The Bartholomew Cubbins To-do List

Every time I cross off an item on my to-do list another, bigger and badder than the first, appears at the bottom. I've finally worked out what's happening! My to-do list has been infected by the same spell that magicked Bartholomew Cubbins.

Maybe one day I'll cross off that magic 500th thing and... nothing. No more things to do.

Bliss.

Magical Day

We'd heard there was a chance of snow above 700m for today. The kid have never seen snow and since moving to Canberra have been excited that they probably would get the chance. So, believing the glass-half-full version of the weather, we got up early and headed 25 minutes down the road to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.

We could see snow capped peaks as we drove closer and, sure enough, as we drove through the Reserve we found snow (in fact it was still falling when we got there). There wasn't a lot on the ground but there was enough for snow ball fights, toboganning, and a very Aussie snowman (it's eyes were kangaroo poo). We had about 2 hours of snow play before the sun came out and quickly melted our playfield.

We spoke to a ranger who said in the 15 years he'd worked there it was the lowest level he'd seen snow. Pure magic :)

Heckle, Jeckle and The Hub

Kangaroos in the snow

Aussie snowman (with roo poo eyes)

Snow capped peaks

Magic

I was at a birthday party for a 6 year old girl recently and her Mum had hired a magician to entertain the kids - and entertain he did. For *1 whole hour* 20 young children were entranced. For anyone who has anything to do with young children you will know that 1 hour of being entranced in front of anything that isn't a screen is amazing.

And it wasn't that he performed many magic acts. In fact, there were probably only about 6 tricks in the whole show. But what he did do was weave a story into the show that kept the kids spellbound. He talked for the whole hour, and the kids listened to every word. They laughed, squealed and held their breath as the story unfolded - the magic almost becoming the supporting act.

Words over a magician's tricks? For me that was the real magic.