So when I left you last I was just going to go to bed early as we had to get up at 6am to catch our flight to Tasmania. My plan backfired slightly when Susie logged into Skype and I got to talk to her, Mum, Catherine, Jo, Lou, George, Grace, Samuel and Joshua on the web cam! It was so exciting and best of all FREE! I managed to crawl out of bed and we caught our flight with no dramas. We then had to pick up our shiny hire car. I was a bit apprehensive about hav...

My first week in Oz was spent in a bit of a jetlagged blur. I didn't know how quite how tired I was until I saw the pictures of me at Verity's birthday party looking like a pasty tired eyebag monster! This is why there aren't that many pictures with me in... I met up with Kirsti on the Saturday morning. It was really good to see her after nearly two years of emailing back and forward nearly every day. We headed off to the zoo to see the month old baby elephant a...

Well I've finally arrived Down Under after a hectic but lovely couple of weeks since I left work. I didn't realise quite how many people I had to say goobye to, I know I should be used to it by now but I'm still not very good! London with the Brazil crew and Center Parcs with my lovely ladies and various meals with various people had all but wiped me out especially when sleep was being evasive inbetween. On Tuesday I left Portsmouth (sorry Susie for crying at th...