My little munchkin has been 3 years old for 1 month today and almost all of that has been spent here in Darwin (where we have just been put on cyclone watch!) He is definitely putting up a good fight for the title of 'Who's the Boss' so we unfortunately spend a lot of our time um, discussing why mummy needs to be the boss and Jude needs to maybe listen a little more and follow instructions rather than making up his own. I am sure all my mum's group friends out...

And that's because either you have changed or the place has changed or you both have. Got 'lost' driving into Darwin cos I couldn't quite believe I had to take an exit to continue going along the Stuart Highway as I flew past the sign. So soon we were driving along in what used to be swampy bushland and showed as 'nowhere' on the GPS. Fortunately I recognised a road from my misspent youth and took that to return to the highway and soon arrived at Peta & Ne...

What a long way we have come since our last entry 7 days ago. And I mean a long way - 1300km. It took so long that Jude aged a year and is now 3 years old! Well we didn't get to go down a mine in Mt Isa (minimum age 7) but we did get to look over a lookout, fix our CB radio that stopped working the day I left Richmond, spend lots and lots of time delighting in the smoke stacks pouring out smoke (when we arrived in town Jude was convinced they were parts of gia...