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ok its only sunday and about 4 pm but the weekend has flown by.
friday was a night at k's as she was working. really enjoyed the evening and updated the www.task-centre.org.uk website. Although i've just realised its still missing a key componant! find it and win some chocolate (clue is on the front page!)
Sat was going to be a lie in but a text came in and up i got. Tiff and Suzy were in town and living well about 10 ft below me. Tiff, the expectant father, asked me for a game of golf. well knowing that he simply was a sportsman and is so non competitive i agreed! SO with Geoff, our senior partner, we set off to Phear Park, Exmouth. Well it started ok ishh.. but by hole 12 i was on 43. So although that wasnt too bad i felt maybe i could have done better.. lol so i gave up and went home. Just glad our neighbours have a spare key (thank you cilla and mike)..
Off then to an afternoon in torquay. then later back to Exmouth for a night on the boat!! whoo hoo.
Dave and Emma were down and partying with K and the kids. So Dave came and helped me on the Tudor Rose with Stuartline Cruises. The disco was fantastic. I loved it. As I've not done one for a while it was a pleasure. Dave and I were on form. Some great 70's selections from Dave and all went well. lol. even some great food from Lester Newman – Swan Catering. So a great night out.
Sunday i woke up at k's (no not because i was drunk) as k was working. Then have spent the day in as she was waiting on a cooker to be delievered. Sorted out the computers (dont i always) and watched the disney "High School Musical". Well its been compared to Grease. Well it isnt Grease at all. There are no memorable songs in it but it is a good watch.
Hurrah and as my mobile has died and i brought the wrong charger with me the day has been silent on the phone. lol
Oh and i have nothing to wear as ive done no washing for monday. bum..
well if thats the least of my problems no worries... eh...
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phew end of another week...
so a week in the van with Matt and well i think its gone ok. many quizes, annoying singing, wrong turns.. but we've survived. lol.
but its the weekend and what could be better than seeing my kids and sleeping!!
Hi again to all those who come by regulary and sorry its not been updated lots. Ive really working hard. well in time anyhow.
hurrah.
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Man we'll miss ya.
From the BBC...
Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast.
Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray's barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
Paramedics from Cairns rushed to the scene but were unable to save him.
Mr Irwin was known for his television show The Crocodile Hunter and his work with native Australian wildlife.
Police in Queensland confirmed the environmentalist's death and said his family had been notified. Mr Irwin was married with two young children.
Mr Irwin's manager John Stainton told the BBC the stingray's barb had pierced the personality's heart.
"He came over the top of a stingray and a barb, the stingray's barb went up and put a hole into his heart," he said.
"We got him back within a couple of minutes to Croc 1, which is Steve's research vessel, and by 12 o'clock when the emergency crew arrived they pronounced him dead."
The incident happened at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas.
It's a huge loss to Australia - he was a wonderful character
John Howard,
Australian Prime Minister
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said had known Mr Irwin well, and that the country had lost a "wonderful and colourful son".
"I am quite shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden untimely and freakish death", he said.
"It's a huge loss to Australia - he was a wonderful character, he was a passionate environmentalist, he brought entertainment and excitement to millions of people."
The stingray is a flat, triangular-shaped fish, commonly found in tropical waters.
What happened to Steve Irwin is like being stabbed in the heart
Dr Geoff Isbister
Clinical toxicologist
It gets its name from the razor-sharp barb at the end of its tail, coated in toxic venom, which the animal uses to defend itself with when it feels threatened.
Attacks on humans are a rarity - only one other person is known to have died in Australia from a stingray attack, at St Kilda, Melbourne in 1945.
"Stingrays only sting in defence, they're not aggressive animals so the animal must have felt threatened. It didn't sting out of aggression, it stung out of fear," Dr Bryan Fry, Deputy Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne said.
Experts say that while painful, stingray venom is rarely lethal and it would have been the wound caused by the barb itself, which could measure up to 20cm long, which proved fatal.
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