Its a mad capped life I lead, in starting this blog I believed I would be updating, adding and generally all over it most of the time. But , and there is that word again not a the best choice of words to use however but sums it up. I always have a but....I seem to be always doing something that keeps me from being a true dedicated blogger, I certainly take my hat off to those who are devoted bloggers, my best friend in the USA updates her site every couple of days and then there is Bridget who seems to have something to say every day and truly puts me to shame , shame. All I can promise is that I will do my best o keep you guys in my loopy life's loop...

I have some sad, sad, sad news, last weekend , (Easter Sunday) I lost Shamos, my cockateil (bird), I have been devastated , I had him for close to 15 years , I haven’t been able to talk about it , hence the blackout on my blog. He was found peacfully lying on the bottom of his cage. I was truly , deeply saddened. He had been with through my thirties , through the divorce , my life at Ocean View Dr , dating again, meeting Craig and the kids, buying my first house , making new friends, giving up things, you name it, Shamos was the one constant.I was 27 when he choose me as his owner. I was sitting at a picnic with friends at Avoca beach and he flew down from the sky and rested on my shoulder and proceeded to chew my gold earring, it was love at first sight, and a mutual love of gold that bought us together and we have been inseparable since.

He had a great funeral , I wrapped him in a pure silk scarf and sprayed it with Chanel No 5 then I laid him to rest in my PRADA box my new sunnies came in, it was a stylish little coffin black with PRADA embossed on the lid, tied up in a gorgeous silver cloth ribbon he was buried under the paper bark tree in the back yard. I sprinkled flower seeds over his grave. Craig, John , Renee and Ryan all attended the funeral and all made a mention of their experiences with Shamos. He was my boy as he has gone to the big tree in the sky...

To change the subject, two puppies are sold, the little dark apricot and the one with the white socks and blaze... They go this Wednesday ( 29th April ) the day before Paisleys 1st birthday, uncanny... , bring on the Kleenex.... The little one with the blaze is going to the nicest family they live at Davistown and Julie knows so many people I know and yet we had never met. She called from the ad in the paper, they have two little girls 4 and 8 and they will love her to death. Julie is a teacher and used to teach Renee , it was all so uncanny , the universe matched us all up , she is keen to keep in contact and has been called nearly every day asking about what she eats and what else she will need , they are so excited, they even dropped a towel in so we can have Paisley sleep with it so the pup will have her mums scent in her new bed , how cool is that....

The other little apricot girl has also had a match made in heaven as she is the quietest of all the pups and she is going to a lady called Vicky and her 84 year old mum, they already have a little black poodle called lily and they want a friend for her and also to keep the nanna company , Vicky has a daughter and she has twin 9 year old girls who are around all the time, so the pup will have the best of both worlds, an old lady to love her and nurse her and a constant lap to sleep on and kids to play with every now and then....how cool is that and she also wants to keep in contact and only lives at Erina Heights and will be taking her to the same vet we use....

Two more to go , they are back in the paper this week, its heart breaking , but both the sold ones are going to such good homes, so mumma Tracey is happy about that.I’m getting excited about Darwin but more about Hong Kong , even though I haven’t lost much weight still around the 12 kgs mark, I’m going to try and flog myself between know and then to get off another few kilos before we go...To much chocolate over Easter..... I

t was great to have Renee home for two weeks , she bough her German girlfriend Louisa home to stay , it was good to have the chicks in the house again. She is loving uni and doing great, , she is the smartest button receiving a High Distinction in Sociology , that's my girl , she is a chip off the old step mum block as sociology was one of my best subjects at Uni...

Craig had his hernia repaired and is on the mend, he just had to have it done before we went to Hong Kong , because after all I had to have him fit and able to carry serious weights , with all the handbags, shoes and shopping I'm planning to buy, I simply couldn't carry all of it myself, love it....Ryan is working hard and is a good kid when its just him and I , add anyone else to the mix and its like adding nitro to glycerin, BOOM.

Sean is still away working and Holly has moved into her own little pad in Tascott. I'm still yet to have my first piano lesson , but live in hope my carree as a concert pianist will kick off soon...Life is good , work is slow , however I'm keeping my head above water and in this economic climate that's a good thing, winter is knocking on Autumns door I had my nanna blanket (O a woolen blanket my gorgeous 91 year old nanna Greenwood knitted for me some years back) out for the first time last night , I like the fashions of winter with purple being the new black , but you can keep the cold.....!!!