It's been a while........

It's been a while...................

Blimey, it's been so long there's tumble weed rolling through here. So here is a bit of a catch up with whats been going on here.

Elliot turned 15 a few weeks ago, we ate out and went to see 'Night at the Museum 2' at the cinema, he seemed to enjoy the day inspite of James being away. He had money from rellies in the UK and an i-pod from us.

Elliot has now completed a semester at school so he now has a change in timetable and will be doing lessons in History, Marine Biology and Ceramics to name a few but it's quite nice that they seem to keep lessons varied.

Jake and Lewis are both doing fine at school too but are looking forward to the end of Term 2 in 10days time.

James returned from Kuwait and Kuala Lumpar safe and sound. He arrived home with Tequila in one hand and a kilo of 'real' Galaxy chocolate in the other, my kind of guy! I say 'real' Galaxy because the chocolate they have here that is supposed to be Galaxy is called Dove and tastes more like soap than chocolate!! I have, of course, done extensive research into chocolate here and have yet to find anything that is as good as British chocolate.

The weather here has been pretty cold for a good 10days in a row. Some rain, grey skies and flippin' freezing. Now the cold wouldn't be a problem if the houses here had heating in them but they don't so it has felt very cold and damp. It did go as low as 8degrees but fortunately it is now back up to 16degrees or so during the day and the sun is shining again. I did go out and buy us all electric blankets though - we've gone soft, haven't we!

Last Sunday the new Geelong Ring Road opened, the end section of which is literally just down the road from us. This ring road means you can get up to Melbourne much more quickly and will be excellant for people who travel up to the city for work every day. To mark the completion of the road there was an opening ceremony and you could walk a 1.5 km loop of the road before traffic was allowed on it. There were bouncy castles, a bbq, face painting and balloons etc, all provided for free. The press were out in force as the Victorian Premier (John Brumby) was there and we were on the telly. Now don't get too excited it only featured our legs but Banjo was very prominent. At the end there is a brief glimpse of Jake, Lew and Elliot. If you want to take a look Elliot has put the footage on his website, the link is here look for 'Us on TV'. There are all his other little animation films and a 'Mission Impossible' style film featuring Banjo on there as well, take a look and leave him a comment if you want.

Right, thats all for now, I'll try not to leave it as long next time!