Game day

so now you can challend ala and gud_hed to the game. ala is currently 90 on the leaderboard

try it

http://www.shoot-the-o.com/

Snow from the sky. not my dannydruff

it snowed this morning. and then this little guy said hi.



we spend a lot of time at/on the tub. alana stands on one side of the tracks and me on the other (apparently there is something wrong about me...)

Jude (by albie)

This is the story of how jude learnt about life. and death.
(this is by mark albie printed without his permission. i just thought it was a great story. you can see more of the ablitross @ the captain cLink over yonder - http://www.sitckypictures.co.nz)

Jude....

Spending Xmas in Taupo - Kuritau.

We decide to take the kids to see the snow with a 70 year old friend called
Stan.

Stan is Jamaican living in UK - is a great guy and is like a member of the
family now.

So there's me amy jude eva and ollie together with Stan al ready to take the
chair lift to the top.

Chairs swinging in behind each group of 2 people and swinging them away
towards the summit.

Amy and Eva step up to the line and we talk as the chair swings in behind
them to scoop them up agreeing that I should take Jude. Jude is set in his
mind he will go with his dad.

Bang eva and amy fly away - the lift takes off quickly and the ground drops
away to very quickly the mountain at this height is bare and rocks look up
from below.

Next minute the liftie looks at us and suggests we change our plan and I
carry Ollie as he's in a bck pack and a little heavy for our friend stan to
carry together with a bag that Amy had shuffled to him earlier -

We line up as we're thinking and ollie is passed to me. The chair than
swoops behind me swweping me up and on to the irreversable treadmill.

I look back and realise I have made a big mistake Jude begins to scream like
only he can. I want to go with daddy!!!!!. Stans hands are shaking - he has
a crook hip in need of replacing and is holding on to the boogie boards that
we plan to slide down the hill on...they are scooped up jude almost knocked
to the ground but stan manages to get him on the seat - he is kicking and
screaming out of control and stan has only one hand free - Amy and I are
just meters away but several more above the rocks.


Cant put down the safety barrier and amy and I are shouting at Jude to try
and snap him out of it!!

But no he kicks and screams to the very top of the lift as we watch on in
horror...

People pass on the other side of the lift smiling and waving at eva and
Ollie and then jaws dropping as they see Jude.

It was the longes 10 mins in my life .


That was my jude story

Moral - don't take kids on chair lifts till they're past terrible 2s

Explained to jude that he almost died - he is now more settled and seems to
have grown up overnight. Turning points don't just happen in film comission
scripts.