Saturday 5th AugustTo say it's been a hell of a week would be an understatement - I've been working till gone 8.30pm every night. And Simon's not been here so it's been difficult with no-one to talk to in the evening's when I eventually got home.So when Patty and Norah arrived on Friday night I was a bit frazzled to say the least but managed to rustle up a lasagne which I'd prepared the night before! I take them to Tropicana cafe for break...

Tuesday 24th JulyI fly to Cairns and Simon picks me up from the airport. We have a lazy lunch in Cairns and have fun choosing what we're going to do while we're here. Our accommodation turns out to be a huge two bedroom appartment and we each get our own bathroom - how swish! Wednesday 25th JulyWe head out on a day trip to the Daintree which is an area of rainforest further north of Cairns. We pass through Port Douglas which we think looks lovely and we d...

Saturday 21st JulyI arrive to stay with Caroline and David for the weekend. They live in Freemantle which is a short drive outside of Perth. My trusty perpetual raincloud has followed me and it's pouring down. Apparently it was lovely earlier on in the week!Charlie has grown up so much and is still as gorgeous as ever. When Caroline announces that we're going for brunch in town, he pipes up "Latte for Mummy." Just priceless. Then he added that h...

Friday 6th JulyWe flew to Melbourne and went to my cousin Patty's in Carnegie. She really looked after us, laying on a spread of cheese, biscuits and other nibbles which was a fine welcome after our squashed cheap flight with Virgin Blue.Saturday 7th JulyWe catch the train to Geelong and visit with my Great Aunt Norah. It's pouring with rain so we sit in and Patty puts on a slide show of photo's from when she visited Wales 30 years ago. There were ima...

Saturday 2nd JuneToday we went whale watching. What an amazing sight. They are currently migrating north and go right past Sydney harbour. We only had to go out into open water for about 45 mins and we saw our first mother and her calf. We watched for ages, then they started playing in the water. There was lots of tail slapping and thrashing around. Then the moment we'd all been waiting for - the first one breached. This is what they call it when the whale he...