DOM IS 18!!!

A big "Happy Birthday" to DOM who turns 18 today (28th). Who'd-a-thought it! We saw Dom when we were down in Daylsford recently and he is a VERY TALL and handsome young man. (Taller than his dad!). Congratulations Dom - behave yourself!

Some very happy snaps...

The official Christmas list

It wasn't a case of all play and no work for the ladies at Daylesford. They managed to crank out the Christmas list and here it is. Usual rules approx. $30 in value. You have plenty of time so no excuse for dodgy presents!

	buys for
glenn		damian
sue		lizzie
jake		annika
kelly		nicholas
lachlan		luke
maisie		edie
naomi		andrew
tom		milly
sally		lachlan
hannah		xavier
bede		lilly
patrick		joe
chloe		daniel
joe		grant
sarah		jan
xavier		hannah
elijah		maisie
edie		bede
grant		stuart
julia		chloe
adam		alaine
amanda		jenny
annika		cathie
nicholas		jake
dominic		tom
stuart		john
marianne		ashley
daniel		rowan
alaine		naomi
harry		zac
vicki		amanda
milly		glenn
john		julia
jan		amy
kate		patrick
joe p		sarah
zac		adam
lizzie		sue
ashley		harry
cathie		vicki
andrew		dominic
rowan		callan
damian		marianne
jenny		kelly
callan		kate
amy		joe p
luke		elijah
lilly		sally

Next Photo in Sequence

Congrats Kate and No Hands Joe!!!!! Wish we could be there.

Here comes the bride

Only a few hours until Kate Roff is a married woman.
Best wishes Kate and Joe for your wedding day.

Hope all the WA Roffs have a great time at the wedding and the Melbourne reps behave themselves. We are looking forward to a full report and pics.
If only there was someone in the family who could do some photo magic & get a veil on Kate
to help prepare us in the meantime..........

Daylesford daze...

Ash, Cathie, Stu, Marianne, Julia and myself have just had three days in Daylsford. Some of you may remember Milly won a magazine competition with a prize including ten grand or so in spending money. Because they couldn't spend it all, some of it was converted to accommodation at "The White House". Milly gave the oldies three days and the younger generation will spend the rest in, I think, February next year.

We had a great time. Given he's out of work, Stuart was of the view that Ashley would turn up with three day's growth, a worn overcoat and a bottle in a brown paper bag. On the contrary, he's looking a million dollars and is all the better from the break with wage labouring. We did a bit of walking and sight-seeing, but most of our time was spent eating, drinking and gossiping about other members of the family.

It was a fabulous few days and very relaxing. Thanks very much, Milly, for including us in your spending splurge.

In other closely related news, Milly and Annika flew out early on Saturday morning for New York as the first part of the adventure involving representing the family at Kate and No-hands Joe's wedding. Early news is their apartment in NY for the first week is "awesome". I'm sure they'll blog soon with up-to-date news.

Ash was introduced to Vietnam martial arts which will join the list of competitions to be held at Christmas. He's okay, but I'm still the house champion. We discussed Lainey's current leadership of the AFL tipping competition and it's clear she's found a way of submitting her tips AFTER the games are over. There isn't really any other explanation for her success.

The pics above are of one of the bathrooms and the kitchen area. We didn't do much cooking but we gave the resident cork-screw a thorough hiding...

If you read the paper carefully (page ??)

My Dad found this the other day and thought we would find it interesting

And in other soccer related news...

- Kelly is having a successful first soccer season with Lismore workers club - successful in terms of enjoyment, not on-field success.

- My team (also Lismore Workers), has only lost one game from about 12 - I enjoy playing with a team of ex-A grade 40 year olds who have more interest in after game drinks than training.

- Anyone who knows anything about school-boy soccer will have heard of the 'Bill Turner Cup', basically a NSW state U15 competition which has spread to Queensland, ACT and Victoria. I'm coaching the Woodlawn Bill Turner team this year, and we have made the last 16 teams. At dinner with Glenn and Sue the other night, a mysterious phone call came through - Kelly: "The old bloke on the other end of the line won't tell me who it is - He wants to surprise you". I take the phone "Hello Jake, Bill Turner here, I just wanted to congratulate you and your boys"...
An hour and a half later once the legendary 81 year old had told me his life story and every story worth quoting from the Cup's 50 year history, I rejoined the dinner party buzzed from my brush with Bill...

- The World Cup needs video referees

- Lachlan and Maisie love going to the soccer. I captured their first ever trip to the canteen.