We were away at the weekend with some of Nige's work colleagues and their families. We stayed at a wonderful farmhouse (owned by the parents of James, a work colleague) in Busselton. It took about three hours to get there but the drive was well worth it. The seat-back DVD player is an absolute blessing. When we arrived there was a glass of chilled wine waiting, and a wonderful pasta dinner. James and his girlfriend had even prepared me a vegetarian dish. Everyone promptly got the kids off to bed, so we could all relax with a glass of wine!With the weather being overcast and rainy we decided to stay around the farm on the Saturday. This was no hardship though, all the kids got on really well playing together, there was even a trampoline and a QUAD BIKE! Everyone spent most of the day whizzing around the farm on it. Anna loved it!
Then Nige decided to take our car off-roading, as the rain we have been having this season had made a lot of the tracks really muddy. Of course, most of the guys went! Everyone else just hung around the house. An hour or so had passed when we saw James running back up the track looking really concerned. Nige had managed to get the car bogged (I could think of a lot to say here ... but I won't ...) and one of the guys (Afton) had managed to step on a bee. Now, that isn't that worrying except that Afton is allergic to bee stings. Alan quickly jumped on the quad bike with his medication and went to find them. Nige had taken on the job as first-aider. Afton's wife followed in the car. To cut a long story short (I HAVE to get some paid work done), Alan got the medication to Afton and everyone was brought back in the car to the house. What about our car??? I can hear you asking. Well, this is the cool part. James pulled up outside the house in a HUMONGOUS TRACTOR. The kids were beside themselves with excitement. Anna got to ride in the cab with some of the guys and help pull the car out of the ditch. The car was OK, it just had some very impressive mud and dirt on it.
Afton recovered to have a celebratory glass of red wine, that sent him directly to sleep for the reminder of the day. Missing the planned BBQ we had all been looking forward to.
All's well that ends well...
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I bet it will take Nigel a while to live that down at work!! It sounds as though you're all having a good time over there, & well done for finding a babysitter with a cool name!!
We're planning our trip at the moment and getting excited already - only 8 and a bit months to go!!!
Let me know if you've got any e-mails from me or if they're stuck in cyberspace somewhere? Your card for Emily arrived the other day.
C U soon,
Louise
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Hi Louise
Great to hear from you! I know, we are so lucky to have a babysitter, especially one called Louise, the only thing is she has now gone overseas for 3 weeks. I was just warming up to the social scene as well!
Cor, 8 1/2 months will fly by, we are all so excited about you coming over. Anna has already planned all the sleeping arrangement ... her and Katy are to have "sleep overs" in her bedroom (funny that!).
I have been getting your emails. Have you been getting my replies? there's something strange happening to Bigpond at the minute. No-one is getting anything from me (even my boss, oops!)
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Not had any off you recently which is strange - I think Karen has though. I've sent you a long snail-mail letter in with Anna's card, so probably just repeating myself anyway!
C U soon!
Louise
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Hi Louise,
I did reply to your email. What is going on with Bigpond??? Some days it sends them and some days it's just too tired to do anything ...
I'm going to look into getting another email account with another company as this is crazy!
Everyone is thinking that I'm ignoring them!!!!
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