Silent Sunday

This is what I dreamt of being my Silent Sunday, But alas we had to come home and I had to cast my thoughts back to when I was here in this very spot looking over this paddock, whilst all hell was breaking loose when the kids were running around the house on their Easter Eggs hunt ( the hunt was fun though)

Tan

A door an whole lot of magic the full and completed version

Once upon a time there were three children, their names were Chloe, she was the oldest, and she was thirteen.
Her Brother Nicholas was ten years old and they had a little sister called Annabella, she was three.
They went outside to play tag but after a while they got bored. Chloe came up with some great idea's to play but no one interested, Hmmmm! sighed Chloe, l give up.
You see the kids had just moved into the giant mansion a couple of weeks ago
l’m going to have a look around said Nicholas
Where? Chloe asked.
Through the bushes over there. And off he ran.
Wait up shouted Chloe, she picked up
Annabella and ran to catch up with Nicholas.
OOWWW! Yelled Nicholas.
Are you ok Nicholas ?said Chloe,
Yes said Nicholas, wow! come over here look what l found.
Wow! Said Chloe it's a door with gold all
around it.
Let’s take a look inside said Nicholas,
NO! Said Chloe, who was a bit frightened.
Nicholas didn’t listen and opened the door anyway and was very surprised to feel a big gust of wind that nearly made him fall over.
Annabelle came over and started staring in through the door at a big tornado, she was staring so hard that she fell through the doorway and just like being sucked through a straw she was taken into the tornado windstorm .
Nicholas jumped in after her and just caught her hand and held on to her tightly.
Chloe was worried she was all alone the only thing she could think of was to follow them.
I coming! yelled Chloe
As the three children fell through the Tornado they felt dizzy and weary their bodies went all limp and they found it hard to keep awake, before they knew it they were asleep.
They woke up with all these people who looked a lot like fairies, with wings which were see through and their clothes were made out of yellow and green leaves.
The fairy people were staring at them with an amazed look on their faces.
Wow I feel dizzy Chloe said to Nicholas, I do too replied Nicholas and where is Annabella?
“I don’t know” said Chloe feeling worried and who are these creatures.
Who are you said Nicholas and where have you taken our sister.
The fairy people did not reply, they just picked them up and pushed them along a pebbled path that led towards a big giant tree.
Once they got to the tree they saw a big hole in the trunk, Nicholas and Chloe stopped and stared at the tree in amazement, It was the biggest hole they had ever seen.
The fairy people did not let them stand and stare for too long before they started to push them through the hole.
Chloe and Nicholas were feeling quite frightened it was quite dark and they could not see anything.
They were being pushed along a corridor and could see a light at the end.
Where are they taking us? said Chloe and Nicholas at the same time.
Soon they realised they were being taken to someone very important because they were being led into a chasm that looked like the great hall of magic, it had sparkles all over the round tall room.
There was a chair in the centre of the room with gold and silver and crystal clear diamonds on it! And there was a fairy propped on the chair.
The fairy looked a lot like the others except he had a crown on his very royal and noble looking head, he also had a cape made out of red and green leaves which draped across the floor and in his hand he held a big staff.
“He must be their king” whispered Nicholas.
The King then shouted “Who are you” in a deep and dark voice.
I am “Nicholas this is my sister Chloe.”
Where did you come from? boomed the King.
We live in Australia said Nicholas.
Where is that ?said King Fishua.
From where we standing it’s up there said Chloe pointing to the ceiling
Up there in the sky? No! No! No, you must be mistaken said King Fishua.
No were not mistaken said Chloe, we came through a magic door, our sister Annabella, fell in, so we went after her.
Well where is Annabella now? said King Fishua. We don’t know, we thought that you had her replied Chloe.
No we don’t have her said King Fishua,
Now HHmmmmmmmmm I wonder where she is?
Oh King Fushua, said one of the fairies who’s name was Flixy and was the kings best knight, he had the most sparkly gold armour that shone like a star in the night.
I was walking through The Forest of Shame and I saw goblins carrying a little girl and we all know that goblins love to eat little children.
What! Goblins eat children Chloe and Nicholas cried
What if it is Annabella? whispered Chloe to Nicholas we have to try and find her before the Goblins eat her.
King Fishua spoke in a low worried voice, Yes we have to see what the Goblins are up too.
We have had many fights with the Goblins because the goblin leader Narsarous wants my crown and he took my wife and daughter away to convince me to give it up.
But I could not give up my kingdom because we would be made into their slaves.
I have hunted for many years and we have not been able to find my wife and daughter.
I think it is time to stand up to the Goblin Narsarous to protect the Kingdom and get you sister back.
Get the fairy army ready, Nicholas go with Flixy he will find some armour for you
Next King Fushua stamped his starf on the ground, the starf had gold strips curled all the way down and a big blue diamond on top!
All of a sudden too young girl fairies came flying down from the steps at the corner of the room. They were carrying a bottle between them.
They landed in front of Chloe and gave Chloe the bottle.
Drink it said King Fushua.
Chloe took a sip and she started to feel tingling on her back.
All of a sudden she started to grow sparkly wings.
King Fishua then told the two fairies to take Chloe to the Great Hall where they were to teach Chloe to fly.
Nicholas then came into the room and stood in front of the king he had great armour on and was holding a golden sword, he also had wings.
Just then Chloe came flying down with bronze coloured armour and a bow and arrow.
Ahh! Said King Fisuhua, You are ready,
now lets go and finish Goblin Narsarous off once and for all.
So they set off and went to The Forest of Shame with King Fishua’s army following behind
Once they reached the forest, they saw Goblin Nasarous and his Army waiting for them Hi! old friend snarled Goblin Nasarous, we were never old friends replied King Fishua!
We are here to get our family back.
What family said the Goblin.
Enough said King Fishua if you won’t hand them over then we will make you. Charge! He yelled.
Then they all just ran towards the Goblins, Nicholas and Chloe flew into the air and started attacking.
As they flew up into the air Chloe spotted Annabella and too other girls in a cage.
Chloe started to shoot her bow and arrow and flew down to Anabella and looked for the key to unlock the cage.
While Nicholas was fighting the Goblins. One of the girls said the key is on the hook. Chloe said thanks and got the key, she opened the lock and got Annabella
The two other girls were fairies and flew after Chloe to the tree where King Fishua and all the fairies lived.
Chloe found the fairy nursemaids and left the girls with them so they were kept safe and then she flew back to the forest where all the Goblins were lying on the ground dead except for Goblin Nasarous who was being held by Nicholas and surrounded by King Fishua and his army.
Nicholas said King Fishua come take your victory, King Fishua pulled out his knife and stabbed the Goblin.
The Goblin fell at King Fishua’s feet dead.
King Fishua yelled victory is ours lets go home and celebrate.
As they walked through the trees big door and into the King Chamber King Fishua saw two fairies standing with a little girl.
Nicholas and Chloe ran up to Annbella and hugged her tight.
Then King Fishua let out a big gasp and ran up to the two fairies standing next to Annabella.
Who are they whispered Chloe to Nicholas, they are the Kings wife and daughter said a fairy standing near by.
King Fishua then turned to Chloe and said I am so happy to have my family back together how can I ever repay you?
Chloe just said if you could just take us home that would be a great.
King Fishua said my pleasure but first you must come celebrate with us and I will get you home after that.
So off they went to celebrate their freedom from the Goblins and the fact that Nicholas,Chloe and Annnabella are now friends with the fairies.
The End

Goodbye

She didn't know we were going, we wanted it that way, hard enough to deal with what we had to deal with anyway.

Not sure what to expect but knew it was going to be one of the toughest things we have ever done.

We knew he would not know us or even have an distant memory, but we needed the chance to say our last goodbye's and feel peace within ourselves that this will close many doors that have been left opened for too many years.

We walk in and there he is lying just as he normally would have been, arms behind his head and peaceful.
We go up and even though he had changed and is frail he was still the same man.

We say hello and he mumbles something, not sure what exactly but the accent is the same and there is comfort in that.

His blue eye's are the same and we wonder what he is seeing and whether the continual staring means he does recognise us just a little.

We stay for a while and chat, hard to know what to say but it is better than saying nothing.

We worry she may come in and find that we have come, this would not make her happy, likes to have control, but not this time.

We did what we had to do, if not for anyone else but for ourselves ,we said goodbye to the man we call our Dad and even though we are happy we have done so we are sad because we had too.


I just hope peace comes quickly and where ever he may go he can go and be the man he was instead of being the shell of a man he has become.

Vegi Garden Update

Our little vegi garden is getting there, we have a mixture of seeds, seedlings and mature plants growing.

They even survived a big down pour the other week, which saw us go into some serious damage control.

But as you can see all is well and hopefully we will see some fruits of our labour.
Fingers crossed

Tan

The Vegie Garden

This is our second attempt at creating a vegie garden on one of our balconies which rarely gets used, so what better way to utilise a blank space than to get the kids into vegie growing, I can't say that our first attempt was a big failure we did manage to get two little carrots out of it.

This is my lovely daughter lovingly planting the seeds to put into our little hot house, Just need to remember that when they sprout to put them in the bigger tub.

My little man was impressed by the colour of the bean seeds hopefully he will be suitably impressed with the beans themselves and actually might eat them. Finger crossed.

We plan to go and purchase some bigger plants and pots so we can have a wide variety to watch and cultivate.

If we can make a good go of this, I am hoping that my children will grow to love the joy of growing what you can eat.

Stayed tuned

Tan

The Porch

I am not sure if anyone feels the same as I do about porches.

There is something homely about them, they see so many things they hear so many stories and hold them treasured for years.

One of my favourite porches would be at my Uncle and Aunties property in Rushworth, we have spent many hours sitting chatting with friends, the kids or quietly reading a book.

It is a place of comfort and serenity that is hard to come by.

This porch is adorned with objects that tell of recent adventures around Australia (which my Auntie and Uncle have seen a whole lot of), It also tells of lifestyles of times gone by and depicts the life they choose to live now.

So many memories and experiences to be shared or to enhance the great feeling that this porch provides.

I look forward to having such an area that I can sit and ponder what I have experienced in life and share good times with my family and friends.

Tan

major accomplishment

This is a story I have great pleasure to put on our blog, My little man also suffers from dyslexia and processing issues as does my daughter, whom is in the process of writing her story as you can see in other posts A door and a whole lot of magic.

Now you may be wondering why I have named this post major accomplishment and the reason being is at the start of this year we were struggling to get my little man of eight (who we will refer to as BP) to even write a sentence, it was to the point of we were happy if he wrote even a few words with the help of his aids (who I might add are the salt of the earth).

By the end of term three this year we had a sentence, it may not have been grammatically correct or the spelling totally right but we had a full sentence of writing and boy were we proud.

So I am sure can understand my absolute delight upon hearing that we have almost two pages of written work( big writing) written with enthusiasm by BP.
And I would like to share this with you as I believe this deserves all the recognition it can get.

Note: Spelling has been corrected but all the rest is as it is written by BP.


The Marvellous Machine.

One day the President of Afghanistan sent his spy Mr Shadow to find a Marvellous Machine which makes extremely brilliant robots.

Mr Shadow heard a noise in the biggest pyramid in the world. Mr Shadow went to investigate the pyramid.
Mr Orange spotted the spy so the spy ran away from the robots. The robots ran after the spy. The spy got away and the spy told the news to the President.
The President said "well done"find out more about this marvelous machine.
The spy went back to the marvelous machine. The spy got caught by the robots.
Mr Shadow said let go of me the robots took the spy to Mr Orange, Mr orange said why did you try and steal our machine the spy said nothing.
Mr Orange said go away and never come back.

The End