NEW YEAR HELLO

Hello hello, it's a brand new year. Yay!

Last year was pretty ok..but this year is sure to be tops.

I tells ya, THIS year our endless renovation will be finished (and soon I hope ha ha).

Last year we lived through many the wonderful moods of renovation. Beginning with the fairly swift (it now seems) erection of our upstairs, through some months of bitter cold (no roof, no heater) to the disastrous leaking, not right size roof tile fiasco.

Towards the very end of the year we welcomed our lovely new heating, our spiffy new cooker and our too cool for school new benches and drawers.

Now there is only some fixing up to go.

I have been on the greatest and most relaxing fabulous holiday with the family and another family and that family's family. If not for the torturous drive home it would have been perfect. But that's over now...the drive, but not the memory of the holiday!

We went to Kangaroo Island.

We caught crayfish, made dumplings, drank lots of wine, went to the beach, on a cave walk, to see lots of seals. We did jigsaws, went fishing, rock hopping, swam with dolphins (or in a bay close to a pod of about 60 frolicking ones). We cooked toasties over the fire, we played Carcassonne, drank some wine (did I say that already?). We picked mulberries, walked up and down the rows in the vinyard, boogie-boarded.

Here's a couple of photos.

Back, back at work. It's good.

Floods, bad.

Buying two sets of new school uniform plus shoes, bad.

Shoes in general, bad.

Barefoot with multi-coloured toenails on the beach, good.