Hi all,
Sorry it's been a while. I guess that moving to the other side of the world, both starting new jobs, uprooting the kids and sticking them in new schools, living in a one bed apartment without any stuff and horrendously expensive yet annoyingly limited Internet, has caused me a little undue stress which seems to be manifesting itself in extreme fatigue! Blogs will continue but probably weekly from now on.
The weekend was busy. Saturday was great. We had been invited over to a colleague's place by the beach. And I mean by the beach. Spitting distance. A less than 30 second stroll from the front door!
The whole family were absolutely lovely - great company. They put up with us whinging poms for nine hours! We had a delicious barbecue and talked and talked and talked. They had spent 5 years in the UK so we swapped life stories, which was very cathartic. The family had a spoodle. It was absolutely beautiful. He was called Busby - something to do with a Man Utd manager as the family supported Man Utd ( ok, I said that they were nearly perfect!).
After a delicious feast, we headed over to the beach - body board and frisbee in hand. I sat and watched, occasionally dipping my toe in the beautiful clear water. I suddenly realised that I had lost sight of both Erin and Nathan. Considering the pair of them are practically blind (and in Nathan's case, deaf as well), I started to feel a little concerned. After a while, I saw Nathan choking and spluttering and watched as Erin was dragged out of the waves by Nathan's colleague. Apparently, they were wave jumping. Despite both being very strong swimmers, they now have found a new respect for the power of nature. Mid jump, they were smashed by a particularly powerful wave which rolled them under and across the bed like tumble weed. As soon as they were able to come to the surface, they were hit again. They had no chance to take a breath before the second and then third wave hit. In reliving it, Nathan tells me that at this point he began to panic slightly. He had lost Erin and was struggling himself. He had no idea what was up or down. And all of this kicks off while I'm cursing them because I can't see them to take a photo for the blog! Hence the lack of photos!
Anyway, thankfully, they are both fine but a serious lesson was learnt by all. The sea is a mean bitch! She WILL be respected!
Duly noted.
After this, the girls had a go on the body board. They loved it and Becky has already put in an order for her birthday! I tried not to smile when Nathan had a go. Lets just say that the girls were more graceful. They made it look easy. Nathan was not quite so graceful. Nathan did not make it look quite so easy. Mind you, it's not easy, making something look easy when you're wearing a skin tight rash vest!!!
Frisbee followed. Now Nath had his chance to shine. The girls haven't quite grasped the physics of frisbee flinging and our friends were politely diving from one side to the other, desperately trying to hide the fact that my girls can't throw. For toffees!
After fun at the beach we took Busby for a walk by the lake. We came across a moher duck and about 15 fluffy (there's that word again!) ducklings. I have never seen such tame creatures. The mother allowed us to pick them up and stroke them. It may not have been wallabies or koalas but it was pretty cool regardless.
Sunday - not so much fun. We started by heading into town to check hat our new TV would be ready for collection before the foxtel (sky) people arrive at the new house. It won't be. We then headed to,office world to pick up school supplies for Erin. We got everything we needed, including purple, leopard print, suede sticky back plastic for covering books, except for the 5mm grid paper for maths. We could get 10mm, 7mm, even 2mm but not 5mm. Erghhhhhhh! We had to Give up,in the end and admit defeat. The shops were turning into the scene from Friends, where Monica is trying to,buy a wedding dress in the sale. People were prepared to fight over 5mm grid people. Not graph paper, oh no. It has to be 5mm grid paper! Gve me strength!
This was followed by a relaxing shopping trip to the supermarket. (Just in case you're not sure, I was being a little cynical then.) Once at home, the girls spread themselves on the floor with their homework. Nathan got the double bed for his planning and I took the dining table. Did I mention that we are sick of living in such confined space? I had to move all the washing up out of the way so that I could do the ironing.
I think,it was at this point, around about 9.00pm, that I whacked my head on the kitchen cupboard door for a fifth time. Suddenly, making sandwiches became an unearthly chore and I howled like an animal and experienced my first meltdown since arrival. I still had a pile of ironing and the planning wasn't finished. What made it worse was that there was no wine.
Still, not to worry, we had work to look forward to.
See you be t weekend.
Lots of love.
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