I’m back.

And I’m back with some awards for the week just gone…

The Boo Hiss Award goes to whatever bizarre gremlin locked me out of my own blog for days so I could comment, but not write new material!!

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The Thankyou Muchly Award goes to Leah Maclean for fixing it!

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The Ironic Heads-Up Award goes to Joe of FatheredFive who (though he lives across the ocean in the USofA) found the following article in my local Melbourne newspaper: (Un)happy Father’s Day

A snippet:

It is a day the greeting card companies and retailers manipulate us and turn our paternal love into a stylised and gender-cliched purchase.

It was somewhere in between purchasing an iPod on behalf of the kids - and feeling nauseous contemplating cards boasting images of virile men playing golf and driving fast cars that I began to wonder how other families do it - and why?

We mark out a day to “celebrate” fathers, but I honestly have no idea what that means. Apparently, an American woman came up with the idea to honour her father, who raised her and her siblings after their mother died. It has been reported that she wanted to “let him know how deeply she was touched by his sacrifices, courage, selflessness and love”.

What does this sentiment have to do with buying the master of the house a power drill?

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The Innocent but Bizarre Mixup Award goes to Youngest Son who (when an MC Hammer song came on the car stereo) asked me “Is this Elvis?”

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The Quirky Sense of Humour Award goes to Oldest Son who poked a hole in a piece of cardboard then put it up in his bedroom with the caption: This is the hole. Not just a hole but the hole. Founded 15/9/08.

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And the Very Unkind but Funny Award also goes to Oldest Son (pictured here as the Mighty Zeus - after way too much sugar) who told me that they have changed a school teacher’s last name from Comport to Compost.