Rock Climbing

Just a few photos of James and the boys indoor rock climbing yesterday.

Yorkshire or Oz?

The boys in Colac.


New Car


The boys on Torquay Beach today.


Me and Elliot on Torquay Beach today.


The boys are on their 2 week school holiday, they all brought home very good reports so all seems to be going very well at school. It's hard to believe that they are already halfway through the year. Jake goes up to senior school (the same school Elliots at) in January.

We bought a new car last week - a silver Holden Zaphira - a slightly better model than the one we left in the UK. It's ace and certainly makes life easier when we have visitors or the boys want to take friends out with us. It's an automatic though and I'd never driven one before, it turns out it's just like driving a 'bumper car', although James said he would prefer it if I thought 'dodgem' rather than bumper!

We've had a new super duper double oven and hob as well. And the best thing about it is that it's clean! Wonder how long that'll last.

The weather has been a bit mixed, cool and showerey so we have spent most of last week dodging showers in the park or going to the indoor swimming pool. Elliot has got together with several of his friends this holiday and Jake has a friend coming for the day on Thursday.

On Saturday we had a drive down to Colac. It's just about 40min from our house. The countryside looked so much like Yorkshire though, at least it does at the moment, I suspect in the summer it'll be completely dry and shrivelled up again. Colac was a fairly big town with a huge lake, surronded by bog land and there is a botanical garden there as well but the boys weren't interested in going in there. That'll be somewhere else to visit when the rellies come.

We've been down to Torquay again today, the weather was perfect. We had a good long walk on the beach with Banjo, followed by ice-cream and then lunch. We met up with some friends this afternoon, so all in all a good day.

James and the boys are going indoor rockwall climbing tomorrow and before you ask, no I'm not going. I don't have to climb stairs anymore so I'm definately not climbing up a wall!