TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING

Dear Alice, Well Teacher Mum is out tonight having dinner with five men she met on the Internet, Tris is asleep in bed and Elliott is somewhere north of here, sleeping over. I guess I’m feeling a bit lonely really. So I thought I’d write to you, who’s, errr… away for a year! Ahh well, there’s always the dog. He’s not much company though. Upside down in the lounge, legs rudely...

FOOTBALL CRAZY

Last Sunday morning, at the slightly irritating time of 7.30am, Tristan began his football season again. Playing the winners of last year’s grand final, Tris scored a great goal and his team went on to win 5-1. I love watching him play, I hope he never stops. His drumming is progressing well too, and he now taps out endless rhythms on anything. Given that this is driving us nuts, I can hardly wait for the real...

TOMMY’S HOLIDAY CAMP

Dear Alice, Well another week, another dollar and one very tired Tristan following his school camp to Lake Macquarie. He arrived home on Thursday exhausted, coughing, spluttering and covered in about thirty lumpy mozzie bites. Needless to say he had Friday off. It did him the world of good and he was back up and running for his important basketball game on Saturday morning against a very strong Barker team. Despite...

SCOTLAND THE BRAVE

Dear Alice, Wednesday was Monte’s first day at work. As you know he recently qualified as a therapy dog for the Delta Society and has been placed at a local facility for the intellectually disabled once a week. He seemed terribly excited as we passed through the front gates for the first time all washed and brushed with just a hint of cologne… Monte looked pretty good too! About twenty to thirty people were...