So here we are mid January and still spending most of our spare time in some form of water!
With Christmas over with, the attention here turned quickly to the New Years celebrations. Alas, being new and with the same amount of friends as Billy NO MATES! (what's so different here compared to the UK I here you mutter!), it was a quiet affair for us, unlike our next door neighbours who seemed to have invited the whole of the Southern Hemisphere to a party on New Years eve....without telling us! It was a cross between the old boys trips to Taunton camping and an image of Greenham Common in the 80's! Not good!!!!!!!!!!
All went off after a couple of days and we are now back to normality....well if you call 32 degrees C normal! (that should make the whole of the Northern Hemisphere jealous!)
So the kids are still off school for another couple of weeks taking advantage of the sea, local pool and two anguished parents who will lobby Parliament here for shorter summer holidays in future!
Max takes his 6 foot (1.829m for the metric brigade!) down to the beach every second day to practice his surfing....much better than DAD I'm afraid!
T is just T and a chip off his mums BLOCK! (Nice try Neil....he apparantley is a clone of me....attitude and all....Sorry Mum & Dad for all those years of Torture...what comes around goes around!) T here is practicing his dive bombs...his back flips are most impressive! at the local pool which is attached to their school.
And after all that summer fun...food is required. My boys are very rarely fed, that's why the van looks so appealing!?! And before any comments come back on the Blog (not that many do....so that's a dig if ever there was one!), no it's not my new job serving chips and hot dogs!
And after all that fun....the beach to ourselves again!
Hope you all have a wonderful 2008. We are eagerly awaiting all our visitors soon. Jane & Peter from Australia, The Robbos from Feniscowles, Blackburn (will NZ ever be the same 'POST KEV???') and Helen from Chorley, who is escaping the UK for a month to come and swim with Clare in Lake Taupo....she's actually trying to avoid a mad woman from Next Generation!!! Hey V???
and our container which arrives here in NZ on the 20th Jan.....I need my bikes!!!!!!!!!!
Take care and more comments please
Senior Male Wordy signing off
8 comments:
Only 3 more days before the bikes arrive eh? That's only if you didn't leave dust lurking in any hard to reach places in which case they may have been confiscated.....Just a thought. We are all very jealous of your sunny, warm climes as life here is currently cold, wet and dark. And of course the lights have gone off at the top of the terrace anyway and Rovers are out of the FA Cup. I could go on but you get the picture???....
Yes - it is very hot at the mo - and I would be thinking twice about getting in the surf with all these recent reports re the sharks in our waters....bloody infested they are it's so bloomin warm! Watch out Max ( looking good on the board by the way!)- you would make a lovely morning tea for some shark!!
Good to hear you are setling in. Sorry not been in touch much - we have been dead busy back-to-back with the Balls/hols/Chrimbo/more hols etc. Promise to try and get over but will more than likely be in a few weeks ( after they've gone). Toodleloo - Mrs CB
Sounds like a good a good place there with great weather and a fab house. Wish I could swap from all this rain. All we see is grey skies. Bring on summer
Its obvious from the comments that us folk "up north" are thoroughly sick of our weather!!! Please send us some of your bright sunshine and blue sky.... please, please, I promise to put more comments on if you do!!
Can you remember whats in the container-it will be a great day unpacking.
Enjoy the rest of the summer
unlikely!! awaiting the updated manual !!
Love the blogs and great pics ....
Who are you trying to kid Neil...we can`t actually `see` the hotdog/chips seller !!!
Enjoy unpacking !!
All the best ..
hello
Sorry, didnt mean to send just that!
Happy belated new year!
life looks a bit hard, regretting your move yet?
Blimey, it looks great, I'm still in harrow, still looking for jobs, still dont know where we will go!! Think you had a very good idea! Its been raining here for ten days and the garden is like a mud bath!
lots of love to you all, shirley xxxx
Floods abound in the UK again, so we get floods in the summer and floods in the winter now, suppose it beats earthquakes tho'. Day after we can't open car doors coz of frost. Dead jealous evrything looks fab out there. Have a good '08
The Hulmes
p.s. Ask Tom to check his email he's got one from Adam.
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