Glad you enjoyed Sydney and Wake Up! Hi Helen,
Sounds like you packed as much into your time in Sydney as possible. I am glad you stayed at Wake Up! and took advantage of the activities running around the hostel. You noticed our ex-neighbours quiz master I see, we actually only hire ex-celebrities - we have Bobbi from home and away in the cafe and we have reserved a spot for Alf Stewart on reception ;-P
I hope the rest of your trip is fantastic!
Cheers, John @ Wake Up!
It all sounds great fun and almost civilised! Hope your toe gets better soon; you wouldn't want a big toe problem to be your main legacy from your trip, would you?
I spent the weekend getting M's house ready for me moving in - goodness only knows where it will all go. I expect you could end up 'winning' a lot more than I'd envisaged.
Lots of love Moot xxx
blog. Very informative blog as usual. Now waiting to hear all about it in personin just over two weeks. Bet you are coming back with mixed feelings - having to get back to normallife in plce of all your adventures and the sites you have seen and looking fora job. How is thetoe now yestefday I had to hold a coconur for Linda while she tried to saw it in half but at one stage the saw slipped and it cut my finger not badly but I refused to hold i tany more. Heather was 19 yesterday cannot believe how old you are all getting. Next weekend is our flower festival and I have to arrange 22 ploughmans lunches for the monday but I do get help and also our curate will be ordained on Sunday and we are putting on a buffet for him that evening, so all in all I keep busy. Love Gma
Golly and Gosh I have a bit catching of up/reading to do with your adventures Helen and now you will be arriving back to the UK soon! You have been really good at writing your blog, in 20, 30, 50 whatever years time, to look back and read this will be marvellous. My diary writing got as far as 15 days during my 15th year of life and most of that consited of what we had for school lunch. Always loved my food.
Hope your toe is better.
Love Nicky xxx
Hi Helen- Shame we couldn't read your first missive, but enjoyed what you have put - especially the pictures. Spooky how like Nanny you look in pic 10. Must the close proximity to an animal that did it!
See you soon.
Love Moot xx
Aunty Sue Hi Helen,
It's 5.23am here on a cloudy Saturday morning and I'm at work..it's been very busy tonight with the usual drunks, fights and domestics....looks fab where you are, make the most of your next few weeks and have a ball.....lots of love...be careful.......Aunty Sue...xx
Brilliant - good to see your pics too.
Glad you're still enjoying it all and looking forward to hearing all the stories over again but this time, direct from you.
Moot x
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Thanks Grandma Yeah, just got a bit of a cold and cough from other people on the Australian coach system - lovely! I can't play noughts and crosses with Dan as he ALWAYS wins!
Off sailing on to the Whitsundays for the next few days tho, hopefully the fresh sea air will do me good.
Love you lots x x x x
\Ithink I would like to have brrn in Darwen - sounds good and more my cup of tea, back in civilisation so to speak. Dad said it was lovely to see your face on the camera the other day as he is missing you. Do I take it from what I have read from Mum that you have not been very well again - Australia will do you ggood. No I think like Mum scrabble or something like that would be better - cannot think of many two people cards games myself. You could always play noughts and crosses or even boxes. Love you both lots, looking forward to the 28th June which is when I go to Dads. Love Grandma xxxx
Very funny account of your entry into Australia. Sounds like Dan has the ex-naval officer's number. The best 2-person card game I know is Crib, but you really need someone to show you how and a crib board of course. I'd try to find a scrabble or chess set - they are good two player games.
Good to speak to you on Skype earlier too - hope you feel better soon. You certainly sound perkier in your blog than you did on the video call.:-)
All the best Moot xx
Jut reading your latest blog- great I have missed them. I replied earlier about you saying I was awesome but I uderstand these days that is a compliment - the way I describe awsome is someone you are a little afraid of and over powering therefore I apologise - modern day language you see I do not always underrstand. I see on the news tonight there is more trouble in Bangkok and some other parts of the cfountry so glad you are away from there. What do you think about this coalition government - different is i not. Just been to Church as it is Ascension Day. Carol has been with me this week and we have really had a good time -like aholiday, havbe been out every day and all over the place and eaten every mealout - I havd really enjoyed myself. Lot of love to you and to Dan - hop his leg is OK now. Your lovingly grandma xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just about to look upo where you are on the internet sounds absolutely wonderful. Hope you had a good birthday, Linda, Heather and I went to Halpenny green wineplace forlunch and then at night we had a chinese take away at Linda together with Ian and the boys. Sue would not stay for anything to eat - her hard luck. I enjoyed my day as I saw nearly all the family except of course yourself and your Dad. Better lunck next year I hope.
All my love, Grandma xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The importance of a good ham sandwich! This trip is really having its effect on you - now safety records pale into insignificance next to the importance of a good ham sandwich!
Be good, kids.
Moot Moot! xxx
Hey guys, sounds like hair raising stuff. Hope your cuts are better! Although Dan.. great commitment to the sport of Volleyball, it is the best ever after all :) And with German girls too, this seems like my ideal holiday!! All is well here, got last volleyball match of the season and could be league decider so looking forward to that. new department is pretty lame but knew it would be! Looking forward to reading more soon! Kate xxxx
Hiya Hi Both
Sounds like an interesting part of the trip!! I think I will stick to comfort and safety.
Hope journey back to Bangkok goes OK and keep the red shirt well inside your bag!!!
xx
You're right Helen, it does sound dramatic! But I'm glad you're still in enjoying yourselves and hope Dan's leg is OK. Amazing that you can be on the other side of the world in a very different culture and still find Friends, Family Guy and pain au chocolats! Not sure some of the activities you're both enjoying would appeal to me much, but then I never quite got the attraction of festivals either. Easter here has been a lot of fun. Sara's been here since last Saturday and so has Merlin and the kids. But the Beedells go back today, Sarah leaves on Sunday and I return to work on Monday. We had Grandad with us for Easter Sunday lunch, which was nice and Jo, Doug and Anna came round in the evening bearing Easter Eggs. Anna is now very round - the baby is due in two and a half weeks. Will let you know when he arrives. She's very well, if a little tired, and has now finished work. so she is a lady of leisure for a while.
Love to you both - Moot. xxx
POW museum FGrandpas aunts hUsband was POW durin the war there and he never really recovered from it. He was a doctor in Glasgow but had one or two break downs
All sounds very exciting hope Dans leg is improving and yours has not got infected. Saturday is the joint birthday party of Linda (50) and Catherine (21) at the Britannia Hotel in Wolverhampton about 60 people i am told are going.
Dad and Jenny are coming up as they get back from France today and Sarah who is already here, not that I have heard or seen her this week Do n't like her to feel she must come and see me - silly really as I love seing her. I had a lovely Easter and the services were great. Love to you both. look aferyourselves, all my love Grandma xxxxx
Look after yourselves love to you both.
Spoke to Dan yesterday and he is all ready to go - no doubt you are very exc ited today. Envy you lying on a beach with the sun and some water nearby to "paddle" in. Lots you lots, Grandma
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Glad you enjoyed Sydney and Wake Up!
Hi Helen, Sounds like you packed as much into your time in Sydney as possible. I am glad you stayed at Wake Up! and took advantage of the activities running around the hostel. You noticed our ex-neighbours quiz master I see, we actually only hire ex-celebrities - we have Bobbi from home and away in the cafe and we have reserved a spot for Alf Stewart on reception ;-P I hope the rest of your trip is fantastic! Cheers, John @ Wake Up!