Well I’m assuming the daughter and family got home ok but I can’t be sure. As far as I know, their flight arrived in London 12 hours ago so you’d think they’d be back and settled in… but who knows what might have happened en route? I suppose it’s a bit much to ask that … More No word yet!

Nothing to do with fencing… don’t be silly! I was just looking at the blog from the ‘other side’ and realised how long some of the last few posts have been. I suppose that’s partly to do with having a lot of ground to cover… but maybe more to do with my not having been … More Long posts!

Regular readers might recall that a while ago I related the tale of how my father was finally reunited with the Australian airman who piloted the aircraft, and led the team he flew with at the time he was wounded some 60+ years ago in World War Two. To recap a little, when he was … More Lister Arrowsmith: sad news.

Not sure where to start with this so thinking it over. Wasn’t even sure there *would* be a wedding in the morning… the groom was a little ‘worse for wear’ for a few hours. Still he recovered and it went ahead. We had a reasonable meal at Centrepoint Tower in Sydney overlooking the city as … More The Wedding

Eager readers who wonder if the blog is still running after the jumps and starts over the past month or two might be pleased to learn that all will be well in a few days I’ll be back on the blog and it *will* be back to producing the usual rambling pointless and (occasionally?) amusing … More Only a few days more.

Too busy clearing and cleaning up to write sorry. This looks to continue for a few weeks yet. Still… nice to have family around eh? 🙂 The second set of rellies have bought themselves a small Toyota campervan and are beginning to organise themselves to set off for a year across Australia in search of… … More Still here!