Blogs from Nangus, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 5

DAY 399 A productive day was to be had again today, once we had breakfast, we all set about doing what needed to be done. Andy was up early this morning, helping Helen make the Christmas cake, they managed to get 4 different sized cakes in to the oven. My task this morning was to wrap up Christmas presents, so Helen made little piles up of presents and standing at the dining room table one by one I wrapped and Helen wrote the labels. I don’t know how many Christmas presents I wrapped but it took all morning, some presents easier to wrap than others depending on the shapes. It reminded me of how I used to sit and wrap presents at Christmas in England, I would spend a Sunday afternoon put a good film on ... read more

DAY 397 I woke early again today, and went out in to the Kitchen, Robert had just left and Helen was her usual busy, cheerful self. She exclaimed that she was off for some paid work today, at the school where she retired from a couple of years ago. I was interested in the school, Caroline and I thought it was in Wagga Wagga or Junee, but we were both wrong, Helen said it was just down the road in Nangus, I asked Helen how many kids were at the school and she said 14, yes that’s was what I wrote fourteen kids and one teacher, how sweet!! Helen knew Caroline and myself were off to Wagga Wagga today to do our Christmas shopping, and said if we get time we ought to drop pop in ... read more

DAY 395 Andy was sitting at the kitchen worktop when I appeared this morning, I slept so heavily last night, despite a good chorus from the dogs, and felt tired still, but when we sleep indoors I don’t always wake up as early as I do when we are camping out. While I made a cup of tea and some toast for breakfast, Andy Skyped our friends Gary and Karen back in England, during the conversation we received a complaint to the editor, Gary had to wait 2 days for the last blog and thinks its not good enough, sorry Gary will try not to let it happen again, just a small issue of no internet in the middle of Kosciuszko National Park! While we were chatting to Gary and Karen a little Kelpie nose appeared ... read more

DAY 383 At the beginning of our trip we did say that we would share our bad days with you, not just the good, travelling can have its bad days and we have been exceptionally lucky not to have incurred too many problems, however today actually works out to be a sad day for us. I woke at 4.00 am this morning, and being a morning person it is the best time for me when my thoughts are crystal clear, I played the whole puzzle out, stacking the dominoes in the right order in my mind to get the outcome that was best for everyone. It is not just me that bears the ramifications of my actions, others are affected, Caroline is my main concern, and then of course Helen! I dive into my book whilst ... read more

DAY 381 I worry about the unthinkable happening, we have been blogging for over a year now, so what is the likelihood that we will accidentally entitle a blog with a name that we have used before, I wonder if any other blogger has had that problem? I am sure they have. Yesterdays blog, I entitled “No Flies On Us”, I had to check back to see if we had used it, especially at Kalbarri in WA, there were so many flies when we went into the National Park to do the loop walk etc. when we had to use the fly nets. I cannot see the title so I used it, but I cannot remember when we were there so I had to wade through the dates to work it all out! I have a ... read more