Just Nicky

Goodies in the mail, family events and plan activity January 18, 2005

I arrived home last night to find that this, this and this had arrived from my ebay purchases. It was a bit like an early birthday.

There’s been a bit of extended family news going on too. My eldest nephew Simon is engaged. My first thought was so young!! And then I remembered that he’s 28 - not so young. His sister Gabby got into Architecture at Melbourne Uni. She got 95.something in her VCE so it’s not terribly surprising. And my Aunty (by marriage) Margaret died last week. I feel both a bit sad and a bit relieved for my Uncle Lindsay. Margaret had been ill for many years and he had been her carer. It had isolated him somewhat from his brothers and, since our family are not the most social of people, I imagine that, like my dad and Jeff, he probably never had heaps of friends. With any luck he might join Dad & Jeff’s weekly golf game. It’d be nice to see the 3 of them playing together, speaking in dry oneliners and sniffing constantly (it’s one of those odd family things…).

In the first instalment of my plan last night I put most of my knitting patterns into plastic pocket display books (which are 45c each at Office Works at the moment) and started cleaning out my wardrobe. I think the only telly I watched was when Finn woke up and wouldn’t settle - it was some thing about Churchill being a drunk.

For the wardrobe cleanout I have 2 bags, one marked ‘charity’ and the other marked ‘ebay’. Everything that I think might be worth selling will go on ebay for a bit and then go to the op shop if it doesn’t sell. It’s mostly stuff that I’ve only worn once or twice because it either doesn’t fit or I don’t really like it all that much. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes.