We’ve not been doing an awful lot, some pottering around the local area and also a few bits of everyday general shopping. We’re now totally ready for that event on December 25th and have enough food to feed a small army (although we’ll also have to shop again tomorrow!!) Hope’s brother eats loads, as most young men his age do - especially the sporty ones and the children are eating more than the rest of us combined!!
The local area is very pretty, we’re in the Hunter Valley area in NSW and on Wednesday we went to the beach where the Pasha Bulka beached (Nobby’s beach) in the floods back in June. We got some photos of J on the quayside with a large tanker in the background that was only about a fifth of the size of the Pasha. Will post some photos later today when I work out where Jenny has them stored on the computer!!
The weather is about 27/28C most of the time, really very nice compared to what we left back home and very welcome. It’s been a long year and the chance for some sun and heat is very much needed. The children have been in and out of the paddling pool in the back garden and having great fun - today I think we may be going to get the water pistols out and stalk them around the garden then take every opportunity to soak them!!
Today my foot really hurts and is starting to bruise up, I slipped in baggage reclaim in Sydney airport when we arrived and ended up sat on the floor with myleg bent right underneath me. The good thing is that my knee can now bend all the way without hurting, the bad news is my foot really hurts and now all the swelling has gone down you can see the pretty bruises.
We’ve been going to a lot of raffles lately, the Christmas meat over here seems to be hams and they’re being offered as raffle prizes. The one Jenny got on Wednesday weighed in at almost 8kgs and that was fairly small.
I think that’s it for now - hope you’re all well and looking forward to Christmas. I promise to add some photos later today and we’re going to be taking some photos of Hinton (the village we’re staying in) so you can all see the local area and how the Australian countryside compares to the English.
