There were quite a few TV programmes I loved watching when I was younger. Little House On The Prairie, The Greatest American Hero, The Waltons, Charlies Angels and I think one of the most popular programmes of my youth - Fame. Everyone my age remembers that, and we all talk about how we used to dance and pretend we were Fame dancers. I used to go down to our shed, turn the music up and dance my little heart out, with the spins and leaping. Oh and the legwarmers, remember them. Every time you hear the theme music for those old shows it brings back the memories. It was good times 'back in the day.'

My son is the crack up at our house… last night I told him off for going #2s in his undies, I told him that poo’s belongs in the toilet not in his undies and that he needs to help mummy, not make mummy’s job hard…he replied with “ok I'm sorry mummy’ and trotted off down the hall while I went in search of clean undies and Pj’s. I then found a very happy 3 year old in the toilet naked washing his undies in the toilet bowl with a big smile on his face saying “there you go mummy, poo’s in the toilet now and my undies can go in the laundry aye” was so funny but certainly made my stomach weak….what would my life be like without him? Id never like to experience that!

me and my grandmother

I would like to tell you a little bit about my grandmother. I have the utmost of love and respect for all my family and I’m sure I will write a lot about them in future articles, but for now I would like to focus on my grandmother because I feel that she had one of the largest impacts on my life, especially now that I have children of my own. I was born when my mother was very young, and my biological father moved away shortly after I was born, so my mother and I spent my first few years living with my grandparents. Also my mother worked during the day so I was left in the care of my caring grandmother, so as you can imagine, I grew very close to my grandparents. My grandmother, Norma Margaret McCoy, was one of the most caring and protective people I have ever met. She taught me the meaning of unconditional love, respect and most importantly faith. As a child, no matter what I did or said, I knew that she would always back me 100%, even when what I did was perhaps wrong. She ne...

My first pet that I remember from my childhood was a dog (labrador-german shepard cross) called Ceasar. We had him for a number of years but he was always on a chain due to him always running away. I remember when we moved house one time, the first chance he got, he ran a couple of suburbs to find his way back to the old place. Very impressive. Naughty but impressive. He finally got picked up by my Uncle to go to a 'pig farm'. It was not till years later that I found out it was really the 'pig farm in the sky'. Even as a teenager, I did not take it well. OK, lets move on. Over the years, I had a number of creepy pets that I liked to catch from the rivers and ponds. I had frogs for a while until they escaped. My mother was finding frog skeletons around the house for months. I also had what I called 'creepy crawlies'. They were like little crayfish or lobsters I guess. I did not have those ones very long, as they did not take too kindly to the still water of my little fish tank. Ooopp...

I was hanging around my older sister, she had made a new friend and I felt it was my duty as a younger brother, to make sure this new friend was aware I existed. They decided to start climbing this hill at the steepest face. I expected them to give up pretty quickly so thought it was best just to observe. When they got past the first slip and dead sheep, about 25meters up, I started feeling fear number one. What if they made it up the hill? I’d look like a chicken just sitting there. My sister would make my life a misery for the rest of the holiday. There was no way I was going to risk it so up I went. As steep as it was, I bounced up that hill with all the skill and grace a mountain goat would be proud of. I took great pleasure in showing the girls the best route to take and pointing out any hazards coming up. At the 60 - 70 meter mark I stopped to assess the girls progress, I thought they must have been quite away behind me now because of my far superior climbing skill and als...