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Published: April 24th 2006
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Hi to you all. A while scince our last blog update. No we have not dropped off the face of the earth however now I am working there is less time to play up on the computers. However, now that I am at work, literally at work on a sleep shift I have some time to update while the residents sleep.
After having some issues with starting work I have scince been in training. For a month. Not that I have not been doing this job now for 10 years and have more qualifications than most staff I am working with but I was not so much as allowed to take a resdents for a walk in the park unsupervised. Can you tell my frustrations in the tone of my computer voice. However, I have in the last week started as a fully fledged staff member and am enjoying being a real person again. Nard reports he is enjoying work and seems to have settled in.
So what have we been up to. Well. I think we left off last blog with planning to have a coctail party for Jules and my birthday. And we did. However Jules was
still feeling seedy from her birthday party in Melbourne and was in bed by 12 o'clock. Kate flew in from Melbourne for the weekend with a plan to enjoy herself and beside keeping me sane at that point with work frustrations, she did enjoy herself, a lot. Jez and Mel came up for the weekend also as well as Sandy and Brendan and Murrey being there. The next day we went over to the island to show the tourists the local island.
The weekend after we took ourselves out to the Serpentine falls which is a lovely george with a swimming area and some locals cliff diving for entertainment. However having settled into routine here a little we forgot the camera. And it is amazing that whilst we are there and the kangaroos are trying to steal our food we meet up with some of Sandy's volunteers from the island and they know the house we live in.
Murrey took us out in the boat a few time, I think some lackys to drag in the cray pots and to my joy every time I went out on the boat there were no crays in the pot so
I did not have to feel sorry for them and got to still enjoy the boat rides. However, as fishermen can be superstitious, when there were no ladys on the boat they mannaged to pull in a load of seven in one pot. The others enjoyed a night of crays whilst I ate some of Murrey's dad's whitting that I did not have to watch croak. It tasted pretty good.
We have also enjoyed a breaky out on the island. as well as a delicious roast lamb coutesy of Brendan the cook. When out on the Island at night all the birds are a little randy and the Penguins piff sand at one another and the briddle turns do a bit of a love dance for one another, and boy are they noisy.
For our bithday present some of the girls from Melbourne put in for Jules and I to go swimming with the dlophins. Jules' mum and step dad were over from Melbourne for a week or so so we all (including Nard) tottled off to hang out with the dolphins. You get kitted up in wetsuit and then the boat goes off to find the dolphins.
Apparently they don't do anything to attract them like food so you just have to see if you get lucky. There are many dolphins in the surrounding areas of Rockingham and as they are socail animals they come and hang out with the swimmers. You get into teams of 6 people and then when the boat finds the dolpinds you jump in and hold on to each other in a long chain and the staff are at the front with a James Bond style propeller and it pulls you across the water. Then there is another bloke whose job it is to dive underneath the groups and play with the dolpins under the water. Did you know that it is no longer clled a pod of dolphins. They are a partyof dolphins.
Nard and took ourselves up to North East Perth to John Forrest National Park. It is just at the start of the hills an there is a viewing point that looks acroos the city of Perth sort of like from One Tree Hilll but from another direction. The bushland there was much like to forrests we have seen here. There are several walking tracks through this N.P.
and some bike tracks however we decided to walk to the water fall that had no water. Maybe we will go back during winter.
The first weekend in April we took ourselves again to Margaret River to catch up with Jez and Mel before they returned to Melbourne.
The weekend after for my birthday present from Nard we went off to Northbridge for a night in a hotel and a lovely dinner out contributed by Nards parents also for my birthday. As we had not purchased clothes for a year or so trying to reduce our wardrobe size for the trip here it was time to spend up so we did a bit of shopping. We had lunch in Kings Park and enjoyed a walk through the Native section over the swing briodge. We walked around Northbrige (during the daylight for those of you who know the area) and enjoyed vietnamese for dinner before returning to the room for a spa. For those of you who know me I am a bath girl and have not had a bath scince leaving Melbourne (except for a shared spa at the local pool twice) so I made the most of
the spa. We then went down stairs for coffe and cake enjoying the live pianist. We missed the local stabbing that occured at 5 in the morning as we were tucked away in bed.
Scince then Matt and Amy have arrived from Melbourne as a permanent move here, nice to have some more company.
Last weekend we went to the Fremantle Performing Arts Festival and watced a few buskers and cought up with Kristian and Eve who had just got in from Adelaide after a breakdown on the Nullabor and a tow over here.
We took oursleves for a tour through the Parth hills. We found a grand total of 6 trees with autumn leaves. There was some fruit growing areas a little like Silvan and the bushland and hills a little like Warendyte. It cured a little of my homesickness being up in some hills again. There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home.
Nards birthday was celebrated with a BBQ just down the road on the beach in a park where we ate too much and played footy to wear off the main so we could fit
cake in.
Today we enjoyed the weather and went for a bikle ride along the beach road, a quick dip in the ocean to cool off after the ride and then spent the afternoon recovering from the ride lazing on a blanket across the road on the grass in the sun. We then got some energy back up for another round of footy at the park.
Dave is still moping with his injured leg. He has been in confinement now for another 5 weeks scince opperation 2. Hopefully next week we can start walking him on the lead.
We hope that you are all well and we miss you all but are enjoying ourselves still too much to come back yet and still have much to see.
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kaz
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there is no place like home
i never knew you were a bath girl! thats a long time not to bathe! you will have no one to comb out those dreds.....you will have to come home.