goldens in oz

2011-10-07T16:10:00.001-07:00

2011-10-07T16:09:00.001-07:00

2011-10-06T23:13:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone sorry I've not posted for a while it has been a year or so since I posted anything well we are still in Adelaide. Its that time of the year again when we get home sick with Christmas coming.

this year has been hard all the kids are at school now so i spend most of my time on my own i have been looking for a job with no look i have started helping out at school 3 times a week and the money has run out so we are living on a budget this is the first time we have had to live on a budget anyway we have been here for 3 years now it seems like a life time i have just become and auntie to a little boy called Dylan he looks so cute this was a hard but happy time for me it was hard for me because i will never get to hold him because we can not afford to go home for a holiday and they can not afford to come here the kids are doing well at school and they have just started little athletics we have decided to have baby number 5 some time in the next few years we were going to have ivf because Greg had a vasectomy but we decided that Greg was going to have a vasectomy reversal so that is what we are saving for .

there has been a lot of illness around this year Conner has been ill on and off for about 11 weeks he has had 2 lots of tonsillitis ,gastro, and when he is not ill he is a pain in the ass he came up to me the other day and called me a hobo he is at the top of his class for reading callum still hates Australia and hates everyone he is only 10 and he is going through the stroppy teenager faze. i passed my driving test last year and i have not been pulled over by the police yet and I've been driving nearly a year yeah .

i had to drag all the kids to have their hair cut today because where starting to look like tramps and they have their school photos in 2 weeks they are on school holidays at the moment i still think they have to many school holidays when they go back they are only in for 10 weeks and then they are off for 6 weeks over Christmas they planned everything they wanted to do on the holidays they think money grows on trees so yesterday i gave them a sheet of paper and a glue gun and some pasta , lentils and rice and told them to make a picture that was not one of my best ideas i was still cleaning it up this morning so today we went to hungry jacks for lunch i felt stupid standing a the counter with a hand full of coupons but i got 4 meals for $19.80 yeah that was to soften the kids up for the hair cut they hate having it done hairdressers are so expensive here it cost $84 for 4 hair cuts and the boys only had a trim anyway that's it for now hi to everyone back home

2010-06-22T16:20:00.000-07:00

sorry i've not posted anything for a while but not much has happened here today is a funny day for me because connor has gone for his full day at school he looked so grown up in his uniform i hope he enjoys it he could not wait to go this morning i have no babys now they grow up so fast i dont know what to do with myself now i think i might look for a part time job .

heat wave

2010-01-07T21:10:00.000-08:00

hi its me again its to hot today its 39 and it's set to get hotter I'm not telling you that to show off. i have been looking on the Internet at the pictures of St Helen's and the snow and if i could i would swap places with anyone it looks so nice all that snow the heat is OK but after a bit it gets to much i think its because of the heat that i always seem to be ill i have had more illnesses since I've been here than i had in about 4 years in England I've had a bladder infection over Christmas and i have had 3 lots of antibiotics .

Connor is up to his old tricks do you remember this time last year when Connor broke the screen on the LCD TV well he has done the same thing again yesterday so we are claiming on the insurance again.

callum is still not happy here he is only happy when he is sat in front of the TV he hates going outside he says it always to hot.

Megan is growing up to be a little lady its her 7Th birthday on Monday so we are taking her to the pictures to watch Alvin and the chipmunks 2.

Caitlin is Caitlin she still acts like a 4 year old i think she does things just to get told off its not that we don't give here any attention we always do things together she likes to play makeovers so you can imagine what i look like when she has finished .

today is a special day for me and Greg we have been together 10 years today but it feels like 30 so i think i will make something special for dinner .

i would like to thank Pauline, rach,Steve, Chris for the lovely gift

it time to go again i will write some more soon

merry christmas

2009-12-22T19:35:00.000-08:00

hi all sorry I've not added anything since we moved we would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a very happy new year.

today is 42 its been hot for a few days now but its going to go down to 28 on Christmas day for me it doesn't feel like Christmas that's the thing people don't think about when they come to Australia that Christmas is a family time and to spend Christmas on your own its not the same and i also miss the weather believe it or not i can't cope with the heat some days i don't even leave the house .

it's also that time again SCHOOL HOLIDAYS it's the one time of the year i hate having the kids home for 6 WEEKS i love them to bits but they do my head in when we are stuck in the house all day because it's to hot yesterday they decided to have a pillow fight in the TV room and broke a glass so i gave them a job to do i gave them all a block of wood and tub of filler and some shells and beads and the end result was the 4 very nice pictures above so today we might make some cup cakes or maybe not 4 kids and a bag of flour ?

a few weeks ago it was the last day of school so it would have been the 11Th December anyway i picked the kids up from school as usual and we walked it home when we got in i sat down and fell asleep for about 10 Min's and i was woken up by Caitlin when i opened my eyes she looked like a ghost she was covered head to foot in flour her and connor had been having a flour fight in the kitchen i wish you all could have seen it my kitchen was white i have a grey floor and that was white the flour was every were anyway i've got to say goodbye connor is being connor again and i don't mean in a good way .

hi marie and phil how are you? hows the family? we will phone you again over christmas .

hi pauline how are you? hows the family? we will phone you over christmas merry christmas miss you all lisa

2009-09-30T18:13:00.000-07:00

hi we have now finally moved in to our new house we have been here 1 week and 2 days I'm glad we moved out of that other house when we moved all our stuff we found 3 red backs in the house. never trust real estate agents i think they were put on this earth to rip people off i spent 2 days after we moved out cleaning that red back nest before they came to inspect the house so that we could get the$2000 bond back and we were told the toilet was not clean enough there was dirt on the cooker hood and there were dirty foot prints on the floor but the thing was i had moped the floors just before she came in and the muddy foot print were hers so as of yet we have not got the bond back anyway we seem to be getting this house sorted everyone seem abit calmer here greg does not shout as much so i dont have as many headaches the kids have there own playroom and big garden and we are getting foxel put in there room next week so i should get my tv back and i might just get a bit of peace and quiet for the first time in 10 years. how is everyone doing ? here are some more photos of the new house the furniture you see in the photos are not ours .

2009-07-28T20:05:00.000-07:00

hi everyone this is the house we have just bourght we move in september 21 if you want to see the inside go to www.realestate.com
click on sold properties
click SA
enter suburb: banksia park
and it is Marsha drive
weather has not been that good we have had lots of rain it reminds me of back home we have been here nearly 12 months now we have had a tough time there has been more downs than up i just hope buying this house will make us feel more settled so far life has not been better here we have done nothing but argue over everything not just me and Greg but callum and Greg don't seem to be getting on . callum hates Australia he wants to go back to England because he misses his nans and grandad so everything we ask him to do ends in him playing up so i hope he settles in when we move. we still have days when we feel like coming home but if we did we wouldn't have anything Greg job is more stressful here i don't know how he does it i couldn't and to top it off a few weeks ago i was ill with a virus and ended up going to hospital to have a ECG because i had an irregular heart beat but I'm getting over that now .

hi Marie Phil miss you loads
congratulations Suzanne on the birth of your baby boy
hi Pauline how are you ?

hobby

2009-06-07T00:44:00.000-07:00

hi everyone this week i took up a hobby you will laugh when i tell you what it is i took up knitting when i finish if i ever do i will post a picture of it i must be getting old you wouldn't think i was only 30 i feel alot older thinking back 10 years ago i spent all of my time in pubs and club 3-4 nights a week i used to drink and smoke and now i don't drink or smoke and i don't go through the door in bed by 11 and I've started knitting that's the signs of getting old .

the house i was telling you about in my last post we missed out on it because the owner would not wait until end of Sept ho well we are now looking at living in Adelaide hill with all the snakes that's what Greg wants anyway i want to live in the foot hills near the shopping centres so i can get a job . Greg got a second opinion about his back it is not as bad has he was told hes not ready for the scrap Heep just yet but he still thinks he can get out of doing thing because he is a man his back is worse than everything a woman could have . anyway i better go and make the kids tea hope the british weather is better than here its winter and its cold and wet its like being back home .

may

2009-05-10T05:12:00.000-07:00

hi all things are starting to look up where the house is concerned we are going to see the mortgage company on the 18Th and hopefully we will have a house in no time it only takes about 6 weeks to buy a house here from start to finish

things are still up and down with the family kids are still playing up Connor is becoming out of control today he decided to put pepper in the butter give his self a bath in cold water tip all the ear buds in the bin and put toothpaste all over the window ledge and that's in between being a power ranger and fighting the bad guys (the bad guys are callum,Megan, Caitlin ) so you can imagine what its like here if that's not enough Greg has had a bad back and sciatica so its been like having 5 kids and i've been ill again i've been ill more time in 7 months here than i have in 2 years in the uk it must be all the stress i'm still not sure that we've made the right chose people say it gets better but we still get home sick at leased 3 times a week i hate weekend when gregs at work because i've not passed my driving test yet so me and the kids dont get to go to far away and thats seems to be when the kids play up the most so i have to tell them off so they always want to go back to england

march

2009-03-20T16:14:00.000-07:00

hi everyone sorry I've not posted anything for a while but we have had my mum and dad and Greg's mum over for a 2 weeks it was the the first time Greg's mum has been to Australia i think she enjoyed herself Greg didn't see much of them because work wouldn't give him have any time of instead he had to do more late's than usual the kids loved having them here but it was hard for them when they went home while they were here me and Greg treated our self's to two days away from the kids and we stayed in a nice hotel in the city it was nice to take a bit of time out of our busy life's to do nothing .

kids have finally settled into school callum has made friends he likes his new teacher Caitlin loves school Megan loves school and Connor is still a power ranger .

this last few weeks its been hard for me and Greg because the lease was up on the house we are renting this month and we were so we sighed the lease for another because we wanted to stay here for another 12 months so we don't have to move the kids as they were starting to feel settled but the new lease was only for 6 months so Greg signed it and took it in to ask if we could extend it to 12 months then to be told they the owner intends to knock the house as soon as they get planning permission and to top it off last week the coating on the bath started to bubble and we were told the owner does not want to spend any money on the house unless it becomes a health and safety problem and the other day was the last straw when harry (the dog) killed a rat in the garden we were all set for coming home because up to now we have had spiders, mice ,cockroaches , lizards and now rats all in 6 months

heat wave

2009-02-08T21:43:00.000-08:00

hi everyone since Christmas we have had some really hot weather 2 weeks ago it was as high as 45 they say it was the hottest day in 70 years it just our luck it happens the year we decided to move here we have not had much luck since we came here the house we are in we have had red backs and white tip spiders and now we have found a mouse I'm now just waiting for the snake to top it off

last week we were told we could only get a$200.000 mortgage you are probably thinking that's alot but the only house that will buy is one that's falling down the average house price is $300.00-$360.000 this means that we will have to stay in this house for another few years our lease is up in march we now have to decide if we are staying in this house or move on but moving on could be a problem because we went and got the kids a dog and alot of rentals don't allow pets so we might end up staying here and on the same day Greg crashed the car into the garage wall and damaged the car that day we just wanted to go home we seem to be having alot of them days but when we have a bad day we take the kids to the beach and that reminds us the reason we came here

i started my driving lessons on Saturday and i have drove for 2 and a half so far just another 47 & half to go.

callum as starting to settle in at school now he has started playing cricket at dinner times with a few of his class mates

Megan as gone the opposite way she hates school and her behaviour at home is terrible we just don't know what to do with her

Caitlin she started school and she loves it she is a pleasure to take to school she gets all her own stuff ready for school not like the others if i don't do it it doesn't get done

Connor is out of nappies and he has started Aussie rules this week he loves it he got a free ball and water bottle he starts play group this Friday he can't wait for that

Greg has had stressful days at work because of the heat everybody is going mad so he is fun to live with at the moment

and then there is me I'm just me plodding along trying to keep everybody happy i suppose its true what they say the first 12 months you will hate it in 2 weeks time my mum and dad and Greg's mum are coming over for 2 weeks so that's something to look forward to the only thing is Greg's works wont give him any time off when they come anyway got to go i will keep you updated

christmas is over

2009-01-09T15:22:00.000-08:00

hi sorry I've not posted anything sooner but Ive had a bad time over Christmas and new year everybody keeps telling me that's normal if someone gave me a plane ticket in the weeks running up to Christmas i would have gone back to England i think I'm getting over that now and look forward to what 2009 has to offer its not been that good so far we have had nothing but bad luck so far but it can only get better .

CHRISTMAS DAY

on Christmas day we spent it at home just us and the BBQ me and the kids were in our PJ'S until about 2 o clock the kids were really good they only got up at 8.30 and wouldn't open there presents until i got up witch was really good of them the only thing was when they opened there presents we couldn't get in to the living room for toys her is a picture of what is was like it took us all day to clean away the mess we are still getting rid of the boxes .

BOXING DAY

we spent at Helen and Tony's house just us and the kids we had a lovely meal and i had a few glasses of champagne and 2 glasses of wine and for me that alot as i don't drink and they got the kids a present Connor was funny when Helen gave him his dinner he came to me and said i don't want my dinner but has Helen got us anymore presents .

NEW YEARS EVE

was spent just us and it went down hill from there we were supposed to have been going out with a couple and there kids to the park but they canceled at the last minute then Greg ended up at the doctors you can just imagine trying to find a doctor on new years eve it took me an hour of ringing around to find one that would see him and at mid night we were killing a white tipped spider so new years eve was not much fun and i just wanted to go back to the uk

NEW YEARS DAY

we took the kids to the park for a few hours then we took the kids out for a meal and ice cream in semaphore it was nice to sit and have a meal with the kids when they are being good i enjoyed it

we decided to go for a trip to Murray bridge for the day it took us an hour to get there and when we did we were there for all of 20 Min's there is nothing much there and most places were shut so we had something to eat at red rooster then we made our way home and on the way home we spotted a wildlife park so we took the kids and half way around Greg wanted me to take some pictures of him so as we stopped and as he past the camera to me i put the strap around my neck and i felt something sting me Greg told me to stop being soft and take the photo he said it was my chain then i felt it again and again so i put my hand on the back of my neck and pulled a big bull ant off the back of my neck so we had to go to the cafe to get some vinegar to put on it so that was that we had to go home i had a slight reaction to it it always happens to me I'm just waiting to be eaten by a shark or bit by a red back I'm the most unluckiest person i now

this week I've started to potty train Connor for the hundred time on Monday he took his nappy off for a few hours but screamed to have it back on we have a green potty for him but when we moved here we woke up one morning to find a white tip spider in it so he wouldn't go on it after that so what i tried this week it was a no go so yesterday i took the kids to the shopping centre because it was to hot for them to play outside in it reached 41 anyway i was in Kmart and i spotted some wiggles underpants so i got him some hoping i could get him to wear them and then when we went to the till Megan spotted a wiggles potty so i had to get it as you can probably guess he likes the wiggles and now i Carnt get him off the potty and he only wears nappies at bed time

christmas is nearly here

2008-12-22T03:19:00.000-08:00

hi everyone its nearly Christmas being here it doesn't feel like Christmas and i just can't get in to the spirit of Christmas it is probably because we are used to the cold weather and here it is 33 today we went shopping for our Christmas food I'm not used to it being just us on Christmas day as we always went to my mum and dad for dinner and this year I'm doing the cooking when i cook for the kids and its not burnt they often ask if its cooked so you can imagine what Christmas dinner is going to be like i think we will have a BBQ and i will let Greg do all the cooking as BBQ are a mans thing .

today i woke up with a bad back so I've been on pain killers and lots of water all day i just hoping it better tomorrow i don't fancy spending Christmas day in hospital . for those who suffer from back pain if you get dehydrated that can effect your back .

callum got a Christmas card today from one of his friends in the UK this made him want to go back home but I've been having the same feelings over the past few weeks i don't like feeling unsettled and at the moment we are renting a house and come march the 25Th we might be moving on and its the thought of packing again and finding a new place to live i just want my own house at the moment we don't know if Adelaide is right for us and we have been looking at moving to Sydney in the future . anyway i've got to go its bedtime speak to you all soon
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

10 days till christmas

2008-12-15T03:07:00.000-08:00

hi everyone last week was the last week for the kids at school for 6 weeks the only good thing about this is i don't have to get up early to take them to school i think that schools have to many holidays you are probably thinking 6 weeks but yes in Australia there summer holidays are over Christmas . we went to our first Ozzy Christmas party this weekend with the kids it was no fun because i don't drink and i was in a house full of drunk people i felt sorry for Greg because he was driving and could not drink, i met a few nice people and some that like to drink and drive the police would have had a field day. yesterday we gave the kids one of there Christmas present it is a trampoline ever since i put it up they have been outside the reason we gave it to them was so they burn off all there energy and to keep them from under my feet for the next 6 weeks i have also started helping them with there school work because the education here is differant here than in the uk so the kids are behind with reading and maths so i have 6 weeks to get them up to speed its going to be hard but i think we will get there i will keep you up to speed got to go now . merry christmas and a happy new year it would be nice to see how many people follow my blog so could everyone that reads it leave a christmas message good bye
hi marie+ philip are you ok? are you all set for christmas
hi pauline how are you ? merry christmas give our best wishes to the family i have sent out christmas cards but today i found some that i forgot to post with the rest of the cards so i will post them tomorrow but you might not get them until after christmas

2008-12-08T15:14:00.000-08:00

2008-12-04T04:16:00.000-08:00

sorry I've not posted anything for a few weeks but nothing much has happened the kids are still doing my head in i know they are still settling in but they are such hard work more so callum i think he has become the bratty teenager abit early he is going through the everybody hates me phase he had a bad day today because its Caitlin's birthday tomorrow he wanted games for his DS because everybody gets toys and he does not but little did he know we went out a got him a PlayStation 3 and a 17" tv to help him settle in because he had to leave his xbox 360 and wii back in the UK until we can get it shipped over i know you are probably thinking that we are stupid and Christmas is only a few weeks away but its a good think because it keeps him and Greg form under my feet because Greg is just like the kids for doing my head in .

about three weeks ago Greg got me a car as i told you in my last post anyway i had to go and change my licence over to a south Australian learners permit all the info on the transport website says you can change your licence over if you are from certain country's and the UK was one of them on the list but nothing in Australia is simple i spoke to someone on the phone at the licensing centre and i was told that could get my full licence in 6 months because in the UK i had my provisional since 1997 and i got up to doing my test before i got pregnant with callum so with that i took my paper work in to the office thinking that it would be simple they would change it over and that would be that but that was not the case i had to wait for 30 Min's then i was seen by a woman that had never seen a UK provisional before so she had to show 3 other people before telling me that it was none transferable and i had to start from the beginning again but ever that is not as easy as sighing a form like to UK she wanted me to sit a test so i had to buy the highway code book from her and a week later i went back and another 30 Min's and 4 people later i got to sit my test i went to do it without telling anyone not even Greg just in case i failed it so i got took in to a room and sat in front of a computer Connor was with me he had just woke up so he spent the whole time screaming and throwing thing i dread to think what thought of me but even with that i still pasted my test so now i have to do 50 hours of driving and another test just to get my provisional 1 then i have to do another test to get my provisional 2 and in two-three years time i will get my full licence so if anyone is thinking of coming to oz pass your test before you come or bring proof of how many hours driving you have done from you driving instructor .

greg took me out for my first lesson last week on a car park he wont take me on a road he had me driving up and down up and down stop start i ended up giving up after 25 mins he was starting to shout at me it didnt help having connor and caitlin in the car and every time i stoped they took there belts off and wanted to get out the car and go the park and since then he has not offered to take me out again and to top it off he has offered to pay for my 50 hours driving do you thik he trying to tell me something .

i forgot to tell you connor has started to sleep in his own bed this week for the first time in 3 years he has done it for a full week and we are now trying to get him out of nappies but its like pulling teeth trying to get the nappies off him because he wont wear underpants he hates them and screams the place down if there is a potty of some underpants in the room because the first week we moved into this house Connor found a white tip spider in his potty so he wont go near it now so i had to go out and buy him a wiggles toilet seat up to now he has used it 5 times and that was only because i ran out of nappies so i keep my fingers crossed that he will be out of them by Christmas anyway got to go now if i don't write anymore before Christmas MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

hi Philip and Marie sorry Ive not got round to replying to your email how did your weekend go
hi Pauline how r you how is rach and baby
hi Gerry got your email this year Ive made a DVD for you all so that will be sent out this week
i will be sending you all some Christmas cards and DVD that i made myself of the Golden's in oz I'm hoping you will get it before Christmas anyway bye for now

2008-11-19T22:48:00.000-08:00

sorry Ive not posted anything for a few weeks but we've had trouble with the Internet because when we arrived in Australia we signed up with a company called telstra for the phone Internet and foxtell and ever since we have hat nothing but trouble with them over the Internet package we have had 3 bills in the since the 25th Sept bill 1 $39.99 bill 2 $127.00 and bill 3 $1014.00 and here they pay there bills every month so Greg has been in to the shop a few times to try and sort it out and every time he is told that the bill has been wiped clean but it still shows on the Internet that we owe it I'm shore that we will sort it out soon also we are not the only people to have this problem so if anyone is thinking of coming to Australia shop around.

this week we have had a few bad days both with the family and the weather on Saturday the day started off good we were going to have a nice day out looking for my Christmas present i will tell you about this in a minute anyway we were all set to go out i was getting the kids ready and next thing we hared a bang i looked up and looked at the TV and there was a big crack in the screen with it being a LCD TV it looked like it was a cartoon crack as we were watching cartoons at the time but it was the TV that was cracked so you can imagine what happened next it turns out that callum , Caitlin and Megan were stood in front of the TV and Connor asked them to move and they wouldn't so threw the remote at callum at this point callum moved and it hit the TV so that was a $1000 TV down the drain so we had to go out and buy another $1000 TV at this point i didn't want to get another TV i sat and cryed and i could quite easily got on the plane back home so none of them got any treats that day.

MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT
after the TV incident and i stopped crying we went and got the TV and then we went and got my present you will never guess what Greg got me ?

he got me a new ford fiesta its coming tomorrow you are probably thinking i didn't now that she could drive the answer is i Can't so that's my next job to learn to drive the only thing is Greg is teaching me you can imagine what my first lesson is going to be like he will probably give me one lesson and not want to give me anymore so wee will see i will keep you up dated with my progress .
christmas feels funny here we are not used to having sun at christmas alot of people here have got there christmas decorations up already back home we only put ours up a few days before because they didnt last very long in our house by boxing day there would be nothing left of the tree anyway ive go on for long enough goodbye
hi marie and philip how r thing i hope philip is feeling better tell him we are thinking of him say happy birthday to vincent for us
hi pauline how r you rachel and baby? tell chris hello

a few pictures for the family

2008-11-03T22:19:00.000-08:00

and here is greg with his new toy

hi mum here is the pictures you asked for this is my house

FIRST BBQ

2008-11-02T03:07:00.000-08:00

hi again as i said in my last post callum was going to his friends house on Friday he went and he really enjoyed himself on the Friday i had to go to school to pick Megan up so i waited until callums class came out just to make sure callum was still going and to pick his bag up he came out of class with his friend and he looked so grown up him and a few of his friends stood all together i don't really think he wanted me there showing him up but i suppose it could have been worse i could have kissed in front of his friends.
we also got our first BBQ and table and chairs i spent 2 hours yesterday putting the BBQ together nothing is simple in Australia everything comes flat packed and once id put it together it was a nice night so we decided to have a BBQ just me Greg and kids so Greg went shopping on his way home for the food the BBQ. the one we got is a gas BBQ so when we got it we got a gas cylinder as well so anyway we connected the gas cylinder to the BBQ and tried to turn it on and it didn't work so we tried everything to get it to work but it just wouldn't work it was a good job it was just us and not a house full so Greg ended up cooking the food inside so today we went back to the shop we got it from and asked about the gas cylinder it turns out you pay Kmart $40 for a empty gas cylinder and then you have to take it to petrel station and pay another $30 to get it filled so tonight we had our FIRST BBQ apart from Greg burning everything it was fine . this afternoon we also went to Megan's friend birthday party we thought we could drop her off and then pick her up later but that wasn't the case they invited us all to stay Ive never been so bored in my life but it was good for the kids all that junk food and fizzy pop and at the end when they gave out the party bags full of sweets i understand now why they got a bouncy castle there was about 12 manic kids running around and 4 of them were ours so you can imagine whet the journey home was like and to top it off i ended up with about 15 mozzie bites so I'm in pain at the moment i think that's all for now i will add some more soon . HELLO PHILIP AND MARIE HOW ARE YOU COULD YOU FIND OUT IF SUZANNE GOT THE GIFT WE SEND BECAUSE IF NOT I WILL HAVE TO CONTACT INTER FLORA TO FIND OUT WERE IT IS THANKS AND HOW IS LITTLE VINCENT DOING

HI PAULINE HOW ARE YOU ?
AND HOW IS RACH AND BABY DOING

thursday 30th oct

2008-10-30T04:39:00.000-07:00

hi again sorry I've not wrote anything this week but I've not done much callum has been invited to his friends house tomorrow after school and this is all he has talked about all week I've never seen him so happy with school as he is here. Megan has got her first party invite that is on Sunday today has been very hot i felt sorry for the kids walking home today in the heat i was going to take them home on the bus but because Caitlin was throwing a tantrum and we missed the bus and we would off had to wait another 20/30 Min's for another bus so we decided to walk its days like this i wish i could drive. the credit crunch is just starting here and house prices are starting to fall so we are holding off buying a house for a bit so that we can get a bit more for our money . anyone thinking of moving to Adelaide its not as cheap as people say it is but it is still cheaper they the UK on some things food is not cheap here before we came here we read alot about Adelaide in different books and in the books Adelaide was the perfect place to live but there is more to Adelaide than people think it has just a much bad parts as good parts don't get me wrong its a beautiful place to live but we are finding it hard to find houses in the good areas

friday

2008-10-25T02:22:00.000-07:00

yesterday we went into the Adelaide hill to gorge wild life park again we took Caitlin and Connor because we went when the others were at school it was a nice day out it was hot it was a shame Connor got bit by mosquitoes about 8 times we stayed at the wildlife park for about a hour then we was on our way back and we bumped into Helen and tony having a pub lunch so we joined them and had a meal today Saturday has been to hot to go out so Ive been stuck in with 4 manic children so you can imagine how i feel now Ive just put the girls to bed and I'm sat watching toy story the film got to go now i will add some more when i do something interesting . hi Marie and Philip how did the wedding go could you email me Suzanne's address so that we can send them something . hi Pauline how are you how is rach and the baby doing is rach enjoying motherhood

kids started school

2008-10-18T05:48:00.000-07:00

this week has been a busy week for all of us the kids started there new school it upset me on there first day i have got used to having them around for the the past 3 months i was a bit worried about callum because he is such a sensitive child the first two days we had a bit of a hick up with callum but by the end of the week he has made 3 friends and he was enjoying school but Megan on the other hand we have had a few problems with for the past 3 months she has been looking forward to starting her new school but when the day came i we had tears i had to leave her with her head in her hands i just wanted to pick her up and take her back home with me she looked so tiny but after that was fine for the rest of the week she made some friends too the schools are a bit different her than in the UK when a child first starts they are given a buddy to look after them and show them around i think is a great idea i think this has helped callum to make friends in Australia the seem to be very friendly we had a few problems with Megan last Monday because she had been off for the weekend she didn't want to go to school but it doesn't help when we have to walk a mile each way to school i have to do this 3 times a Day that is 6 miles a Day in the hot weather pushing a pram but the way i look at it its exercise and hopefully this time next year i will be 5 stone lighter .

big week

2008-10-12T03:37:00.001-07:00

hi sorry I've not added anything for a few days but it's been a big week for us Greg started work last Tuesday at first he didn't like it but that was the first day but as the week has gone on he got to know more people and more about the job and now i think he feels more settled.

with Greg going to work I've been at home with the kids you would think id be used to it by now but Greg has been off work for 6 weeks i forgot how hard it was Tuesday we had to wait in for radio rentals to come and pick some chairs plus it was raining that was a nightmare being stuck in the house with 4 screaming kids running around the house that has polished floor boards in every room that was a very noisy day

Wednesday i had to wait in for foxtel this is the same as sky+ in the UK it's the same price as the UK but it's not as good it has half the channels thankfully Helen Greg's long lost relative she has been very good top us since we came to Australia anyway she took Caitlin and Connor out for the day to her friends house to play with her children so i only had callum and Megan to deal with they both followed the foxtel man around the house to see what he was doing they couldn't wait until he had finished so that they could watch there cartoons

Thursday we went for a walk in to semaphore to the park it was a very warm day we had our dinner at the cafe just in front of the park and the beach i will add a picture at a later date

Friday i took the kids for a walk to the shops in semaphore to buy some buckets and spades for the beach it was a nice day out we went to subway and got some sandwiches and we sat at the picnic benches near the beach there were lots of people out today because it was a really hot day it was that hot i took the kids and we sat under the jetty in the shade and made sand castles .

Saturday today Greg was off so we went for a day trip to victor harbor it was a very hot day and for those that don't know how far we are from victor harbor it took 2 hours to get to it but it was worth it we took some great pictures take a look

2008-10-06T04:02:00.000-07:00

hi Pauline to answer your question there is nothing wrong with copper pipes but what the picture doesn't show is that the shower is not straight it bends to much to the right so water gos everywhere. today has been a very cold and windy day so we haven't done much we went looking at houses in golden grove we saw a house in a perfect location the school was across the road it was safe for the kids to play out the only problem was the house was to small. tomorrow is a big day for us Greg starts work and it will be the first time i would have been alone with the kids since we have been here as i can't drive i will have to think of something to it is supposed to cold again tomorrow i think we will end up staying in making play dough what fun that will be