After spending three weeks at Tweed, me with mum and Chris helping my brother Roger, we are now back in Gunnedah for December and the New Year celebrations before our next adventure in Tasmania. With one Christmas celebration behind us and the big one yet to come, there has already been lots of pressies, secret santa's and excited children. We have spent a lot of time with Josh and Ellie this month. Emma has started work now at a Childcare centre so we have bee...

So where did that time go? Christmas seems just five minutes away and we are already heading rapidly towards Easter. We had a good Housesit at Carrara, a lovely house and a beautiful dog called Jazz, such a character and a pleasure to be with. He loved being in the pool with us and really enjoyed the chicken flavoured ice blocks we made him for treats. My brother Simon and his family came down from Noosa to see mum before Christmas and we were lucky enough to h...

It's been a few weeks and a lot of kilometres since the last blog, where we were in Armidale after leaving the Tweed area. Guess where we are now? Back in Tweed and getting ready to do a Housesit in Carrarra for Christmas. But first a recap on what we have been doing since leaving Tweed last time. We arrived in Gunnedah and were very excited to see our beautiful little families again (any time away from them is always too long!) We had left our van at Gunnedah...

We did get our heater fitted, deciding on a diesel one instead of the gas that we thought we would get. In the end it came down to it's location in the van and the outlet exhaust point. We are so happy with our purchase, as expensive as it was, it was money well spent! After that, we headed to Caringbah where we parked the van in Betty's drive for 12 days. I used to work with Betty and have known her for as long as we have been in Australia. Thanks for your hosp...

We had a great time in Candelo at our housesit, enjoying the animals and the property. Chris was able to make good use of the Foxtel, watching lots of sport and especially the soccer World Cup from Brazil on TV. We explored the area, driving around the beautiful countryside with the green rolling hills that is the Bega Valley, a great area for dairy cows producing good quality milk and cheese products. We passed many fields of cows and sheep and had to smile eve...