Australia Day 2008.

It was a really nice day and we went to Taronga Zoo.

"Lucky" the Possum.
We found the cat trying to kill a baby Possum, thankfully the poor little thing managed to climb the fly screen to evade the cat until we could save him.
We took him to the local vet, who is going to make sure he is ok before giving him to WIRES, a wildlife rescue org. Both Mollie and Joel loved having Lucky in the house and wanted to keep him.

Poor Joel has been in the wars recently. Next doors cat attacked him when he tried to stroke it. He had a really deep cut and blood everywhere. As the cut was over his lip line the poor thing had to have a plastic surgeon sew him back up, with an overnight stay in the local hospital.

This is the house we are hoping to build. The plans are being finalised and we hope to submit them to the council by the end of January.

Happy New Year.
This year looks to be an eventful year, with us hopefully being granted a permanent visa into Australia (not supporting the Green and Gold just yet...) and with us building our house. As if Iain hasn't got enough grey hair already.

Feeding Time.
5pm every day Mollie and Joel now have the task of feeding their new buddies.
They have quite a little club of them.

Joel had been practicing for his gym concert. They all had to appear in 'costume'. Joel turned up dressed at 'Jack Sparrow'.

We had such a fantastic holiday and it was great to catch up with everyone.
It will be a while until we return again, with us looking to build our house in 2008.
So it's back to reality, back to the summer and the beach.

The kids going crazy

Anne and John came down to Clare for our last few days.

Having a great time at the park

A nice picture of Toby

Libbie was desperate for Uncle Iain to take a photo of her shoes.... So there you are Libbie, your shoes are on the web!

I thought Mollie would miss the Australian weather, but it gave her the opportunity to increase her wardrobe.... women!

Back to Suffolk to meet up with Anita's family. It was great to catch up with the twins. Mollie and Joel had a great time. It was a shame it was cut short.

After two and a half years, we go back to see Iain's family.
Dad took me to see Leicester play and I was glad to see that nothing had changed - we are still sh*te !
It was great to see everyone and to see how quickly the kids are growing up - albeit a little heavy hearted to see what we are missing out on. Also, to see everyones glee knowing that Joel had a return ticket...

On to sunny Leicester.
After almost a week of running around Reading, we were off to visit the family back in Leicester.
Reading was tough in that there were far too many nice people and not enough time to see everyone, or see people more than once - so sorry to everyone who we would have loved to see more of - and a huge sigh of relief for those who had seen enough of us already :/