Hi Bloggers, I'm doing surfing. I was thefirst one standing up too. It was aweome. Having a nice time in Oz. Its very hot on some days butsome days it rains. I got sunburnt a couple of times but before we talk about that lets go back to surfing. When I was surfing the waves started to grow bigger and I fell off underneath. The group of people who did the surfing were children of Family 5 and the 'B' Team. While we were doing surfing some of us sat out but I carried on until the end. Later that day I got sunburnt and it was quite bad. The next day I couldnt walk propery because it was where I bend my legs. It was all crinkly and it hurt and wasnt very nice. Its ... read more

Well what else do you do on Christmas Eve? Fatty and Fiendish went for a scuba leson and then decended into the aquarium on the shark side of the tank with us girls (plus Batter) all watching from the safety of the moving carpet! They both enjoyed it but something must have spooked Fiendish from the look of his hair!. The bonus was that they both came out with a shark's tooth each - found on the floor you understand and not wrestled from the circling sharks themselves! Christmas day itself was a calmer affair with not a live predator in sight - unles you count the dog Shumba! The kids managed to stay away from their presents until 6.30 which was still too early for Fiendish but the majority won! There was general relief that ... read more

We have spent a long weekend here en route to Oz. We arrived here from Vancouver on Thursday. The girls and I are suffering some withdrawal symptoms from not having any festive decorations around us so we have decorated our backpacks. THey make a nice jingling noise too when we walk! Some would say annoying but we have received generally positive comments so far! Part of the porblem this weekend has been trying to stop Fatty singing - aka Salzburg when one of our 'friends' would not stop trying to emulate Julie Andrews Fatty has had the same problem with a stuck needle on 'Da de Da de Da .. to San Fran.n.nsisco' (and something else about flowers in your hair) so much so that Fiendish and Flirty refused to go into a restaurant unless he ... read more

We have been spending out last few days in Canada doing a few touristy things, spending time with friends (the Millards have really put themselves out for us) and revisiting the snowboarding slopes (not me you understand - my back is still poorly you see!). Also what a relief to warm up to a pleasant minus 2! Bring on the sun in Oz I say! On Saturday we had a relaxing day in Squamish. We had a walk along the river again and saw more eagles and their victims (several dead and decaying fish). The kids enjoyed making dams and getting their feet wet and also the thin sheet ice that we found proved too much to resist and so several sheets found their way onto several heads! We also visited the Capilano Suspension bridge - ... read more

Hi all, Ha Ha to all in work and school doing their christmas exams and somthing or other more! We've been to the yukon, it;s amazing, we did snow mobiling learned to fish on a frozen lake been in -27 or -35, but the down side is more homework! but it's been really great! the snowmobiling was so sick! i got to ride it, isnt it cool, we drove on a frozen lake. That gave me the chills, bbbrrruuuuuuu!!! Me and mum got the purple snowmobile while Fab was with our teacher and Frozen with dad, i thought we were the best because Frozen and dad got stuck up a slope while we waited for them to get a move on up the slope! Jonny was our teacher for the day, he was really friendly. we ... read more