Hey Carina,

I have checked your wage slip, you were paid 17 hours overtime in your December salary. I guess that is good news as your email said to check for 12.25! I will post your wage slip to your Mum's house.

We did our sponsored run (walk!) round Pugney's on Wednesday, we had nice weather which was good & a drink in the pub after but Kimberley got asked for ID lol.

Can you believe someone posted my cards driving licence & money back to me. Amazing! It was just all in an anonymous envelope no note or anything.

Anyway, hope you two have a fabulous christmas love Shel xx

Hey thanks for checking it for me, not gonna complain about the extra hours!! Haha typical for Kimberley i bet she felt stupid!? How long did it take you to get round?

Lucky you got your money and everything back but very strange seems wierd?

Hope you have a lovely xmas, xx

Hi Daringdo and Tinkerbell, Glad you have a nice room now and that you have a nice bar to go to. Lets get the priorities right!!!I guess it feels very strange to be in one place for a while, but you will be off again soon enough. Had a lovely day today, I had quite a lot of errands to run, one of them being a trip to Asda. Whilst having my lunch there, I had a very interesting conversation with a young lady called Celeste who teaches pole dancing!! As I was coming out of Asda Dave Cantalon came up for a chat. He is really pleased that you are doiong "your trip", after all the times you talked about it. He looks really well, he is getting married next September, so he and his fiancee were telling me about that. I was introduced to his fiancee's sister and partner who apparently know you as Happy Dave. they are all stunned but pleased about your trip. Just to put your mind at rest, I am not going to the pole dancing classes!!! Martin texted me to see if I was ok and to find out how you are getting on. He texted once before., so he's keeping and eye on me. He and Stephen may be coming here over Christmas so they will be able to see your blogs and photos. Lots of love to you both. Hugs as usual please.xxxx

Hi, yes thing its best you avoid that erm shall we call it hobby!! DC was gonna do the big trip at some point he said but yet again there goes another victim to that MARRIED LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well UNLUCKY FOR SOME!!! Glad Martin and Stephen are in touch and coming for xmas, seems a bit better since they came and stayed late with us before I left. lots of love xxx

Just sent P to club so I could curl up in peace & quiet with a bottle of wine & catch up with all your news of the past 2 weeks. It all looks & sounds absolutely brilliant. Great photos & really interesting. Are you going to write a book after all this? Lanzarote saw the worst December weather in years so no worry about me spending too much time in the shade-you couldn't get out of it!! Even so, we had a great week of exploring. Small scale compared to yours! Loads of love to you & Norman (had to explain that to P!) Big hugs & XXXXXXX

Yeah we you arent the only one that hasnt had good weather. ours is now picking up luckily!!! we got your card today thanks so will be opening it on xmas day!! not long to go now and it still doesnt feel like xmas here at all!! Norman sends his love, hope you didnt drink all that wine at once. lots of love xxxx

i realy want you 2 come back soon or come home erley just for me how about that for a change of the year out of all of us love you 2 small pants claudia obviously especilay big mee

thats dave if you are wondering

we will be back before you know it, and if you are missing us that much come and see us, get on a plane and then you and big pants can go jumping off bridges together!!!!! xxxx love you

hello did you get my message last night o well it was just saying if u were okay or not

and happy christmas i looked at some of the photo's and Norman is in one of them awww but he looked like he was going to go bye-bye

xxxxxxx emilia xxxxxxxxxxx

Norman was ok he was being held so he didnt fall. dont think i got your msg but we are both doing fine. Glad you have looked at the pics we will be putting more on soon. hope you have a good xmas too, im sure i will be speaking to you at some point xxx love you xxx

got stressed about norman being balanced on the edge but i then saw he was being cared for . it was nice to see him again. looks a bit windy

Yeah we made sure he was being cared for, dont want to lose him!! We have got the cards from ac and gma so please can you let them know. Thanks. Lots of love xxx

hmm apparently i cant spell, soem=some and shopes=shoes. it was very early in the morning when i wrote it so im deeply apologetic!

I wasnt going to comment on the spelling thought you might get offended!!!

and his ears are blue like marges hair!! woop

It was too early in the morning for him to come out!!!! He was resting!!! oh and mum you will be pleased to know they have skype in wake up so we will have to sort out when we can talk. when we have paid for some more internet access i will let you know. xx

Where's Norman? is he not worthy of being in neighbours? we both think hed fit in quite nicely being yellow and all, oh no wait thats the simpsons!!! hahaha

Hi babes, just looked at your photos, they are truly fab. What a change from the dry scrubland of the outback to lush exotic plants and trees. The sea scenes are brill. It was a shock to see the grey cloudy skies and you two in fleeces. Are you keeping warm enough Carina? Bet you didn't pack a hot water bottle did you? Where was the fantastically decorated tree trunk and why was it decorated? How cool to be so near the koalas. I loved the water feature with the beautiful golden plaque thing on it. Well done, you are taking wonderful pictures and it is great to see you little faces up there on the screen. It is great for us to be able to see some of the things you are seeing. I have always been useless at geography but so many people ask me where you are and what you are doing, I'm describing your journey and telling them whereabouts in Australia the places are that you are visiting. Didn't know I'd be learning geography at my age. It's good, Mr. Granger would be pleased with me.!! So thank you.!! Love mam.xx oh, missed a word out on last message, Hope your "room" is good.xx

Yeah was very different to outback, big culture change as well, the cloud was the after weather of another storm! It was sunny but a bit chilly with the sea breeze but good all the same as added some spirit to the sea waves. NO No No room for hot water bottles, pants has to survive the hard way now!!!!!!!!!! Tree trunk was fairy tree in Melbourne park and not sure why but might have something in leaflets so will have a look, and yeah getting good with the pics now but had plenty of practice. Geography was not my best either but fast improving like yours, but id have more to say to my teachers on several areas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha Ha is the polite version! love to all. chat soon xx

Hi Daringdo and Tinkerbell, You seem to be having an interesting time sorting stuff out. Some good, some bad. Soon be time to say goodbye to the campervan, it's been through a proper adventure with you obviously! I hope your at the hostel is good and that you are looking forward to your stay over christmas. it will be nice to know where you are for a little while!!!! Ruth and Charlie looking forwad to their stay here. I'm goimg to see Bernard tpday, I tell him what you are up to and he perks up to listen and smiles. Am going to see two pantomimes after Christmas. Fortunately I am going with people who like to join in with the shouting "He's behind you" etc., so will have a great time. Look forward to hearing from you again, haven't looked at photos yet. Missing you both, lotsaluv, Hugs as usual please, Take care of each other.xxx

Hi, yes today was a sad day as we had to leave the camper!! We had become quite attached to the camper and as you said especially as we had done and been through so much with it, and in only 3 weeks!! First room we had at hostel was corner one and too small so moved to better one with HUGE window so is all good now. Underground bar called side bar is cool with happy hours and party nights and stuff so all togehter seems a good place. Not sure about this been settled in one place though!!! Glad something cheers Grandad up, at least you wont run out of things to tell him. Not planning any pantos here but they do an open air moonlight cinema in the park so might give that a whirl one night. xx

well, i looked at soem flights to come and get my shopes back and they were fairly cheap so who knows i might be jumping out on you at any time!! dads orite now, still not 100% but better! hows the back holding out?!!

love love

x x

Where have you been looking at and when? Glad Dad is better he sounded awful, please tell him to get on here and put some comments on!! xx