Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve

I've just finished all my Christmas wrapping and wanted to give you all a very brief glimpse of our Christmas eve in Hobart:
  • Outside temperatue at 8:30 a.m. was 17 degrees celsius,
  • late this morning my neighbour was mowing his lawn,
  • my other neighbour's pet peacock came to visit us again,
  • we ate popsicles today,
  • we bought a 10lb watermelon at the grocery store,
  • the boys and I played frisbee before dinner.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Monday, December 15, 2008

A Month In Review

Well it's a little more than a month in review but I finally got a few pictures posted on this blog.

Yeah!!!! It's about time!!

I've been trying for several weeks to upload photos from our files onto this blog and it is frustratingly slow. I'd set it all up, choose the photos, plan the text and click 'upload now', only to sit and wait, and wait, and wait while our seemingly slow broadband connection would upload the pictures. It got to the point where I'd give up and walk away or go to bed (as I was usually trying to do this late at night). The next day there'd be no indication that anything had succeeded so I'd forget about it until I felt unfrustrated enough to give it another go. Even Martin tried a few days ago, seemingly without success.

Well then I found the 'drafts' folder for my blog and what was in there? All my 'attempted' uploads sitting waiting to be published.

So you'll have to scroll down a bit and read backwards. The postings are there with photos back as far as the end of October. I'm not going to go through it all again just to post them under the current date. They're published according to the dates I'd originally attempted to get them posted. This doesn't mean the uploads will go any faster now. It just means all my previous time spent is not wasted.

So read on, scroll down and have a look at the few pictures of our journey so far.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

. . . And Some More Pictures

Emily, Patrick and 'friend' outside the Sydney aquarium. Actually, I think Ethan is in the picture too but decided he didn't want to be 'visible' so is hiding behind the 'friend'.


Just had to take a picture of this 'rather' large sheep located . . . somewhere . . . south-ish of Sydney. I just look at the scenery - I don't actually ever remember where I am!

And here is a picture of the very first live kangaroo we spotted (not to be confused with the flat kangaroo we stopped to look at that led to the 'tyre puncture' I wrote about earlier
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Too Cute!!


This little fellow is called an echidna (pronounced 'eh-kid-nah'). I'm not sure what family they belong to (hedgehog? porcupine?). Just too cute for words . . .