Keep it up Hi Graham
Glad to hear you're keeping the tonsils exercised and the fingertips hardened. Sounds as though you has a great folk evening and I'm sure you were able to fly the flag for the Poms with your usual high standard.
Music, sweet music Good on you Dad! Well done you. It sounds like a fabulous night - bet Mum and Daph were gutted you'd talked them out of it!!
Tonight we have been using up some of the beetroot from the garden. We've made Beetroot and Chocolate cake plus Red Flannel Hash (which is corned beef hash with beetroot!)!! The kitchen smells lush!
Loving the blogs!
lots of love
D.A.S.H x x x
yum yum Gooday! So it was the best pie ever. Well...some of those pommie markets in London make a mean pie..yum yum. No seriously, so glad you are delighting in Aussie tucker and Aussie downpours. Looking forward to having you in Brisbane for the day. I have just discovered the photo of you both on the motor bikes...now this is an area of your lives I knew little of. Let's talk...I am hopefully going to be learning how to be a passenger on a bike next year...more tales to tell.
The sun is out, it is the most beautiful spring day, blossoming trees, blue skies, birds chirping and a cup of Irish Breakfast tea and toast on the patio...then off to work...mmm...that word should be banned. No more of it for you happy campers!
xxannette
Too scared to open the credit card statements! Great news that you got PIE back to Warwick, eventually. Coonabarabran - we're really envious. We never made it there but Kangaroojack loved it and we've got details of the observatory you have to visit when you do go there.
Oh and ask us about the box in the back of the car that you might have unloaded into the caravan ..... guess what it's got in it ..... go on, guess!
x x x x x
Lots of variety! Great that the bashers are putting on a good show for you! Thanks for the link to David's school, the website is great and I'm sure he's going to have a fabulous experience.
Happy travels
lots of love
from both of us x x x
Lots of variety! Oh no, poor you ... poor PIE! Fingers crossed all is well when you pick her up again. Great that you encountered the Variety Bashers. We met them (complete with Leo Sayer!) at Lawn Hill last year and then again in Alice Springs and then again at Uluru! They're mad but lovely. Hope you weren't staying too close to them or you would have experienced the 5.30am air horn to set them all off in the morning!! Lots of love to you both and Daph x x x x
Great Great, now I have another blog to follow. Don't care if you do a daily update, as the Wallabies did. Just love to follow adventurous folks. I ardently follow Kangaroojack, even when they are wo...ng!!
Yes, Wallabies, you haven't finished your blog. I am a bit ticked and i do keep checking!!!
From Kangaroojack Hi Pootling Possums, glad you had a safe trip and are over here, shame about the mizzy weather though.
We hope you have as much fun as Daryll and Sarah did.
All of our best wishes.
KJ
Now I am really jealous Glad to hear you managed to get through the x rays and body searches,even with all those drugs sloshing round in Graham's system. Sorry to hear it's a bit chilly down there but just to cheer you up the weather girl reckons we're in for rain until the end of the month. After that of course we have Autumn and Winter to look forward to. I'm just finishing Bill Bryson's book on his travels in Australia. If you want a travel guide with a twist I suggest you read it, even if it only helps to keep you safe from the snakes, the spiders, the stingers and the salties.
The fiddler who has joined the group is someone Jan will know well - Andy Graham. We've had a few sessions and he seems to be enjoying it. We have our first performance with the new line up at the Alveston Show next month. I'll let you know how it goes. Great photos but I can't wait to see Graham in his budgie smugglers!
sunny queensland Hi Jan and Graham,
The mornings are still cool and crisp here. The weekend on the Gold Coast had 26 and played golf in long sleeve shirt. Just gorgeous. For me too cool to swim but many brave souls in the water. We sun lovers are anticipating a gorgeous Spring, free from humidity but this a sunny day and lighter evening. Enjoying your blog and looking forward to hearing of your continuing adventures. BW Annette
Fabulous! Hooray for The Pootling Possums!
Australia is thrilled to welcome you! Any chance of smuggling those other two with you? We miss them - I am sure you can fit them in - looks like there's loads of room in your bags!!
Travel safely and we look forward to hearing about your adventures. We will keep our fingers crossed that our paths may meet while you are here.
Love,
Belinda, Nige, Lach and Zali xo
bon voyage U 2 take care on your travels, and stay healthy. Dont forget us all here in blighty, and of course FAF. Our thoughts are with you during the coming months, but most of all have fun.
Sad but excited! Hello from an empty Moira! We've had the best of times living with you both over the past few months, it's been a hoot and we've loved it. We promise to look after the garden, we will at least do our best and make sure that we devote time to its upkeep. Tiger is currently tip tapping around looking for you .... at least she's getting some exercise! She's only sulking because the person that gave her the most tit-bits is no longer here (Mum!).
Hope the flight goes well. Speak to you when you get 'Down Under'. Lots of love from both of us x x x
Happy blogging and travelling Hi Jan and Graham
Just a quickie to say 'Bon Voyage', have a great trip. Don't worry about 'your' garden we'll keep a discreet eye on it for you!
See you next year. Hopefully the garage will be one by then!.
Happy blogging,
Jo, David, Jonathan and Patrick (them across the road!)x
Pootle Away Hi there, Glad all is well after the triple heart bypass and of course your long awaited opportunity to take Sweetie and Pie out for a trip, I am sure that they are both lonely and bored after the Wallaby Wanderers had to abandon them, still a whole new adventure awaits all of you! We look forward to reading your blog and following your journey, especially as our journey has stalled whilst we do that four letter word called 'work' still we are living the dream so no grumbling from this quarter. Give us a shout when you are around Canberra and hopefully we can hook up for cup of billy tea. Safe journey and hope the reversing practice goes well. Kangaroo Jack.x
reversing/jam making/trip great blog now you know how i felt reversing those tankers up every alley in the country
and i still cant make jam. or play guitar as well as you have a good trip we,ll stay in touch
MO SUE STEVEN
Welcome aboard! So impressed that you've got your blog underway before we've even finished ours! Where does the time go! Thanks for the compliments on the cake and the jam .... at least they went better than my dutch attempt!! x x x x
Glad to see you're progressing your plans though I'm not sure I want to receive your blogs. They will only make me jealous! I hope you're taking a guitar with you Graham so that when you come back you can drop back into the group. We now have a fiddle player in the line up so it will get crowded in The Anchor but we'll find a way of squeezing you in. Don't forget to look out for some gigs down under.
Mac
Hi and welcome to our blog. We have set out on our second great adventure in Australia, following in the footsteps of those magnificent bloggers The Wallaby Wanderers. Originally we were due to go in March and spend a few weeks with the Wanderers (daughter Sarah and son-in-law Darryl) but those plans were blown apart by the small matter of a triple heart bypass operation that Graham needed. However, all's well that ends well, Graham is fit and healthy again so we arrived in Aus on the 14th August and picked up 'PIE' the trusty Nissan Terrano that Sarah and Darryl bought last year and 'SWEE... full info
Mac
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Friuit bats
Just be careful in future and whatever you do, don't walk under the fruit bats. Their'bark' is definitely worse than their bite!