Harry Potter

School holidays are almost over, the kidlets return to school on Monday morning.

On Friday my sister & I took them down to Sydney to see the Harry Potter exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum.

No photography allowed inside the exhibition unfortunately, but we found these huge posters outside & took photos of the kids in front of them.

Niamh looks like she's about to have a duel with Harry in this shot.

And Connor looks like he has a wand to head, he should look a bit more worried about that.

Love this one - my sister took this shot of Row while I was taking a photo of Niamh behind them.

I've always wanted to try riding a penny farthing, but this is the closest I've ever got.

Working Class Anthem

Belatedly remembered that I always put up something Australian on Australia Day. So for today, I'm recycling something I had on my old blog - Adam Hills version of the national anthem. I don't think anyone hearing this version would disagree that this is how the anthem should be song.

Update

I tend not to put anything personal up on a public blog, I'm just not the type of personal who will share that type of information. But I've neglected both this blog and the blogs I normally read for months, so I thought I'd give a brief rundown of what has been happening in my life.

I separated from my husband last year, and things got a bit stressful with the end of the that relationship, making arrangements for the children and arrangements for buying out the house and everything else. That was when I shut down my old blog & started this one, for my new life.

But I was too busy with everything happening to actually update the blog frequently, and a lot of the stuff happening was private. I also stopped reading most of the blogs on my google reader. Ones I really enjoyed I kept reading when I could find the time, but I stopped commenting.

I've been seeing someone and was happier than I've been in years. Didn't have any more time for blog updating or reading, but I was happy and busy planning a new life with the man I loved. I thought we had the rest of our lives together, we seemed so perfectly matched.

Last night that all finished, he walked out on me and won't be back. I have to start pulling my life back together after the complete devastation. I know I can be strong enough to do it, even if at the moment I'm mostly spending my time crying, but I won't be online much. I'm not sure if I will ever return to this blog, but I won't close it at the moment.