Dads lost the plot again. Last week he had to dress up in a suit as he was invited to a silver service lunch in the Parliament House dining room (the one the pollies use, not the staff one!) and now he's gone and nominated himself  as one of the three parent members on the committe for the Kingston High School association. The funniest thing is he got in! Now he has to go the the AGM and meet the Minister for Education. They almost woke up to him at Parliament House as the security guys wouldn't let him in at first. You have to walk through one of those airline metal detector machines and it went beep. Even after he had turned out his pockets and ran his goodies through the xray machine (they really have all that stuff!) it still went beep. It was only then that he remembered that the fancy business shoes his work buys for him actually have hidden steel toes (you  never know when you might drop a pen on your foot).

 Perhaps now is a good time to point out that it's actually me (Phillip Groom) that writes most of these stories, and yes I did write the one above. I try to make light of most situations as this web site is meant to be fun, however I want everyone to know that I intend to take my role on the Kingston High School association committe very seriously. If anyone has anything that they would like to raise with me or the committe please feel free to contact me here.

I discovered that going swimming with your car keys in your pocket isn't a good idea. When the rust starts to oooze out of the remote control thingy it stops working. No problem I thought, just ring the local Mitsubishi dealer. I'm sure they were rubbing their hands together before I even rang. $70 to buy one remote and then another $95 to reprogram it. Geeez, but isn't Google a wonderful thing? Within a few minutes I had already reprogrammed it on my own. The actual reprogramming itself is done from the drivers seat, requires nothing other than your car key, takes about 5 seconds and they charge $95 for it !!!!!!! 

It must be time for an update. A couple of weeks ago we drove up to Launceston and borrowed Lisa for the day whilst we visited AGFEST. If you have never been to this before then you really must check it out. We have never seen so many people all in the one place (at least not in Tasmania!). We spent the night with Stuart, Sharon, Anika and Lisa before driving back the next day. Last weekend when Dad finally finished working from home (who said the weekends were for resting?) we went up to Max and Beth's place to catch up with them as well as Ian and Jane who were down from Sydney with their six month old baby Joshua. Very cute!