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Exercise goes vertical

apitchford — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:38:14 +0000

Ethan and I had a great time out today. On the middle of our afternoon we saw something that really caught our eye. In an exercise shop a new form of treadmill was being used by some young boys. Later Ethan and I sneaked in. Although it wasn’t working Ethan does a great job if posing as the mountain climber in training. The Skywall is a great innovation that would add fun and variety to exercise. As we told friends, it’s not one of those exercise devices that you can fold up and place under the bed. But then this is too much fun to hide.

Watch out Darth Tater

Madministrator — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:05:08 +0000

Last weekend we had a great day out at ‘Supernova 2008′. Its a crazy wonderful convention that mixes the old comic heroes of Marvel and DC like Spidey and Superman. Mixed in are the techno heroes of Star Trek and Star Wars and the new frontier of Anime and Manga artists bringing us the lives of Naruto and friends. Into all of this was poured the fandom of South East Queensland. Whether it was the teens of today or the Trekkies of yesteryear.

You can also throw in an appearance by Lou Ferringo, the former Incredible HUlk from the Bill Bixby TV series and Michael Winslow, Mr Sound machine from the Police Academy series and it was a wild day of sights, sounds, toys, comics and photo sessions. Oh and they had a wrestling ring that I don’t want to talk about! It was wacked!

Abbey and Corey had been interested in going for some time as they have an intense interest in Anime and Manga especially as Abbey has become an exceptional Manga artist. Two of their favourite Anime programs are Bleach and Naruto. Oh and BTW – Bleach is not a household cleaner!

This was so fun. Yes, I admit it – I probably had as much for fun as the kids, and Cheryl came along to keep us sane and ask questions like ‘What is that!?‘

Over the day there are many activities including an area promoted by the Brisbane Gaming Industry where kids were encouraged to sketch unique characters. Abbey spent a good 3 hrs in this area and she can be seen in the attached albums sketching away.

One of the crazy activities was ‘CosChess’. This is where a giant chessboard is populated by humans in the costume of their favourite alter-ego. The x-box Halo soldier meets a Death Star soldier, while Naruto could be up against anyone from the cute and cuddly to a reject from Middle Earth.

Check out the album it makes so much more sense

Winner of Speech Finals

Madministrator — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:28:06 +0000

Faith has just stepped out into the limelight in her first year at Loganholme State School. Last Tuesday night she competed in the year 5 speech finals. She was up against five other finalists to deliver a speech on her chosen topic of ‘A Great Australian’. The speech was to be as close to 3 minutes as possible. Faith had prepared a great speech on who are the great Australian’s in our community. She had her speech cards ready and presented an impassioned plea for all of us to be like the members of our community who deserve our applause; the teachers, firemen and volunteers.

One of the real tests is to get as close to 3min for maximum points. 15sec either side is AOK for the maximum time points of 30. While all her competitors did well Faith ‘nailed it’ as this time schedule shows. Click on the pictures to see a close up.

You will see Faith with her close friend from school, Tia Porter, who was also a winner, picking up first place for the grade 4. Tia’s speech was on the topic “Books: are they redundant?”. She did a wonderful job convincing us to be avid readers. Clicking on the photos above will take you to an album of their adventure in the speech finals.

The Green Green Grass of Home

apitchford — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:45:54 +0000

Cheryl and I popped down to ‘Kookaburra Place’ to see how the lawn shaped up after Rochedale Turf’s new Wintergreen was laid over our new property. Now you could be forgiven for thinking we are about to open an RSL Bowls club when you see the quality of these greens but you have to admit it has the look of a ‘fast green’.

WOW – Looking good

apitchford — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:46:17 +0000

If you haven’t checked out the house lately, visit the online album of what has happened as God has faithfully provided us with this new home.

The photos online now show the inside with cornices nearly complete and all the doors added.

One of the neat things was seeing ‘Danny’ one of the plastering team wandering around on his stilts. Check it out by clicking here.

Abbey’s Twilight Identity

apitchford — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:15:48 +0000

Abbey just came home from school with her first acrylic paint work. After a wee discussion that this blog needed a title she decided that the painting could be called ‘Twilight Identity’. You can imagine how proud we are of this budding artist. This painting is a wonderful show of life and creativity.

The brick layers move in

apitchford — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:10:04 +0000

	Today we went down to find the brick layers hard at work. They tell us they should be finished by next Thursday. So far they’re doing a great job as these photos show. We were really pleased with how the colour of the bricks is coming up.

	Here’s the happy couple still coming to grips with the amazing new home. Now we’re working towards the home job of packing and cleaning. We still seem to be on track to move in the week before Christmas.

	On the Picasaweb of the home you can see the kids in each of their bedrooms. We thoughts we would take a photo of them in it now. Then when we move in we will take a photo of the ‘finished room’. One of those ‘before’ and ‘after’ photo ideas.

Well that’s all for now folk’s. Pray we get some dry weather this week. The brickys lost two or three days this week because of the rain but they are certainly making up fro lost time.

Totally Plastered

apitchford — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:03:25 +0000

I went down to the house today to see how the brickwork had gone. Danny Waters came with me to have a look at putting in some cabling. We were both surprised that the house was plastered… well the gib rock walls were put up right the way through.

It was amazing to see what has happened in just ONE day.

Inside the catacombs

apitchford — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:57:08 +0000

We took a trip down to meet the electricians onsite today and the cable was being fed through for electrical, data and telephone services. The plumbers were hard at work making us water wise and using the connections to the water tank etc. The house is looking great and it was encouraging to see how the room sizes are working out from the plan to reality.

Feel free to take a walk through the house. Sorry we haven’t tidied up before you came

Blind leading the Blinds!

apitchford — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:17:02 +0000

I love how God honours our faith, however small. It ties in today with what I was reading in 2 Corinthians 5:7.

This morning I am blown away by a simple act of kindness by some friends of ours. Our home is coming along beautifully and it looks spectacular. We know however that not everything can be done within the scope of the homes initial budget so we are having to learn what ‘goes on hold’ and what needs to happen now.

One of the things we were letting go of was window treatments. Now we knew we would need some level of privacy for bedroom windows but we were more than happy to work on hanging up a few old sheets until we can make that next step. Thankfully God has other plans.

This morning I received an SMS from a friend asking:
"Would u like some timber blinds for ur house?" (sic)

My answer:
"WOW – we have nothing – I was planning on sheets.
Seriously! Yes please."

My friends response:
"Ok will drop around 5 rooms worth later"

Isn’t it wonderful. I can’t wait to see where they fit. I’m sure God had them sized in advance. It is a relief to let God do the exterior and interior decorating. As creator of the universe you would expect this but His colour choices are amazing. So far I have been blessed how the colours we have chosen from ‘samples’ have tied together for a nice homely earthy feel. It’s all good!

The blind faith has brought in the blinds!
Thank you God, thank you all.