A request for Bretty

As per your request Bretty. Plus a few more.

cheers

Scott

No 10

Popped in at No. 10 today to say farwell to Tony.

Scott

Happy New Year

Hi All,

If you didn’t know already, I kept up an online Weblog – kind of like a diary – of our family activities for the year. Here’s a summary with all the links if you’re interested. It was a good experiment, and an interesting way of keeping up with all the stuff we did. There is much finer reading by going through the archive sets.

• In January we had the Crying Baby, and The First Day Of School.


• In February we had The Story of Wednesday (the Dog), Callum's so called First Word (and he still doesn't talk), and our favourite past time of Going to the Beach.


• In March we had Callum's Chickenpox, Sleepy Children, The Golden Crutch (one of my literary masterworks), and my first Taekwondo grading.


• April brought the first of the birthdays with Aidan's birthday, Stupid Faces, Our Melbourne Trip including Going to the Zoo with all the nieces and nephews, and Ethan having a Heart Attack at soccer.


• In May we had Six Strange Things About Me, Hell Morning followed by Aidan's Child of Courage Award, Anth's Birthday, and my first trip to the U.S. for the year.


• For the first part of June I was in the U.S., but I did have the good fortune of seeing my Sister and Her Family. On the return I got to see Callum Crawling and had My Birthday.


• In July, we saw what it was like to have Dinner at our Place, Discussed God, had Ethan's teeth fall out, and had Ethan's Sports Day.


• In August Ethan got the Taekwondo Student of the Month Award, I did the Bridge to Brisbane run (and paid for it for months!), went to the Ekka, Went to a Farm, and had Aidan's Sports Day.


• September brought forth Aidan's Charity Art Auction night, spring Callum eating Chocolate, and had Callum's First Birthday


• In October I went down to New South Wales to watch the AFL Grand Final with mates, Callum stood for the first time, I headed back to the U.S. again and wasn't home for Ethan's birthday, and Callum really got going walking.


• In November Ethan took up Auskick, we had family outings to the Park, and I got very very sick.


• Which brings us to December, where we've already had many trips to the beach, we completed nearly a whole year of Taekwondo (including with Snake!), we got our new Bird Beefy, and recently celebrated Christmas.

Cheers, Wes (and Anth, Aidan, Ethan, Callum, Wednesday and Beefy).

P.S. I haven't stopped completely, I'm going to attempt a new blog called I Love Brisbane. Check it out!

More XMAS photos

Just posting some more xams photos.

2007 Strathmore Boys AGM

The Annual 2007 AGM has now been and gone and from a personal stand point, was a great success. Thanks to all those that attended to make it the great day that it was. Rohan, Brett, Bruce, Erv, Nais, Big Dave, Ted, Spinner, Age, Dave F and Me (Goaty). The day had it all, food, alcohol, pleasant scenery, action, adventure and most of all humour. Sorry you couldn't be with us this year Wiz as well as G.T.

Thanks to Dave F for booking the lunch venue and negotiating a great price as well as a special gift. Thats as close to doing a runner from lunch as we will ever get. Obviously the staff at Mesh aren't known for their mathematical genuis. It's going to be hard to top that next year. Lunch could have gone for longer, especially being a buffett but that was more than made up for by the generous invitation to carry on our Annual General Meeting aboard Incentive 3. Many thanks to Rohan for making the boat available, as well as taking us for a cruise to Station Pier. Special thanks to Nais for showing off his newly learnt boating skills and piloting the vessel, at least through the easy stretches.

I think we will all be thankful that Rohan avoided parking the boat at Table 13 in Capari during our hasty exit from Station Pier. An excellent piece of driving, seconded only by the pick up of Spinner off a lonely jetty under the West Gate.

Well, thats it for another Christmas Lunch, stay safe and have a Merry Christmas.
I have attached some photos for the benefit of those who couldn't joint us and those who can't recollect.

Cheers
Scott

The King is dead !!

The King is Dead.

Long live the King !!!

Trip to the U.S.

G'day Boys,

I just got to spend a fortnight in the U.S., predominantly in Florida at a conference. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend most of the time right on the beach. The conference hotel was in Clearwater, and backed onto the Gulf of Mexico. Each evening we had some amazing sunsets, and this shot captures one of them.

On the weekend I was free from the constraints of work, I ventured down Route 75 to visit my sister and her family, who live on Sanibel Island. It took about 3 hours to get there, but I managed to do it without getting lost too much. It was great to catch up with everyone, and although the heat of the day was more or less unbearable. Tania and Mark are doing well, and Mark is winning lots of awards for his TV commercial work. He even got one in the Superbowl last year. His web site Trademark Films shows a lot of his work.


We also took a drive up to Captiva Island, where I couldn't resist the urge to behave like the great white whale, and get my kit off for a swim. Well, actually, in an effort not to shock the retirees that live there, I did display a modicum of decency by keeping my pants on. I could here the shock of some of the old folks saying "Oh My God, Look at Whitey and the glare coming off his body. Heaven save us." whilst other's quietly murmured "Should we call the coast guard to shift the beached whale?" I was able to ignore this and float around with Mark and the kids.

I also spent a day up in St Louis, where I was hoping to try to come close to matching Detto by getting a flight in an F-18 Super Hornet simulator. Not quite the real thing, but fun anyway. But it didn't happen, so I can say I saw one, but that's about on the par of watching an SS Commodore pass you at the lights. I'm still not in the Detto league yet!

Cheers, Whiz.