Feeling neglected?

The children playing on Lighthouse Beach, Seal Rocks



George and Luke catching a wave on Lighthouse Beach



The cars on Lighthouse Beach, prior to us getting stuck!



Ian hunting for peepies (not sure if that is right or not, but they are shellfish!) with some of the girls.



Lighthouse Beach



All the children, with the exception of Zoe, who didn't want to be in the picture. Fair enough!



Some of the boys on the Treachery Beach sand dunes.



Treachery Beach at the back of the campsite.



Richard at the top of the sand dunes. They were 'kin HUGE!



Looking through the campsite towards the dunes.



Dingo!!!



Feeding the five thousand....



Boat Beach at Seal Rocks



Boat Beach at Seal Rocks

Oops.

I don't seem to have done the blog for like....a month.....

It's been busy you see.

We moved house. Again. We went to work, we went to school, we went to after school activities, we went to bbqs, we went to the beach, we played sport and we enjoyed the sunshine.

Sorry about that.

There is an evil rumour circulating that I've given up on the blog. Not so! I've just let life take over a little.

The thing about real life is that wherever you are, a lot of it is pretty mundane. Not much to write home about, as they say.

I could tell you about how I make the packed lunches every night, shout at the children about their homework/cleaning teeth/tidying rooms etc etc. But we could all write about that.

Nevertheless, there are interesting things to report. We went camping again - 19 of us (12 children OMG) in the Myall Lakes National Park at Treachery Beach. We saw dolphins, whales, dingoes (yes, real actual dingoes in our campsite - funnily enough, we didn't see many human babies there) and lots of bush turkeys. We drove our four wheel drives onto a deserted beach (and got them stuck in the sand, much to mine and Nicky's amusement, a sentiment not shared by the menfolk, who were digging them out....). The children discovered surfing down sand dunes - a sport they learnt about via trial and error, Luke initially surfing down the sand dune and into a tree, and luckily avoiding serious injury. The ladies learnt to play poker, and then this lady beat all the men (hehe). Obviously, as the weather was wonderful, I managed to get a bit pinker than I had intended. We took the children home happy, exhausted and filthy, as you should after camping. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

The children are now back into the final term of the year, which this time around is only 7 weeks long! They break up on 1st December and don't go back until the end of January. Lovely in many ways, but an awful long time to keep them amused, even here. Good job we have Christmas in the middle and a visit from Grandma and Grandad. Between now and then we have a flurry of events - parties, Anna's dancing show, Speech Day, Basketball presentations etc etc. Hopefully at some stage we will find the time to relax in our new pool and spa, and enjoy our lovely new home!

Before I end (and try to upload the camping photos, which I fear will be tortuous, as the internet connection here seems to be rather intermittent - as in whenever I want to use it, it is not working...), you should know that our resident super model has just had a recall for a Nintendo Wii TV advert, and will be travelling into the city tomorrow for his second audition as 'the nephew'. Fingers crossed - if he gets it he will earn enough money to pay for 2 terms of school fees. Lol.