Christmas Part Four- At Home with Miss Lizzy and Teddy

Doggie Christmas greetings to My Mums Dear Readers!

Its me! Your favourite doggie blogger Miss Lizzy here,  

to tell you all about our Christmas day adventures.

 

Firstly, I had a present! 

A squeaky toy from Nana. I broke the time on my previous destruction record.

2.5 seconds is my new benchmark. 

But as mum says it was 2.5 seconds of total doggie joy.

("and excuse me but you also got a very expensive 'Cool Bed' 

and lots of treats that you seem to be enjoying"  replies  Kim)

 We were all on our own this year as everyone else went elsewhere....

I was sort of glad we didn't have to avoid the new bicycle terror! 

(in Victoria, picture below).

The advantage of having no doggie tails that she can not run over them, snigger...

Mum and Graham had a cheese platter, followed by prawns and oysters.

Their dessert was Aussie Mess. 

(Eton Mess:- meringue, cream, yoghurt, with bananas, passionfruit

and a flake on top = deconstructed pavlova). 

They are cruel,

All the people food was just out of our reach.

Teddy wants to know if the ducks that visit our backyard 

are the Orange Duck Pate variety.

Mum says no, because these are the type of ducks you boil 

with a rock and when the rock is soft 

the duck will be ready to eat... ha ha ha.. you are silly Mum

And then on Boxing Day Mum and Graham spent hours 

throwing boxes into the recycling as they cleaned out the pantry!

We had a moth problem, although for months Mum kept referring to it

as 'tiny grey fairies, how cute'. 

She gets a little delusional like this sometimes.

Mum even invented a song, sung to the 12 days of Christmas tune.

On the first day of Christmas my true love helped me

 to evict the moths from the kitchen pantry.

Then it continued with

Two Tins of Cocoa

Three packets of spaghetti

Four bags of out of date SR flour

Five - packets - of - cous-cous

and it could have continued up to the 

Nine bottles of vinegar

("Hey, hold on, that's plain, red wine, apple cider, balsamic, rice wine vinegar, etc 

and I also gave 2 packets of Weet-Bix to the ducks, they'll be 

very happy inedible ducks now" snorts an indignant Kim)

A female Moth Fairy the 'Faie Dubious Intuitu'

Merry Christmas and lets hope everyone 

has a fairy moth free 

and a wetter than average year in 2020! 

From Miss Lizzy and Tiny Teddy.

Until next time..

Love and wet noses 

from Miss Lizzy

 

 

Christmas Part Three - With Work

Lizzy, Jill, Me, Hellen, Irene, Elle, Mary-Anne and Martin

The Clark Centre Christmas get together was this year held at the newly renovated 

art deco Tattersalls Hotel. 

We're closed now until early January. 

We acidently booked the restaraunt rather than the usual outside Garden Bar.

Which was serendipitous as below is our backyard earlier that day. 

Smoke due to bush fires...

It use to look like below. 

2019 is an awful summer already and its only just started.

 For Christmas this year all the staff and friends received a bag

Of Jelly Belly, ice cream flavoured Jelly beans.

Chistmas Part Two - Family BBQ

Above - here is the traditional camera on timer photo, beep beep beep, everyone smile quick!

As EVERYONE is going to be elsewhere this year on Christmas Day we decided to have a Christmas catch up before they all left.

Mel and the kids were a last minute apology because they were sick.

Rose and I share a birthday, which is the week before Christmas. So Mum and Dad usually try to come up that weekend.

Small Children dropping food on the floor, I can't imagine why there 

wasn't more of a mess to sweep up afterwards.

Kimbadale was closely inspected by standing on a chair.

And the wrapping paper mess.

The most successful present was a music box that Mum and Dad gave to Edith.

You know one of those ones that ballerina pops up when it opens and plays music.  

 

Here's Edie  the following day still in ballerina mode.

Christmas Part One - Kimbadale is back!

Hi Everyone! 

I have lots of Christmas photos to share so I am going to do it in parts.

(and apologies about the lack of posts about the Car Club long Run, back in November, I will get to it one day)...

Anyway, I have totally run out of room for my Christmas Kimbadale village.

(Kimba X Armidale)

The town planners at Kimbadale Regional Council are going to have kittens over the population explosion and construction of housing.  

 

This year I added a Cheese shop,  a doggie drinking out of a birdbath, a wishing well, 

and a street library. 

Its the first time I've had the tree up since 2016.

(we were overseas in 2017 and ran out of time in 2018)

 

Here it is, the usual explosion of poultry.

And I didn't drop any of the glass baubles, which I discovered in a previous year really do explode when they hit the hard floor. 

 

South Coast 2019 - Final post

 Before leaving Robertson, Mum said to go and look at the Waratahs 

up in the park near the bowling club.

Beautiful!

Obviously the right growing conditions.

All different colours.

 

and finally, home..

Pleased to say the Wolf Wagon proved fit for purpose.

and the doggies are very pleased to be home again.

Its only for a few weeks and then we are off again!

Andrew and Hailey's Wedding

Well, finally, youngest one is married to the beautiful Hailey.

So here are lots of lovely photos from the event.

Above - Starting with the invite.

Above:- here are the boys on the wedding morn. Andrew is in his suit for the photographer, but soon was back in civvies again. This is the B&B where Sean and Rose were staying. We stayed at the Robertson Motor Inn which I would like to strongly express was NOT anything to compare to the Pullman in Sydney.

Above - Finishing touches. (Rose forgot her mascara so had to borrow).

Above:- The guests were asked that no photos be taken during the ceremony, so will have to wait for official photos.

Above:- This is the only photo of me worth sharing and (unless the photographer can work a miracle) it will be the only one you will see. Wasn't one of my finest efforts, tried to look glamorous, ended up just looking frumpy instead.  Oh well, pity one can't rewind.

Florrie is the happiest bub. Just smiles all the time.

Above:- Another Edie selfie.

 

Below:- the Ceremony and Reception were held at the Robertson Public House. Here are some photos of the room.

Below:- once the meal was underway.

Above:- the back of the bride's head - of course!

 and Edith loooved the dancing.

..she went and went. Sean was exhausted!

Below:- And finally, the first of the official shots.