Personal Reminder

Next Tuesday evening is the Monkey Puzzle night. This is a couple of child free hours with some wine and nibbles to wander around grabbing Christmas presents and covering the last of the birthday parties for the year. As an added extra bonus, you get 10% off everything you buy and the school gets money to spend there as well!

Last year was my first year, and I had a lovely night and filled stockings all in one go. It kicks off at 6:30pm, so come along and enjoy a chilled out shopping experience.

Also next week is the Presentation Night at Canterbury Girls High School. It's in the big hall at the Ashfield end of the school - not where we held the trivia night. It starts at 7pm.

The 11 December is special lunch day, and Robyn could really use some helpers for preparation in the morning straight after lines. Please see her or me if you can help.

Last but not least - Ashfield council are DOING SOMETHING about the toilets! It's not just a fence either - there's real work going on in there. We might soon have toilets that don't make you shudder the moment you walk into them. Thanks to all the people who have raised this with council over the last few years.

Home delivered milk

I have a number of friends who use Farmers Direct to get bread, milk, cheese, meat, fruit & veg and other food delivered and they are all really happy with it. Sadly, they don't deliver around here. However, if you go to their website, you can register your interest and if enough people do so, they'll start up.

So if the idea of never running out of milk and bread appeals to you, head on over to Aussie Farmers Direct and give them your name and address and we might be able to convince them to do our shopping for us.

Here's a few grabs from their website:

Fresh Bread range

Our Bread is baked fresh each evening. We only use the freshest ingredients which are 100% Australian owned and produced. Our Bread is delivered to you within hours of baking and is 100% preservative free.

White Sandwich	$2.70
White Toast	$2.70
Wholemeal	$2.70
Multigrain	$2.80
Sourdough	$3.60

Fresh Milk

Our Milk is processed in a state of the art production plant in Warrnambool. Milk is bottled daily to ensure that you receive the freshest product possible.

Whole Milk (1L)	$2.09
Whole Milk (2L)	$3.43
Whole Milk (3L)	$4.77
Reduced Fat Milk (1L)	$2.19
Reduced Fat Milk (2L)	$3.73
No-Fat Milk (1L)	$2.19
No-Fat Milk (2L)	$3.73

Fruit & Vegetable boxes Our fruit and vegetables are as fresh as you could hope for without growing them yourself. These boxes provide great value for money and a superb selection of what is in season at the time combined with all your regular favourites, try a box out today.
Family pack Sample pack 10 Regular Items Potatoes, Carrots, Brown Onions, Green Apples, Red Apples, Mushrooms, Tomatoes, Oranges, Lettuce (Summer), Grapes (Summer), Pumpkin (Winter), Cauliflower (Winter) 6-8 Seasonal Items Strawberries, Zucchini, Broccoli, Cucumber, Snow Peas, Bananas, Beans, Passion Fruit, Raspberries, Apricots, Corn, Mangoes, Pineapple, plus many more... only $35

Cot for sale

If anyone is need of a cot - there is one over here. It's lovely, but large. Please let me know if you could use it or know someone who could.

Here's a pic so you know what you're dealing with.

SMH article

The Herald today has an article regarding the Ethics program I mentioned yesterday.

THE St James Ethics Centre has accused the State Government of deliberately stalling approval on an ethics pilot program for schools, saying the education minister is bowing to pressure from church groups in the hope the issue will go away

Click on the quote to see the original article. You might like to write a letter to the editor (letters@smh.com.au) if you feel so inspired. If so, make sure you put your name, address and phone number in it.

Non-scripture parents unite!

I discovered this little gem on Facebook (who says it's just as waste of time?). It is a joint project between St James Ethics Centre and the NSW P&C .

This is the lead blurb

Did you know that children whose parents make a conscientious decision to have them opt out of Special Religious Education (SRE) are prohibited from any form of instruction during this period? NSW Department of Education policy provides for the supervision of these children but specifies they are not to have access to 'ethics, values, civics or general religious education.'

I have tossed around with starting my own religion whose premises are the holiness of comparative religion - but realistically, that's never going to happen (and is slightly scary for everyone involved).

So if you choose to send your child to non-scripture, or you would prefer some age appropriate ethics to be covered in this timeslot, click on the quote above and go and check it out. There is a petition to sign (because I love lazy activism) and some other info. If you're on FB, join the group. If you know other parents who don't read the blog but might be interested, point them in the direction of this project.

Personal reminder

The anti-racism posters are due in on Friday.

I'm having another crafting day on Friday of this week - and Robyn, I promise I won't cancel this one at the last minute, if you can make it!

I haven't been at lines for a few days - anyone got anything else that should be here? I'm reminding from a position of ignorance.

Calendar update

I've updated the calendar with all the dates I have to hand at the moment. It's at the bottom of the page, if you haven't found it before, and there is also a link to it over there on the right side of the page.

Next week is the last week of homework. I say this just because it makes me feel better. I hope it makes you feel better too.