with colourful felt pens (which might I add do NOT wash out of her best t-shirt very well). He has a hat with cotton wool on it. He’s very cool looking. She’s not completely sure who Father Christmas/Santa is. I tried to explain it, but all she does is point at say “tee” which is tree in her language.

Our tree looks very nice in person. :p I’m pleased with it. I decorated it ALL on my own. I even themed it so it’s only gold and red. One day I’m going to have a massive tree, and I’ll decorate it only in silver and bloo. Until then, I’m very happy with this one. I’ll post a video of it tonight.

And it already has about 6 presents under it ;) ooooo…..

P.S. stop laughing at my tree, or Santa won’t come to your house!

Girly girly girls

I’m trying to grow out Charlottes fringe, it’s getting longer, but she wouldn’t let me tie up her hair until a few weeks ago. I had to cut the very front of her fringe, and hope like hell the sides start to grow. So random, on the temples she has bugger all hair.

Anyway, she lets me tie up her hair! I didn’t realise how hard it is to do someone else’s hair. o_O Doing my own is no problem, I’ve been doing it for years. It’s so much easier when you can put your hands behind your head and just not have to look. But tying up another person’s hair is so difficult. Especially when they don’t really like to sit still, and as soon as you brush it and get it up they grab the hairbrush and brush their hair and make it all messy >_<

I hope her hair gets thicker like mine, it’ll stay up better. At the moment it’s quite thin and is more like Mum’s and Abbeys hair, which is thin and stuff, doesn’t tie up very well, falls out of clips etc. Thick hair all the way!

Anyway, this was our first attempt at tying it up in pigtails and I think it’s really cute -_-


Such a little angel -_-

Y’know, I think I would like a son, I wouldn’t get to do his hair, but it’d be nice.

Swinging on Judd Crescent

What a good walk this was! This is the park on Judd Cres, right across the road from where Dave grew up (just around the corner from where we live now). And we walked up Toomath and up the back to get to it. I tried to explain to Charlotte that the green house is where daddy grew up but she was more interested in the slide.

This playground has certainly grown since we were kids playing here (or hanging out smoking). We did lots of crawling through tunnels, sliding down slides and I am SO not putting up the action shot mum took of me falling off the playground! >_<

Here’s my cutie:

I had to give her a shoulder ride home, as she got really tired. We didn’t get back until 8.30pm and her bedtime is 7pm. Eek!

Some punkarse kids left the cover off a manhole at the back and it’s a LONG drop into the darkness down there. I tried to put it back, but it was too heavy. I hope nobody gets hurt or falls down and kills themselves.

Btw, KMFDM are innocent!

Riverside Drive walkings, ducklings and punk-arse kids

Charlotte and I went for a walk last night to where I used to live when I was in high school. Well, some of high school. I think I lived in about four different houses during my run at high school. Anyway, we went down to Riverside Drive and walked along Wyndrum Avenue. There are such nice houses there, flashy as feck.

There is a creek that runs along, and I though “Woohoo, we’ll see ducks”, because Charlie loves ducks. And sure enough we did. And we saw ducklings! So cute! -_-

That photo of Charlotte is SUCH a crack-up. I tried to get her to smile for the camera and I was grinning away and she obviously thought a smile was when you show your teeth of. It looks like she’s growling at me ;) Hahaha!

And about those punk-arse kids… We walked along Wyndrum Avenue to the Open Polytechnic and then turned around and came back. Only to find three young boys (approx 10 or ) right down by the creek throwing big rocks at the ducklings :O Charlie got upset and started crying. I yelled out “What the fuck do you think you’re doing, I’m going to throw some fucking rocks at you”, and then they ran away. I think those kids probably crapped themselves. I was going to beat them if caught them ;) You’d think young white rich kids would know better. Ugh, boys, so stoopid >_<

But the ducklings seem to be okay. Charlotte got over it. And this cool black cat followed us up the road and over the bridge. He was such a cutie. We gave him lots of cuddles. And that was all of that! Hooray for sunny weather.

Boozy Taylor People

This is where it all started, that tendency to drink a lot. The first photo is my cousin Sussan stealing and drinking beer, the second is charlotte drinking someone else’s beer.

Yes, that’s me in the background (with severe bed hair) having a story read. I would have been about 4, so sussan would have been 2. And that is her mother (my Aunty Rae) going :o

Every other picture of me as a teenager my mother has contains me or my sister boozing it up. What a shocking family ;)

Isn’t it funny that the glasses are identical? o_O