Jingle Bells to scare the cockatoos

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Date: 25 December 2008 01:57:13

So our neighbours have a passionfruit vine and there is a nice enormous bit on our side of the fence with loads of passionfruit. The problem with fruit and here is that there are lots of cockatoos in the area.

These are cockatoos

Cockatoos like eating fruit from vines. This is bad for our passionfruit. Pooka likes chasing cockatoos, which is good. However during the day, when they are most rampant, Pooka is often having a sleep. SO I have decided that I will hang bells or some other noisy thing on the vine. Not to scare off the cockatoos, but to wake Pooka up so that she goes and looks ferocious. Just need to get me some bells. Or some other noisy solution.

I was at Albion Park McDonalds yesterday and saw a sign that said McDonalds is putting FREE wifi in its restaurants. This pleases me. You overseas people probably already have such a thing, but at the moment most McDonalds' have wifi hotspots where you have to get an account. But no more!

Last night at the 11pm service, the sermon went for under 15 minutes. It was the assistant minister's Christmas gift to me. I was also pleased because the pastor asked what people would like to praise God for and one person said the internet (so she could keep in touch with her family overseas) and that was good. Oh and I got a good giggle when they did "O Holy Night" (the one with "Faaaaallllllllll on your kneeeeeeees" etc). That sort of song was not written for a Baptist congregation with no accomplished sopranos in it. I started chuckling from the beginning because I knew what was coming. Then it got to the last line with the very high bit and I nearly laughed out loud. I believe I saw the pastor have a chuckle as well.

Right now we're waiting for Dad's brother to arrive with his wife, daughter and mother (ie. my grandmother). Usually they drop off the grandmother and then go off to their own lunch with the other side of the family. However they usually take a couple of hours to drop her off and we get hungry. And I think there was a bit of a falling out on that side of the family. So anyway, they're coming for lunch this year which solves lots of problems. If they ever arrive...

I forgot that we have more family coming over tomorrow for lunch. Bah and humbug. I just want to have a day dozing and doing whatever I want.

The uncle etc have arrived. I had better go and look sociable.