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hi just a quickie to try and post a video of michael and murrae yesterday. am not sure if i have done it properly!!!

sorry dad

well tonight is sunday and i talked to my daddy. i got told off for not updating this often enough! (well not really!! but he did comment there was nothing new!!) its been hot hot hot here!! this week the temperature has tipped the scales in the 42 degree mark. now anyone who has ever experienced this will know that its stifling!!! i walked to the end of the drive in the afternoon and the streets were deserted!! no sounds of laughter from the bowling club, no cars and no people!!! all you could hear were the birds and the steady hum of hundreds of air conditioning units!!!! monday was labour day and of course i was working!!!! after work michael picked me up and we went to gordon and barbs. the kids of course were straight in the pool and we kicked back with some champers. it was a lovely way to unwind from work!! the kids also made use of the very delightful spa with lots of bubbles!!! stevi has been heading to the beach after school and making the most of the laid back lifestyle here in beautiful sunny perth. murrae the poor boy unfortunately has been affected by the heat the most and we found him asleep on the couch one morning with the air con full blast! he comes in from school with sweat pouring down his little chubby very very red face!!! stevi when not heading for the beach, throws herself on the couch and cranks up the air con! the bliss of working in a fully airconditioned hospital is not lost on me, poor michael has no aircon where he is working!! yesterday we bought a new camera, its fab. 7.1 mega pixels and 10 x zoom AND its got a video and audio feature so watch out i may be posting videos in the future!!! i have been playing with it all day, taking pics of everything that moves and stuff that doesnt!!! the one of michael is of him outside his work and the lizard thingy was on the decking at dave and mechelles today!! mikey has applied to continue his apprenticeship and spent the day at a training centre doing the safety stuff. the freebies he came home with were fantastic, he got safety sunglasses for summer, clear ones for winter, a very fetching sun hat, sunscreen, gloves and earplugs, oh and a pen and a free lunch!!! i will try and post some of the pics i took with his gear on and his boxers!! and last night i went out with nat and joe! i didnt take any pics which is probably just as well!!! we did a couple of tequilla slammers and nat is well out of practice so one minute she was pleasantly tipsy then next totally shitfaced!!! well now i guess that means i actually told my dad a lie tonight when i said that i hadnt been doing anything!!!! SORRY DADDY!!!

A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO LYNN AND ALEX ON THE BIRTH OF BABY BEN!!!!!!

A HUGE THANKS TO SUSAN AND HER MUMMY FOR PROVIDING ME WITH CHOCOLATE AND WALKERS CHEESE AND ONION CRISPS!!

such a slacker

well i know that i have been a bit of a slacker when it comes to the blog but i havent been up to much lately, the weather is changing and i'm kind of used to living in the sun now. it just means that i dont rush to the beach or get desperate to get outside at the very hint of sunlight!!! well rhona and rob have gone on the rest of their travels. i think i have already told you guys about the wildlife park but we went to rottnest island also. now nat has taken the kids there already and murrae has been with friends but it was my first time. it is a lovely place, perfect for snorkelling apparently! not for me i think!!! my body couldnt get past the survial reaction of panic when my face was underwater. it was also a bit choppy that day and i not being the best of swimmers was getting pulled out to sea and when i tried to get back in found that i couldnt reach the bottom!!!! even more panic!!!!!!!!!! maybe will give it a try another time in a calm swimming pool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we also went to fremantle prison for the torchlight tour, it was really good and i really enjoyed their little surprises!!! until............. they took us up some stairs on to the 2nd or 3rd floor. now anyone who knows me knows that i am terrified of heights!!! its a very narrow walkway with just a few flimsy pieces of wire that held us back from plummeting to our deaths on the hall way below!!! now no fun in the daylight, never bloody mind in the dark with torches!! luckily michael remembered how scared i get and made sure there was enough room for me to slide flat along the wall whilst hanging on to him hyperventilating! stevi however, just gave me a look of pure and utter disgust!! the little bitch!!! just wait til we do something that she has a phobia about!!!!! all in all the tour was very good and very good value for money, we were in there for about 2 hours and it only cost us $49 (£20) for a family ticket. the next night we went to see snow patrol!!! it was a brilliant concert and they are coming back in september so i will be eagerly awaiting ticket sales!!! i tried with my crap camera to take some pics but alas crap camera = crap pics!!!!! natalie took some good ones and she also videoed some of it!!! she has promised me copies but she is a worse slacker than me so i wait with baited breath!!! she also managed to get shitfaced????? we couldnt understand why she was so wasted and we werent!!! then it transpires that when she was going to the bar she was having sneakies!!!!!!! so thats about all i have done apart from eat, work and try to sleep in thlast couple of weeks!!!!