We awoke at 3.21 am as we were in the wide awake club, an electric storm was illuminating the sky which was spectacular, but no rain. When we ventured outside from our air condition bed room, the humidity and heat at this time in the morning hit you like a comedy frying pan in the face. An hour later came the rain, and boy does it rain. We dozed off to sleep at around 6.00 am, and re awoke at 10.30. We set off in to Singapore for breakfast, (thank god for Starbucks) and had the pleasure of engaging in to conversation with a Singaporean Guy (Jackson Teo 26) who had lived in California for 12 years and had come back to Singapore to complete his PhD. We talked and talked for two (2) hours about ... read more

Hi all, its 1.58 am British Time, and we got to the Marina Mandarin Hotel about 20 minutes ago, so door to door from Romsey was 19 1/2 Hours. The flight was good, the Airbus A380 was just fantastic, I believe Singapore Airlines was the first airline in the world to take delivery of such a beast, and now they have 6 in the fleet. Compared to 747 (Jumbo) is just looks larger, a 747 can seat 375, and the 380 can seat 471, in the configuration, of economy, Business, and Premier (Suites), though overall it is advertised that it is capable of seating 800 people. The cabin crew are beautifly dressed in a type of Sarong and the food was excellent, with proper cutlery which was nice. When we got off the plane, it was ... read more

Hi All, I am delighted that people are starting to put messages and generally interact with the Kangaroojack. (He says Gooday!) Well just to up date you lovely people, what has been happening over the last couple of weeks, we left the house in a flurry, and considering Caroline working her arse off packing at least 6 weeks before we left and we were still up to the wire when we vacated the house, to let our new tenants in. Strangly enough, we thought leaving the house would be far more emotional than it was, we just left then arrived at our new digs in Romsey at Pauncefoot House. We have now been staying with Len and Sarah Dupont since the 24th Of October and though strange not being in our own home, we thought it ... read more

Well, today is the day that we finally moved out of our house in Chandlers Ford, it has been a long time in the planning, yet all of a sudden it seemed to be upon us and the pressure was on to vacate and allow our tenants to move in. Although we had done a lot of packing, throwing away and selling in the previous months I was still shocked about how much we had left to do in the last couple of days,not to mention making sure that the house was perfectly clean for our tenants to move into. I even washed the towels and hung them on the washing line. Last night, Dad took the family out for a meal at the Balmoral (Nursling), it has been exceptionally difficult to get everyone together because ... read more

Hi blog, here in hertfordshire, with my niece and nephew, Lily and Harry, (Lily is typing) Lily is 9 years old goes to applecroft School loves to sing and dance and cook(especially cake!) (Harry typing) Harry is 11 years of age and loves sport especially rugby. And loves his school stanborough. goodbye for now.3... read more