Hi Helena. I have just been looking at your photo's and catching up with the gossip. I am so glad that you are still having a fantastic time. Was it strange spending Christmas on the beach? I am fine, still attempting to lose weight. You will be proud of me I go to the gym 4 times a week now. I cancelled my membership at the Basingstoke Gym as the people there are horrible, I have re-joined LA Fitness with the rest of the girls. Myself, Tasha, Julie and Little Jen are going to Groove FX Dance tonight which should be funny. Things are work are very slow for me as Chris isnt in at the moment as his wife has had an operation so he is looking after her. Bless he calls/texts me each day. So have you met your husband to be yet? Speak to you soon. Love Holly Olly xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well, i go away for 2 days and only eve has put a note on, shame on you all!! Only joking you b******s! Anyway, I'm back now on the main land and throughly enjoyed fraser island. We had a really good group, a mix of irish, german and english. I had a really wicked time and some excellent pictures and guess wot the tan on my legs has started!! Yay! On the first day we drove around the island on the beach with our 4wd jeep visiting a shipwreck, lookout points and creeks of freshwater. On the first night we camped on the side of the beach and it really was back to basics! Having to squat, dig a whole for your bog roll and poo in the sand, watching out for the dingos and not having a wash for three days was all part of the fun! What was funny was us 4 gals pissing on the beach in front of the sea under the full moon, it was a moment! This morining i still had sunlotion on me from sunday morning!!! ON the second day we went to more freshwater creeks and in the night we camped in the rainforest and we had a possom come to visit out camp, a spider in my toilet bag and this massive beetle thing that made a sound like a mobile phone! I did a bit of driving on the beach which was wicked but the more trecherous areas our good driver Lars who was in the german army did the rest. Imagine a pot hole and make it 20 times worse, down hill in sand and that was the majority of our journey. It was wicked!! Well now i've had a shower and i think/hope i have got all the sand out of certain areas and it is lovely to actually sit on a loo! Tomoz i think i'm goinf dolphin kayaking, HOpe you are all well? Missing you all! Love Helen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I know I know it's been a little while, I don't know where the time has gone - I was so busy at work last week I was struggling getting the time to go to the toilet!!!! Anyway not much gossip from me, went on a date last week with a tennis coach I met on new years eve went well and he is gorgeous, been going to the gym 4 out of 5 mornings a week but didn't go this weekend. Went to the Pompey v Everton match yesterday with Scouse, Tasha and Julie and I had a great time. We were surrounded by Scousers - we now know what it feels like to be intimidated!!!! Matt R isn't happy with me cos i keep saying that i will go in and see him, the biscuits have now to be upgraded to chocolate biscuits cos I have let him down but I get a free coffee. Can't think of anything else thats happening oh yes Holly is back at LA Fitness - there is now 7 of us that go there. Missing you loads love ya xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

My god, it has taken me hours to download my pics and there are more to come of the great barrier reef! I'm feeling sooooooo much better now and the best bit is that i can eat! Kate and Teresa have started to call me turbo tonsils! Anyway back from the Whitsundays sailing trip and all was good the sailing part was brill. Not that greater weather but apparently it was good sailing weather. The area of the whitsundays is beautiful and i did some more snorkelling and saw so many coloured fish. Meet some cool people on the trip, some of which are going to fraser island at the weekend jusy like us. Ironically on the boat i meet someone who went to uni with Carla and Cormac called allan. Wot a small world! Carla his email address is [email protected] Anyway, we have a 14 hour coach journey to fraser island tonight, great! Fraser island is the only or largest (not to sure) sand island in the world. We are campling for 2 days and driving around in 4x4's in the sand....its gona be interesting! Hope your all ok? I'll email soon for a longer chat. ONe last thing to amuse you all, last night we went out on a after sailing trip do and i got chatted up by a woman! Nice! I made a very quick exit and gave her one of my F**K off looks!! Take care, love Helen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello My poorly little babooshka!! Hope your throat is feeling better! I know exactly what your going through my love its torture isnt it!! If your throat is still sore you can a numbing spray, I got one from the chemist out here when I had it. Still it sounds like you guys are still making the most of it coming down the coast, still so jealous!! In my new job now and I love it!! Flat is still as busy as ever and han is now a water taxi tout!! Brillaint!! Love these travellin sites - wish i had known about them before - hey ho on my next adventure maybe!! New Zealand soon My love!!! CAnt wait!! speak soon.
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Hey you poorly infected girl, what are thinking going and getting tonsillitis - your supposed to be getting a tan!! You've certainly had a fantastic start to the New Year, full of fun, adventure and excitment - I am so very jealous just like everyone else I expect. The photo night will have to become a photo week, maybe even a photo month at this rate - just think all that Dominos, Chinese and Ice-Cream - umm umm umm. I've not got much gossip - only that we are going out Friday for Lee's birthday, the girls are going as Bunnies (yes the Skeggie outfits are getting a long awaited airing) and the lads are going as LADIES! Scouse was trying on my clothes and underwear last night, it was so funny and I can't wait to see what they all look like - we'll be sure to take a camera! I went swimming Sunday and to the Gym last night for the first time this year - it was packed (think everyone is trying to get rid of the Christmas Bulge), so we've decided to do classes through the week instead, although I still have no enthuasiam for the Gym and all this fitness stuff! Hope you enjoy/have enjoyed your few days on board, looking forward to your next message. Keep on looking for somewhere to downloads your pics! Take care, missing you, love and hugs, Me.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hay guys, well we are at airlie beach ready for our whitsundays 3 day boat trip around the islands tomoz. Reallylooking forward to it, we are on a boat with alot of irish, 2other uk's and some others from europe and 2 usa's. Gona be interesting! Anyway, unfortunatly yesterday i had to go to the doctors and he diagonosed me with me tonsilitus. Great! I had a sore thoat saturday morning and by sunday night driving around magnetic island i couldnt speak and i was zapped of all energy. Teresa came into the docs with me and did all the talking while kate went to a petrol station to get me yoghurt as i hadnt eaten anything alday. Bless them both! At that moment in time i really wanted to be at home in my bed. I was scared to swollow because every one hurt. I have never expereienced pain like it b4. Well thats what 6-7weeks of late nights, alcolhol etc do to you! I'm on pencillinen (cant spell) now for the next 2 weeks! Bloody great! Anyway, i'm off just a quick update for the mo. I'll email again in about 3 days when i'm off the boat!!!!! Hope your all ok? Lots of love Helen xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hey Hellie! I have heard of the Woolshed but can't remember if I went there - but I bet Lisa did at some point! I am soooo jealous of you! Did you stay at Caravella's 149 in Cairns? If you are in Cairns again please can you take a pic of it for me!!! That's where I stayed with Lisa and Buzzy! Wish I could go back and really enjoy it! You guys sem to be doing well on the pulling front - any more goss for us saddo's back at home?! Have a fab trip down the east coast - keep safe and have wicked times! Miss ya! Kara xxx

Hello, well we all made it back from Cape Tribualtion in one piece! We went to the daintree national park which is where the rainforest meets the beach and reef. It was quite something! I saw a croc, it was called Gumi! The hostel we stayed in was interesting, it was a typical forest lodge complex and what really annoyed me was having to venture out of the room with my little torch in the middle of the night and venture all across the complex to go to the blimen loo having nearly stepped on many frogs and then it gets worse, i went to the loo in the rainforest in a small block and who did i befriend while doing my business but a spider, cockroach and lots of flies. Lovey!! I am now in Mission Beach just 2 hours south of Cairns. We went to the beach today and it was so isolated it was lovely. Dont worry people i was under the shade! Look here eve legs are the last thing to tan, give us a chance! Anyway i think i've been burning the candle at both ends as i am feeling really rough at the mo, mmmm just like the time after i came back from magaluf! Great! Anyhow, moving on to Townsville tomoz and doing a trip to Magnetic island. Appartently in townsville you can hold koalas, yay!! Anyway, hope your all ok? And you first week back at work were bearable!? I have no reception on my mobile so i'm out of contact for a while. Take care of yourselves, lots of love Helen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx p.s, i cant find a blimen computer to download pics....aaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhh!

MORNING!

Apologies for the combined message to the three of you! (I'll also copy it to teresa and helen's travel sites so you maintain the record of people writing to you!!!

Marvellous to hear from you all and to hear the beginning stories of traveling up the coast! Peter Pan's - brilliant. We booked all of our trips with them and I'd completely forgotten about it.

Definitely do the PADI course if you get the chance - Teresa I'll join you for some diving when I have some money!!!!!! I'm so jealous - wish I could join you all.

Not much going on here - the finances are pretty dire after christmas and new year so a quiet january for me. Work is boring too. blah blah.

Anyway, I have to do work so i'll sign off again. Keep the photos coming and the emails!

Lots of love

Flange
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Well hello you, the photos look fantastic and I must second Mantha's message about the tan, the arms are looking good but come on girl get those legs into the sun!!! Hope you have / had a fantastic time in the rainforest, that is going to be so cool. Take care love ya loads xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hay guys, right keep up with me on this email, its quick and to the point. I'm in rush! Arrived late monday in cairns, best flight we have ever been on! Fit air stewards which there is a photo of me admiring his arse. Anyway one of them fancied teresa and got chatting, we got free wine out of him to! Arrived at hostel and arranged to get a taxi in town to "get on it" with three guys from our plane who were in the same hostel. Dressed and ready in half an hour and the 6 of us all went out. Having a boogie in the woolshed (know it lisa and kara?!!) and who do we bump into but the cabin crew from our flight! So we then all spent the night together. Funny! Oh, yes 4got to mention they let us in the cockpit of the plane as we were leaving! Anyway it was the most random few hours i have ever had and teresa even got his number! Go girl! Anyway, yesterday we mooched around cairns in the sweltering heat and spent alot of the day with the lads from the night b4 that night we all went out for a meal. Very civilised!! Today we went on the great barrier reef tour. It was truly fab. We snorkelled and ended up doping two scuba dives. It was the most amazing feeling in the world, diving with so many fish etc. On the second dive we saw a turtle and we all had a go feeding it coral and i touched it!! We have lots of pics and a dvd of the day including our dive so the pics will on the site soon and i'll be sending home the dvd. So mummy you can arrange a vid evening, ha, ha!! Oh by the way we all found nemo!! Phew, i'm knackered! Tomoz we are going to cape tribulation for 2 days to explore the rainforest and we have just heard that the rivers have crocs! Oh, well we are in the tropics!! Lets hope we all make it back to carins in one piece. Ha, ha!!!! Hope your all ok, loving hearing from you all again! I have so many pics to download i'm running out of time so hang in there!!! Bye 4 now, love Helen aka reef diver!!!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx