Month: March 2006

  • Hiroshima

    Hope all is well with all you folks back home. I’m enjoying Japan. I love cute things and Japan is cute world magnified. You should see me in those toy shops, some serious regression going on. John got rather excited about all the different lego available, you can even play with it in store. Mega!…

  • Hello from Japan!

    For those that can’t read kanji that says ‘Hello from Japan!’, at least that’s what google translate tells me. We arrived on Sunday and currently taking it easy staying at Keith’s in Tokyo, finding our feet in what is a radically different place to Australia (unsurprisingly!). The journey here was pretty smooth and featured our…

  • Australia round up

    I know you’re all wondering what we’re up to in Japan but we have a few loose ends to fix up for Australia first. Here goes then: GOOD THINGS Wildlife. It was worth going to Australia to experience the wildlife, even if we did have to endure some other things we didn’t like. Here’s a…

  • Japan here we come!

    We got bored with Australia and booked some tickets to go and see Keith early. We’re off on Saturday! John’s researched the best airport sleeping spots in Hong Kong so we might look vaugely human by the time we arrive there on Sunday. (Mums: Keith will be in charge of us for the duration of…

  • Caption competition – We have a winner

    Congratulations to you all for your great entries. It’s been a lot of fun reading them! Here goes: In 3rd place with the startling starwars related sizzler: “He says his name’s Yoda and ‘Broken down my car is…’ ” It’s Dr Skiz Congratulations – you win, a birthday card – It’s in the post! In…

  • Sailing the Whitsundays

    We have just got back from a pleasant couple of days sailing the Whitsunday Islands aboard the ‘Ron of Argyll’. Unfortunately the weather was not with us and we ended up with 3 overcast days which meant that snorkelling could either not be attempted or was not the best. However we did have one excellent…

  • CAPTION COMPETITION

    A mystery prize is available for the most inventive and amusing caption for a currently untitiled photograph on my flickr site. The photo shows John making a phonecall under the supervision of an amphibious friend. What shall I call it? Get those imaginations to work! See you all after our boat trip! Viv xxx (No…

  • When it rains, it pours

    As Viv said in the last post the caving was really great, felt proper adventurous and jeez those holes were tight! I’m just glad that I had lost a bit of weight since leaving the UK else I’m not sure I could have got through, fortunately we didn’t attempt the hole named ‘rebirth’ – those…