The kids woke up before 7am again and for the first time in a long time I was missing our massive private comfortable dry bedroom with its huge king size double bed! Annie dragged me out into the rain for the toilet and the day had begun! Without any friends in the caravan park to play with the kids seemed restless and irritable. After breakfast we hit the books but it was a complete waste of time as no one had the ability to think for themselves today and t...

VERY early start this morning with the boys waking up at 645am! We tried to ignore them for as long as possible but that wasn't long enough! It all meant we got an early start on schoolwork and put in an extra hour as they were all doing so well. The boys are covering measurements in maths and Nick had them outside measuring all sorts of things - who said maths wasn't fun!!! After lunch we went into Bairnsdale and dropped the laundry off with the Italians. ...