Hi Chris and Luke

Lovely to read your news on up to date travel. How goes Australia? Auntie Jen, David and Evie are with us and the sun is shining. Here comes Evie she has found Jen and me in the attic. Grandad is fine and has finished his current chemo course. He has to return to hospital for check-up in November. More news later love from us both xxx Take care.

Hi Boys- the fish nibbling sounds wonderful. Hope it takes off in this country. I wonder if it would work with a bowl of Pike!! Luke if you get the opportunity to snorkel or dive with a whale shark off the Great Barrier go for it and lots of pictures please. Chris enjoy Sydney. Keep safe both of you. Love Mother xxx

boys i hate to break it to ya but Steve Urwin got stabbed through the heart by a sting-ray!

his zoo's still there though........he will be missed dearly.

Hi there guys,

Uncle Stuart beat me to it with the Steve Urwin comment. Enjoy Australia, even though it might be expensive, it's still cheaper than back home ! Plus, the weather should be warmer, but I seem to remember you liking the cold. Ah well, bummer eh ?

Also, I wouldn't relish bumping into Nicole Kidman. I must be the only bloke on the planet who finds her physically repulsive. As far as I am concerned, Tom was right to get shut of that, although I'd have done it much sooner ! Wouldn't have gone down the whole Scientology route though.

Anyway, stay on target, young Jedi. Great blogs, loving the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle education. If you get to Melbourne, go into the Hard Rock Cafe and see if you can steal Richie Sambora's guitar for me. They let me hold it when we went and I was in two minds two leg it for the door, but didn't have the balls to do it in the end.

I don't think England have lost to the Ozzies at anything recently. When we were over, England suffered a 3-0 loss at football (which they call soccer for some ridiculous reason). We were in a helicopter ride and the pilot was taking the urine out of how rubbish we played. My brother told him he wasn't impressed with the comments upon which the pilot took a nosedive to indicate he was in control of the current situation and we'd have to put up with the taunts if we didn't want any further helicopter acrobatics.

We quickly shut up and took the taunts as we didn't want to see our breakfasts rematerialising.

TTFN,

Dave.

Hi You Two Dropouts,

Glad to see you both are still enjoying the adventure,

Chris, if you want a new job when you get back you can come and work for me as an article writer, as I`m sure you will beat the hell out of some of the guys out there earning a living from it now.

Little Lukey Pukey, How I miss you?

I don`t know how I manage to exist these days without your presence in the house...I miss all those late night-early morning drunken entries when you try and force you way through the locked front door without a key, waking the neighbourhood up for miles around with your renditions of " You`ll Never Walk Alone " and " There`s Only One Stevie G " and then to have the balls to say " Me, I was as quiet as a mouse coming home, and I was in LONG BEFORE Midnight"!!!

It must be your twin brother again, you know the one who was found curled up in a little ball on the landing lying in some freshly regurgitated speciman that started it`s life as a Kebab...you know the same twin whoose CV you happened to have put your name on and are trying to pass off as yours!!!

Your mother thinks she`s lost her memory as she can`t actually remember giving birth to another son at the same time as you, still you know how she is these days, since she hit the dreaded 50, Bless!!!

As you know I have moved my office up into your recently vacated bedroom, much to the pleasure of your afore mentioned mother who has now regained the dining room table to use for such things as sitting down at, to eat a meal together...the womans lost her marbles!!!... what`s wrong with the old tray on the knee job or in your case eating it off the carpet in your bedroom after another session on the pop. I don`t know where she gets all these modern ideas from?

Also I didn`t realise we had all these towels in the house!!!

Imagine my shock when I opened the airing cupboard the other day and was amazed at all the array of coloured towels we had in there, I thought your mother had gone on a wild reckless abandoned spending spree!!!

She then informed me that they were all rescued from you bedroom!!! where they were gently gathering a faint pungent smell akin to all those sweaty socks and underware you used to leave lying around in piles on the floor, waiting for some passing soul to risk catching all sorts of unmentionable disease`s just to travel those few short yards to the washing basket...you know that large circular object on the landing?

And, as we are speaking about your bedroom...sorry my office!, I would like to take issue with you about your packing of your clothes and 'things' for storage until your return.

Now I know you had Adelle to help you get sorted with everything but I thought you might have taken a bit more care when you packed away Gloria, your rubber doll, and Daisy, the blow up sheep, they were in such a state!!!

Now I won`t go into any more detail here as it`s family viewing but I just wanted you to know that they are put away safely after some minor surgery and await your return with glee.

There`s not much else happening at the moment, I`m just about to take the dogs out and get back to watch the footie on the box, your mother has abandoned me to my own devices yet again for a few days. Still if she was here she would be just be telling me to 'Do some mans work' instead of sitting at my computer trying to bring in the cash to keep a roof over our heads...she of little faith!!!

Take care and I`ll speak to you soon, I hope you both enjoy everything you get up to...and I don`t wan`t the finer details thank you.

Love

Ted

Sounds all good so far.

I did post a message last week,but it didn't appear so I'll double up on my message in this one.

Good that you acknowledged about the World's Tallest Building. I must point out though, that the World's most annoying tour guide is in fact an Iranian American called Mel Sarraf who works the California Gorlen West tour for Cosmos!

I can confirm though, that after much extensive research, your Blog is The World's Best Travel Blog! Well done.

I'm sure you'll enjoy Australia (how long are you going to be there?) and look forward to more fab stories.

By the way - Steve Irwin is dead so I hope you don't meet him. He got stabbed through the heart by a stingray up in your neck of the woods, so mind how you go whilst snorkelling.

Keep it up!

STS

XXX

Hi it sounds like your having a fab time, the photos do confirm this. I am so pleased you have found a new mate to travel with, Donatello was certainly my favourite turtle.

Ruben was quite interested in the tai baby and kept wanting to look at the photo!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy yourselves and take care lots of love Leesa, Josh and Rubinator

I keep laughing and laughing at you two up the nose!!!!!

Keep safe

Love Mother xxxxx

Heya, looks like youve been having fun on your travels huh, Now when you gonna come to Soputh africa, or Durban to be more specific, that way you can visit your awsome Brother......and alex i gues:)

Oh yeah, by the way, Petronas Towers is not Worlds' tallest Building any more. If you include Towers (such as Toronto's CN Tower) the Petronas Towers are in fifth place. If we're only talking habitable buildings, Taiwan's Taipei Tower now tops the list above Petronas.

I'm sorry - but you had to be told! Those Malaysians will fill your heads with propaganda!

Uncle Stuart (keeping his nephew's world knowledge up to date)

XXX

You must stop keeping me in suspense like this. What happened to the cockroach?

Cool tattoos. Welcome to the club.

I have to say, the picture quality is getting better and better, as are the blogs.

Looking forward to the next episode . . .

STS

XXX

Loving the beard pukey, looks lush, keep it up x