Photos

My friend Pippi just sent me some wonderful pictures of herr sons. Her husband is a very good photographer and takes beautiful pictures. Anyway, my reflection is how amazing it is when 2 people you know have kids, to see what they got from each of them. Like little reflections of their parents that you know .you wonder what they are going to look like and more so, what they are going to be like as adults. I can't wait to see it!

Rain

The skies are open. It is bucketing down! 

The previous post was to remind me of our wonderful holiday (no rain!) and our morning walks on the beach. I want to go back!!!! 

Morning walk on Blueys Beach

Dragon tattoo

On the weekend we went to see the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Brilliant! J thought the swedish version was just as good, but I am biased. The swedish version of Mikael Blomkvist I think is better than Daniel Craig however Salander is better in he english version. Over all let's just put out there, this version had a bigger budget, excellent filmed, and the attention to details great. The story is disturbing and leaves you thinking about human rights. The book is calles "Men who hates women" in swedish. That really gives a better idea of the message but I guess "the girl ith he dragon tattoo" is less offensive for some....
 The point is - if you have not seen - book tickets and go t he cinema!

The floods

Just finished watching a progrm on National Geographic about the freak of nature that happened last January in QLD. The footage from ppls mobile phones, their stories, the genuine   and fabulous help during the clean up. It was all too moving and I am now sitting here crying and thinking of all the families that were affected by this. How terrible!

Holiday

I have been quiet over the Christmas and NY period. I had planned to be in touch, to update you regularly on our escapades. That did not happen...
We drove to Sydney and then got extremely busy... Saw all our friends and we both loved that. We really do miss them all... Of course every time we see them is followed by the discussion ‘do we need to live in Sydney’... Oh well we will see – and no we are not moving this year! We are happy to stand still here for a while... We saw The North Shore Bunch and also the Eastern Suburbs mob. Luke and Mia’s wedding on the 28^th was fabulous, walks in Vaucluse, dinners and coffees galore. Maybe in hindsight Sydney was a bit too busy... However we loved seeing all our friends so was all worth it. Then we went to Smith’s Lake and just chilled out and did sweet nothing. This really was the relaxing part of the holiday. Reading, walks, good food and wine (we popped into Hunter Valley on the way up!) and lots of talking about the year ahead. This year is going to be a great year for us!!!
Over the next week or so I promise to update you on what we did over the hols. x

Kong Wubba

The best xmas pressie for this chick was the KONG WUBBA. No I am not kidding, that is the name of the toy..
It squeeks so it drives you nuts, but she loves it. I think today she has entertianed herself for about 2-3 hours, just chewing and tossing the Kong around!