Well I have been transported to the colony by the English authority. I feel like a real Australian now. Yes, as mentioned in previous blogs I am in Australia to organise a visa to live in the UK. I left Pippa and Katharine in Heathrow and boarded a flight to Singapore with Qantas. About 3 hours into the flight a woman collapsed a few rows ahead of me and I ended up offering to help the flight crew who appeared to be a bit concerned as she was not recovering quic...

Well this is my last night in England for a while. This of course in thanks to the British Visa Department in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. However, that aside and water under the bridge, I am off back to Australia tomorrow night. For a last day in England it has been such fantastic weather that we all went off to Snowdrop Valley, near Wheddon Cross in Somerset. Katharine recommended it when we went to Porlock (see earlier blog), but with the cold and snow it was not wo...

Our Stuff Arrives from Australia!!!! This was another excuse to go and visit the wonderful Mary in Sandford Orcas. But to validate the need to travel we did do some sight-seeing first. So here is the story of the last few days. Pippa, Anouk and I set off just before lunch on Tuesday to head for Mary, mainly to stay overnight to be ready to meet the removals truck at 9am at Sandford Orcas. Our first stop was Taunton to get a SIM card for Pippa's 3rd attempt at a...

What is it with the English obsession with going to the seaside in all weathers and seasons? Well on a day like this, what else? But with the warm 12 degrees and the blue sky that lasted almost 2 hours. If you notice in the photo album how many of the photos taken on the same walk along Burnham beach do not have blue sky. Pippa and I were off to Clovelly, but as money is tight we decided to leave Clovelly for another time and go to Burnham-on-Sea, which was much...

Pippa and I have just come home from 3 days away with Mary in Sandford Orcas and Chris, Jeanette and co in Lower Langford. We had been promising to stay with Mary for ages and as we had accepted her wonderful offer to use her garage to store our stuff from Australia, the opportunity to stay at Badger Cottage presented itself. After a delayed start on Thursday morning we drove to Sandford Orcas in Dorset. Mary lives in Badger Cottage which is actually on Holway H...