Saturday 24th January

Sue's birthday! Happy birthday Sue, hope the flowers arrived!

Today is also the day my Solihull family are celebrating Honor's two years. Her birthday is in two days time, party today without Grandma, sending love, will FaceTime later
I'm hoping for more celebrations with Honor on my return

Being at Tim and Dale's home is so normal, how can that be? The other side of the world in temperatures unheard of in the UK, humidity to melt the human body away. Australian people talk about the weather too, they go into Tim's motorbike shop and announce, 'it's hot out there'
Yes, that's what it is at the top end!!

Pretty good rain yesterday accompanied by thunder. Austin loved it and the temperature dropped a little.
Have you seen the film Australia? We watched half on Thursday eve, the other half on Friday evening. Much of it was shot at The Wharf where we ate dinner last evening. The locals are 'proud' of their history in a strange way as it was pretty gruesome in places. The lost generations of children being so terribly sad. The prime minister in 2008 announced an apology to the indigenous people, that was important but doesn't take away the absolute desperation and heartache of that people

A little snippet

'Mummy, can you put on the airc?'
'What do you mean Austin?'
'Put the airc - on'