<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=533,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/10/img_2462web.jpg"><img title="Img_2462web" height="533" alt="Img_2462web" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/11/10/img_2462web.jpg" width="800" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> FOR TODAY ANYWAY. . . the 100mm f2 lens love it it is awesome</p>

<p>cracked me up . . . .This first one 5 minutes ago:</p>

<div><span face="Arial" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Miss Ay: Do you know what? </span></div>

<div><span face="Arial" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Me: What?</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial" style="font-size: 0.8em;">Miss Ay: Kayla kept saying me all day and I told her it's not me it's I but she kept forgetting and I had to keep telling her . . I had to keep saying it's I not me. . .but she kept forgetting all day. . . and i had to keep remembering to tell her.</span></div>

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<div><span face="Arial">aND the one in the car on the way home:</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss A: wHAT IF WE HAD NO NOSE?</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">mISS A &amp;I : Then we couldn't breathe.</span> And you die!</div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss A: What if we had no ears?</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss I &amp; AC: We couldn't hear?</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss A: What is we had no mouth?</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss I : We couldn't eat</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss A: Yeah we couldn't eat and you die</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss I: hOW LONG CAN YOU GO WITHOUT WATER BEFORE YOU DIE?</span></div>

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<div><span face="Arial">And still the same trip home:</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Miss A what if there was no trees?</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">There'd be no air we'd die</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Yeah because trees and light and carbon dioxied and nutrients make oxygen</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Yeah that's right we learnt it at school. . . .</span></div>

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<div><span face="Arial">The whole converation was so long and bizarre it just kept going, no trees no ground, no clouds no, water (How long without water) No eyes no ears no mouth no leg ( that was a crack up you used a wheel chair, no wheel chair use a skateboard a skateboard how? Miss I says yeah i saw it on tv) No scateboard. . .no food. . .To absolutely everything they suggested Miss Ay said what if there was none and they in their 9 year old wisdom had an answer for everything.</span></div>

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<div><span face="Arial">Then : the miss 9's who are constantly in it together discussing electricity ( asa you do when you are 9)</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Does electricity travel through water? Yes Which leads to the discussion about how you get electrucuted, and yes they know that electricity can travel through you that was ofcourse what started the whole conversation and the little Miss What if there was no electricity. . . no cars ride a bike. . .no bikes. . .use a horse. . .no horses. . walk. . . .no legs. . . ..etc. .etc. . .</span></div>

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<div><span face="Arial">And another new camera</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Actually 2 new cameras this week:</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">1. Miss A's for her birthday a drama in itself because she opened it started playing with it and then when I was perplexed over the number of shots it could take on the 16mb card we discovered it was the wrong camera so 9:30 sunday morning i was there back at Target getting it swapped for a new one as that one had clearly been used and the right model. . . Ofcourse if i had any brains i would have realised when it wasn't wrapped in plastic, it had batteries in it and the other set of batteries were not wrapped in plastic. Duh! The new camera was much loved and she took around 50 photos on Sunday with the help of Grandpa who took her hunting for flower photo opportunities.</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">2. My new camera 40 D number 2 arrived. . finally after a very tense weekend I swear air express does not deliver&nbsp; to Darwin Friday because they sent it Thursday and it did not arrive till Tuesday. . That is NOT express, it's snail mail, I could have driven down picked it up and got back in that time but i had to work!</span></div>

<div><span face="Arial">Anyway the buttons appear to work otr atleast the one that was broken on the other one does, Ayesha wasn't very obliging this afternoon and the gym was terrible so i have to wait till tommorrow to take more photos</span></div>

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<p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/28/img_2080_2.jpg"><img title="Img_2080_2" height="1200" alt="Img_2080_2" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/10/28/img_2080_2.jpg" width="800" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/28/img_1730.jpg"> <img title="Img_1730" height="1200" alt="Img_1730" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/10/28/img_1730.jpg" width="800" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/28/img_2074bw.jpg"><img title="Img_2074bw" height="1200" alt="Img_2074bw" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/10/28/img_2074bw.jpg" width="800" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> later more photos!!!! <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/28/img_1728bw.jpg"><img title="Img_1728bw" height="1200" alt="Img_1728bw" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/10/28/img_1728bw.jpg" width="800" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a></p>

<p>Her 3rd but she did much better this timeatleast on bars (1580) and vault (1620) both 1A routines a miricle because she only got her back hip circle again on wednesday, so halfway through the bar routing she forgot what she was doing - she was a bit sad afterwards because all of her training buddies got medals and her two favourite friends in her group came 1st and 2nd overall. . .and this is my favourite photo from today - <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/27/img_1778bwweb.jpg"><img title="Img_1778bwweb" height="750" alt="Img_1778bwweb" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/10/27/img_1778bwweb.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> </p>













































<p>Some more later but i have to convert them all to jpegs. . . Acacia is tomorrow. . .</p>

<p>After the hectic chaos of the last few weeks between the car and everything, today we skipped gym went to Piano, made it home before 5 had left overs for tea so i didn't have to cook and took a walk down the end of the street, bush walking in our own backyard - our area is pretty much surrounded by bush - we were searching for cycad's and pandanus trees to photo<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0691.jpg"><img title="Img_0691" height="666" alt="Img_0691" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0691.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>graph for Acacia's latest homework project - a scrapbook about the buildings in our school which are all names after plants - we found a stack of eucalypts but she has finished that page with photographs from school, but we also found a stack of really tiny gum nuts that the girls had an awesome time collecting. Then we found a small creek <a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0709.jpg"><img title="Img_0709" height="666" alt="Img_0709" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0709.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> which at this time of the year in the mid of the dry is not much more than a slimy green mess but the girls had a great time throwing rocks into it and watching them splash, reminded me lots of skimming stones across the water at the beach in emsworth years ago. It was lots of fun despite the fact that eesha was paranoid about all the holes in the ground<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0672.jpg"><img title="Img_0672" height="666" alt="Img_0672" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0672.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> . Not sure if they were snake holes of frog holes or Lizard ones or all of the above. These are my favourite photos, Acacia throwing rocks, Ayesha with her collection of gum nuts now covering my bench, the prickly leaves&nbsp; cycad i think and the pods on the plant a cycad . These plants have been burnt in the last 3 months i think.<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=1066,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0679.jpg"><img title="Img_0679" height="666" alt="Img_0679" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0679.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a>&nbsp; and my favourite one from Friday<a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/10/img_0593.jpg"><img title="Img_0593" height="375" alt="Img_0593" src="http://runningonnttime.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/10/img_0593.jpg" width="500" border="0" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px" /></a> </p>