Our Choice of Christmas Carol for 2011

An old nursing class mate of mine Sarah Barnard got in touch last year and we had a bit to do with her daughter Holly in her first year at Otago University.

Holly features on the backing vocals of this track, Meg is on lead vocals, which we just received a link to, today! Here's a bit of info behind it and the video below. GOooooooooooo Holly and co!!

"From slightly proud parents!!!   Written by Andy Eldred, the vicar at our local Anglican church.. They put it together quite quickly , we think it is pretty impressive. A great experience for Holly and Meg
- enjoy :-) Sarah and Andrew."

Sam's Big Night In

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Sam is 4th in on the middle row. This was a concert that he thoroughly enjoyed being a part of as he sung with the Southern Children's Choir.

CBD red zone with Warwick Isaacs, General Manager Demolitions. 4 Novembe...

Oscar pre and post haircut

Pre

and

Post

"I'm not half the man I was!"

No Oscar, wait, that happens tomorrow!!

The Rail Trail from Alana

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Never a dull moment in Dudders

Got back from Rail Trail to hear that Ann had been stung. Last time in CHCH when this happened Ann reacted. This time more so - huge reaction in her left arm. The swelling just kept on coming but then we wondered about cellulitis after about 36 hours or so. Off to after hours for an assesment. Yip, they too were worried so IM antibiotics - oh yay. Anyone who's had IM penicillin will sympathise. More antihistamines too, not that they were doing anything. Then today, initially we thought better but as the day wore on no so, back to GP who said, "ED's the place ya wanna be" and off she went. Hours later, and after a batch of muffins (thanks Alana), baths, school lunches, a BBQ, wine, cheese and crackers, oh yes and we feed that dog too, Ann returns this time with an IV in her arm , more antibiotics + antibiotic enhancers (that was a new one to us, we learnt something) more antihistamines (third lot now) and some pain relief (if not for the arm then for the sore bum from the jab and hand from the IV).

If all else fails, you could open your own pharmacy on TradeMe I piped!

Here's hoping this works and we don't need to invest in an EpiPen for the next time! Though we won't know until the event but if we don't have one then we may seriously wish we did. Thankfully we happen to know the cheapest source in the country so it might be a wise investment for $135.00 + pp!

Central Otago Rail Trail

Alana has joined the ranks of the Donkins who have conquered the Rail Trail. Yesterday she completed the full 150+kms from Clyde to Middlemarch. We rode from Clyde to Lauder Dy 1 (45km), Dy 2 Lauder to Waipiata (56km) and then Dy 3 Waipiata to Middlemarch (52km). It was an impressive effort and one I will get her to blog her impressions of and post some photos.

Watch this space for more.

Big thanks to Ann for making this possible.

Champion Speech Maker

Alana won her year 8 speech competition with a very humerous speech based on her winning science fair project. Her topic was nappies and the environment. We sourcing a better video that I will link to later, but in the mean time here's the B grade version of the A grade speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3E07XcPB4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Who would have a dog?

Let's see, so far Oscar has chewed through the following:
1 laptop cable - on the DC side or he'd be fried!
1 Freeview cable - the only intact sat cable we have, the other was already stuffed.
1 i Pod touch cable
1 Wii sensor bar cable
1 Wii battery charger USB cord
1 set of Wii RCA leads

Most of the above we found all on one day. We now have a kiddie gate up to keep him out from behind the TV.

The fact that on Monday, Oscar, you're getting your balls 'chopped' off has nothing to do with it, but take it as a warning anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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