Fishing

Wandering Dunsborough

Even on a showery day, it's fun looking around the coast. We've climbed rocks, spotted camping nooks and found some possible fishing sites for when it gets warmer. All in all, a lovely day exploring.

Easter

It is definitely time I started blogging again. So, since I have missed the last two years of holidays, I am not going to miss any more. Easter at Camp Grace. The kids have just finished an Easter egg hunt which the camp people have put on for them. Church on the front lawn about to happen. Here's the view from the service chairs. 

Not a hard morning to enjoy an Easter service.

Bali Belly

It has been a few months. I know, I am pretty shocked myself, but this year is going so fast I am really having trouble keeping up! I was very excited because, if you know us at all, you would know that we had a big holiday booked over the Christmas holidays. Yep, we were looking forward to it. Yep, we were really excited and yep, nearly a year of planning had gone into it. There was one small oversight..... what is it I hear you ask....

Well....

It goes like this. Bali Belly!!! Yep, the dreaded lurgy. The one which many have suffered but we have never been afflicted by. Well, it decided these hols were the ones to bite!

So, three gorgeous week in Asia, unfortunately, became survival of the fittest. Bali, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Batam Island  - all a nasty blur. Few, if any photos taken, and virtually none of the nightlife sampled.

Incredibly, I found myself going to a back lane doctor in KL - never thought I would. Fortunately, after the second trip - their jabs worked. But, Shane, Eli and myself all succumbed to the bugs. Ethan proved himself to be a tough young thing, as he avoided it - he simply came up with an incredible rash- and felt a bit yuck for a while.

So, fabulous holiday - it was not. A change of scenery it was. But, suddenly, I am finding myself completely uninterested in booking overseas - Tasmania - you're looking good.

Anyone, want to join us?

Info about the fence

So, just incase you are wandering about my post earlier... on Friday night someone drove into our fence! It is double brick and rendered and, as you can see, managed to slam into it and smash it to smithereens.

Good points:

- Chris had gone home about half a hour beforehand. Her car would have been toast otherwise.

- Shane had moved the trailer up the back else wise that would have been wrecked! Along with his car.

- it missed Shane's car by about 50 cms

- my car was directly behind the wall. The bushes stopped the shrapnel hitting it.

Annoying points:

- I currently do not have a kitchen- the last thing I want is a mess out the front.

- I heard the crash.

- we leapt out of bed to rush to offer assistance to the vehicle occupants.

- we couldn't see any cars crashed on the road! Doh wonder why...Shane even walked down to the letter box - but didn't see the fence, we weren't looking that way.

- went back inside very puzzled over what we had heard - I knew I'd heard something.

- while we were outside, we listened to a very sick car chug down the road...(there goes the number plate) darn it would have been so easy to get...if we had just known. If he'd like to pop back, I can give him his light covers, mudflaps, wheel nuts... etc...


The whole left side of the fence has to go, pillar and all. It wobbles now. It is upright, but that is all.

I guess it was good they weren't hurt! Pity that we have to pay the price for their hit and run....

Our neighbour, two doors down, who also rushed outside, let us know it was a Ford Falcon ute when he discovered what had happened.

What still amazes me, is that his car still was drivable....it was sideways across the grass, dug out concrete on the footpath.   

A peek into Roman Times

Since today has been a fabulous day of discovery for me, I am going to attempt to load these pictures from some of my class activities in term two.

The students had an amazing time making these. I hope you enjoy them.

Julie-Anne

The photo from Ireland

I know you have all given up. Stopped reading and drifted away, but since I have just sorted out blogging from my iPhone I can now share you the photos of the magical shopping centre we found ONCE in Ireland.