I had an absolutely shocking sleep as the poor dog either has a cold or terrible hay fever. She was up through the night sneezing constantly and green snot was flying everywhere!! It felt like we'd only just got back to sleep when we were woken by a loud microphone at 7am and then 70s disco music. It turned out to be a Miss Muddy day and women in exercise gear where pouring in by the dozen. I had a look online and it was scheduled for the entire day so we d...

We all woke up early this morning keen to explore so we decided to skip school for the day and packed a picnic to take into the city. The first stop was the War Memorial, a fantastic building with great views to Capitol Hill. Nick took the boys inside with Katharine while Annie and I looked after Tally and explored the gardens and then we swapped over. We found great grandmas Rita's brother on the Roll of Honours, as he died on HMAS Sydney, and it seemed to ...

I woke up this morning thinking it was 8.55 am and we had all had a great sleep in then I discovered I'd set the microwave clock incorrectly and hadn't used a 24 hour clock so it was actually 6.55 as the clock was reading 18.55 - I really need my eye sight checking!! Instead of feeling well rested I suddenly felt exhausted and climbed back into bed with the dog who was ready to play and that meant no more sleep! It was still freezing outside because of the wi...

The kids woke up early again this morning and entertained the dog outside as it was nice and sunny. Nick and I eventually got out of bed and had a huge breakfast after our fasting day yesterday then we packed up the van. We were on the road by ten and it was a really pretty drive down to Canberra along the back streets passing crops then livestock and eventually hitting the Vineyards just before we entered the ACT. We drove through Cowra, which looked stunning...

It rained ALL night and our tin car is really a dry weather home! By 11 pm water was dripping down the inside of the canvas beds. We kept the heating on all night to try and dry it out as much as possible but that didn't help sleep as it was quite noisy. When we eventually got up around 730 am the rain had finally stopped and the sun was out but the wind was icy and we all stayed rugged up all day. We spent the morning on the schoolbooks and it was a strugg...