How are we all today? Me... well thanks for asking, I'm currently sat in a thunder storm (possibly have broken the kids toilet but am hoping that because I've left it alone and broken it will have corrected and mended itself by the time I go back to check in a minute.)
How did I break it.... by unscrewing the push down flush to chuck one of those loo block things in. Now it won't screw back down.
Eeek.
Anyway enough about crappy toilets (hehehe) and on to my morning.
Thought I'd pop to Aldi as fruit is cheap and it literally comes in abundance. So the first problem of the day is getting a space, every granny and her walking stick is out today, there were people queueing by cars with no one in. I had more sense and I just drove around and around and around aimlessly. Eventually got a space and went to get a trolley .... put in my trolley coin and the trolley wouldn't budge and its swallowed my coin and I can't get it back, obviously doesn't like English trolley coins. Luckily I had 2 dollars (borrowed from Sean's pocket a few days ago along with some other gold coins and a $5 note) Go to other trolley insert coin and I'm away.
Aldi is looking quite empty, hurrah. Spend 10 minutes debating over what tuna do I want, line caught, net caught, in spring water, in oil, lime and pepper flavour, chili flavour, hand caught, smoked tuna there were more but that's all I can remember. Meanwhile fellow customer ...aka annoying lady (AL) stops also by the tuna and like me seems to not know which kind she wants.
I leave the tuna happy with my choosing of one of each (just to be on the safe side) I get to the fruit and AL is there in my way, I go left she goes left, I go right she goes right. You get the picture. I then spot some strawberries, another lady is knelt down looking at the boxes individually as if its the most sacred thing on the earth, so I wait and I wait and I wait. Meanwhile AL sneaks up from the right and tries to get in to the strawberry idolisation position.
I'm not having that, so I bend down and swoop in before her and grab a box, 'ha beat you' I say too loudly.
Wander round to the meat and she's there again, I'm now wondering if she was undercover security?! Anyway everywhere I stop she stopped, everything I picked up and scrutinised she did.
We obviously now have finished our shopping and we are both on the starting blocks for the tills, the race is on. I of course get the first only to realise I didn't get milk. So off I trundle back to the milk leaving AL to go through the till first.
When its my turn the cashier wants to chat about every thing under the sun, Easter, the weather blah blah. Which is fine until he asked me 'What are you doing for the rest of the day?" I very proudly announce "I'm spring cleaning"
he then stutters "In Autumn" me not realising the error in my sentence replies "yes.... I'm English" I said that in reference to it meaning that in the UK its spring now, but obviously I didn't go on to say that and he obviously didn't get that. End of conversation and I don't even get a bye or have a nice day.
(AL is at the side bagging her tuna and strawberries)
As I walk to the car there is a small gathering of old people and their walking sticks by the trolley (that has my English trolley coin in) all looking very disgruntled as it was one of the half size trolleys (you know the ones, where you think you're going in for just a few things, but then end up over loading the thing with far too many "bargains" and then trying to still justify it to yourself that yes you have got 12 items or less and yes you can still use the 12 items or less till)
Unpack the tuna into bags in the car and take trolley back, by now I thought there was an OAP incident I was getting ready to jump in and take control but as I got nearer I realised that no, all 25 of them were just standing around this line of half trolleys unable to get one out. Because of me. Ooops. Sticks were flying, wigs were slipping and voices were getting angry.
Oh dear.
Toilet still broken. Hmmm guess I'll leave that for another 10 minutes. (does flush though so not really broken?)
Oh the thunder storm.... It's raining and it is NOT a good day, there's lightening and like I said thunder. Hmmm. Not what I ordered today. (And for some reason the kitchen windows are all steaming up. Weird)
We went to Thredbo (http://www.thredbo.com.au) on Saturday, which was lovely. Charlotte freaked out coming down the ski lift and Sean had a little whimper but the funniest thing ... the bobsleigh.
Because we were newbies to it we had to be taken to the side and instructed how to use the sleigh. Push down for speed pull up for brake, Charlotte goes first, then me then Ob and lastly Sean.
We get to the top by being pulled up the hill on a cable and that's when the adventure is supposed to begin..... for some I'm sure it did but for me I was static, I didn't move. I can see behind Ob is nearly at the top of the hill and clearly wants to go, (I know this because he was shouting 'go mum, go, GO ON') so I start to shuffle on the thing to try and encourage it to move, It doesn't, so I'm then scrabbling either side of the sleigh on the grass to try and get it going, eventually it does.... very slowly.
Sean is now in sight.
I get a little bit of speed up and then think actually I don't like this and am pushing this lever down to brake which of course was speeding it up, visions of flying off the track are in my head, enter the first bend and its getting faster, I then remember the brake is pull up, but by now Ob is about 5 feet away and screaming "mum go faster, go faster, GO FASTER'
I'm screaming back "I can't it won't let me, You slow down, SLOW DOWN"
Now Sean decides to get in on the action and is screaming 'Ob go faster, GO FASTER"
Ob's shouting back at Sean "I can't, Mum's in the way, MUM'S IN THE WAY"
Eventually get to the bottom, Charlotte has aged 2 years because we've taken so long and the guy who gave us the instructions just looked at me with disbelief and raised eyebrows. Ob then asking me why I was so slow and I had to say my sleigh was broken. Sigh
So now on my list of what not to do is A) Stromlo and now B) bobsleigh.
So not really very eventful this week but it is only Tuesday.
Signing off now, jobs to hunt down and feet to warm up.
Lots of love to you all,
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