Happy New Year to everyone from Perth!!! Well, we have finally made it through our first christmas in Australia. What a rollercoaster of emotions 2007 was. Thinking back to this time last year we were unsure when or if we would move out to Australia and now we are here! Bisc went into the vets for an operation the Friday before Christmas to have 5 lumps removed. He has had them for about 6 months but the UK vets wouldn't do anything with them as we were so close to coming out to Oz so this was the first opportunity for him to have the op. It was such a shame for him as it was so hot and he couldn't go swimming for 2 weeks so he felt really sorry for himself ... poor little ... read more

We are now into our 3rd week in Oz and finally seem to be getting somwhere!!! We have taken a holiday rental in Golden Bay in the South which is lovely .. we have an 'upside down' house overlooking the Indian Ocean until the end of December so we sleep downstairs and live upstairs!!! It is a lovely house and is closer to the dogs in Byford so we can make the trip now in about 30 minutues compared to the 50 minutes is took us from the city. Doug has been for 2 jobs and has been offerd both so at least we know he is definately in demand over here!! He starts his new job on the 10th Decemeber and will be the first 'pomme' employed there so should be interesting!!! We have now ... read more

On the morning of Saturday 10th November we woke up at 4 am raring to go. We stayed overnight at the Radisson SAS hotel at Manchester Airport as it is connected to each terminal there via a skywalk so thought as we had so much luggage it would save us time. We walked over to Terminal 3 to check in the luggage for our shuttle flight down to Heathrow and thought that as we had 2 hours we would have plenty of time. Unfortunately, the queues were massive as everyone seemed to have the same idea! We joined the queues and quite quickly moved along until we got to checkin but as were double the limit we had to then go to Customer Services to pay for the excess before we then had to join the ... read more

Well .. we are now offically living at Doug's mum & dads ... or as we have renamed it 'Martin Towers!!!' We keep referring to Doug's mum and dad as Basil and Sybil which keeps us amused :0) We have been off work for 3 weeks now and feel a bit lost to be honest. When you work full time you always dream about taking time out to do nothing - but in reality .. I am really bored. I think both myself and Doug have joined the 'lets do lunch circuit!' as that's all we seem to do these days. Last week our old mate Dave Mac came up to Warrington with his girlfriend Clare from Bournemouth so as we don't get to see them that often we went out and got very drunk in ... read more

Finally we have heard back from Airpets and have been told that my dogs now have their import permits and a place in quarantine in Perth. We have to drop them off at the Airpets kennels just outside Heathrow on the 5th November and they fly out on the 6th November and will land in Perth the next day. So seeing as though the dogs are more organised than myself I have now started looking at flights for us both - I think we will fly out sometime in the first week of November ... which means that after we move out of the house we will have 6 weeks with no house and not working .. panic! I think that I might have to go temping as it has been years since I have done ... read more