No jet lag here

We're strangely awake in this time zone. Apart from being awake for an hour at 3am two mornings running we've had no problems at all. Odd. Perhaps all the switching times beforehand helped - see, I'm not so mad after all!

The warm weather continues apace - Uncle Wilf's sunroof now is tinged with red! My freckles are multiplying. And yes, we're being careful and smothering ourselves with suncream. Which is amazingly cheap out here - wish I'd waited. Warning - the rest of this is picture heavy! Click all for bigness.

Irene is back from Mallorca - so we've spent plenty of time with her over the last couple of days. She took us for a long walk along a white beach.

Then after a long and lazy lunch we all went to Yanchep Park - it's a national reserve and is full of wild animals roaming around. Chance for us to spot Skippy and friends. Don't think I'd ever seen a koala in the flesh before - and they were really hard to spot as they lounged around in the trees not moving a muscle.

There were kangaroos hopping around everywhere and we came across this group of ladies grazing and chatting.


Kanga and Roo posed happily for a photo.

Where were all the men? On the golf course!

Yesterday I walked over 17,500 steps - that's an Aunty Mabel record!

Today we've been to Hillary's Boatyard, which is a marina with plenty of shops, eating places and an aquarium - again a lovely warm day, just ripe for wandering round and people watching. We didn't get to the aquarium, we spent too long in the eating places chatting. (I know you'll be surprised about that!)

Fortunately though we shifted ourselves in time to get home for the most beautiful sunset. You'll have to wait until tomorrow for the pics of that though - they're on a different camera, it's 1.30am and I've had a mare getting these pics to upload. Bah humbug!

And Gladys (you know who you are!), look what I bought - the Australian versions! And I'll still be here for the December issues. Now we'll have summer and winter recipes for Christmas!

Not sure what we'll be doing over the weekend - but the weather's set fair, and we've put the solar blanket on the pool. Sounds good to me! Back again soon.

Greetings from Mindarie Keys!

Well, hello - or should that be G'day?!?! We're here!!!!!!

The flight was a piece of cake - I catnapped all the way in true Auntie Mabel style. Uncle Wilf on the other hand had trouble pretending he was asleep. Does that surprise you?!?!?!? So far so good on the jet lag front - though the voices of doom promise the third day is the worst, roll on tomorrow!

Would you believe it rained yesterday, but was still warm. We went out in summer clothes - the locals could tell we were English! Today is glorious. Blue sky, white clouds, turquoise and silver sea.

We've been out to lunch with the neighbours - retired sheep farmers, lovely kind people. Mr Ken's father was a medic at Gallipolli and survived. The family had his diaries from WW1 made into a book - complete with photos, hand-drawn maps and the entries just as they were written. We talked about the new cemetry at Fromelles too - and promised we'd send a photo of it next time. And Mr Ken saw Bradman play - he and Uncle W have sat watching cricket all afternoon. Some things never change!

Here are some pics. The first is the view of the sea from the house, the second is Mindarie Beach. (Click for bigness.)





Stay tuned for more adventures in Oz, plus details of how the Fremantle Doctor is affecting my hair!

Less than 48 hours to go!

Yikes!  It's nearly time!  Anyway we've got to go, there's no food in the house, toast and eggs have featured heavily this week!  Oh, and sausages!

A Wisp of Lime Green

It's finished! Like knitting with cobwebs and enough to make a saint swear if you drop a stitch. But is soft, long and...... suprisingly warm! Just what the well-dressed globe trotter is wearing this autumn!

It's been a few weeks

Time to try adding a picture.  Here it is!  Sunset over Appledore.

Fourteen days to Australia and our body clocks are in Tehran this week - 2.5 hours ahead of us!  So it's up at 4.30am and to bed at 9.30pm.  Hmm, that makes lunch at 9.30am - no wonder people think I'm odd!