Let's meet each of the girls.

First up is Nahla, on my index finger. She is my old grandma kitty who is about 19 years old.  She suffers all the same ailments that old cats do, like kidney failure and she is a tiny skinny little thing, but she is the most loving and cuddly kitty ever. The moment you sit down, she is on your lap. You often dont even realize that she is there cause she is so light.  We found her at the local shops with a huge wound under her arm.  No one seemed to own her so we took her to the local vet. She wasn't micro chipped, so after the vet stitched her up and she received antibiotics, she came home with us to her forever home. There have been a few times that we thought she was ready to cross the rainbow bridge, so every day we have with her is a bonus.

The next two are sisters, Tikki and Tavi.  They were a in a litter of three with their brother Rikki. Sadly we lost Rikki in 2015 because he had a tumor, it was very sudden and so sad.  In fact I've lost three kitties in the time I've had this blog.  Rikki, Tikki and Tavi belonged to a stray cat that we used to feed at our back door.  One day she just rocked up with kittens. So we captured them all, got the mother neutered and kept the kittens. They are about 12 years old. The mother cat was too wild to keep, so we just released her and kept feeding her until she didn't turn up one day :( (Mum I know you are reading this so don't get teary! *hugs*)

We have quite a history of feeding stray cats at our place. We live near a nature reserve and think that is where most of the strays hung out. We would capture them, neuter them and then release them cause they are wild.  My mum has had countless strays over the years and is now down to five cats! But as always, there is always another one that needs a loving forever home, so our numbers don't drop.

Have you heard me complaining about my broken foot and ankle recently, yeah I know I don't shut up about it. But how did I break it? Well I had a little crash on my motorcycle. I usually ride my bike to work every day, although for obvious reasons I have not done so for the last six months.

The circumstances around my crash are rather odd because I believe it was another parties fault, but the police still claim I'm to blame.  You see I was riding to work on lovely spring morning and there is a stretch of road that has two lanes for cars and a third lane for buses and motorbikes.  On this particular morning, the traffic was quite heavy and banked back for a few kilometers in both the car lanes. As per usual, the bus and bike lane was empty and we all zoomed past.

Well this particular morning there were two police bikes there that were pulling over cars that wanted to skip the traffic and were driving down the bus lane.  They already had to cars pulled over on the side of the road when I went past, and then as I cleared a bend in the road, there was another car that had been stopped by the police, but he was slap bang in the middle of the bus lane, on a bridge section of the road where there was no shoulder.  I slammed on my breaks, but there was no way I was going to stop in time before slamming into the back of the car. So I tried to steer myself between the stopped car the the banked back row of traffic.  I nearly did it, but unfortunately I just clipped my left foot onto the rear right side of the car.  The impact knocked me off my bike (and broke my foot in nine places), but it was actually a pretty slow fall and I didn't do much damage to my bike at all.  I reckon that the stopped car is to blame as he was breaking the law in the first place, and then hadn't stopped in a safe place. But the police say that the law says because I hit the car it's my fault, regardless of what the car was doing.  It kinda sucks, cause it means I can't get any compo, but at least I'm alive and well, because it could have been really nasty.

After injuring my foot pretty badly and being off work for so long, just about everyone asks me if I'm going to ride still.  As far as I'm concerned, absolutely yes.

I've ridden a motorbike for the last 8 years, and the reason that I started was because both my husbands work and my work relocated into the city center rather than in the parliamentary triangle. Where our offices were before it was free parking, but in the city it costs $17 a day.  So we both decided that we'd rather spend that $85 a week, or more than $4000 a year on something for us (hello nail polish) instead of going into the government coffers.

Ok, enough about me and my bike, lets look at the nails.  My base is Pretty Serious 88MPH, which seemed like an appropriate polish (although let me make it clear that I never have and never would ride at 88MPH on my bike).  I used MoYou Biker 06 stamping plate for the images. The image of the bike is actually huge on the plates, so I did that technique where you splay the squishy stamper head apart when you pick up the image, then when it squishes back into its normal size, the image shrinks. It worked rather well. Although I lost a lot of the bike detail doing it that way, at least I was able to fit the entire bike on my nail.

Here's a shot of it glossy before I made it matte.


He also recently created himself a YouTube account where he is starting to upload some of his minecraft game play from various servers, particularly Hypixel.  For his birthday cake, we ordered an ice-cream cake and got them to decorate it with the YouTube play button and his account name - Baydenator8.  We also printed out skins of his favourite YouTubers in edible paper and placed them around the cake.