Author: awmalloyadmin

This afternoon while Bert had a nap in our bed I made the kids pikelets for afternoon tea.

I’m fast becoming a domestic god.

Today Daniel sent me a link to a Dr Who pinball machine on Ebay. Of course I want it but for some reason he rejected my offer to go halves (with two hours to go it’s at $1,780).

It did remind me of my one true pinball love though. I found it at Silverball Mania in Shepparton, way back in the early 80s, and I spent a good deal of my allowance on it – the Meteor pinball machine. It remains the one pinball machine I became quite good at and if I could find one to play tomorrow I’d be there in a heartbeat. If they’d sell me it for a lot less than $1,780 I’d be in heaven.

No, seriously – it’s on fire.

She buys me Jabba The Hutt.

Getting to see a performance like this every day is just one of the reasons I am so happy at the moment.

We received a call this morning – all the paperwork is in order and the files will be handed over to the construction manager today, we should have a start date confirmed shortly.

Rae was in a hurry this morning and couldn’t find her iPod so, being the kind and loving husband that I am, I offered her mine but she declined.

I have 8972 songs on my iPod and apparently she doesn’t like any of them.

We all went for a walk today to drop some books back to the library. It was me, the twins in the pram and Albert on his little ride seat that clips on to the side of the pram. In the short few block stroll to the library from home I got :

• “Aren’t you a good husband looking after the children.”
• “Oh no, double trouble.”
• “Oh twins, how adorable.”
• “Aren’t they all just divine.”

All unsolicited from people I passed. Surely the sight of a dad looking after his kids isn’t that strange a thing anymore.

 

I think Rae was muttering something along the lines of “I didn’t sign up to be the wife a plane spotter” as she left for work this morning. I have to admit when I heard myself saying “Ooooh, MU-565, a China East, haven’t got one of them before” I became a little alarmed myself.

Have to run – I think hear CA177 coming in…

How cool, Flickr have just announced you can now upload video clips of up to 90 seconds to your Flickr Pro account.

As soon as I read that I had to try it so I grabbed the camera, found Bert and two minutes later….