See Ya Summer!

How good are summer holidays when your roughly between the ages of 5 and 7? Nothin' to do but hang with your cuzzys pullin' faces, fling yourself into the wind off head high sand dunes and hammer through suburbia on ya new treddley. And they say kids ain't safe to be kids anymore?

Fig.1:  The Goonies (version 2.0) with Chunk, Monkey and Bruddah...

 Fig.2: Truffle Shuffle replaced by the squashed mango face...

Fig.3: It started out as a kite flying arvo but the fricken kite wouldn't fly so I snapped it into 30 pieces and gave Iggy the tail. He had a much simpler method to get that airborne.

Fig.4: Milo Cool at the very moment he arrived back on earth after pushing through an invisible portal from another dimension...

 Fig.5: Max and Goose, overlords of surburbia...

 Fig.6: Lord Humungas, warrior of the wastelands,  the ayatolla of rock and rolla...

 Fig.7: This week Iggy starts school for the first time. If I were an artist I'd say this shot is symbolic of his first tentative pushes onto the long road ahead. But I'm not an artist so I'll just say here's a photo of Iggy riding his bike.

Fishing with Gran

Back in the day my Bedste used to take me fishing. We went up the Bruns river and caught flatheads and bream and whiting mostly. Good memories. Last year Bedste died and so recently me and the boys went to visit Gran and do a bit of fishing in the backyard in memory of Bedste's awesomeness. While Gran and I sat there eating cake, Ig and Mi realed in these two bream. They were a good size but we threw em back. Bedste only kept absolute bangers. Also Iggy had three pieces of cake which made Gran laugh.

MILO'S DRAGON WAR

The other day Ig was feelin' a bit sick so me and Milo just chilled out in the house watching movies all day while Ig slept. That was fun, it was raining anyway. At about lunchtime the sun came out and by the afternoon everything had dried up. Milo and I walked to the window and looked out at the driveway. Then we both noticed a big bucket of chalk on his desk. We looked at eachother. We were both smiling. I said to Milo "ARE YOU THINKING WHAT I'M THINKING?" And he said "ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT EATING SOME YOGHURT?" And I said, "NO. I"M THINKING WE SHOULD DO A HUGE LAZER BREATHING DRAGON ON THE DRIVEWAY WITH THAT CHALK!" And Milo said, "YEAH! AFTER WE EAT SOME YOGHURT!" So we ate some yoghurt and then we went downstairs and did this together. And all the while poor sick little Iggy slept.

BIRTHDAY CARDS FOR JAGGER AND SHOOGA

Note the subtle differences here between the card made for Jagger's birthday (I think he turned five) and the card made for Sugar's Birthday (I think she turned one). Milo has crafted some excellent mutant scorpions that he says "Could easily kill Iron Man." He's also drawn Iggy as some sort of fat bee. Iggy, who was in charge of doing Sugar's card, spelled her name amazing and if I was Sam and Shez I'd be thinking about taking some liquid paper to the ol birth certificate. He also drew "Shooga" sitting down in the middle of his card. Aaaaaaawwww....

SANTERA

When I was in High School I went through a phase of listening to Pantera. When Milo was in Kindergarten he went through a phase of writing letters to Santera. Full chip off the ol' block stuff. He wrote this by himself without any help from anyone. Ken you gif me? Yes you ken!

MICKEY FOX

Milo and Iggy have a new Cuzzy bro. Mickey Fox who like hi sbig bro Ed and Ed's sculpture Spike is from Avalon. Chur bro!

Culler it in wen wer gon

Found this note from Milo all folded up on his desk. Ha! Can do little buddy!