Dear Alison & Mike, How foolhardy are you going on a overcrowded boat.You ought to have heard Dad,You would think it was my fault for letting you be so reckless.

You should have had more sence and got off when you see it was overloaded.

Well i have passed on the message.Now take care only eight more week's .

Much love Mum & Dad

Hi to both of you,

sorry not been in touch but been busy with mum, she's not good at the moment so been visiting etc.

Your blog still makes exciting reading with the ups' and downs of your travels it is wonderful to see that your good sense of humour is still with you but oh my how time has flown. best wishes to you both keep up the good work

Hope you had a happy birthday yesterday Alison.

love

Dave and Jen

hi mr blant, hope you remember me, im jazmyn smiths mum. you wrote us a lovely reference when my husband was going for a caretakers job which he got thanks to you. we are back on the island now and jazmyn is at corn vermuyden. she doing really well all a and bs!! my little one evie is at winter gardens now just started. my dad used to come in and ask for jazmyn to have time off and you always said yes!! i cant believe where you are. how amazing to be doing what you are doing!! i bet its so full filling for you and your wife. i can see by the pictures you and alison are having a wonderful experience and make such a difference to the children there. good luck to you both and keep up the good work from jazmyn smith, evie and louise hooper x x

Hi there,

You must remember us !How lovely it was to see you mentioned in this weeks newsletter from winter gardens. We heard from Tracey ,whom we sometimes bump into in Basildon,that you where off on an adventure ,and what an adventure ! It looks very umm interesting and we can see that you are having a wonderful time. We really miss you at Winter Gardens,but life brings change and Courtney is now in her final year there so the 'end of an era' as they say. Hope the fundraising goes well and Courtney will 'do her bit ' on the non uniform day to help raise funds.We hope you have many more exiting adventures and it was great to catch up with you once again.All the best, the Spicer's.

Happy Birthday Alison for tomorrow. Hope the package has arrived!

Love Julie & Mark xx

At home today, feeling poorly with a nasty wet cold.

Read your latest blog and photos and felt a bit better, also treated myself by watching two episodes of BBC PNG Volcano. It is a truly wonderful and beautiful place.

Hope you enjoy your holiday, and get some fantastic snorkelling.

Love Sue

xx

Hi guys,

BBC iPlayer has deleted the downloaded documentry (before I had even watched it). The good news is I have recorded edition 2 and will look to record edition 3 next week.

Have fun Ian

Alison,now Ihave looked at the slideshow i have found Janet,i thought she was someone in the main picture.she looks nice and smiley.Mum

Dear Alison I cant beleive how stupid i am ,i have left messagers,but i have"nt been pressing the add message line,so very annoying.never mind i know now. Mum

Hi guys,

I thought as your time was nearly up - I would write a hello message! I am sure you will thank me a million for teaching mum to use the internet? Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and all other days can now be chat days :-0

Episode 1 of Volcanoes is available on BBC IPlayer, via the internet. You can watch it this week, or download it - its only 650Meg :-). I have downloaded it and will keep it till your back.

Have fun, sounds like you get the good, bad (and by the look of those photo's) quiet a lot of the ugly!

Ian

Thanks for all your messages and bird information and even the Tok Pisin Dave - very impressive!

Tried to uplaod the latest blog and photos today, but to no avail - think the site may be having problems - hence the multiple copies of messages appearing!! Will try later