Mothers Day Madness

Did you get anything fab for your Mum on Sunday? I was over the moon with my pressies. My Mum just loves a phone call, which is handy because I am the slackest in the world when it comes to sending cards. I actually think that cards are a waste of money and resources. How many trees are cut down every year for Birthday, Christmas, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Valentine's Day, Get Well, Bon Voyage, Congratulations and Oh God you just got promoted, demoted, denoted??? Well, I am making a stand.
I will no longer buy into the card wastage. Every card that you give somebody, unless it is home made when it will be kept until too dilapidated to be read, will be in the bin the next day anyway. So, tightfists and environmental saviours unite!!! Let's stop the bilge of believing that a card actually means something when a phone call is more personal, able to communicate more and a lot cheaper. If you don't feel that this works for you, how about recycling an old card. No, not the 'whack into the recycling bin' way, but in the 'use liberal amounts of white out to remove previous recipients and senders of cards and insert your own details' way. So what if you are giving a Christmas card for their birthday, or a congratulations card when they have broken their leg. I think that the only one that you need to buy is the bereavement card. After all, I think that you will really send the wrong message if you deliver a 'Congrats on you recent promotion' card at a funeral. Though there are some that would see it that way.

Marvellous May

It's getting colder and once again the flanny jim jams make their appearance. The time for hot chocolate, movies and books has arrived. I'm hoping for a long chilly winter this year. This is only so that I can become an actual hibernating creature. I have just finished the PhillipPullman triligy. It was heavy going. I find it hard to believe that so many people found the book riveting. I found it tough going at times. The narrative is a bit long winded and I felt like there was a lot of time wasting. GET TO THE GOOD BITS ALREADY!!

Having whinged about that, what do you think? Have you read them or did you see 'The Golden Compass'? That movie was adapted from the first book, 'Northern Lights'.

Enough of that, I'm re-reading the 'Chronicles of Narnia' at the moment. I'm looking forward to 'Prince Caspian' being released. That is my absolute fave of the Narnia stories. It looks pretty good too.

Also keeping a close eye on the trans tasman trophy. The Firebirds are still going off, but last nights games between the Vixens and the Swifts was a nail biter. Big Hurrahs to the Vixens who managed to giddy up by just one goal. That would be why Sharelle is the best. We love you Sharelle.