Katharine woke up at 4am frozen and so climbed into bed with us - it was like cuddling up to an ice block! Went back to sleep until about 7 and then got up for coffee. Nick did the breakfast marathon while I began researching places to stay in Victoria. While checking out the caravan parks along the Great Ocean Road, we got an email stating we had won 10 days at half price for a park in Apollo Bay that we had bid for on a site called Travel Auctions! Spent th...

Woke early this morning due to a bad dream about snakes!! Nick was awake too and it was cold outside so we stayed in bed and read for a while. Ten minutes later three other bodies were in our bed and Nick and I moved outside for coffee!! The sun soon came out so we put some washing on and Nick went off to the bakery for some fresh bread. We had a very slow start to the day with a long breakfast and then the kids went off to play in the Mulberry trees again wi...

The kids are definitely on SA time now and are waking up far too early!! Nick and I stayed in bed and read for a while before getting up for coffee. We had just finished when it began to drizzle so we quickly packed up the beds and made sure nothing got wet. After breakfast we got chatting to more neighbours and although it delayed leaving, we learnt a bit more about places to visit. The trip to Robe seemed long and boring after driving through the Fleurieu Pe...

Woken up at 530am by the rain and started checking we were all still dry inside! Nick had been awake for at least half an hour and neither of us could get back to sleep so we watched an episode of Mrs Brown's Boys. We had put headphones on so as not to wake the kids but we laughed aloud too often and soon everyone was up! Happy Valentines Day! Katharine got a card, Nick got a free heart token from my bottle of wine but I got zip! After breakfast, we decided ...

Woke up to the sound of rain. Shot out of bed and got the towels in off the line and then had coffee chatting to the neighbours from Vic. This lead to a late start to breakfast and made us almost cancel schoolwork but in the end good sense prevailed and we got stuck in. Katharine has no enthusiasm for schoolwork at all! Only the fear of repeating year 6 and missing out on starting high school with her friends gets her school work out in a morning' and this mor...