Sunday Culture

A long overdue visit to the McClelland Sculpture park.
We revisited some old favourites and saw some new interesting things.
A recreation of 5 years ago! Reluctantly posed.

Gemma still cannot resist interracting with ALL the exhibits. Remember the picture 5 years ago? This one was not posed either!
This swan is made of a HUGE tyre. Very effective, hard to piant we expect. A nice way of recycling an old tyre. The lake was full of green algae and looked very toxic.
Suspended rocks. A memorial to one of the benefactors of the park.
Gemma finds her orange squeezer at last.

Grandma survives thanks to bejewelled

It's all high tech mod cons these days


Gemma pushed Grandma to Ernies cafe for a lunch of Nachos.

Yes it has been too long since our last blog

Gemma decorates my B'day cake
We had a touch of rain
Gem checks out her Xmas blades
Eygpt is recreated at Canadian Bay Beach

Santa wear your shorts

Gemma sang "Santa wear your shorts" at the school Christmas concert this week. Very well received by the audience. We've been having recreation of the routine all week at home with Gemma the director teaching us the moves. She's a hard taskmaster, every little movement has to be correct, even down to the degree of bum wiggle and finger position.

Visitors to the Garden

Recently we put up a new bird table and we've

had many a guest at our restaurant

Another award

Fraser has come second in a competition to design a safety poster for the gas company.
It's all awards at the moment!
His poster highlights the hazards of using your mobile phone whilst driving. Luckily, this accident did not result in an enormous fireball... but, it COULD HAVE DONE.

Fraser wins an award.

FRASER WON AN AWARD last night at the NCCA (National Children's Choir of Australia) concert. We were all surprised and delighted. The award is given to the best choristers in the choir, one from each rehearsal centre.
We have cleared a shelf to display it (see left). Fraser's first actual trophy. We are all really proud of him.

The concert was great as always, the first song was in the dark and the choristers waved torches, very effective, it was called 'Turn the lights on!' ,I think. Fraser's group also sang, 'You Raise me up', 'Tears in Heaven', 'May it be', from the 'Lord of the Rings', "I will magnify thee, oh Lord' 'Tarah Orah', and 'Moreton Bay', quite a mixed bag of songs.

An award winning chorister said, "The best thing about being in this choir is the wide range and large number of songs we sing."

Having fun in the garden.

This is our grevillia, Judith Ann- looking beautiful at the moment. Below is the protea. Note the new bird table.

















Fraser and Gemma go wild on the trampoline- still popular after all this time.

Fraser's 9th birthday

Fraser's party, ON THE ACTUAL DAY! As you can see there was a green theme. Strangely, most of the guests turned up in green tops. How bizarre. Of course we had lots of fun, sardines, hit each other with balloons, birthday cake and plenty of lollies.

Holiday in the sun

Hello everyone, yes, we have been rather slow at posting lately.... Here are some shots from our recent trip to Cairns with the OS visitors.
The girls check out the map at the railway station on the way to Kuranda. No, it wasn't raining.

A fish that we saw in the reef off Frankland Island.

Fraser checks out a rockpool on Frankland Island.

Some strange animals at the Cairns Coconut Caravan Resort.

Fraser's Concert

Fraser recently had a concert at the Police Academy Chapel. Yes the very one where Tich and Dette got married all those years ago.

There was a mix of style from pop to classical, although the most popular was the Beatles medley, with some funky choreo.

Our trees have started to flower and we're getting some visitors

The Stationary Squad

Let us introduce Ruby Red Pencil and Fraser Eraser

Big news. Gemma can now tie her own laces

Dawson Coat of Arms

For the new music room at school they are making a quilt for the wall.

Everyone was asked to decorate a 100mm x 100mm square representing their family.

Karen has made an embroidered coat of arms with the motto

"Fervor super omnia" "enthusiasm over all"

We each have a quarter

Gemma - ballet and music

Fraser - lego and singing

Karen - music and needlecraft
Pete - mosaic and poker

Latest School Photos

Halls Gap Holiday Piccies

Heres a few snaps from our holiday with Granny and Grandad

Back at Last

No, we haven't disappeared off the face of the earth but our trees have.

A large branch fell of one of the gums in the back yard so we had the tree men in to inspect and remove the trees. We've made some new beds from the mulch and will plant some new trees soon. It's a shame to remove trees but better that than have a 150mm dia branch land on your head as nearly happened

Christmas Concert

Today we attended the Langwarrin Primary School Christmas Concert. We watched the young performers strut there stuff through a slightly hazy view from the smoke from the Gippsland bushfires over a hundred ks away. To quote Max "It cast a gloom over the whole proceeding ".

Despite the smoke both performer and viewers had a good time, even the teachers put on a show. Rose and Gwynn arrived from Adelaide in time to see Matthew and Amy on stage.

Gemma Fontayne

Gem had her ballet concert last week and we got the formal photos at the ballet break up party.

Gemma's friend Meagan is the girl in the purple butterfly dress

You've got to take the big bets and I did

This week I had my first real success at the poker coming 13th and getting 39.5 points!!!!
The big win came when two guys went all in against me. When the cards were turned one had two queens, one had two Kings. You can imagine their faces when I turned over, wait for it

TWO ACES, WOO HOO!!!. I tripled my chips and the others were out.

It must have been my lucky purple shirt.

Still no skittles or bread round