Month: January 2025

The Christmas decorations have only been taken down
and put away for a couple of hours … and I miss them
already. The only one they’ve left up is the Eiffel Tower with the coloured lights – and they’re not putting that away because it reminds them of Paris. I think they liked Paris a lot! M Kaz has even changed her profile picture to the one with the Mummies with the vintage deux chevaux (2CV) outside their hotel in Paris after they’d been on the night tour to see the twinkling Eiffel Tower.

M Kaz keeps saying she’s going to go into the garage and finish decluttering in there but she hasn’t yet. She’s been trying to find an app to put on her phone so she can track what she has to do. It might just be because I have never felt the need to have a ‘to do’ list but you would think she could just go and do it rather than having to write it down first. I guess this way she can track what she’s done – when she actually does it.

I am surprised that M Kaz is still getting up early to go down to the Broadwater. She’s usually out the door just after 5am but sometimes when she actually wants to photograph the colours of the sunrise, she leaves way earlier. It will come as no surprise that M Sooz and I are not actually fully awake when that happens. I’m not sure what happens down there but she doesn’t come back for a couple of hours some days.

Nothing much is happening around Jannie at present – it’s hot, it’s wet, it’s cooler (when those Mummies have the air con on) and there are a few critters around – dinosaurs and such but I haven’t noticed the tiny tiny canetoad-thingies that Uncle Wayne loves so much.

Well, I wanted to stay up to see the New Year in but I could not persuade those Mummies to stay up until 12 am with me.  It’s no fun staying up late if no-one else is staying up with you.  No amount of pleading would have them stay up until after 9.30 pm.  M Sooz didn’t go to sleep straightaway but you can bet your  bottom dollar that despite her best intentions to stay awake, M Kaz did not.  She was snoring very soon after her head hit that pillow – just like any other night really. 

I heard the fireworks at 8 pm, 9 pm and at 12 midnight.  I didn’t hear the other ones at 1 am – but I don’t think those last ones were official fireworks just someone letting off crackers somewhere.  That’s what M Kaz heard when she was having coffee down at the water the next morning anyway.  I didn’t see any of the fireworks – except the ones M Kaz showed me on FaceBook from Paris and Sydney.  They looked wonderful.

M Kaz hasn’t been doing that much work in her office lately – I think she said something about the courts in the ACT being closed for the holidays, which means she’s on holidays.  She had talked about doing some decluttering and other tidying activities but she hasn’t done any of that yet but she has done some reading, and some photography including sorting through the piccies from their trip, and she and M Sooz have been to Lismore to see their friend Janet, and to Royal Pines to see Roz.

Those Mummies are still not watching ‘Midsomer Murders’ again.  I thought they would have started it again but they have been watchng ‘Call the Midwife’ but won’t be anymore unless they go back to the start of the series, because they’re all caught up already!

M Kaz has been watching Paddington Bear because they are planning to see his new movie next week.  She’s been busy doing that which is why it’s taken me until now (5 January) to get her to type up this post for me!