Some Big Brother links for the day.
Not sure what I think of all the housemates yet as I have only watched the daily show but no doubt I will be voicing my opinion of who I like and don’t shortly.
Links I’ve found today for Big Brother Australia 05:
My 2 cents
Hotdogs does NOT appeal. Don’t know why he’s called Hotdogs as I won’t dignify myself by reading that story, but that aside, he’s a sleazebag and I don’t think he’ll be in the series for long.
Constance’s little girl act about getting her luggage didn’t work – ha ha. It would be a bummer losing all your luggage when I guess you’ve packed lots of little clothes to show off in, I mean wear. I guess she won’t last long enough to really miss her luggage anyway.
Last night when he ate all his dinner and asked for more and even asked for more vegetables. Hard work and persistance in the vegetable eating department have paid off.
Big Brother 05 kicked off on television last night. Last year I got a little bit involved writing my thoughts down on this blog but I didn’t do nearly as much as I would have liked and I didn’t do it nearly as well as some others. I probably won’t be able to resist chucking in my two cents worth along the line.
Therefore, this year I am going to be the link provider to the stories that other people write. I notice my stats have people find this blog by searching for Big Brother so I may as well be the launch pad for worthy reading about this year’s series. I also notice that my links for last year to the official BBA website go to the current housemates profiles etc so the links will probably only be good for the same year as the series I’m linking to. Anyway, here goes:
And that’s probably enough for now.
It’s Mother’s day here in Australia. I remember it was different in England and I don’t know the dates for it elsewhere. Unfortunately JJ is too young to make me breakfast in bed yet, and there is nobody to go and buy me an expensive present and say it was from JJ.
I did get something just as good, as the expensive present though, and something I prefer. JJ’s friend, Miss M was around the other night and they got crafty. Miss M is very creative and after I gave them some cardboard, wrapping paper, sticky tape and scissors and left them alone for half an hour or so, this is what they came up with. It was a week early but I had to take a photo for posterity.
The card is at the top with the feathers and the drawing of a dog. On the bottom left is a purple flower. In the middle bottom is a tiger and at the bottom right is a bookmark.
These kids know me well and know that I can always use a bookmark. I’ve heard of sock heaven for odd socks, but there must be a bookmark heaven for missing bookmarks as I’ve lost heaps over the years.
Anyway, thanks heaps for the Mother’s Day presents JJ and Miss M. Love ya!
The work Jamie Oliver is doing regarding school dinners in the UK is just fabulous. I commented on it briefly recently but have to harp back on it.
As a parent it is much easier to give our kids something they want to eat rather than something nutritious we have to prepare but watching Jamie’s School Dinners makes you want to go down the nutritious food path for sure. I for one was getting in a bit of rut with JJ’s food and letting him have canned spaghetti because he didn’t like eating vegetables but I have been persisting with giving him healthier food for the last two weeks and he’s eating more vegetables with less of a fuss now.
I watched Jamie’s show last night and he was having trouble getting one lot of kids to eat his healthy food so he went for the shock approach. I’ve never been a chicken nugget fan and I will never eat them and I will never let my kid eat them.
To prepare chicken nuggets (or mechanically reclaimed meat), get a chicken carcass, put it in the food processor and process it. Get some more fat and skin, plonk that in the food processor and process it. Sprinkle it with some bread dust and add lots of preservatives and colouring and then deep fry it. After the kids saw Jamie do this they dived on the delicious looking chicken legs he’d prepared earlier and left the chicken nuggets well alone.
For all the quibbling the British government were doing about an extra 10p per kids meal per day, the cost savings for health have got to be astronomical.
One school commented that since Jamie’s Dinners have been served in their school, nobody has gone to have asthma treatment at all. Their behaviour has improved. Once, the kids behaviour in the afternoons afternoons weren’t very good but since the introduction of Jamie’s Dinners the teachers noticed that concentration improved immensely.
JJ isn’t a school age kid yet and I will pack his lunch most days for him but that won’t stop him from wanting to eat junk I imagine. We don’t have school dinners or lunches served here like they do in England but there are school canteens and I often read about them trying to eliminate junk. I will be curious to see the roll-on effect Jamie’s efforts will have in the developed world and at my local primary school.
Jamie, I can see you being knighted one day for this work you’re doing. Good on you ‘Sir’ Jamie.
Did my almost weekly jaunt to my local Goodwill and browsed through the tops and found this excellent black pure will jumper by Veronica Maine – a label I wouldn’t pay full price for. I wouldn’t pay full price for any ‘label’ gear as I just can’t afford it. This is in really good nick and it was well within my price range. For pure wool it’s also lovely and soft and I won’t have to wear anything underneath to stop scratchiness.
Excuse the crappy photo. My digital camera is not good at taking close ups and getting details of stuff, especially black stuff so I had to use the night setting.
Goodwill – Hindley Street, Adelaide
Price $4.50
