Giddy Up!

Today is Cup Day. My favourite day of the whole year!

The newspaper is 68 pages long today (not much news then) and 24 of them are all about the Melbourne Cup.

It's 9:00 am, Alan has taken the day off work and is taking the kids to school. I've got the form and a pile of tab tickets. We only bet on the horses one day a year, but I have a flutter on every race today, and then we frock up and head over to my great friend Ronelle's deck.

She gets the big screen out and the projector, we have champagne and canapes all day. Since the kids have been at school it's been a bit of an inconvenience at 3pm to make sure they get home safely (they get the bus this day, the one day a year I don't pick them up).

This year I'll be betting on Yeats, Pop Rock and Zipping.

It doesn't get more Kath and Kim than that darls ...


FAMILY BONDING - IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

There's nothing like wrapping yourselves in duct tape to cement a wonderful mother/daughter relationship.

Jussi, this looks perfect for you and Blaise.