Fabulous Families

[the.fee.fairy]

My mother and sister outdid themselves on the present side this year:

The Complete book of Self Sufficiency (or something like that) which is rather wonderful
The History of Vegetables: Serious book actually, and rather interesting.

Office lawn: Bit of grass for my desk.

And...totally unish related...jeremy kyle's signature. I love that man!!

Did anyone else get similarly themed gifts? And, if you did, please share!

[2steps]

my parents bought me mini orange and lemon trees soooo cool
and my nan gave me a set of craft books. they are the type you collect a magazine each week and there's 8 binders. she collected them when her children were small. Haven't a chance to have a really good look but they look excellent and cover a massive range of crafts

[Boots]

mmm. Well, the most sish thing I got was the book from my sish buddy, I think. Oh, did get one of those crystal deodorants from another mate who said she thought I'd dig the 'natural bit' about it.... LOL (They're not exactly natural, but it wasn't the time or place )

I asked folks to wrap my pressies in teatowels, because they are scarce as hens teeth at my place. They have far too many uses. Anyway, no-one did, but one mate tried to wrap a pressie in some Jackie Howe singlets, which I thought was pretty good, but when it didn't work he opted for recycled plastic bags to save trees! At least he was thinking about it...

Daughter #1 made me some pottery pots, they are heaps cool. Heaps bright and will be heaps useful.

Daughter #2 cooked up a storm, both in the lead up to and on Christmas Day, and Christmas Dinner was totally home raised and grown. Always get a kick out of that.

I have rather weird parentage... My mother sent me my stepfathers very well worn akubra.... .... absolutely no idea what that was about, but I will put it to work all the same. There's still a few good years in it, I figure, though it still strikes me as weird that the bloke gave up his hat. When I was a kid, she got me to surrender my bottle by telling me the new baby down the road was really poor and desperately needed one or it would starve, so not sure if she has tried something like that with the old fella to replace his hat with a flash new one??? *shakes head and shrugs*

Christmas arvo was spent shredding and pulping all the Christmas paper, which today went in behind a new rock contour wall, just in time to catch a spot of rain this evening.

Oh, have an enviro-disaster to report though, went out to incinerate the bathroom rubbish on Christmas Eve and my *&%$*# mate had put some sort of fuel based container in it.... still don't know exactly what, and he just shrugged, as you do when a crazy woman is screaming blue murder at you. Bloody ell, the thing burned for about 5 hours and billowed all over the bloody hills. I was certain that at any moment Greenpeace would be tearing up my driveway and carting me off to spend Christmas in shackles!

[funkypixie]

I got 10 varieties of seeds and a ssish bag too! I love my friends

Hope everyone had a good day.

Anna x