I Drink Your Milkshake.

I Drink Your Milkshake.

This is going to become the catchphrase this year.

Trust me.

Don't believe me? Then go and see There Will Be Blood when it releases in cinemas next month.

Stomp-Stomp

We completed our first family tramp today! Read about it here.

That's all, I'm wasted.

There Will Be Blood

I’m a lucky man; not only am I married to the most wonderful woman in the world, but because of my involvement with FilmGuide I get to go out with this wonderful woman to numerous movies.

Last night was one such nigh. We saw There Will Be Blood. I’m still forming my thought on the movie and the more I think about it, the more I like it.

The interesting thing is that the movie is normally the main event of any give night, but this night was going to be different.

On the way home from the movie, we dropped by to have dessert with 5 friends. Dessert turned into dinner and dessert, along with some very nice wine.

The short time spent with our friends turned out to be the best part of the evening. They are some of the most genuine, generous and just damn nice people I know.

Because of the good time we had with these friends, the movie seemed like it was only the entrée, spending time with friends was the main course, and our awesome babysitter was a fantastic dessert.

Yes, a very special mention to our babysitter, who originally expected us home at 8.00 but then we pushed that back to 9.00, and only managed to get home after 10.00pm.

A good movie, great friends, all made possible because another great friend is willing to look after our little tribe of kids.

I hope you found someone to give those chocolates too!

Bloody Hard Work!

Well the garden is going bananas, well, at least the pumpkin is growing like wild fire, the peas have all been eaten and some of the beetroot has been eaten. Planted last night in the pea space is some silverbeet and lettuce.

Due to the success of our foray into gardening, more space was required, which necessitated, as the tile of this post proclaims, some bloody hard work! A sprawling bush in the left hand corner has to be pruned back, rather severly, and the ivy had to be tamed. The ivy itself was a meter thick and had not been trimmed for some years. After two days of work, quite a bit had been removed.

But there is plenty left to be cleared!

The root system of the ivy was so well established after years of un-checked growth that it was like cutting tree branches in places!

But at least there is now some room to start work on a potato patch and a kumara patch.

Tomorrow I get the day off as I'm back to work, ditto on Friday. Come Saturday however we're taking the kids to their summer swimming programme at 8am and them going on a family tramp up at the Hunua Falls, taking the Cossey Falls track.

Come Sunday however, it will be back in the garden for me!