Hi Viv!
Happy to know you're safely home and that you're enjoying a heat wave!!!!
I've given my liver a well earned rest since you've been gone...( it lasted a week) it doesn't sound like yours is going to get a rest by the time you catch up with friends and family!!! The day after you left you wouldn't believe it but I had a dozen bottles of wine delivered to school from the wine club.....just what I needed!! Darcy has a week to go so he's happy as a pig in --it - his words! The Crows continue to be at the top of the ladder with "Roo", No. 32 ( you have a photo of him) playing his 300th game tonight - he's the youngest player ever to have reached this milestone. Let's hope we can celebrate with a win. We'll have a drink for you at the Shed....... We enjoyed our weekend in Sydney - but again, too much grog and too much food for my system to cope with. Chris and Bruce will be over this week-end for a brief visit as Chris' Dad has been back in hospital. I'm still enjoying my flowers - most of them that is.
I do hope you are managing to settle and that your wonderful adventures won't dim too quickly as you get back to normailty.......Much love, Jenny and Darcy xxxxx

OOOHHH!! Didn't expect this at all........Well, in a way it's good to be home again. Catching up with friends and family, have a great time and talk to you soon!
Kirsten

Sure glad your home safe and sound and enough tales to tell till the next time...catching up on all yur home friends and ofcourse family. bet your Mum and Dad couldn't wait to get their arms around you and wish they had been with you all the way...have you got itchy feet again yet? I know when I get home I'm ready to go again within a week.Bruce and I hope you hurry back to Oz soon. By the way Jenny found a scarf while she was in Sydney and sent it to me Guess what pattern????? Love and best wishes hope to hear from you when you get back to earth

Kia Ora (Maori), Kia Orana(Rarotongan, Cook Islands), Ia Orana(Tahitian), Bula Vinaka(Fijian), Malo E Lei Lei(Tongan), Aloha(Hawaiian), Viv,

Just a few South Pacific Greetings for you! It's always a pleasant surprise to get emails from you. I hope the pub is quite fun, you should be there about now since it's 8am pst in Reno Nevada, it should be 4pm London time (I think). I spent the weekend in Lake Tahoe (east side, Chimney beach) with the dog. It was freaking hot. I'd swear it was close to 90 degrees farenheit (40 cels???). We went swimming, laid on the beach, drank a few beers, met some new friends (human and canine :) Summer here sounds like summer in the UK. There are lots of music festivals, nightly music at the parks, outside movies, lots of beers on the river, etc...you would love it. When you come to the US, you must come in the summer, and don't stay in LA. You should come to Reno and I'll take you around :) Good luck on transitioning back into life, and we'll chat soon. I'll send more pics later.

Aloha Nui Loa (big, grand goodbye),
Lancemankahuna

Welcome home Viv, great to have you back and can't wait to see you. Sounds like you've had a wonderful time and please, please keep your site live, I love to read about all the fab places you've been to and your adventures.
See you soon, Mxxx

Well you've come back to a freakin' heat wave - but the British summer means music festivals and that's prime VivyMac territory. So you'll slip back into all things British again soon enough. Welcome home. As someone else on your message board said "Nothing's changed" since you've been away. In three months time you'll wonder if you had ever been away at all, but then you'll begin to notice that little itch on the underside of your foot ...

Welcome home, you sly old dog! We've missed you... can't wait to hear all your news. We need to go a-boozin'!! Let us know when you can come out and play - we have a team night out on Friday if you're ready to face us all so soon! Lots of love xxx

Hey Viv, wow...welcome back, you were missed like hell!!! Maybe we can pencil in a time (that's when you've recovered from the jet lag...oh and the shock of being back in the UK and finding that absolutely nothing has changed) for a big drink and a catch-up. Talk soon. Jxxx

We need to go and drink beer. x

Hey Viv,
had a look, a good one, on the world map but couldn't figure it out.....I keep trying!
Take care!
Kirsten

Hi Viv It is freezing here and Bruce is out putting the last bits into the truck befroe we set out next Saturday for the Simpson Desert. Dad is a bit of a worry he is due out of resbite next Monday and I don't think he should be going home alone. It may mean another trip to Adelaide before we head off. Figi not your favorite place!!!Sure hope you are soon warm again and will keep intouch when we get back unless I receive mail before next Saturday....love from both of us....bruce and chris