Ok I cant believe its mid-March already - where did those first 3 months go? I feel like I've been hiding under a dark cloud here in the UK since returning from our trip to New Zealand and Australia for Christmas and New Year.
It all seems such a long time ago now - and what a brilliant time we had. To all of you that are reading this that we spent time with - have to say - we just had the best time catching up and I totally miss you all so much. I wish you would all come and visit my wee house in Radlett. I'm hoping that my highly effective IT skills has enabled me to not send this invite generally out to the web - else I could be one of those home owners featured after one of their members of family advertise a party on bebo or something and end up with their house wrecked.
Ok so I'm waffling again....
Seriously though - we had a fantastic time. Arriving in New Zealand a few days before Christmas Eve, seeing my gorgeous wee nephews Max and Otis and my beautiful niece Dharma!! It was lovely to see my sister Helen and her hubby Dean!! Mom and Dad had been staying out there for 6 months and it was lovely to see them looking tanned and relaxed. We had a brilliant family Christmas and finished our holiday with a bottle of Deutz (NZ Champers) on the beach before taking a flight to Sydney.
We arrived in Sydney the day before NYE and stayed with one of my best mates Kathryn - she did a wonderful job of showing Phil the city of Sydney and we started the leg of the holiday in Sydney with a wonderful BBQ and of course some yummy Aussie sparkling shiraz. New Years Eve we were off to see Gina and Mark, Mel and Andy - Sooooooo much fun catching up!! Seeing Jordy again after all this time. She had grown up into a proper young girl - she was only a baby when I saw her last. Everyone looked so well and healthy - it put my chubby English - almost transparently white body to shame :-)
New Years Eve was amazing! Mel had talked this lovely girl who had just moved to sydney and had this fantastic apartment overlooking the harbour, to have a NYE party and thats what she did!!! One of the highlights of that night for me was seeing my old mate Vicks - who I miss very much. It was brilliant being out with the gang for NYE and Phil saw Syndey in the very best light - as did we! A night to remember!!
We had a couple of really fun days staying with Gina and Mark. Mel and Andy are so much fun that I hope that we can catch up with them again really soon! Then we headed down the coast to see my old mucker Vickie Van Heu - with her new beau Lee - or was it Stuey?!?!? Anyway - a gorgeous couple all the same and good to see that although Vickie may have lost her wardrobe of shoes, handbags and evening dresses she still has a hugely competitive streak and had the board games out almost as quickly as we could pull onto the drive.
We went out for dinner with Vickie and her sister Brenda plus the boys - that was a brilliant night - awesome food, shame the old man fell down the stairs - i often think about him and hope he was ok the next day! There is a picture on here of us girls, I'm the pale one in the middle :-)
Heading back up to Sydney we went to stay with me old mate Vicks - what a pad!! Amazing - minus the stalker!! I just wish you would hurry up and meet the millionaire that you're supposed to meet and then move out of that pad in the bush! It was awesome staying with Vicki and seeing Matt, Mitch and Jane. Vicks did her wonderful BBQ supper with all the trimmings - yummy, yummy, yummy!
We also had a night out with some very good mates, Paola, Thomas, Michelle, her bloke Trevor, Kathryn and Michael, Vicks and Gina - brilliant!!!! I hope if I can get this blog working properly I can put some photos up. Anyone know someone good in IT? :-)
Ok so that brings us upto the first week of January - I think I'll take a break, have a glass of wine and relax before writing the next few months worth of stuff.............
It all seems such a long time ago now - and what a brilliant time we had. To all of you that are reading this that we spent time with - have to say - we just had the best time catching up and I totally miss you all so much. I wish you would all come and visit my wee house in Radlett. I'm hoping that my highly effective IT skills has enabled me to not send this invite generally out to the web - else I could be one of those home owners featured after one of their members of family advertise a party on bebo or something and end up with their house wrecked.
Ok so I'm waffling again....
Seriously though - we had a fantastic time. Arriving in New Zealand a few days before Christmas Eve, seeing my gorgeous wee nephews Max and Otis and my beautiful niece Dharma!! It was lovely to see my sister Helen and her hubby Dean!! Mom and Dad had been staying out there for 6 months and it was lovely to see them looking tanned and relaxed. We had a brilliant family Christmas and finished our holiday with a bottle of Deutz (NZ Champers) on the beach before taking a flight to Sydney.
We arrived in Sydney the day before NYE and stayed with one of my best mates Kathryn - she did a wonderful job of showing Phil the city of Sydney and we started the leg of the holiday in Sydney with a wonderful BBQ and of course some yummy Aussie sparkling shiraz. New Years Eve we were off to see Gina and Mark, Mel and Andy - Sooooooo much fun catching up!! Seeing Jordy again after all this time. She had grown up into a proper young girl - she was only a baby when I saw her last. Everyone looked so well and healthy - it put my chubby English - almost transparently white body to shame :-)
New Years Eve was amazing! Mel had talked this lovely girl who had just moved to sydney and had this fantastic apartment overlooking the harbour, to have a NYE party and thats what she did!!! One of the highlights of that night for me was seeing my old mate Vicks - who I miss very much. It was brilliant being out with the gang for NYE and Phil saw Syndey in the very best light - as did we! A night to remember!!
We had a couple of really fun days staying with Gina and Mark. Mel and Andy are so much fun that I hope that we can catch up with them again really soon! Then we headed down the coast to see my old mucker Vickie Van Heu - with her new beau Lee - or was it Stuey?!?!? Anyway - a gorgeous couple all the same and good to see that although Vickie may have lost her wardrobe of shoes, handbags and evening dresses she still has a hugely competitive streak and had the board games out almost as quickly as we could pull onto the drive.
We went out for dinner with Vickie and her sister Brenda plus the boys - that was a brilliant night - awesome food, shame the old man fell down the stairs - i often think about him and hope he was ok the next day! There is a picture on here of us girls, I'm the pale one in the middle :-)
Heading back up to Sydney we went to stay with me old mate Vicks - what a pad!! Amazing - minus the stalker!! I just wish you would hurry up and meet the millionaire that you're supposed to meet and then move out of that pad in the bush! It was awesome staying with Vicki and seeing Matt, Mitch and Jane. Vicks did her wonderful BBQ supper with all the trimmings - yummy, yummy, yummy!
We also had a night out with some very good mates, Paola, Thomas, Michelle, her bloke Trevor, Kathryn and Michael, Vicks and Gina - brilliant!!!! I hope if I can get this blog working properly I can put some photos up. Anyone know someone good in IT? :-)
Ok so that brings us upto the first week of January - I think I'll take a break, have a glass of wine and relax before writing the next few months worth of stuff.............
3 comments:
You just make me miss you more when i see this stuff.
Hey I am about to buy my first house, all going well, I shall be a dweller of Waterloo.
Hope you and Phil are well, you are coming into summer so you can work on that lovely tan.
Hey Sarah, you are not that pale??? Awesome to see you again with your sexy man. We had a hoot with you. Hope you can stay longer next time. Love the blog, pity it went to all of everyone here in Aus ... I think your world party will be a blast.
Take care, Bren xx
So we are living the good life then, do you really not miss us all on the other side of the world.???
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