My New Toy!

Well I decided to treat myself and buy a awesome camera!! I have always loved taking photos especially arty ones and also from high up in the mountains... however the cameras I have had have never done much justice.... but this time they will .... now I just need to go to places so I can use it!

House Boat

Today was house boat weekend! Sailing down the Tweed river for 4 days ahhhhh great fun!

Sy and I went with some of Sy's work mates; Jasmin, Jeff, Danielle & Jason.... the house boat was quite nice with 3 small (very small) bedrooms a lovely kitchen with seating area and an upper deck (Awesome) and then the place where we were to spend most of the time...... out at the back fishing!

Here are a couple of pictures:

Jeff the Skipper

Me the Skipper (well trying to be)

Jeff and Jasmine fishing off the back of the boat

Sy caught a fish!!!!!!

Jasmine trying to catch a fish.... looks like she has been there all day ha ha ha

Lovely sunset over the Tweed River

Jason caught the biggest fish (Flathead)

and here is what is left of the flathead the next morning!

Dropping off some crab pots in the tinny

Jeff catching a few z's...... 

Here is the boat we went on! 

It was a brilliant trip and would def do it again! Cost quite a bit tho so could not do it too often boo hoo...... I think the next time we would have to do it in the summer as it did get quite cold at night and in the morning..... brrrrrr.......

Holls!

After a good long Easter weekend, I decided to take the rest of the week off from work, however Sy had to work as he had a big tender to do boo hoo so here I am sat at home on mi own (and it is raining)..... bloomin marvelous!

So I thought I would update a few things and do a bit of house keeping..... in fact I may even take a trip out to the Zoo :)

Anyway, back to my blog...... over the weekend Sy and I had a BBQ to celebrate our Residency and invited quit a few people over and had a blast! This means we now pay less tax and can now buy a house instead of living in fester pits or next to bust main roads! (to get get a decent rental out here you are looking at mega bucks...... $500 per week.... thats about 300 quid a week)..... its a right rip off!

Yesterday I decided to get some false eyelashes put on lol..... they should last 2-4 weeks..... I thought they would feel funny, but to be honest I can not tell I have them on (apart from when I look in the mirror). Sy has been going on about me getting these done since I had them done on my Birthday (he really liked them).... no pictures yet tho, but I will try get some posted before they drop out lol xx

Now I am going to stop writing and get on with some stuff...... we have just bought our car from a lease company... they sent us a letter saying that our insurance was paid up until next year.... but like everything out here.... you cant trust anyone or anything.... so Sy did a bit of digging and found that we are only covered until 30th April 2011...... yes that leaves us 2 days to look for insurance! What a joke hey! Anyway, they are going to get a lovely e-mail from us :)........ looking on the bright side.... at least we found out now, rather than finding out after a bump lol ...

Chow for now xx

First Tomato

Woooo hoo our tomato plant has sprouted!

Now all we need is for them to get bigger and go a lovely red!

Where can I get some from......

oooh I like these........... saw them while flicking through a mag.... now where do I get them from......

Fair well Grandma Christine

Today is the funeral of Christine Phillips, what a sad day for all but maybe an exciting new adventure for her!

I could not physically attend the funeral as it was in the UK and I am still here in Australia but I did attend over the phone....

The service was lovely, Grandma Christine will be missed by a lot of people and has left leaving a huge mark on all of our hearts xx We will never forget you and love you very much xx

R.I.P xxxx

Japan

Today is a very sad day for millions of people, not only in Japan but around the whole world! I do not think there will be one person that will not be affected by what has happened today.....

A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off shore in Northern Japan (the 4th largest in the world since the 1900) causing a huge Tsunami which wiped out many towns and villages on the whole cost line.... what a very sad day..... thousands of people have died... whole families..... people are digging through the left over rubble searching for loved ones so they can lay them to rest.... I can not even imagine how this must feel, I just keep seeing the footage on the TV, Internet and in the News Papers at the whole devastation and all the broken hearted people searching and looking lost... where do they go now..... below is a link just to show what it was like before and then after...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html

It is very hard to believe such devastation could be caused, Japan have had many Earthquakes and have built to withstand then, however this one was just too big.

Not only has the Earthquake and Tsunami flattened the coast, but it has also damaged 3 Nuclear Reactors... 2 of which are badly damaged and now leaking radiation! There have been a couple of explosions, but I do not think we will get the whole picture until later.... just one thing to another...... if these things blow then.... well I can not even say..........

Just keep fingers, toes, arms, EVERYTHING crossed in hope that the Nuclear Power Plants are controlled!

R.I.P to all who have died in this terrible disaster, my thoughts will always be with you xx