One of my customers wants to add some baby and child photos to her soundtracks to make a video for YouTube to promote her songs and poems.

If you would like to have your photos included please feel free to send them to my minti mail.

The photos will not be identifiable and are for 2 songs "Oh ovely lovely Child" and "My My My"

You can hear the songs here where you can tour the website and purchase the songs if you like them. 

The music is aimed at pre school and kinder age children and is intended to be positive and uplifting and if you want your child featured (but not identified) in the music clips please send you photos.

Please bump this or share with friends who may be interested.

Thanks and have a great day :-) 

It has just been reported on Sevens Sunrise the Michael Jackson has died of heart failure. Although it is unconfirmed at the moment it certainly appears credible. This comes on the same day Farah Fawcet passed away overnight from cancer.

Two icons from my growing days gone, certianly stops you in your tracks.

 This is a touching video of a Koala who had lost her fear of humans after surviving the bushfire and puts her paw out for a drink of water from a caring firefighter.

 This is so funny, after watching this, go and see her original audition.

 Timely words of wisdom for those enduring the 40+ (celcius) weather in Melbourne, Adelaide, and much of southeast Australia this week.

With forcasts of 4-5 days in 40+ temp then high 30's (100F) after that there will be a lot of hot tempers  on parents and children alike.

This is the time we have to take a deep breath and react calmly when things go wrong or take too long or someone snaps because they are hot and cranky.

Remember our children are watching what we do and emulate our actions so this is a great opportunity to show them that hot days don't mean shouting matches and grumpy grown ups.

Have a spray bottle of water near you and spray your face then stand in front of the fan to cool your hot head.

Have a great day and stay cool.

Well hello to all my trusted readers .... anyone still there?????

I have been busy working on my own business in a desperate effort to keep working for myself and to do this I need to make my home based business sustainable and profitable.  To do this Ineed to put in many hours and that means not as much minti time as I used to.

The great news is that so far I am growing my business enough to stay at home for now and make a dollar as well.

I have started a web hosting service that builds and sustains small websites for home based or micro business and this provides income to offset the subsidised computer training service I provide to the elderly and dissabled in my local community. The computer training is done more for personal reward and fuzzy feelings so it will never really work as a business in the long term so the website hosting service is working out to be a godsend for now and should see me through until I start my next big project which will be internet based and may see me through into my eighties and create a few jobs and much positive family values along the way.

So this is what I have been doing and I look forward to sharing my progress and experience along the way.

Have a great day form the Big Red F.   

Hello fellow minti maniacs .

I have started working on a community toolbar to initially share with my customers and eventually to whoever wants it. I am so proud of it I want to show it off to you but I would like suggestions, ideas and feedback.

It is perfectly safe and containd no bad things but it has a lot of good things such as

• search,
• links to banking and shopping (Aust links only at the moment but will update on request)
• an online radio
• email checker and notifier
• gadgets (to do, notes, games ect)
• weather
• news
• a message service where I deliver urgent security updates or news
• chat rooms

and many other features that you can add yourself.

If you are interested please download it here and let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance.

What you need:

• children
• ball
• park

Just grab your children and drag them to the park and kick the footy, throw a ball, play soccer or keepings off. Play tagg for a while and then head home and you will probably find you are turning the heater down for while.

Save money, keep fit and bond with your family. .