Stomper Girl

These are strange and unusual times.  I thought I'd keep a record. This is the link for Stompergirl's Plague Diaries https://homefortheplague.blogspot.com/

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Headline Stories at Sparkly Street, since the last post: • MISTER FIXIT QUITS ANNOYING JOB TO RETURN TO HIS TRADE • This is definitely a good news story.  The Warehouse Manager job th...

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Last night I made a roast pork dinner for the family; Fixit and I loved it, Climber quite liked it, Cherub ate it but didn't enjoy it. Kids. Cherub eats a wider range than he used to but is s...

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Well it's official - Cherub is enrolled for High School! His - and our - final year of primary school is slipping away so quickly, and I am not doing a very good job of recording it here!  So he...

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Following the success of our Walkerville holiday, Jenny, Astrid and I decided to organise another Mothers Group holiday house adventure for the July school holidays with all the Mums-and-kids. (T...

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It has been three months since we moved in to our new house, and we are feeling pretty settled now. The bad old house is fading fast from my memory. As I packed the school lunches the other m...

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We're moving house and Fixit's mother died on Mother's Day. There is so much I want to say about both these events, but no time to say it properly. Also, just to add to the list of things we're...

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The Tap-Kids were rockstars again at the local fete this year.  We've performed there so often now that we have it down to a fine art - both in terms of the performances and in terms of the tech...

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Fixit's work refused to give him any time off over the January school holidays, so I asked him to apply for something in the April holidays so that we could go away somewhere.  I wanted the ...

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I was so desperate to get to Craft Camp over the Labour Day long weekend.  Most of the other girls arrived on Friday, but with a kidtap performance happening the following weekend, it wasn't pos...

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Somehow February skipped by, with all of its back-to-school-and-tap madness, without making a mark on the blog.  So before March marches out of control, here's what went on in the last month or ...

http://stompergirl.blogspot.com/2015/03/february-from-march.html

Some kids look like themselves from the very beginning, and it's easy to spot the baby photo.  I'm not sure that's the case with the Climber, being as he was such a pudding for the first yea...

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On Monday morning Cherub showed me the empty 2litre plastic milk bottle and  informed me that there was no milk. I said yes there is, I bought some yesterday. He said no there isn't. So I said ...

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The thing I am loving this school holiday is that the boys are now of an age where I can comfortably leave them alone together, while I nick out to the gym or the supermarket or even for a coffee...

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I felt a bit sorry for my Grown-Up students at the end of last year, in the lead-up to their Not Really A Concert. They were all convinced they were terrible and would mess up.  Every single...

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We are having a very quiet holiday this January, due paartly to Fixit's mean employer not granting him any time off this month, and partly to financial restrictions.   I don't really like going...

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We saw in the New Year with our Mothers Group friends, as we have done for the last couple of years.  Left to myself I would have no desire to go out and party on New Years Eve (too crowded, too...

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So since my last catch-up, I have the following things to report. Fixit has been made permanent at the Rehab Equipment Hire place. He initially applied for a warehouse packer/delivery driver po...

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Unlike our primary school, a school production at high school is a voluntary, additional activity, and in Year 7, Climber, despite having always enjoyed performing at primary school, did not volu...

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Hello! I'm sneaking in a last-minute post to record our December festivities, and now that I'm on holidays may even sneak in a few more to belatedly fill in some gaps from this year!  But fi...

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Climber is going to a party this weekend, a 14th birthday celebration for one of the girls in his class.  This is the same crew he went trick-or-treating with on Halloween, without adult supervi...

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Puh-hickle Cha-hicken is the current phrase that my boys use to make themselves laugh. It's in high rotation. Previous phrases in this series are: wheeeskers and: it's pronounced "neggie".  Yep...

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My mum was convinced that nobody photographed her having a toboggan ride during our family visit to the snowfields at Mount Stirling, and she was rather miffed about it.  Fair enough, it is pret...

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I think it's very ace of QEII to hold her faux birthday celebration on my actual birthday weekend. That extra day-off in June means our group of Glampers (Glamour Campers, absolutely no rough...

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Last night the whole family went out to dinner to celebrate the fact that Fixit and I have been together for twenty years. (I think this means we must have started going out when we were children...

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