Hello people. Its bloody freezing here, Fiji is starting to sound really nice now. Thankyou for my birthday text, very nice too. Never mind Anna, theres a drink waiting at the bar for you, now all you have to do is guess which one. Oh, and Tesco were doing doing 2 for £4 on Hagan Das last week - I now have two tubs of Straw/cheesecake, Ner Ner. Right, footballs on now, speak to you all soon.

HEEELLLLOOOOOOO! Sorry I've been a bit illusive - life's been a bit mad since I've been unemployed! Having a fab time here - Michael is desperately trying to get some home improvements done so that we can keep to our promise of showing you an actual difference in our home. Well, the village now has it's own shop, hairdresser and the wine bar is getting there, WOOHOOO!! .... phones ringing .... Claire says hello! Anyway, I'm officially a bum now so I hope to check your web site more often! Hope you are enjoying yourselves in Fiji - hi to everyone! Rob, Michael completed Halo 2, I'm sure you'll still kick his ass when you play against eachother though! James, thanks for the invite - unfortunately I didn't look on this site until now so I totally missed it, hope you had fun! Anyway I'm just babbling now and it isn't pretty so I'll get back to watching the Simpsons (the best part of my day!) - missing you guys loads, so much to catch up on! Take care. A xxx

Bonjourno! Really sorry to hear about the rain and general poor weather you`ve been having - still, theres still time for it to improve. No real news to report here, Christmas shopping has started in earnest, and I put up my tree this evening - ta dah! Seeya folks....... PS. Anna; you and a guest(s) are invited out on Thursday night into town for a few birthday (mine that is) drinks. Let me know if you are interested. Seeya!

Oh my god Linds!!!!!! You cow!!!! What a tan!! I'm soooo jealous. How shallow am I? Nice red shoulders KT. He he he. Lots to tell you about but I will send you an e-mail and not bore everyone else. Just you! Counting the days now! xxx

I see the quality of the photos have increased since Nick and Katies arrival, I think I might have to steal both the Opera house one and the bridge by night ones for my wallpaper (I have already nicked the ones you gave to mum and dad and have an opera house and bridge panorama for my wallpaper!) I also see Robin is still remaining a mystery by not appearing in any photos at all, has he caught some kind of tropical desease and now his face is all deformed? Noone would probably notice any different ;-) C you in two weeks! I hope you have bought me a xmas prezzie with all your left over money!

Well stone the crows, you turn your back for a moment, and more people you know end up in Oz! Whats going on?! Nice to see you`re all doing ok, but you may have trouble with passport control on the way home linds - you`ll look nothing like your photo. I may have call you Mrs Abu for a while. It would be useful if you had a job in the SAS doing night time missions though...Anna, I`m not sure what happened to the chocy salted pretzels - i recall having some, a freebie at Sainsburys possibly, but i`ve not seen (or looked to be honest) for them on the shelves. Maybe they were just too radical for the general public. Choc dips are a kind of sweet/sour thing too, not quite as extreme, but you do have the slightly sour breadstick with the oh so sweet soft chocolate dip. Oh yes. There are limits though; I do not like sweet & sour chicken balls from the chinese takeaway. Oh no no no. Just the chicken is fine - no sauce for me thanks. Right, thats me done for the timebeing, bandits at 12 o`clock, tally ho, roger wilco and out...

Hello you two (and Nick and Katie) - it was very nice talking to you this morning. I have just looked at the photo of you drinking outside the Opera House and I can't belieeeeeve how brown Lindsay is! I am so jealous. We can't go for our night out drinking when you get back until you have faded enough to blend back in with the rest of us! Or, perhaps you will be a nice little heat source to keep us warm as we wait for that night bus ..... Hope you all have fun in FiJi. Looking forward to having you back - not long now!

We're off to Fiji tomorrow!!!! Woohoo!!!! We've put on a couple of new pics too.

Yum, you're making me hungry. I like your train of thought James - it's a bit like those chocolate covered salted pretzels - mmm, whatever happened to them?

Brrrrr its cold outside today. I`m a big fan of ready salted crisps, and Cadburys chocolate fingers, as a combo. A good sweet & sour deathmatch. Seeya...

Suze and Anna you are just trying to make me hungry aren't you??? all this talk of Chinese and ice cream (not together of course!), just throw in some cadburys dairy milk and Sainsburys white choc chip cookies aswell and i'll be home in a flash! (well 3 and a bit weeks anyway!) x

Well, once you`ve clicked through hundreds of photos of beaches and scenery that they allegedly went to that could just be postcards (just kidding, i`ve loved them all, but Robin, where the hell are you?!), and been told yet again that no where is as good as Sydney, the conversation starts to dry out. Plus, its been a good conduit (is that the right word?) for all the people who really only ever met up at the Jones annual evening BBQ `swinging firestarters` get-together (take a bow, Gaz & Stu) to say hello to each other. Which is nice. As a interactive bonus for today, if you click on my name (to the left of this message) you possibly can reply to me personally with a witty and/or factual message (if the technical magic allows). Robin and Lindsay - you`re helping to bring people closer together. And I hope you`re both ok too! Seeya...