Swan Districts Win!!

'You little beauty'

The Swan Districts won the Grand final in the Colts league, okay I can hear you say It's only the colts. But the colts is where you get all your beaut young players from, and a strong junior base is a strong club. And if you know yours truly I'll take any flamin' win..... strewth I'll go all the way down to the under twelfths c-grade steel blue seconds for a friggin' Grand final win mate!

SWAN DISTRICTS 20 11 131

CLAREMONT 10 7 67

The fellas celebrated a beaut 64 point win over the tigers, and Josh Pullman kicked five ripper goals for the black n' whites and won the Mel Whinnen medal as the best ridge-didge player on ground. Well done fellas.

Wildflowers Festival

The start of the day was just beaut so I chucked the kiddies into 'old fordie' grabbed a couple of water bottles and started the drive into Perth city. The drive in went quick and before you could say 'Bob's ya uncle' we were at King's Park. This was the very first annual Wildflower Festival which runs from the 1st of September to the 1st of October.





Each weekend they have a different theme from Father's day, Great granny and Gramps Gumboot gardening day, Djilba Bush Life and finally Wild Fairyland Festival. We went to the Djilba Bush Life which was held at the Botanic Gardens which was just flamin' amazing mate, it was a celebration of everything Australian. There was whip cracking and sheep shearing, caravan and camping displays, and even a bloke doing some fishing in a bloody big water tank.
There was a kiddie show all about growing Australian Natives in ya backyard instead of all those imported stuff that loves water. The show as real beaut and all the kiddies got a chance to get up and have a go so it was just great.









We went walkabout along the Botanic Garden walkway which connects to the see-threw bridge, the kiddies loved the bridge and you can see views of the Swan river as you pass over it. Then after a short walk threw the bush you come to the Water Gardens then back to the Botanic Gardens again.


Now here is a photo of a beaut little aussie native flower called FEDERATION FLAME KANGAROO PAW which was developed by the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, pretty cool hay.












We then went to the War Memorial and had a gander at the beaut view of Perth city and the Swan River, and just luckily for us their was a small Bagpipe band playing.....well bagpipes (Derrr). So we sat down to have a listen and the kiddies loved it, well their you go, they were bloody good too and so we stayed for about five songs then they packed up, and so did we and started the walk back to the van. So that was our day out at Kings Park and you could easily say that me and the kiddies had a flamin' beaut day out.





If ya want some more info about the Festival then just go to their website at www.kingsparkfestival.com.au

Avon Descent

Well a little while back we took the tribe to the Avon Descent, for a layed back day in the sun having a squizz at some flamin' idiots in boats. Now for the readers who don't know about the Avon Descent it's a bunch of fit blokes n' sheilahs who have nothing better to do (they don't have kiddies then) on a weekend then paddling their canoes down the Avon river...FOR FUN!!! Fairdinkum I can think of much better things to do, like sitting on my arse watching them do it. Now the race starts from the Northam Weir and goes down the Avon river to the finish line at the Garratt road bridge, Bayswater Perth.
You have the choice of riding a 10HP Dinghy powerboat, 8HP or 6HP, and you can be either solo or with a mate. And if your one of the fruitlops who like paddling (give me a tinny any day mate) then you could either single or double Kayak, surf ski, team fours or Non-powered Sundries (whatever that is?).
So we went to the Sandalford Estate fun day and let the kiddies get their faces painted and have some beaut tucker and let them go on the bouncy Castle, over and over and over again. And the best thing was it was all FREE .... thanks to the Swan Valley ratepayers.
But it was a top barmy day out and the kiddies had a beaut time, and that night the little nevilles slept like a log (well slept like a bunch of logs....four logs to be exact) ...... You little beauty!

Backyard Blitz

I reckon our kiddies are the luckiest little nevilles about, have a gander at their backyard sandpit. Fairdinkum I would of loved a beaut sandpit like this. Here's the boys just hanging out taking it easy,


Here's a photo of 'Little Notso' Oscar as you can see he loves a good feed.






Here's Jacko in 'the Pit', setting their all good.... he must be up to something? as for the sandpit it is covered with a roof so even during the heat of summer the kiddies can get in and have a muck around, cool.



And here's me other two, Sarah and Harrison hanging out on one of the swings. Harrison's trying to pinch the swing, that's okay. When the kiddies are fighting or attacking each other that's okay. It's when their all 'goodie goodie' and you know some things going on.... it puts a shiver up ya spin!!!
Have a squizz at me roses, when we got here the bush was just about dead. But after a bit of 'green thumb' and heaps of fertilizer!! up she went and now it's going great guns.... well until yesterday when I did a DAD and cut the poor thing to bits... small bits to be fairdinkum. I bloody hope the old man is right as the missus is not all that happy about it!!!

And finally here's a ripper photo of what the kiddies can get up to if you leave them alone. They were racing them selves around the house, heres Sarah as the horse with Harrison as the jockey. Fairdinkum I laughed me flamin' head off when I first saw them.... You had to be their!

Rockingham's Day out

So here we are on a beaut barmy winter's day in Middle Swan and a car full of kiddies, with the temperature in Armidale (NSW) at 3 and hitting 11 in Melbourne (VIC) what can this bunch of Sandgropers do over this side of Ozz. Well what about a day trip to the beach, we'll it is a nippy 21degrees (ha,ha,ha) and the sun's out so that was the decision we came to as we headed down the highway to the seaside town of Rockingham.
First we stopped for the kiddies to have a muck around at the swings at the Rockingham Oval, Here's the kiddies hanging out with some furry penguins (the best ones- the concert type) at the park. It's a beaut park and has a Anzac Memorial to the diggers and has a few old guns around ... which the kiddies found. Then back into the kiddy mover and a quick trip over to the other side of the town to the Rockingham Beach on the shores of Mangles Bay. Well it was a beaut day at the beach when we got their and the old section of park near the shops has heaps of old trees so their was no chance of getting sunburnt, beauty. The old section which is called Churchill Park has about eight different types of swings for the kiddies to play with, then you go into the newer section (Bell Park) which is out in the open and has about another six types of swings their, and if that isn't enough then you come to the Rockingham foreshore Park which goes for another four km's so their's heaps of things the kiddies to do during their time their.
After walking from swing to flamin' swing we finally had gone enough for the kiddies to be happy so then we cut threw the sandunes and walked to the beach. It's a real nice walk along the beach and as usual for the beaches over this side of Australia their was no waves. So after about a half hour walk back to the park we went in search for the one thing that we always love when at the beach... a fish n' chip shop.And no joke it was a bloody ripper, one of the best fish n' chips ive ever wrapped the old choppers around. So we just sat back munching away on the scrutinise tucker and had a squizz at the shark biscuits (surfers) trying to catch one of the one-miter waves, oh what a hard life.
But all beaut things have to come to an end and as the sun was going down over the ocean on this beaut barmy day we all crimbed into the holden and started our way back up the highway to sleepie old Middle Swan. Now winter has set back in and the days have gone down to a flamin' cold 17..... come on summer hurry back mate.

Swan Districts

Well this was our first ever time going to the 'Footy'.
Your's truly, Jacko and Sarah went to our very first 'Aeral Ping Pong match' (Aussie rules). And we had a beaut time watching the Black n' Whites go 'round, so now were real ridgie-didge Swan Districts footy fans. The Swans or the black ducks (as there known) come from Bassedean oval which thanks to a beaut sponcership deal is now called STEELBLUE OVAL. And thay play in a comp called 'The Waffle' (WAFL) and are about as good as me old mates The Macquarie Scopians

This was our first match at home and it was against East Perth, Easts are a very good side and after leading by 7 goals in the first quarter we went on to win by 30 points.





This is kiddies behind the goal posts at half time.






And the Swanies have their own cheer squid 'You little ripper', as you can see Sarah was a little down cos the swanies were down that quarter....poor little weasel.




So after our first match this was the score, as you can see we done them like a dog's dinner. The final score was

SWAN DISTRICTS .19 10 124
WEST PERTH .........14 10 94

Since then we have watched the Swans loose every flamin' match . First against Claremont then a lose against the wooden sponsors Peel, and we didn't come within cooee of South Fremantle Bulldogs and as for the match against the leader of the comp Subiacco.... we'll put it this way the fat Sheilah was singing well before the second quarter, as they went on to give us a fair dinkum shellacking.