Quality blog geezers. Wish i was still out there but I'm not. I'm sat in f***in England feeling bitter! Keep the dream alive. Surely you can't have much longer left?! Shout us when you're back in Blighty. Much love. Team Robbo.

Katie Baker....'tis lovely to still be in receipt of your travel pics. You both look so well and happy it obviously agrees with you! I hear on the vine that won't be too long until you return. I hope you are making every moment count.

We are heading to Thailand in Nov so you will have to jot down a few tips for us - where to go, best places to see....

Take care and see you soon my sweet

Lady B

xx

Just looked through your Cambodia photos....Awesome, Very arty Baker or was is you, Thompson?!?! I love the ones of you guys with the Kiddies, is that the volunteering you did? Brilliant! It looks like something from a Red Nose day campaign!
Glad you guys are having a fab time! I'm looking forward to your return and a good old catch up!
Love to you both
xxEmxx

Hey you two,

Wow it looks bloody amazing, so jealous!! You both look very well and seem to be having a great time, so jealous you been to Fiji, im dying to go there. Me and chris (spenny) trying to book tailand, so you will have to let us know which is the best place to go to! Well take care and enjoy the time you have left- it will soon fly by!!!

Jules xxxxx

Hi both! i don't get anything out of Dave on where you are and what you've been up to so i thought i'd take a look! This blog's great! You both look like you're having a great time.. bet you don't wnat to leave? Although it will be fab to see your family and mates again - why does Oz have to be so far away?! Anyway, we've had the first stint of summer this weekend- no doubt that'll be all we get so don't rush back!

Take care and keep having fun!

Lx

Hello there, how are you two??? Looks like you are still have a great time, you seem to be travelling for ages!!

Anyway, wondering what you have in store for the mothers? I hear Bangkok and Koh samui, would love to come over for a few days, I don't know whether I can yet, so keeping it quiet from the mother. I can get direct flights to Phuket on Mondays, any plans to go over there towards the end of the trip?

Take care and keep enjoying yourselves v jealous right now as winter quickly approaches in Sydney! xx

Hello..anybody out there?!?

Our message board is looking pretty miserable and we do love to hear from you all! Please leave us some messages...we get lonely you know!!

Love to all from Vietnam! x x x

Hi Ed and Kate,

Just been having a look at the Singapore photos. Looks good. Who chooses Ed's T-shirts, seems to know him very well. Not sure if i like the idea of Macdonalds to deliver - Rhys and Ellie would never want anything else. Shame you can't get proper food delivered.

Not feeling very happy this morning, went to the Designer Outlet in York yesterday and got side swiped by a Wallace Arnold coach. Fair bit of damage to the car, but none to Sue or me.

Hope you enjoy the continuation of your holiday and we will no doubt see more of your photos soon.

Love Susan and Kevin

Today's Joke:

Prince Charles was reversing his Land Rover out of the garage when he ran over the Queen's favorite corgi. He got out and found the corgi dead, squashed to a pulp. Just then a Genie popped up and said "Your highness I can give you one wish. What would you like?"

The Prince said "This is mummy's favorite dog. Can you bring it back to life?".

So the Genie said "Let's have a look at the dog."
"Oh no, nothing can be done with this dog, you ran over it with the Land Rover there is too much damage to the dog ... nothing can be done".

"But you must," says the Prince, "It's mummy's favorite!".

"I'm sorry" said the Genie, "there's no way I can bring it back to life".

"OK" said the prince, "But do I still have a wish?".

"Yes", said the Genie.

"Well", said the Prince, "I'm marrying Camilla in April, could you make her as beautiful as Diana was?".

The Genie thought for a while then said "Let's have another look at the dog".

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Dear Ed and Kate,

Glad to see that you are enjoying your trip. Things have been a biy hectic for us just recently. Went to Vicki's for a long weekend, last week as they were moving house (still on the base at Marham), but to a bigger property. Kev did all the cooking, Sue helped with the kids, whilst Nigel, his dad and Vicki did all the moving. Managed to get it all more or less finished by the time we left on the Tuesday afternoon.

Spring is starting here in the UK, have got Daffs and crocuses out and lambs are starting to appear, although we apparently had the biggest storm of the winter yesterday, not that you would have noticed in East Yorkshire. Did you see on the news (probably didn't get to Oz) about the earthquake, the epicenter of which was 22 miles south of Grimsby. Sue said the house shook, but I (Kevin) was being relaxed in the conservatory and it didn't wake me up. Still it gave us somethng to talk about in the pub.

Right that's it for now

LOL from Susan and Kevin

Today's Joke(s):

I rear-ended a car this morning.

So there we are, alongside the road and slowly the driver gets out of his car. . .and you know how you just-get-sooo-stressed and life-stuff seems to get funny?


Yeah, well, I could NOT believe it. . . he was a DWARF!


He storms over to my car, looks up at me and says, 'I AM NOT HAPPY!'


So, I look down at him and say, 'Well, which one are you then?'

. . and well, that's when the fight started . .

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Kate

You never filled us in on how exciting the sheep management job was. Spoke with a guy called Albert who had 5000 Ewe Hoggets!!!!!

Hope your both well and the rain has stopped for you. Sydney is quite nice now, were going to Palm beach tomorrow!!

Enjoy Thailand and hope to see you both back home

The girls xx

Hi Ed and Kate,

Thanks for the postcard, it arrived this am (Tuesday, 5th Feb). Glad to see that you have appropriate transport for the next leg of your journey. I didn't realise that winter had arrived in OZ, but looking at the clothes you are wearing it looks almost as warm as it is here, but nowhere near as windy.

So what's the plan then, straight up the coast, or are you making trips inland as well, the whole thing sounds a bit like a Billy Connelly trip round Oz, apart from the groovy trike and the banjo. Mind you not sure whether the "fart mobile" is better, although looking at the photo's do you think it will get you to wherever it is you're going? So are you both in holiday mode now, or will you have to do a bit of work so you can carry on the good work for the "Tinnie Appreciation Society"?

Right that's enough rubbish from me, will send another message soon. L & K from

Susan & Kevin

Today's Joke:

A man goes to confession, sits down and tells the priest, "Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."
"What was your sin, my son?" the priest asked.

"Obscene language," the man replied.

"That's a terrible sin," the priest replied. "Do you swear often?"
"No," answered the man, "but do you know the local golf course?"

"Indeed I do," said the priest

"I play there often. When I was on the tee at the fourth hole, the long par three, I hit one of the best drives of my life. It must have gone 220 yards on the fly, straight down the middle, took one bounce, and then hit a sprinkler head and bounced off into the bush."

"I'm not surprised that you swore," said the priest, "If that had happened to me..."

"No, I didn't swear then. The shot I had hit was a great one and the bounce was just the luck of the game. When I checked the position of my ball, I realized that I still had a chance of making par. The ball was on a hardpan lie, and there was a small gap through the trees for me to have a shot at the green. I really should have taken the safe option and just played out sideways to the fairway, but I had hit such a great drive that my confidence was high."

The man continued, "I was still about 200 yards from the green, so I took a five wood from the bag, positioned the ball back in my stance to keep it low and hopefully get under the trees, told myself to forget about all the hazards and just imagine the ball on the green, and played the shot. Even using the wood, I nipped the ball perfectly off the hard lie, the ball kept low as I planned, and flew straight as a die toward the green, took one bounce onto the green, hit the flagstick and bounced off sideways into that deep pot bunker to the right of the green."

"My son, my son," said the priest; "I'm ready to forgive you already. That would have made a saint swear."

"No father," said the man, "I didn't swear then. I realized that I had just played two perfect shots and only bad luck had stopped me from getting the result I deserved. When I saw my ball, I thought that all my hopes of making par had disappeared. It was lying right against the face of a five-foot deep bunker with very little green to work with, and I really should have gone out sideways, but after the two good shots, I was feeling confident. I took my sand iron out, opened the clubface fully, aimed the ball about six feet left of the pin and played the shot. The ball popped almost straight up in the air, landed on the green, and the spin on the ball dragged it back to four inches from the pin."

"F#?!ing hell!" said the priest, "don't tell me you missed a four-inch putt!"

GOD wanted Jesus to be born in Australia, but he couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

DID you hear about the Australian shoplifter? He was found crushed beneath the local supermarket.

A MAN has an interview for immigration into Australia. The interviewer says to him: "Do you have a police record?" "What?" replies the man. "Do you still need one to get in?"

Q: WHAT'S the difference between yoghurt and Australia? A: Yoghurt has a real live culture.

Q: WHAT'S Australian for foreplay? A: When the man says: "Wake up, Sheila."

Q: HOW do you describe a well-balanced Australian? A: One with a chip on both shoulders.

Q: HOW many Aussies does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two - one to say "She'll be right mate" and one to fetch the beers.

Q: What's the worst thing about Australia? A: It's above sea level.

Aussie idea of foreplay ... "Brace yerself girl"

What do you say to an Aussie with a job? Big Mac please.

Hear about the Aussie hitch- hiker? He got up early so as to avoid the traffic.

What's the difference between identical twins and Australians?Identical twins you cannot tell them apart...Australians you cannot tell them anything.

How do you make an Aussie laugh on Monday morning? Tell him a joke on Friday night.

Aussies don't clock in for work ... they sign the visitors book.

What does an Aussie use for contraception? His personality!!!

What do you call an Aussie with half a brain? Gifted.

What do you call an Australian riding a bike? A dope pedaler

I just come on here for the brain challenges, todays was easy- 5+4=9.

Kate stop calling me, you're using all your pennies. Plus we have rien to talk about ;-)