Top 3 suspect characters at Roff Christmas

1. Maisie
2. Morley
3. The Wild Horse

Betty & Ken's Christmas Message 2010

Merry Christmas to all. Sorry we cannot make it.
Please save 3 minutes of garbled silence in our absence.
Best wishes to Vicky and Harry.
Kimi & Brendan via Jake's log in.

Brother John Taylor Award for 2010

Word came through today that Glenn recieved the Brother John Taylor award -

The award is granted annually in honour of Brother John Taylor cfc who was the executive director of the Catholic Education Commission NSW, from 1984 until his death in 1993. It is awarded to an individual who makes a significant contribution to Catholic education in NSW. Awardees are judged to have made an outstanding contribution to their education field which has benefited the Catholic education community generally and, through their work, facilitated the work of others in their professional role, and strengthened the ethos of Catholic education.

Glenn is pretty chuffed about this award, having dedicated his working life to Catholic Education. He's not done yet though, the old bloke...

Bonnie to the Rescue

Bonnie to the Rescue has recently been re-released as a directors cut and it's being premiered here on the Roff Report. It contains ground-breaking technical features including invisible rope to control the animal tallent. Some of the stars will be at Lismore this year including the bad guy, David Morley. Sit back and enjoy...

Part 3 - ANZACS (with commentary on great-grandfather John Roff)

Christmas shopping

Can anyone tell me where I can find the Roff Christmas list? If it's not on the blog can someone please email it to me .... cozandjen@bigpond.com
I'd better start thinking of what to get Jake just in case he's being bought for by the Armidale Roffs.
Cheers
Jenny

Amy is officially a teenager

Amy Therese turned 13 last week and had a mocktail party for 42... yes that's right 42... girlfriends. Dress was semi-formal and they all arrived in their finery and drank their mocktails out of champagne glasses with fancy umbrellas. It didn't take long for them to kick off their high heels though, and jump on the trampoline and play spotlight with torches down the back yard!!!
Amy was rolling in vouchers and jewellery given as presents, and I think I might borrow a few as she won't miss them. To help the time pass, a few Mums and I added a dash of rum to our mocktails to make them more festive whilst we heated sausage rolls and blended non-alcoholic pina coladas.
All Armidale Roffs are well and we are really looking forward to Lismore and lots of good reasons to celebrate!!! I will bring some strawberry daquiri mix to share.
See you soon
Love Jenny

Part 2 of the Roffy and Rupert Summer Series

Roffy and Rupert Summer Series - Part 1 - Tubby Little Trooper

I have Long Service Leave. Yes, that makes me feel old, but I will not sniff at the opportunity to take the last three weeks of term off. We just went to Paradise Resort at the Gold Coast for 4 days. They have a million dollar kids club attached - Every day "Dad can we go to kids club for the next 4 hours while you and mum lie by the pool"? Dad - "Yes kids, I think we can arrange that for you".

Unfortunately we only got 2 hours of sunshine in the 4 days, so lying by the pool turned into a Cavell Avenue pub and restaurant crawl or two.

Fortunately we missed the Cavell Avenue shooting by 2 hours.

In the meantime I have 9 weeks holiday - teaching is a good occupation - so I feel I have the time to put some tunes on YouTube just for fun. I also like the idea that I can have a dribble about whatever I want - So I did. Here it is. I am going to do one every week for 9 weeks.

Movember, Batman and Robin, Graduation

Thanks alot to all of my sponsors. I usually aim for $100 per year, but this year I raised over $400 for Men's Health Research (The highest donations for the whole of the Lismore region!!) - Mainly due to Roff donations, so thanks.

Lacho Graduated his Preschool the other day, and they had a Graduation ceremony (Hat toss and all..!) - Photos attached.

Maisie is the coolest Robin.

Jimmy Buffett t-shirt sighting

Ash's recent gift of a Jimmy Buffett t-shirt has revolutionised my wardrobe and it got an airing last weekend when Julia and I visited Adam in Sydney. Adam is finalising the purchase of a flat (I think that's what it is) in Darlinghurst and it's in an excellent location. We ate and drank our way around the area, took a ferry to Manly and back, and watched four movies in the flat's theatrette. None of them starred Megan but we enjoyed her company during a number of our adventures.
Dominic is currently in Byron Bay on his schoolies break and, since I haven't seen his picture in the papers or on the TV news, all seems to be going well. He's waiting for his VCE (HSC) results but has already been interviewed for a position in the Media and Communications school at my university. The plan at this stage is for him to have a year off to save and travel. Amanda is also waiting for results and is investigating doing some Honours study in the US. Nick is currently unrecognisable in his suits and driving his new (company provided) RAV4. I don't actually understand what he does but he's obviously doing it well. Annika is still having fun as an inner-city resident but is a little frustrated by the recent Victorian election results as she'd spent a few weeks stuffing letterboxes with Greens leaflets. We're all looking forward to Christmas in Lismore.