You may wonder what this image represents.

It’s the view from the top of Mt Gibraltar in the fog… You can read a fairly comprehensive report of “Dee and Yay’s Big Trip to the Southern Highlands to see Miss Lisa” over at Yay’s and you can see Visual Representations of the Outing by clicking on the fog picture.

It was a Grand Day Out notable due to speculation as to whether we may have been the first wibloggers to use the new M7…reneging only because of certain procrastination issues regarding the purchasing of e-tags. We next considered the possibility that we may have been the most elevated wibmeet having attained 863m above sea level (which is disappointingly low, I thought). Of course the only evidence of such elevation are pictures of fog.

On Delayed Gratification.

After a discussion concerning Yay’s recent Pad Thai travails I felt the need to have a Pad Thai of my own for dinner and only those dedicated Pad Thai eaters will understand the intestinal fortitude it took to drive all the way home from the restaurant (a good 10k or so) with said Pad Thai sitting next to me. I didn’t touch it, except to steady it from possible collapse due to vehicular movement. I feel very proud for being able to wait, especially as it was a good one. It was very easy to wash up dispose of due to it being in a paper container, with disposable biodegradable chopsticks.

All in all a rather lovely day, and all the better for being something out of the ordinary trip to the local cafes and movie theatres with all the usual suspects…

Ooh yes, and I got 6 books for $39.00 at Berkelouws, admittedly the titles aren’t nearly so interesting as Yay’s Pomp and Pestilence or the one about the shape tasting dude… and I am feeling compelled to delay the gratification of reading them until I have finished the libary books (with the exception of the Patricia Cornwell… apparently time has not cured my aversion).

Of course I might just take all the books back to the library tomorrow so they stop mocking me…

This will not be me on vacation… The laptop has power issues… and fixing them will be expensive and painful… SO it appears I’ll be on an enforced break for a week or two… So, until the New Year when shops DONT charge double the price for stuff you need because your computer breaks… You’ll have to make do with the archives… Go on… there’s some good stuff to read there!!

Have a Happy New Year! See you in 2006!

One presumes that if I were strictly traditional I could continue posting decoration pictures (though I’m sorry the stories have become less detailed as the series went on – time was of the essence) until Epiphany but I’ve elected to treat the decorations as a kind of advent calendar and finish this evening with this last one.

Those of you reading this on the wibsite will recognize the little bee as my avatar of choice for the last 18 months. Those reading it from NZ will recognize it as a Buzzy Bee an iconic toy all children of NZ are given (well, most anyway) at birth or soon after!! And those reading it elsewhere on the web may not recognize it at all! I bought this decoration when I was on holiday in New Zealand in April in order to bring it to a wibmeet as my ‘identifying feature’. As I recall it seemed a little small in the end so I opted for something else… however, it will say wibsite to me everytime I hang it up now… and I think thats a V.Good thing.

Anyway, I’ve saved this one for last to give a shout out and Merry Christmas to all my wibsite mates and to say thanks for another wonderful year of stories, laughter and tears and for making my life so much the richer for having read, and even for some, met you! It never fails to amaze me that I have such a large circle of friends. It amazes other people whom I’ve mentioned you to as well. They think I’m a geek and weird but they just don’t know how great it is to know a connection, wherein we all have a faith in common and wherein we all know so much of each others lives.

Anyway, you get the idea, I’m well thankful for you the wibbers for your company this year, to the wibsite for giving me a place to write and to process my world, and to God for this Christmas Season, without which we would not have that common thread of faith. You guys are flipping legends. In fact, as all my readers… Lisa, Ian, Yay, Chops, Smudge, Semele, Jack, tractor Girl and all those who read quietly, so quietly I don’t know you’re there.

Merry Christmas!