HAPPY BIRTHDAY NETTY! hope you have a brilliant day!!

lots of love from the waterhouse at 61! xxx

(david annette carl and emma, and clifford-as dad thinks the waterhouses is 'a bit impersonal innit?' and he likes your blob as he calls it! lol )

Happy Birthday Netti,have a GREAT Birthday, your pics for Christmas Day & Boxing Day are Fantastic- Mom says thanks for the snowman ( sandman ! ) Everything looks so good and we are pleased that you are having a superb time, thanks again for the pressies they were so very thoughtful and we love 'em, Luv Ya Both xx

Hey! Just looked through the photos it looks amazing over there! You've missed a white christmas over here but we decided that a white beach is wayyy better! Ha have a great time guys all the best for the new year! clifford x

Merry Christmas for yesterday!! hope you had a brilliant day! youve missed the white christmas but like clifford said im sure your liking the white beaches! miss you both! xxx

Hi Netti and Chris, just sending Seasons Greetings, and wishing you all the best for the New Year.

Lots of Love, take care.

Annette, David, Carl and Emma.

Merry Christmas!

if you wanna check out one the best early christmas presents........look at reu flickr site.........one small.......one giant....

yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Dave & Jackie and little Reu x x x

nice to chat to you a chris earlier this morning/your evening.

Your little nephew certainly has a little of his aunties christmas crackerness about him.

All your photos look great and i have been checking them out whilst at work and bored and they are a nice antidote to the wet cold weather here.

Well Reuben should be getting some squeezes of his two Nanas now...unless he's still asleep from his afternoon nap......which i doubt as he only had 30 mins yesterday....though knowing him becasue he has visitors waiting to see him he'll keep them waiting and sleep for 2 plus hours.

Check out his latest snotty nose sweetboy pictures on flickr if you get a chance

bye-zee-bye antipodean explorers

Dave x

hello below,

hope you are both well. Hows the new job goin' Netti? I hear you are an elf/grotto photographer? Hows the winky eye doin'? I'm(bored) in work today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday). Your Mum and Nana are visiting tomorrow so i'll miss out on seeing them......and the nice things no doubt Jackie will be baking for them......i'm sure they save me some......crumbs? No news this end really other than Jackie and Reu put up the Christmas tree yesterday afternoon. It was the tree your Mum got for the 'bon voyage' party before you two left....it hasn't grown much but is perfect height for placing on a stool so Reu can't get at it.......and he wants to! Infact his news favourite thing over the last week or so is to point and shout loudly at Christmas trees. hey, don't knock it till you've tried it i say

ermmmm, thats about it so i'll go

Dave

Hi Guys

GREAT pics of Melbourne, did you notice anything about the Cathedral ?? It has THREE spires just like Lichfield ( and Turo too !) makes you feel at home eh Hope you have a super weekend and a good bit of relaxing in the sunshine,it's cold and sunny here today,cancelled our golf and off into Lichfield for some Crimbo shopping, lost a couple of pounds at the Gym ( fell out of my pocket ho ho ) finished my Jack Higgins book and now Mom is making me read Harry Potter !! Love Ya Both x

Hi Guys

Hope you both ok x fabulous pics cant wait to see it all for ourselves. We are starting to look into flights.So glad you have found an apartment so quickly and so close to work. How is work going? The penguin pics are gorgeous x This is a fantastic way to keep in touch and to read everyone else's messages. One last thing, Dad wants me to tell you Blues beat Wolves today 1-0 and are now 11th in the league!!!

Take care guys and enjoy yourselves. Love you both to bits!!!

Ma & Pa Lewis xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

according to thikipeadia...

''It depends on the size of the bird. A Rockhopper penguin gets about 22 inches anf the emporer gets about 56 inches so it depends

A now extinct species grew to about 2 metres in height ''

very intresting, non?

hello miss k and (n)iceman chris. I hope your move into your new docklands flat went well. If only i could have returned the favour and help you move in...oh well i'm sure you managed your couple of suitcases and bags yourselves....or did the mini penguins help you....how mini is mini anyhow?....i mean i've never met a penguin....or non that i know of.....are they like... dwarf penguins and were born smaller than your average penguin or are they like a total diffrent breed to the regular sized ones....mind you i don't know how big a regular size one is......how big are the regular ones......? i think i need to meet some penguins or......spend the next 6 working hours of today (Sunday) googling information on penguins or...... get on with some work....like uploading pictures of auntymissK and little reu onto his flickr account!.......yeah! b***** the penguins....i'm doin' that instead....i don't care how big a penguin is really....does anyone? maybe fish do.....or penguins themselves do........can penguins have a napolean complex? i need a lay down and a cup of earl grey tea...i can only do ones of these things at work. poo!

speak/see you soon......

Dave at work and bored

hi kids, just skyped reuben jackie abd david because you weren't on line . i suppose this means you haven't got internet yet. all well at this end. nana is here and we are going out to morrisons for christmas dinner. jacke dave and reuben seem well reuben waved and smilrd and showed us his star wars toys. the penguins look sweet we will go see them when i come out.

nana sends her love and likeskyping so we will try again when you let us know you are connected

lots of love and kisses

mum and nana