Black Friday

Jody got her first day's relief teaching last Friday. We were over at J&J's by 7.15am to ensure everything was as relaxed as possible for Miss E as her Mummy got ready to "go and teach those kids". As Rob and Ella were saying their good mornings Rob sat down on their glass coffee table, which gave way under him, in a spectacular fashion. Luckily no one was hurt, but it frightened the s___t out of all of us, especially Ella, who had never seen or heard anything like it before. She spent the rest of the day, being quite wary of what Rob would do next!

Jody approved some Play School watching time (only a little bit!) for Ella. Rob and I enjoyed catching up with Play School again after a 25 year break. Benita and Noni have long gone but I do like the current batch of mixed race, beautiful (young) live wires. I was a bit surprised to see them do the Cinderella story, but at least the women in it were depicted as being very strong.

We know we are so lucky to have had such a gentle week with so many of our fellow Australians suffering so much. The situation in Victoria is so much worse than I realised in last week's entry. Everyone here is overcome by it. It took days to get a line through to the Red Cross to donate money, the Blood Bank has been inundated with people making appointments to give blood and our workplace is loaded with bags of clothes, toys and non perishables waiting to be picked up by Allied Pickford, for fire victims in Victoria.