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March 4th 2008

Published: March 4th 2008

Australia It is a lie - Australia is not a hot , dry dust bowl edged with sun baked golden beaches adorned by bronzed, muscle bound lifeguards - well not what we saw anyway. The beaches were akin to Bognor in the rain (Bridlington for our Northern readers!!) but with bigger waves, the Hinterland was green, lush and in flood from the constant rains that fell non-stop from Boxing Day until we lef... Read Full Entry

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Rosemary Phillimore

Rambling Rose

November 2013, here we are as guests at the wedding of Nick and Els , the weekend before we leave for New Zealand via India. What a wonderful last party before leaving - thank you Scotties and Houlsbys. So tomorrow, Novmber 25th we leave the Uk and fly to Mumbai. We will spend 4 weeks travelling by train,plane, bus and bikes round India before heading onto New Zealand to arrive on December 22nd. This will be our travel blog which with the help of my iPad I may be able to keep updated as we travel. Some folk really enjoy travel blogs and for others they are tedious monologue of other people'... full info

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Noosa 9 - The Swim

Yikes - second thoughts

Noosa 10 - The Swim

Sometime later when I was still trying to figure out how long you leave it before sobbing into the arms of a bay watch guy - Colin reappears

Noosa 11- The flounder

Meanwhile back in the shallows some gentle belly boarding.

Guess where we are now?

Becky 1

Becky 2

Dressed up for the opera

Pre opera meal

ooo he does spoil me!!! We failed to make a booking and found every resteraunt full - thank good ness for the 'take away' at the ferry terminal.

Pre opera cocktails!!

Sheer joy

Bonsais

No pressure Ali - but how are my bonsais?

Spot the difference

The left hand ATM has a damaged card control mechanism which we failed to spot and so lost our debit card in the bowels of the machine. Only the villians of Sydney had the skills to retirieve it .

He didn't apply his factor 30

See you shoudl always listen to Maryann. This is the Iceman a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. He was on display in Sydney when we were there

From the causeway

zoom in

zoom in further

Zoom again and you see Maurice and Chantelle leaving

4th March 2008

rosie
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We're home
We got home yesterday after 2 weeks in USA and Canada so will do a quick short (oh the relief) blog entry for Canada just so I can show off my skiiing photos and then - shock horror - some of you will actually have to talk to us now unless you are nimble enough to dodge into doorways when you spot our tanned , very tanned and youthless faces on teh horizon!!!!!

4th March 2008

Penny Lind
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dressed for the occasion!
Dear Rosie, I was so pleased to see that you were keeping up the Memshib standards in the colonies!! good to see Tony as madly positive as ever and the whole gang of people together. can´t think what is happening with the weathre as Ecuador has been washed out and in a national state of emmergency all February. Even Galapagos was extra wet for the season! I think from this that you must be back in the Uk, very brave. I am not ready for the cold yet. Will climb a few glaciers in Chile to get in the mood, Love Penny

5th March 2008

Ali
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Great pics and commentary! Thank you!
I saw your Mum last week at Madley Park and she seemed very happy indeed. When I said I lived in Blenheim Lane, she chuckled and said she would never want to live there as it was too much like hard work looking after and babysitting all the children... she claerly felt sorry for me living there, and smiled sympathetically at me, shaking her head, and repeating "oh no, I'd never want to live there!" :o) She looked very happy Rosie without any anxiety.

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