The Birthday Boy

Another crazy week at work but ever so slowly my head is bobbing a bit further out of the water.  It's been a terribly sad week for us at work - almost 1300 people on our site but many of them have been there for a while and our local area isn't that big.  Anyway on Saturday a young 15 year old 'borrowed' his parents 4WD and went for a ride in an bush area which has the main line for the coal trains running through.  He managed to bog the 4WD and waved to a coal train to stop - the driver stopped in accordance with their procedures but the lad had disappeared from sight by the time he stopped.  Unfortunately he'd tried to hitch a ride on the roof of the train which is electric and the power is so strong that you can be a couple of meters away from the wire but it will still electrocute you - and that's what happened. His step father is one of our people. What a tragic waste of a young life.

Then one of the HR Advisers at the other local Rio site - where I used to go two days a week - lost her father.  A terribly sad story too - she lost her mother about 6 months ago after a battle with cancer.  On Saturday her sister was getting married at Agnes Waters - a nice beach resort area about an hour and a half from here.  As far as I know the wedding went really well, but on Monday night apparently a little 9 year old boy was in difficulty in the water and her Dad went to help and while the little boy was OK, her dad drowned - only 48.  I only heard this morning and I can't stop thinking about how this poor girl and her family must be feeling.

On a happier note Curtis had his 5th birthday on Sunday - can't believe he's that age already.  They were in Brisbane for the weekend as Grant and Tiff went to the final Powderfinger concert and then they got back Sunday night so we called round to see the birthday boy and had takeaway tea with them.

A couple of photos :

This one was at our place a couple of weeks ago - happy family!

On Sunday Bloss and I went for a bit of a drive and saw this pretty flowering shrub

The birthday boy and his brother opening pressies

Time to blow out the candles - think this was his 3rd cake for the day

But it didn't stop him from enjoying it - icing first of course!

And that's it from me folks - I've managed day 1 on the new WW Pro Point plan so here's to the rest of the week.

Have a great week peeps
Z xx