Mamalade

 So much for my weekly Newsletter, that turned into a monthly Newsletter and now…it’s been 6 months!
It’s late & I’m tired, but I’m determined to write something before the end of the month. (I have 45 minutes left.)

Today, we had our second last World Vision jumble sale for the year. The final one will be next Friday, then we’ll have a break till the end of January. One of our helpers arrived with her finger plastered in bandaids . She had the slammed the door on it as she was leaving home. She still managed to arrive before me and had started setting up. Her finger kept bleeding, so we sent her off to the doctor. The doctor couldn’t stitch it, because the tip of her finger had been cut off. She found it when she went home, still stuck on the door. “I hope it wasn’t wiggling like a lizard’s tale does when it falls off,” I said.

On Tuesday, we had our Christmas Auction and it was our best ever. Instead of exchanging Christmas gifts, we auction them - as well as other things. It sounds crazy, but it works well. Everyone has a great time and we raise a lot of money. Everyone got into the spirit straight away and the bids went higher than I expected. I noticed that the neatly boxed parcels with pretty wrapping brought in the highest bids.

tigers romping

Relle took Mum & Me to Dreamworld again on Sunday to see the tigers. The baby tigers are 7 months old now. They are so beautiful and playful. The best part was late afternoon, when most of the crowd had gone, all the handlers came out onto “Tiger Island” and just romped with the babies. You can tell that they really love them.

Nearly December. I’m off to bed. Back soon.