NaBloPoMo

Here in sunny Fairlight, we have decided to give the whole blogging malarkey one last go.  It's National Blog Posting Month, where the gauntlet has been thrown down by some mysterious blogging Overlord to write a post every day.  I think that as with most things in life, I'll throw myself at it headfirst, be obsessively keen a while and then get bored and move on.  So this will be one last ditch attempt to resurrect this little online diary before it gets archived for Alice and Juliet's later embarrassment.

An inauspicious start - it's 8.45pm and I'd like to settle down in front of the telly, so this will be just a brief update.  My lucky ol' readership of not many have another 29 episodes to anticipate, in any case.


Yesterday was Halloween.  Apparently we live in a Trick or Treating area, so we bought a stack of sweeties and Alice eagerly planned her costume.  As with any fancy dress event, she wanted to go as a fairy.  She came home from Seals on Friday with a slight twist at the last minute and wanted to be a fairy godmother, but as that required no additional effort on my part, I happily agreed.

Juliet did not express a preference so was clad in Alice's handmedown Halloween pyjamas, which very sweetly read "Bite Me" and had a particularly cute silver ghoul on them.  Getting dressed was never so simple.

We watched the other children going into the daycare building with glee.  The split of costumes was 30% pirates; 30% Spiderman; 40% other (including our heroine - the fairy Godmother, a racing driver, a super hero with fake abs, a pumkin and Wonderwoman).  Such fun.

Alice's teacher was dressed as a skeleton and in true Sydney Cove style, they spent most of the day learning the names of the bones in an most educational fashion.

When it came to it, no Trick or Treaters called, so we had a stack of sweeties to enjoy.  A very successful day.

More tomorrow, it would seem.