Hello there everyone, I know I've been really slack and haven't wriiten for ages I promise over the next few weeks to fill in the gaps and add some more photos to this site. Life has been very busy and lots of fun. I finished working at the cheese factory yesterday and had the first meetings at school today. A long day with Chapel, headmasters welcome, group work, teachers photograph, individual photos for our ID cards and then a couple of hours of talks on ep...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006! Dear everyone, I thought I should take this opportunity to catch up with you all and fill you in on my last few weeks here in Tasmania. Life at the cheese factory is going really well. I start work at 8:30 most mornings and mainly work in the packing room sticking labels on cheese and packing it into boxes. With the new packing machine that arrived the week before Christmas this has become a very painful task. The machine is brill...

Tasmania 4th till 18th October 2005 Flying in over Tasmania again took me back to when I first arrived here four years ago. It was a stunning sunny day at the beaches looked amazing, the grass so very green. The only difference was a few more areas of logging that seem to have started in the north east region. Elaine Blaxland was there to meet me at the airport and to take me back to their house up in the Riverside area of Launceston. They live on the edge of t...

Hello everyone, Saturday the 24th Madeleine and I took the train up into the Blue Mountains to stay with the Powys family since Madz had a week off uni. It was AFL Grand Final Day... Aussie rules footy is big out here we decided to do it proper and sat eating meat pies and drinking Boags beer (from Tassie) the Sydney Swans won in a very very close match, I think there were four points in it, their first win since '72! Wentworth Falls is a beautiful village...

It was a relatively short flight from Nairobi to Jo'burgh, we flew right over Mount Kilimanjaro. The peak was poking out of the clouds and the searing blue sky behind - stunning. The only other person getting picked up to my hostel that night was a guy called Nigel who happened to be from Hobart (Tasmania) so we had good chats about Tassie and our trips in Africa on the drive into town. Annette, Andrew Holdaway's friend met me at the hostel that night and took Ni...