Hi all, Firstly, my apologies for “cocking up” my last blog, and missing entering the some of the text, but hey ho, there you go!! We are struggling so much to blog at the moment, it is getting to be near impossible with the work thing going on. I type this on Monday 7 Feb 2011; we are on a week’s holiday and sitting in the shade on a scorching hot day, in the Warrumbungle National Park, near Coonabarabran. The blog you are just about to read , was a blog from Christmas Island, when I was there on my last trip between 13 - 30 January 2011 and, so as you can appreciate we have some catching up to do. So here we go: As you are all aware, I am out of bed ridiculously ... read more

Hi All, Sorry about this, but I had not realised I had published the last blog incorrectly. I am at the airpor,t off again, but only for the day and had time whilst waiting for my flight to check after speaking to Jan last night who said to me, when will you finish the blog 27B. Anyway my apologies, but 27B is completed and there will be another for Christmas Island, as soon as I can get around to typing it. Andy... read more

Blog Day 800 and something, will have to check It was all going swimmingly well, Caroline had packed, and I was up early just putting my stuff in my case. We were both excited, today Tuesday 11 January we were both off on business to Christmas island, Caroline for a couple of weeks and me for slightly longer. It had been a rush to put this trip together, it was all business related and quite urgent, so the flights had been booked, and everything was green to go. I took Caroline her tea at 6.00 am, she politely grunted at me when I took it in, and as I set her tea down beside her, she picked up her Blackberry, as I had turned on my heels and was heading for a shave. Caroline called out ... read more

Blog Day 794 It was Tuesday already and it was back to work, I was walking around the flat at 5.30 in a complete daze, trying to find this and that. I took Caroline her cup of tea and left it on her bedside Cabinet at 06:15 and she managed to grunt at me. We were sitting at our desks at 07.15 and we were not the first ones in, how sad is that? By the time we got to Thursday afternoon, the conundrum had been solved, the conundrum that was left at the end of my last blog. Over Christmas Caroline had said to me, she wonders who was going to be the first one to fly out of the two of us in the New Year. Well believe it or not, we both had ... read more

It has been a long while since Jane, one of our blog readers asked us for our top 5 and I kept promising that I would do it, but life just got so busy with the W thing and I never really got around to it, so I am doing my level best to give you the top 5, but as I draft this blog entry, the top 5 is looking more like the top 18! I promise to try and whittle it down, so lets see what results we have come up with, of course both Andy and I have different opinions and there are so many great places in this huge diverse country and all of these places are great for so many different reasons: Best Kodak Moment There are many of these moments, ... read more

Well blog readers, on Wednesday 1st December, was the first official day of Australian summer time, and yep it was raining. In fact it has rained virtually constantly since last Sunday. When we came to Canberra back in January 2010, we noted that the dams were 47% full or there about and today as I set this blog out on Saturday the 4th December they are 100% full which is the first time in 30 years, so said the Television last night. Back in the UK we would get the odd spell of a Water shortage, throughout their 2 days of summer, but we never really appreciated just how precious this H20 stuff really is, certainly until we understood how it affected the growing of crops at our favourite farm, which was in drought for ... read more