Katharine woke up and sorted the dog out this morning so I thought I had scored a lie in until Tally decided otherwise, trying repeatedly to jump on our bed! I took her outside for a play and pulled my shoulder for the second time in a week - I think I'm getting too old for the caravan and my body is saying it's time to go home!!! I went back to bed with a hot water bottle and Katharine and Anna decided to do all the chores for the rest of the day. I sugges...

Happy Birthday Grace! xx Tally woke me up at 5am and then 630 am and refused to go back to sleep so we sat outside and played and didn't really care if it disturbed our neighbours. It didn't take long before Matty, Anna and Jonny joined us so we had a few games of Gubs before sticking the generator on and making coffee. We spent the morning doing schoolwork again and the kids managed to cover all their topics quite quickly today, desperate to get back to the...

We woke up to sunshine and everything outside was dry so very little rain had fallen after all! It was lovely to be able to start the generator and make coffee regardless of the time knowing that we weren't disturbing anyone around us as we were tucked into the corner all on our own and the river drowned out all noise. We had a huge breakfast and then spent the morning doing schoolwork. While Nick and I made lunch, the kids played down by the river and were ...

We all had a fantastic night's sleep apart from the poor dog who spent the night sneezing again, having spent the afternoon sleeping in the long grass. Nick got up with her around 630am and then put her into bed with us so that he could go back to sleep and before we knew it, it was 830am! It was a beautiful sunny day. We spent the morning doing schoolwork and the kids were quite focused considering we had had almost a week off. Nick made up a times table g...

Everyone seemed quite keen to leave the city, as we were all awake early and packing up before we had even finished breakfast. We didn't get on the road until 11 am, as before we left we cleaned the bathroom and the floor and topped all containers up with as much water as possible. We were heading to the other side of the Snowy Mountains and rather then take the van through Kosciuszko National Park we drove up and around the mountains which took us about 3.5 ...