Wow, the school holidays are over and done with already. What happened to them? The last week wasn't a good one for us. Mum was over the weekend before and took the kids back to her place on the Monday. Mums best friend and a wonderful friend of the family had cancer and been in for treatment about a fortnight before and things weren't looking good. Unfortunately she lost her long battle to the dreaded curse on Wednesday. The funeral was on Friday and what a wonderful tribute it was for her. I'd hate to say how many there was there, over 800 and could of even been 1000, it was too hard to say.

The Monday of this week, after Mum had taken the kids away I was taking Lunch over to DH and had a mishap on the motorbike, but to make a long story short, I was trapped under it and had to push the bike off the top of me. It was a 4 wheeler 500cc and DH says its about 300kg. Lets just say I was extremely lucky and I put getting out of under it down too the self defence/street wise course that I've been doing. The last two weeks we'd been working on being in your own bed and if someone comes in and climbs on top of the sheets, how you get out. I'm 100% positive that this is the reason I could get such a large machine off the top of me. I was grateful mum had the kids and for next 3 1/2 days I did nothing, well I couldn't if I wanted too. Friday was better until at the funeral, everyone insisted on cuddles, and I was like wincing in pain. So apart from extremely sore ribs, two huge bruises on my leg, a couple of smaller ones on my stomach and a graze on my back there was nothing wrong. Talk about lucky. (gee, aren't you glad I made the story short LOL).

Lionels trip to Aussie was great. He had an absolute ball and caught up with his brother. He said the shearing was fantastic too and he had a fantastic shear on the crossbreds. They had to shear 12 merinos and 12 crossbreds in the transtasman. He was second off and the NZ team came second, but they didn't disgrace themselves. The organisers asked if they would go back next year, as it was the best competition theyd seen for years. The other shearer was in freemantle the next day and he had people coming up to him, and shaking his hand, saying theyd watched it and what a fantastic specticle it was. So that is great, if it is showing the sport off in such a fantastic light, and getting people interested in it.
Well that will do for now, till next time.

Bronny :)