Monday, October 23, 2006

My new Camera!

As you know, Friday was my birthday...thus starting the Festival of Margaret's Birthday!

Flit gave me this beautiful new little camera. It is a Canon Ixus60...and it is amazing. The photos are 6 megapixel and it has every feature under the sun!
From the ability to take mega close ups which actually look like something...

to being able to isolate a single colour in an otherwise black and white shot!


Anyway, there is still much to learn, but loads of fun trying things out!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Football training homework

Here's a video for all the futsal players to watch featuring the one and only George Best, if you have 4 minutes spare (and ADSL) please go and watch it. In particular concentrate on how he dribbles the ball and how and where he moves into position once he's passed it. There's some other bits thrown in as well in case your attention is wandering.

Of course I expect everyone to play just like him come training on Sunday, just try not to drink like him. And for those of you who may ask why I'm requesting you watch a video of a famous Man Utd player may I remind you that he's the one who once said...

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

Genius indeed.

Other George quotations can be found here

Friday, October 20, 2006

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARGS!

Hope you've been having plenty of "waters" to celebrate!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Night Noodle Markets

Wednesday night is Dancing night for most of the SRF on the Northern side of the bridge.....funny how we have to cross the bridge to get to it! Anyway, after dancing it has become a bit of a ritual to head over to Starbucks for a bevvie of some sort and sit in the cool night air to laugh over our dancing escapades and generally cool down before we get in the car to go home. This Wednesday night brought a slight twist to our usual routine. "Starbucks is not for tonight" came the cry and off we bolted (literally with G'Nick dragging me down the street) to find an alternative....this was when we stumbled upon the wonderful Night Noodle Markets held in Hyde park during October for Good Food Month.

The dancing party in the thick of it all.

Now when I say stumbled, I mean "Bolted" towards after I revealed that they do proffertjes with loads of yummy toppings!

We're not sure how to pronounce it, so we just say "proffertijesesjeses"

These are what the little gourmet delights are: a dozen small fluffy dutch pancakes covered in hot chocolate fudge with fresh strawberries and whipped cream with a generous dusting of sweet icing sugar. Or you could go the maple syrup and strawberry option, or you could have mixed berries, or Caramel fudge or banannas or other wonderful sweet things!

To eat them, one is given a few toothpicks! odd I know, but once we were all ensconced on the low wall of the main fountain we tucked in and covered ourselves with sweet sticky fudge, syrup and icing sugar! YUM!

Just as a side note, year 12 have now finished for the year and it was time for the annual detergent-ing of the fountain.
very surreal!

Monday, October 16, 2006

Monday Wash up

I finally got my camera back, so I'm going to do what I promised and show you photos from Nick's Sweet and Savoury afternoon tea...




...for some reason they came out really small....eh what ya gonna do?

Now on to this weekend....damn it was busy! We broke the Summer seal and went to the beach for the first time this season...the weather was great! 35 degrees, but as soon as we touched the water we froze! it must have been 15 degrees in there...we soldiered on and eventually settled into it. After we dropped Mattes and G'Nick back at HOC, we headed off to buy our new scanner. I could honestly put up a post just about how great this piece of technology is! I know you all want me to, but we can't have everything we want! let's just leave it at Woohoo!

We managed to fit in some footy training on Sunday afternoon in the rain...I swear this weekend was like Melbourne...it went from boiling hot, to windy as hell, to cold and wet within the space of 24 hours!

Anyway, Soccor is on tonight and we're gonna knock 'em dead...well....maybe. GO the Mighty SRF!

I guess I should really have put in some photos that were relevant to this weekend, but the one of me blowing that trumpet was appalling, and the HOC ones don't do your plight justice. Maybe next Monday we'll get some up to date relevant shots of something...I know...Our housewarming!!! Woohoo!