Sorry I have not updated in a while I have been busy. I have friends here now and a social life and its sunk in this is home for the foreseeable future. 6 months it took but I am now at the stage This is home. I still miss the UK. I probably always will. I'm not crying when I think of it now. I'm no longer spending evenings on google looking at pictures of the places I lived.
So what am I doing? I spent a hell of a lot of time doing Easter things with the kids. Making bonnets in school for the parade. So cute but so competitive thank goodness I was warned! We also had to decorate hard boiled eggs for the traditional egg roll. Then each child needed to make an Easter egg model. I am all egged out.
The house is coming along nicely. I finally ordered a sofa. 6 weeks they told me. By my reckoning I should have it next week. I hate parting with money and not having anything to show for it straight away. It will be lush though Chocolate suede corner lounge. Downstairs the studio room is coming along nicely too. The roof is fat batted and gyp rocked. Hubby still has to finish plastering it though. I'm not holding my breath. I have ordered stickarounds for the kids rooms because all this cream is a bit bland. Paint costs a bomb here. DIY is not cheap. We need a b and q.
We took the kids to Blackbutt. Oh my I loved it and it was all free! The wombats are quite excellent and most amusing to watch. The Kangaroos are the boring small ones. I wont feel happy till Ive seen a great big boxing type one. I was convinced the koalas were teddies stuck in trees as the lazy buggers don't do anything then one scratched its arse and i felt satisfied they were real. Charlie argued everything was a doggie woof woof. Daniel got fed up looking at birds "we get in the garden anyway". Then we came across the emus. I am not liking emus much. They have beady eyes. They are to large and they smell. Boy do they smell. Kieron was not at all keen to photographed with them and informed me he does not want to be reincarnated as an emu??? Odd child.
Now to the weather. Oh lucky me living in the land of sun. One word. Balderdash, OK the days are not to bad. Even when it rains its still warmish. Early morning and evening though. Different story, I am to be found wearing knee high socks trousers a jumper and on occasion a duvet as a shawl and Ive even considered gloves INSIDE. Basically our house is a pigeon hut with windows. No insulation at all. I am considering hot water bottles electric blankets and thermal underwear all things I coped without in the UK.
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