Well today i was ill at work came home to sleep and woke up and been throwing up for abiut 5 hrs!!! Yey!!! Plus side i have lose about half a stone lol

Think her family is coming round or vise versa mum and dad im not sure.

Saying that if she meets an irish guy she would hardly see him lol.

College is good hopefully be qualified by Dec!!! And im applying for a job in a school which i hope get!

Hope you are both ok.

xxx

Hello:)

Oh dear! what do you think caused that? Hope you are ok now.

That would be nice, are you and your mum cooking the meal?

She could be very lucky and meet and Irish guy who lives in Notts!

Good luck with the job application, Im sure you will get it. Are you doing your level 3 next year?

Xx

DERBY BEAT LEEDS!! :S and also something else very strange and tragic happened in Derby, a 15 year old boy got shot dead :(.

Its so cold and wet here annnnnnnarrrr :(.

Heh! thats good! lol Ian will be sad to have missed that! lol Oh dear, thats young:(

Its the opposite here! we are in Cairns now and it is boiling!!!!!!!!!!! lol quite different here, tropical! lol

How has your week been? Will be strange having Christmas without you all:(

Hi Anna

I am using a base coat of white at Matlock Bath. In the smallest bedroom, which will also serve as study, I decided to use white for top coat too. This will ensure maximum light and provide a feeling of space. I have put a base coat in the second bedroom and we have not yet decided on top coat.

We are going to the north of Tenerife again, to a hotel we have been to before. It is half board, which means we will have nearly all our food provided and will be able to spend more time having fun. We have hired a small car to get about.

You would be interested in the studio complex in Macclesfield that uncle James and fellow artists use. Perhaps we can visit when you get back, along with a gallery or two?

The alternative sailing holidays are much more expensive than Crystal Active, but might be worth saving up for.

I bet you are looking forward to going to Cairns.

Love

Daddy

Hiya:)

White is a good idea, suits a cottage and if you sell it will be easier.

Thats nice you are going to the same place, do you know what the food is like there? You will enjoy not having to do the dishes:) we went Half board in Benidorm, the food was lovely, just had to buy lunch.

I would def be interested in seeing the studio and some other galleries, will uncle James be coming too?

I think one would be worth saving for:)

Off to Cairns tomorrow, be fun to explore a new area, we have seen most things in Brisbane, so know it well:) Did uncle James like it here?

Anna X

Think its Derby County lol is there more than one football team in Derby???? Ask Ian i have no idea lol he will prob laugh at me though :-(

Urm i think a Chilli easy and tastes nice lol he is a building surveyor :-)

I think it will prob be Bingham this year! What fun!

We are going to Dublin 2 weeks 2moro!!! Yey!!!!

You seen any huge spiders yet?

Anna x

Hi there!:)

You know what! Im not sure! lol I think there is only one team Derby! LOL well, only one worth supporting if you live there, but I might be wrong! Im sure I will be corrected if Im wrong:@)

Cool:) So he is bright and has a good job:) He can take you out for a meal next, a really expensive meal! lol

Bingham will be ok:) you can still get dressed up and you are closer to home. What are your parents doing for new years? whats Vikki doing?

You are going with your mum arent you:) that will be soooo much fun! I wanna visit one day! let me know what its like:) maybe your mum will meet an Irish guy! :)

Not seen hugggee spiders, one was as big as a house spider, but had red legs!! ewwwwwwww not looking foward to seeing anymore!! LOL Hows college?

Anna XX

Hello to the two of you, just had a look at parrot pictures, it reminds me of when you were little Ian, you used to let dads budgies climb on your head. Have you seen any in the wild yet, they are supposed to fly around there like we have sparrows here. how long do you stay in cairns for?.went to match last night and we were lucky to win! leeds were a very good team, but at least we won.I wouldn't have liked all that climbing you did, a bit too high for me.Mark gos to eygpt on wedsnesday,for a nile cruise so I will be on cat feeding duty all week so may not get chance to look on here next week, but am really looking forward to some good pictures from cairns.Matt will update me as always! your cheque came for your tax refund so I paid it in for you.speak soon Mum x

Hello,those birds were wild ones,they just have an area you are allowed to feed them in but they just fly off back to forest after! Saw some other types of wild parrots too yeah,that snake in photo is wild too,was just in a tree near the bird feeding place waiting to grab a bird when it gets hungry!!

Oh hope he has a nice place to stay in Egypt! Its very dirty outside of Shamel where i stayed! Especially in Cairo.

Ok thats fine as be getting used to cairns next week so wont be getting on computer as much anyway. We are only in all the places for 2 weeks now on so thats how long we'll be up there for.

Speak to you soon

Hola Anna and Ian!

Wow looks like you had a lovely time at O'Reillys! At first i thought you went to a bar in Oz??? lol!!!

Had my 4th date with James and got my 5th this sat im cooking for him lol OMG! He lives and dies Derby so him n Ian would proberly get on! (saying that we might not go out yet lol!)

Mum is abit low but im trying to cheer her up.

Still havent got my hours for Xmas from work and getting slightly pissed off!

Urmmm.... what else has happened... not alot really pretty boring our end!

Wow this was a great post maybe it will help you get to sleep lol

Hope you are both ok

Missing you!

x

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah! I thought we were going pub! so was suprised myself! lol ;) we did get some wine at the end though! :@)

Wow! so hes a Derby county fan! :) what are you cooking for him!? what does he do for work?

Awwww tell your mum to have a girly night out:) that normally helps:) I have stuck her little note in my diary:) so its there for good and the cards I was given:)

Havent you got holiday forms you can fill out?

Anything else planned? what are you doing new years? Will miss not celebrating it with all of you:(

Xx

Hello Ian, Just seen your lovely new pics, Looks like you enjoyed it. The Parrots are beautiful vibrant colours. Your used to having them around you . You looked as if you was in I,m a Celebrity in the rainforest. You,re braver than me, going across the bridge. Wouldn,t have got me over that or up the tree for love or money!!! Hope you didn,t drink too much at the wine tasting. Mum and Matt gone to match tonight against Leeds, Derby are winning 2-1 at half time.Arsenal1-0 with Wigan,Man U QPR 0-0, Stoke Rotherham 1-0, Swansea-Watford 0-1. All half time results. Enjoy your next trip out and look forward to more pics. Love grandma and grandad hibbitt xxxx

Hello,yeah it was pretty high up in the trees,started 20 meters and then there was a further set of ladders to climb up another tree even higher! which was swaying in the wind.

No dont like wine so didnt have much at all at the mine tasting

Glad Derby won,just read the report on website,might get a big team now! which would be good.

Speak to you later

Hi again you two adventurers!

WOW! that climb in the tree tops was something else :@).

You're blog entry and pics make the day trip seem really worth the visit.You're obviously having a fantastic time out there.

I love the art work too especially the first one.

It's lovely to see you both looking so happy and even more tanned! you lucky things lol

lots of love, mummy

xxxx

Hello,

It was a fun day:) you would have enjoyed it.

We havent had any sun for days!!! lol so our colour is fading:( but we have Cairnes next, which is meant to be hotter and the summer is on its way.

Xx

oh yea sorry my name is actually Keith!! I just forgot the other day lol! I went to newquay was cool =) I'm moving down to cornwall next year for summer! I want to get into surfing. Matt's enjoying his uni experience and GILES is GILES! Cant wait to go somewhere hot so looking forward to Tenerife. I'm going to spain in jan then France and then Italy and maybe NEW YORK =) Take ya time in Australia when walking around as I dont want you to fall off any cliffs or anything lol!!! xx

Hello Kerith,

Wow! I would like to go to Cornwall sometime for a holiday too, surfing would be cool! how much is it?

All those places will be great! how long you doing that for?

I will try not to fall off cliffs or anything, lol! some women apparently drove herself off one, after having an argument with her other half! and made it out alive!!!! she told everyone she was driving up the hill and went backwards down the cliffs! lol but it turned out she was just driving down the hill in a rage!!! lol she no longer lives in that area! lol

Hi there,

Have just been looking at the Byron bay blog. I didn't realise that honey was so good for you.I hope it helps to settle the problems with your tummy Anna.

Sounds as though the community out there got stuck in the sixties! Incense sticks and smoking ??? lol

I will be going over to matlock Bath in a few mins so i'll have a good look at the pics later.

Bye for now,

love mummy xxxxx

Hello:)

Yeah, thats what they say, I hope its true! so will test it out:) got some tasty honey to try out for us both when I get back too.

Yeah, it was a little odd there, some people say its their favorite place in Australia. The surfing looks good there.

Xx

Hi Anna

No more jobs to apply for yet. But I did well in the sailing series this year, coming first overall (see Byte UK website)! Your Byron Bay photos were excellent - which camera are you using?

While mum and Keith were partying in Cornwall I was decorating at Matlock Bath. I do more than enough travelling as it is, and as you know I find decorating is good therapy! Your car is running well and I even had the roof down a couple a weeks ago on a sunny day (with heater full on!)

We are going to Tenerife on 9 December and are really looking forward to it. We are flying from Birmingham.

Crystal Active have ceased trading, so Ortakent will have to remain as a memory (but at least we have those super photos). We will have to make up for this by sailing here - I am hoping to get a boat and join a club near Matlock, and you will be able to come there as a guest.

Daddy xx

Well done at the sailing! you have always been good at it:) I will take a look at the website.

We used Ians camera mainly as it is a little better, but some previous pics are from your camera which look nice:)

What colour have you painted Matlock Bath? Its great its at that stage now isnt it:)

You had the window down in the freezing cold! you are a nutter dad! LOL!

A holiday for you all will be good:) you going up north there again?

That is a real shame about Crystal Active! I would have loved to have gone there again:( but atleast we have the pics yes:) Im sure there are other companies that do the same thing, but maybe they are more expensive. A boat in the uk is good too, good in warm weather though, lol.

Glad you are well,

Xx

hello Ian, Just seen your latest update and pics, The gardens were beautiful, (and the weather). Were you just posing for the photo with your trowel, or doing some planting? Thats just the sort of job to bve doing out there. Football stadium looks good, grandad thought they would be something like what we,ve got round us. Derby got thrashed as grandad said they would, forest made a draw against birmingham, grandad says that was a good point. Matt got trounced today 2-6,, against Stapleford Villa, told him never mind, its only a game.Get them back next time. Its still raining here!!!! Hope trip to Cairns is as beautiful as Byron Bay. Have you been Fraser Island yet? Have you seen any wombats? Speak to you soon, love grandad and grandma hibbitt xxxx

Hello,

No wasnt working just messing about as anna used to work on a farm.

The stadium was pretty impessive yeah,is about the same size as wembley,they play the international matches there and all sorts. Didnt get many for the football(12,000) which was a shame tho

havent seen any wombats yet but thats about only thing,even seen a wild snake now! And no saving fraser island for when go to sunshine and gold coast as bit closer to go from there,

Speak soon