Next installment please and see if you can beat mine for excitement...... My installment is this - I'm enormous. My back is sore. I have two weeks left at work and 5 till it's all happening. I would love a vodka and coke and 20 marly lights would go down a treat. Having said all that I wouldn't change it for the world, getting quite excited truth be known, in an am-I-going-to-be-able-to-cope-without-sleep kind of a way..... and that's it really. Just thought I'd clock in and say hi and hope you are getting out of south america what you had hoped. Big love. Cybx

Hi gorgeous, Glad to hear you are warming up again and that you ahve a good traveling companion. it helps me sleep at night!....along with the large scotch and the radox pillow spray.....highly recommended. The boys were extremely impressed with their postcard so a big thank you for that.
we ahd a bit of a furniture move around last night and the old desk in the dining room has gone up to Lewis's bedroom, he is dead chuffed and declared " I really like my new bedroom, it looks like a county council's office"
Do you think we need the input of a professional at this stage ?
Otherwise, not much to report apart from huge relief with Dads news and the continuing battle with Welsh Water. I wont bore you with the details but the subheadings of s***, fan, river wye , should suffice!
Happy wine tasting and enjoy your bed!
Heaps of love Dotts xxxxxxxx

Hello Liz,
It was a bonus returning to the U.K. and finding the weather so mild. Poor south Africa is desp for rain. Jorja is so beautiful. I think al is coping well but very tired and anxious. Kevin really enjoyng being a Dad. Does all the cooking. She is lucky!!!!
Dads news is great is it not. I think he will find the cut back on work VERY difficult.3 days a week the consultant says.! Hope you are well and losing nothing else. Hatty is home breathing cold germs over us.....hope Dad does not go down with it. Did you hear that she got an excellent report from the American auditor.
Thank you for all your news.
Lots of love Mum.

Dear Lizzie
Fee told me about this message board. Hoping all is well with you and that you aren't missing soggy black November days in England too much. Tonight is bonfire night and it is suitably nasty outside,lashing with rain, but we are going to venture out anyway to a big firework display in Hexham.
You missed some juicy violence at Court yesterday when the Guardian in JBs' and my case was slotted by the mad mother at the end of the case. She had made the mistake of offering a hankie to the howling woman. Of course, in the finest tradition of the Bar,JB and I made a sharp exit!
Your farewell do was epic. I can't think anyone will ever better it.
With love
Kester X

Hello love, Wonderful pics, the penguins look super cute! The weather looks cold. It's bloody freezing hrere. Gorgeous this morning, I dressed for summer, flip flops and all, now I wish i had my fur coat on! It's all drama with me at the moment. I'll tell you the whole sorry tale on IM next time we're on line at the same time. I'm so over the whole ordeal can't really be bothered to think about it! hope you are having a wonderful time! Can't wait to hear more! Love G

Fab photos of whales!!! I'm so glad the cheapie camera seems to work!

Loved the photos of the whales and other wildlife. You seem to be attracting the strange kinda guys as guides and instructors - keep trying you make get lucky and find one that looks like Antonio Banderas. Well what are you missing back home? X factor, Eastenders and Coronation Street and the weather getting a bit colder. I would stay in South America if I were you. I believe Fee had a party last night. Unfortunately I couldnt go but I am waiting to hear how it went. I am sure it was great. Be careful out there xx

Hi Liz - Jorja is not so stonking! She is 3.06kg - so actually a tiny little mite!! She is still in ICU but lots of the wires have gone now, but she is still being ventilated. Ali was also quite poorly yesterday, but a bit better today. Lots of love R

Hello Auntie Lizzie! I imagine that you have been inundated with messages by text and email, but just to make sure, here is one on your board. Jorja Charlotte was born this morning (20th Oct) at 7.47am, weighing in at a stonking 3.6 kg. She's been put in ICU for a while, cos of fluids on her lungs. Granny has seen Jorja, and says she has long fingers and toes and everyone agrees she is beautiful. By the time you get this, you'll probably know more.... lots of love Rosie

This is my third attempt at sending you a message. Am not really whitty enough for these things so have rambled and then deleted in the hope I might get some devine humourous intervention. No such luck as yet so just thought I'd say a quick hello and tell you I'm loving your updates, including the latest Cameragate incident.
As for me I'm expanding well and all appears to be ok. 5 weeks and one day left at work - not that I'm counting.
Anyway, look after yourself and remember fat bloaters like me can't do the stuff that you are currently up to so make the most of it!
big love, Cybil

Hello lady.......so the camera has gone - might be a bit raw to make any comment at this time, so will move on! Have been to Manchester this weekend where I encountered the joys of Stockport, I now will happily sit in the middle of the Bigg Market on a Saturday night shouting obsenities at passers by and feel v safe compared to the joys of that wonderful place (I actually only was there for about 30 mins) never have I seen so many burberry caps per square mile - mind they're really really hard and do things wild like knock over the bins outside Mcdonalds, made us geordie look positively pleasant! Must go - 20yr celebration of Neighbours today - got to get home for that.......you may scoff, but bet everyone remembers Angry Andersons' dulcet tones while Scott and Charlene got married, Helen dying, Kerry Mangle getting shot - am off to relive the memories!!!!

Hi darling, hope you're ok and not still fighting off our web dwelling friends. Just a quick tip re P20, stay in the shade for an hour or so after you've applied it and you should be ok, no more lobster thighs. I did the same thing in Barbados and had to pee like a bloke for 3 days!!
Nadia's encounter of the power cut wasn't half as funny as it actually was... 5.15 (nearly time for neighbours) and all went dead. I waited a while and thought I'd phone the Rothwell Road gang to see if they had power - no one around. I then phoned Lisa, who was in Stanley and amazingly they had power. Lisa however did not, I thought she would do the sensible thing and go to her mum's, oh no far too much excitement going on in Gosforth she couldn't miss out! Several uniformed officers guided me helpfully down a semi deserted High Street to Nadia's to find Niamh running around thinking the whole thing was hilarious, the whole place (even the loo) lit up like a barmizpah and Nadia merrily cooking chilli and opening bottles of wine. She'd have been great during the war! Power resumed at 9.30pm which pleased Dave alot as he was worried about the freezer defrosting on the wood floor. Lisa and I however were miffed at the fact that we couldn't claim stupid amounts of money for all the gourmet food (no really) ruined and inedible in our fridges!
Now you're telling me you're having a more exciting time pah!!!
Take care darling, loads of love xxx