Greetings from Wales

Hi All
A very big welcome to Zak, Clare & Lucy. Just need to get those Mountain Isos into action now! Not much happening with us at the moment. The rain is falling, the wind is blowing and I have been sleeping the days away after working nights. Have worked three nights so now I have about four days off! Need to do some cleaning here though so won't be much of a relax.
We had a call from Julian's nephew Vince on Thursday evening to let us know they have been offered two sisters from Russia for adoption. They have been going the process to adopt from Russia for about the last 18months so are very excited. Jules is well and says"Hi".
Marty, hope the trip to Darwin was uneventful and you are getting organised.
Love to All
Moo xxxxxxx

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Hey everybody? How are you all? I hope you are well, and i want to say thanks to unlce marty for inviting me to the blog. School starts again soon and I am going to be in year ten!!!! how exciting!!!! Been spending the past week relaxing and reading, also trying to analyse further the ghost garden story!!!! (lol zacky!!!!) Shall look up more info on google and post a special ghost garden message!!!! Anyway thansk again for inviting me to the blog!!!!

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Love you long time

x x Lucy x x

I'm on

Hey everyone,
I'm on the blog.
No news at the moment.
Love you all
**Clare**

zak

I finally made it!!
Have a glass of wine to celebrate
Yes the OEA is completed, except for guttering. Hasi did a fine job, as did the labourer and the painter-me.
Considering it took me so long to blog on, dont hold your breath for the photos.
Thank you everyone for a very joyful December-considering it isnt usually my favouite month, it was mostly pretty great. I was so glad Jules got to hang out with us at Cunj, before he headed home, and Claire, you didnt have the hangover, but you were drinking with us too.
O.K 8.30pm just getting dark...
The beach was beautiful as always this evening, a fine chill down at the end of the day.
Love the long hot summer days-and the storms! Sunday evening was a beauty when the creek became a river in seconds, I love it. Like when you catch the todd river starting to run-remember that Mart?
My neighbour Stu -downstream from us (on the other side of the road) was telling me in the 1998 floods the water in our creek was up over the road, with sulo bins being hurled down it-he was totally freakingout...as you would be!
This time of the year, for a short time Annie and I are nearly the same age-how amazing is that.
Today my Feb edition of gardening Australia arrived. I was really starting to hang out for it this week-thanks Dad.
Hasi organised a new passport today-he was fingerprinted and a microchip with this and all his other details was put into the passport. Just in case you were getting paranoid...its real!
Mart and Claire-how exciting !! Good travels to your new home...Darwin here we come
Get me off this thing**

Love to you all, Zak

another year older!

Hello everybody. Back home again. Arrived home and Clare immediately went over to a friend's place for a sleepover- still haven't seen her today as yet. Went for a fitness assessment at gym and got a programme to do on the equipment and a lessons on how to use it. Today Steve and I have been looking at stoves to replace ours. We want a gas top and electric bottom- not many stand alone ovens like them but manged to find one at Harvey norman. we will have to play about $800 difference between that one and the one the insurance company offered us. We don't want to pay too much as we will be rebuilding our kitchen inthe next 3-4 years. We also need to get written quotes on our pots and utensils getting a little tricky cooking without them! Had a nice day yesterday. the girls gave me a bottle of champagne and the new Spicks and Specks interactive DVD game. Carmel came over and gave me a pair of beautiful earrings and the new book by Tom Kennealy- Commonwealth of Thieves. Jenny also arrived with another bottle of champagne. Boy, you'd think I like the stuff!! We then had take-away for dinner and Steve and I both too tired to go out for dinner. Anyway that's about all, hope your packing's gone OK and have a safe trip Marty and Claire. Love Annie.

Cunjurong

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Annie, Steve, Lucy, Clare arrived Wednesday and it has been GO GO GO since. Zacky arrived Friday morning and off the troops went to the Botanical Gardens sans Tjilpi who stayed at home to meet with the salesman re air conditioning in the back room. Zacky could not come up on Saturday because she was painting Hasi's addition to the back of their house. We're waiting for photographic evidence of the handyman's work and the painting job.
I visited Nana Saturday. She was in great form and enjoys bviewing photos and hearing stories of the 100th birthday party. Helen and Ron organised an article for the "Cowra Guardian" which I will post on the Blog when I receive it from Ron.
It is Glenbrook tomorrow, report and photos will undoubtedly follow if we can get Jack and the boys on the blog.

Kevin