G'day!
Last Sunday, my plan ( made a month ago ) was to send you a picture of us on the slopes at Thredbo. Alas, I left my camera charger at home before we left on holiday................say no more! However, if you click onto this link you will find proof that we were there and the smiles on our faces say it all - http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/photocard.aspx?pc=EB72FAE605CC5583E7EAFA789616FE0E .
This week's picture is of my favourite room in our house - The Bar. This was one of the first rooms we decorated when we moved in and putting up the pictures of previous family holidays and our individual histories really helped us in our first few weeks. The only bits of furniture / gadget that was bought in Australia were the cabinet which stores our photographs and the iPod docking station. The rest is all from home and should be recognisable to most of you. Treasure hunt time! Look for...
Bron's University Certificate
the tennis balls we got at the Australian Open
a hockey stick
the picture of Gregg, Jonti and me when we went to Austria 20 odd years ago ( tough one )
my bottle of Penfolds Bluestone Port ( impossible - tucked behind the extreme left hand upright )
We spend many an evening or weekend lunchtime in this room and it already holds many new memories for us.
Matt and Jen have a week of holidays left and they will continue to enjoy going to bed late, getting up late and generally " chilling ". I, on the otherhand, will need to continue to slave away ( all relative in comparison to my previous life ). I must say it has been a lot tougher with Maureen on Matenity Leave and I have found myself in the unenviable position of being a " No Man " which is not too good for the soul. But............................I continue to make a difference everyday and have to be thankful for what I am able to do and for what we have.
This weekend we have done some garden maintenance, recovered from a heart flutter when the Arborist gave us a quote of $ 9200.00 to cut down 7 trees ( I reckon we'll go one at a time ), I have had two hockey games of which I only managed to play 10 minutes of the first one before pulling up lame with a pulled calf muscle ( I was having a blinder and then foolishly tried to accelerate ), Bron had a night out with the girls last night and we went to the lunchtime birthday party of a new friend today.
The fire is blazing, I have half a bottle of Crown Lager at my side and I think I'll go and listen to some music in my favourite room.
Later.
Dylan, Bronwyn, Matt and Jen
3 comments:
Hello from sunny Durbs! The Crawford computers finally caught up with 2009 so I'll leave my message where you might see it this time! :)
Just came across your blog last week and have so enjoyed catching up on your news. We think of you often - especially with the difficulty we've had finding a new paediatrician for our baby girl (Emma surprised us all with her arrival in December 2008!). Dylan, you certainly left huge shoes (yet to be filled) in the medical community in Umhlanga.
We had heard you'd settled in happily to your new lives and have now seen the evidence!
Love the Wiums x
Love right back at you Wiums!
In case you think I've forgotten you - Nick, Amanda, Stephen, Timothy and now.............Emma.
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