MY COUNTRY

by DOROTHEA McKELLAR

The love of field and coppice,

Of green and shaded lanes,

Of ordered woods and gardens

Is running in your veins

Busy weekend here in crazy land

Nanna’s here

I’m tying to pack to go away

Went to see Annie, the musical today which was kinda average

And we had the girls Christened yesterday

I won’t be a smart arse about it

‘Cause maybe Miss 6 will see this someday

And I would hate to be caught taking the piss out of what she called,

The best day of my life

Miss 4 enjoyed it too

“I know why it’s called a Christening”, she said

“‘Cause I get lots of presents like when it’s Christmas”

“It’s like a Christening-mass”

She’s kinda right I guess

They looked like little princesses

With their cute dresses and curly hair

Although Miss 4 was a little pisssed at the priest when he put water on her hair during the ceremony

“I’m mad at him – he wecked my pwetty hair-do!”

And Miss 6 said, ‘You can’t be mad at him, he works for God”

And little miss last word Miss 4 said,

“Well I’m going to pray extra hard tonight

That God fires him”

.

Nice!

OK, so it’s not funny

It actually quite serious

So no laughing

And Diamond

Look out!

(he’d probably love it!)

Having kids when your family is on the other side of the world sucks sometimes

I’m close to my family in Australia

And wanted them to be a big part of my kids lives as well

I worried that my Mum & Dad would be strangers to them, whenever they DID see them

And that they wouldn’t even know my brother at all

Well, I needn’t have worried

Because when the girls DO get to see my family

It’s non-stop

Playing

Playing

PLAYING!

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Mum arrived yesterday

She’s going to supervise the prisoners watch the kids while Diamond & I run away from home go on vacay

And the girls are showing NO signs that they’re going to miss us

“When are you LEAVING?”

“Why are you 2 still HERE?”

“Shouldn’t you be going to the AIRPORT?”

So yeah, they can’t wait for us to go

To have Nanna to themselves

To see what they can get away with

Um, I already know the answer to that

EVERYTHING

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And it’s all good

‘Cause although they may not have seen their Nanna for 6 months

They ADORE her

And she’s a HUGE part of their life

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No Poppy on this trip though

He’s parole officer won’t let him travel overseas working

Plus we really have to limit the kids exposure to him

And as far as letting him be around them to teach them dirty words when I’m not here to keep him in line

What am I fucking stupid?

Not happening!