Friday Notes

I’ve been avoiding the election coverage at the moment. I’m sick of all the trivial things making headlines, while all the important issues are barely touched on. Also it concerns me that Clive Palmer is sounding like the most reasonable of all the parties/ candidates. I think I know who I will be voting for, but it is really only because I dislike all the other parties more. It’s a pity that we seem to have to vote to keep the party we like least out, rather than voting because we believe that one party has got it right.

Spring has hit the farm. The grass is growing, and the trees are in bud. We are hoping for a long cool Spring so that the grass doesn’t burn off too quickly. The longer it stays green, the better, but it is lovely to feel warmth in the air.

The girls have been writing and practising speeches for school over the last few weeks. They have to do one every year. Meg has to talk for one minute, while Hannah has to talk for three minutes. It has been a frustrating time trying to get Meg to write a speech as she can neither write all the words she wants to say, nor read them later. We got their in the end, with the help of some pictures to prompt her. The last few days she has been practising and yesterday she announced she had “learnt it off my heart”. Ha!

This weekend we’re off to the city for a night without the kids. Excited? Just a little! We don’t have any big plans, other than to relax and chat uninterrupted. Between work, and the rest of life, my head is rather full at the moment, so I’m looking forward to a bit of doing nothing (and a little shopping too!).  The kids have bought Country Boy some ‘useful’ gifts from the school Fathers Day Stall (seriously, do those things ever have anything actually good on them??), so we will probably fit in a little Father’s Day celebration on Sunday too.

Are you sick of the election coverage?
Do you hate homework too??

Happy Friday!