Monday

The mornings are definitely getting lighter if not warmer. I still cannot fathom how it gets colder once the sun is up ... when I arrive at Zarraffa's in the morning, usually just as the sky is starting to lighten, it's not too bad (especially coming out of the car where the demister has been running - I refuse to use the heater!) but by the time I emerge half an hour later, thermo mug of coffee in hand to get me off to the right start at work, it's freezing!I ran out of "real work" again today and had to resort to some scanning and filings - which worries me because that's now Donna's job - and I wouldn't want to take that from her. I was helping her today with our online document storage facility, ProjectWeb, onto which we need to load electronic copies of all of our contracts in order to comply with audit requirements. I guess there's filing and there's filing ... and given how long it takes for one contract to upload, I'm glad she's the one doing that filing.

I met J this afternoon in Broadbeach so we could go to R's graduation from modeling school. She has been doing a course on Saturday mornings over the last eight weeks where they have been teaching them how to do hair, makeup, walking - the things that R hopes will help her move into television at some point. It's good that at 13 she knows what she wants to do and is working towards it - and that she has a mother who supports her in that. Of course, as we listened to the speeches at the Graduation - before and after we had seen the Toddlers, Senior Actors, Young Models and ... what was the name of the fourth group? ... strut their stuff - we knew that all the parents in the room had supported their "loved ones" and helped them towards success.

R had to be at the venue for rehearsals early - the show started at 6.30 pm and she was there by 4 - so J and I had a couple of hours to take a wander around the Pacific Fair shopping centre, have a coffee, and then find the last place in the complex that was open and still serving food to have a bite of dinner. We weren't sure how long the show was going to last for so we didn't want to be sitting there with grumbling tummies.

Meanwhile, back at Latimers, M had gone off to the Cocktail Party - in the end I'm not sure if Mi or Mouse went with her - but I was pleased to hear that she was going to see Mouse and was planning to introduce her to the new iPad. She is going to love it!

S spent the evening in - for some reason she hadn't wanted to come along to the Graduation - and was enjoying Family night challenge on MasterChef. The star of the evening was Kate's daughter Maya who did a very reasonable impression of food critic and show staple Matt Preston.

Except for Beasley, all the furries were in ... and when he did come in, we had lock-down for a few minutes before he started looking longingly at the front door and we decided it was better for him to go out if he wanted to rather than leaving him to find some kind of mischief inside.