Thinking ahead

Elizabeth realized that we will be in South Africa for Christmas and we wont have a Christmas tree in the lounge as usual, so she wrote this letter and provided a Christmas tree.

Cricket - Victory at last

Timothy's cricket team this season, the Takapuna Eagles, consists mainly of newbys and as a result is struggling a bit.

So I'm happy to announce they had their first victory today, beating the Birkenhead Panthers by 3 runs. Both teams scored exactly 100 runs, but the Eagles lost 1 less wicket (7 vs 8) than Birkenhead. Since a team gets 3 runs for each wicket they take the final score was 124-121 to the Eagles. The fielding was also much improved.

Well done boys.

Timothy took 2 wickets (both bowled) and the other 6 wickets were all run-outs.

Mashed Potatoes Elizabeth Style

Movember

I registered for Movember. This is a fund raising exercise for charity (prostate cancer and depression under men) and involves me growing a moustache for the month of November.

Please sponser me here.

5 Pokemon books

Finally there're here the 5 pokemon books well sort of you see...
on Monday there was the five pokemon on trade me (which I discovered last Friday) I bided $5 and got out bided after crying my eyes out mummy and daddy said "I can bid my pocket money before I get it.But I have to wait until I've payed them back" So it was a deal! I won the bid and Tomorrow I'll get them!!!!!!

P.S THANKS PATRICK!!!!!!!

The Most Funnest Dad Ever!

According to the lovely Father's Day card I received from Timothy, I am as much fun as a PlayStation 3.

High praise indeed.

PS. Apparently I'm also smarter than a calculator.

The Mystery of the Disappearing Post Box

Today I had to post a letter (to the taxman nogal), so I dashed around the corner to the post box we all know and love and have used for many years.

To my surprise, this is what I found:

Is that allowed? Can they just remove it? I feel cheated! What about all the old people in Milford who now have to walk miles to the next post box?

I shall investigate ... (OK, maybe not)

Nothing lasts forever

A while ago we were outside under the carport enjoying the traditional family braai (bbq).

After a while there was this horrible breaking sound.

On investigation (which did not take long) I found this to be the source:





















This was followed by a lot of crying.

For the time being Elizabeth's mode of transport will be the scooter.

Election

So another election has come and gone. We had 3 (yes, 3) polling stations within walking distance from our house - all in about a 800 meter stretch on Shakespeare Rd. Why so many so close together? Ok, one of them was at North Shore Hospital so it kind-off makes sense - sick people also want to vote, you know. And they don't want a bunch of non-sick people running around the hospital on election day. Hence there was a polling station at Carmel College right next door to the hospital (for the not sick people). Maybe it's because of all the old people we have in Milford - we don't want them to have to travel to far to get to a polling station. We'll have major traffic jams on the footpaths with all those mobility scooters out.

We went to Milford School to cast our votes. As before, I only made my final decision in the booth. Was very tempted to waste my party vote on Bill and Ben but in the end sanity (or what I have left of it) prevailed.

Anyway, the upshot of this is that Auntie Helen (aka Helen 'Photoshop' Clark) has been kicked into touch by the good people of New Zealand (die volk het gepraat). On the down side, John Key has that smirk back on his face that he seemed to lose in the run-up to the election.

Bet you didn't know this ...

Tonight, during dinner Timothy declared:

You can't strum a jellyfish

Re: Pokemon Diamond and Pearl

WOOT! I caught dialga!!! + beat the Sunnyshore gym leader!!!! I'm on fire!!!!!!!!! I have to beat the Elite four now and then i'm of to an island that I can't go to until I beat the Elite four. So I'm going to have to train back at victory road oh well its not the end of the world

Pokemon Diamand and Pearl

On pokemon diamand and pearl I am nearly up to the part where you catch the ledgendary Dialga!!

I can't wait untill I catch him

Around the world

In class today we played a maths game called Around the World and I won!!

YAY!!!!

A New Bag

This morning I got a small bag.
When I decided I was going to put my pokemon cards in it Elizabeth said "Oh Timothy"
I don't know why. Probaly because she is weird

Idiot and Stupid

Yesterday while I was playing the DS I named my pokemon trainer IDIOT. So when I was playing the game I complained about everyone (even my mum) calling me IDIOT. Rhiana got to chose my friends name. She called him STUPID. But not many people said his name. So everyone just thought I was an IDIOT. A very sad thing.

Folk Dance thingy a bob

On Tuesday 26TH August I went to the a Folk Dance thingy a bob. It was great! My favorite dance was Yish. It was so fun doing Yish. One bit that was SO funny was when almost everybody in my group put up their hand to do Yish again (and me of course) The lady asked a little boy and he replied "The coconut dance."Finn just said "I hate the little guy! I feel like killing him!"But of course he wasn't harsh enough to kill him. It was a great day!

Shopping on Mars and Venus

Nadia views the shopping list as "that's what you buy and nothing else", so she gets the stuff on the list and then goes home.

Patrick views the shopping list as "that's what you must not forget to buy", so you get the stuff on the list and then you look around for fun and interesting thing to buy.

No wonder I enjoy shopping more than she does.

Rules for talking to Mummy

1. If Mummy is in the bathroom, do not talk to her through the door unless there is blood or fire.
2. Do not talk to Mummy while she is using the vacuum cleaner.

Beijing 2008

As a celebration of the Olympics Games we had Chinese take-aways for dinner last night. The kids preferred KFC.

They have no Olympic spirit!

Happy Birthday Timothy

Timothy turned 9 last Tuesday. On the Sunday before he had a party at Laserforce.


Getting ready for action are Timothy "Timo" Vaughan and
Elizabeth "Shoot Me" Vaughan.

My Birthday

Woo Hoo it is my birthday tomorow!!

Need for speed Underground 2

Hello everyone I'm going to tell you about NFSU2 (Need for Speed Underground 2)

Need for Speed Underground 2 is a sort of racing game where you start off in a city called Bayview.

Then you travel around looking for events to race in. There are different events like sprints,circuts,street X,drag and drift.

In Sprints it is a bit like rally but its on the street not dirt.

In circuts you drive around a circut on the streets. You have traffic for both circuts and Sprints.

In drags you also have traffic and you have to do the gears. Drags are also short distances.

In drifts you are in a stadium and you try to get as many points as you can before time runs out and you must complete the required amount of laps. When you drift you can't hit the wall. If you do you loose all your points you got from that single drift.

In Street X you must complete a race on dirt!

All Blacks lost

OK so the All Blacks let me down.

No worries! We will still beat Australia on Saturday!

I must say it.

GO ALL BLACKS!!!!

Pokemon Indigo

A few weeks ago Timothy told me about a neat little new pokemon game called Pokemon Indigo and its SO (I repeat SO) cool

PS.Thank you Timothy for telling me about such a cool game

Swimming

On Monday Daddy may be taking us to do swimming at...


Takapuna pools HURRY WOO HOO I REALLY LIKE SWIMMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sleepover

Last Friday (not the one that just passed the one of the last day of school) my friend Rhiana came for a sleepover . We played LOTS (I repeat LOTS) of games and it passed SO quickly.

A Thrashing we will never forget

Over the last days we have been talking about todays Tri Nations match between South Africa and New Zealand.

Patrick has been saying do you want to stay up late and see the Springboks get thrashed.
He supports the boks and I support the AB's

GO ALL BLACKS!!!!!

Bye - Bye YMCA

Today was the last day that we go to the YMCA Holiday programme.

We saw Kung fu Panda at the movies and saw a magic show after Kung fu Panda.

But before the magic we did some kung fu of our own. Well YMCA style.

Overall I had a fantastic week!!
I made new friends and saw some old ones.

Cookie Monster

Yesterday afternoon Timothy was complaining about maagpyn (tummy ache).

Yes, Timothy - that's what happens when you eat 2 packets of Shrewsbury Cookies in one go!

When It Rains It Pours ( I Mean it!!)

Over the last few days when it rained it poured and I mean it poured because it even started hailing on us!!!!!