A Message to Mum and Julia!! Mum you owe Julia a Mars Bar! She won the sock comp fair and square, now stop making excuses and cough up!! Julia apologies my mum is always making false promises to get attention...actually she probably did buy the Mars Bar but ate it!! Like the Guilyan MUM!!!!! Julia - I have one more full day in Sydney then am off to New Zealand - I am very excited - I have been reading up about it and it all looks too cool!! I will be sure to update the website to rub in how much of a good time I am having! Take Care Mel

Hello Melanie I have had a browse through your pictures and they look cool. Hope you're looking forward to going to New Zealand, it's somewhere I quite fancy going to. I have spent the last hour giving Bodger and Badger some much deserved attention since they hardly got any cuddles with Maya here. I think she quite fancied swinging them around like one of her toys! Bodger was sat quite contently on my lap and I was just thinking how cute he looked as he stared back up at me eating his way through a cauliflour leaf when I felt a warm sensation on my hip!! Gross!! Good time to decide he needed a wee don't you think! Enjoy the rest of your time in Sydney and I'll speak to you soon. Take care buddy love Claire.xxxx

Hi Mel I was just logging on to shout at you for not responding to my e-mail! But then read your very apologetic message and supposed I would rather you were having fun in sydney than sitting in an internet cafe e-mailing me. Although am hungry for gossip! I went to london at the weekend where I couldn't move for paparazzi after my debut tv appearance on soapstar superstar - bonus tracks hosted by Sheree Murphy! Got to see david gest in the flesh and a whole heap of hollyoaks actors (well actually just lisa, jake and ob) but that is probably as much excitement as one person can take in an evening. I'm having to screen my calls as the offers of similar tv appearance opportunities have not stopped flooding in since thursday - nightmare! Anyway glad to hear you are super-busy in sydney and have some friends to hang around with - good call on the opera house and well done for the tunnel shark thing, very brave. Hope to hear more soon. Take care. Michelle xxxx

hey mel!! just read your last few entries, sounds like your having a wicked time!! i'm very jealous! me, chris and owen are meant to be taking a trip up to newcastle this weekend, owens driving which means we should get there in one piece although he did threaten to let chris drive part of the way!!! oh and chris has a new car, a peugeot i think, so the voa is officially no more, i think he even managed to get some money at the scrap yard for it!! (miracles apparently can happen)! i'm going to try to go and see vickys new puppy oscar this week, i'm very excited!! anyway better go, missing you lots!! take care, lots of love, olivia xx xx

Hi All Thanks for all your messages recently! I will respond to them shortly - have just been a bit busy exploring the East Coast and walking around Sydney for hours and hours! Once I am up to date on uploading photos I will have a proper email session! Having a great time - missing everyone lots! Mel

Hi Melanie Glad to see you're still having fun, athough sounds as though you may be ready for a change of scenery? Am excited for you about going to New Zealand. Claire is preparing to say goodbye to her second close friend now in the last 3 months. It's sad to see that pining expression. There are many similarities between you and Maya, that sweet smell in particular! I hear there is a shortage of Mars bars in Aylesbury at the moment, they're very difficult to come by...?! Have fun in Sydney, and look forward to the Bay of Islands, its beautiful. Julia xx

Hi Mel - sorry I haven't e mailed yet but the computer is very poorly and has to go to St Andrew's Hospital on Thursday. In the meantime my laptop is very slow. I hope to have some time to e mail you tomorrow while I am at work. Sorry that my messages are not full of the Barbados humour!!!! but will try to do better next time. Love you and REALLY miss you. Mum xxx

Hi Mel, How you doing. It was good to talk on boxing day. Boxing day was not that bad I only took one photo album with me. The substitute Kenny sent along was much more interesting, funny and more attractive than Kenny which is not that difficult. Sarah seemed quite happy when I spoke to her the next day. I find that as long as I dont look at the photos of the Barbados holiday I can control the stress attacks. Sarah told me that Kenny keeps shouting out Miss Boston and Jacuzzi in his sleep I don't know what all that is about. The kids and Jane are fine and we had a good Christmas. I got Jane a nice necklass and she got me a pair of socks. Problem is I left them on the side and Alfie ate one of them. I should of sent him around to go through your ashing basket it would have put him off socks for life. The dogs are doing fine or as well as could be expected. Anyway must go Coronation street is on and as you know I never miss an episode. Love Paul.

Hi Mel - I am sorry that I have not e mailed you but our computer has died again and my lap top was in the office. I have had my typhoid injection and hep A !!!!! Yes it did affect me and I have felt rough for two days. At this point wished that I was meeting you somewhere where I wasn't going to need injections, 10 ton of insect repellant and stern warnings from the nurse not to eat anything (slight exaggeration). I hope you are still having a good time on the East Coast - watch out for that sunburn please. Anyway just thought I would let you know why I haven't e mailed you recently. I suppose I will have to talk nicely to Andrew again! Lots of love - missing you - looking forward to another phone call soon - love mum xxx

Hi, Sorry it has taken so long to write to you but since going on holiday, with your uncle Paul the therapist has advised me to avoid too much contact with members of my immediate family. It was only ten days but they have said it will take 10 months of intensive therapy for me to fully recover, they say there is no hope for Sarah and Jane so they are just on strong tablets to surpress the attacks. I sent a lookalike along on Boxing day as I couldn't face it and although the guy was a trained negotiator and had been through SAS tourture resistance training they had to admit him the following day to a specialist ward at the same hospital I am being treated at! I feel quite guilty when he cries out in the night begging the imanginary voices not to tell him any more stories about places they have visited, I heard him screaming about place mats and photo albums the other night. Any way despite my own troubles I am glad to see your having a great time and it was nice to talk to you on Boxing Day, hope you enjoyed your birthday and it was around the time you were diving around the reef etc,what a memory !! I keep nagging Richard about everything-but especially putting a message on this site,but you know what he is like ! Stay safe and have a great time X Kenny (Number 1 uncle, Godfather, and recovering lunatic)

Hi Mel, happy new year!! Sorry we haven't written sooner but I'm sure you know us well enough by now! Glad to hear you're enjoying yourself, Claire's also having the time of her life with her new friend (four legged variety). Car's still in one piece although it was on it's final warning when refusing to start the other morning, but after a long discussion it came around to my way of thinking! lots of love xx

Phew, good news about the sharks not getting ya...this time!! Well done for not sitting it out. I can only try to imagine what it would be like. I went snorkelling in Thailand and saw some amazing colour fishes but that wouldn't be a patch on what you saw. That was when the Nemo look alike nipped me. Remember? The little b***** actually drew blood!! Anyway, well done you brave girl.