November to March....

Christmas:
Yes, this years tree has been given the name of old number 16!
Okay, so we name our trees...we also take our medication and the dr's have said this is okay... What are you staring at?



Abraham:

In the Beginning 
The "Tree Dance"



finished with a bit of a list.....( the tree not the photographer)
Our stay on the Mid-North coast was as enjoyable as ever.


Still a few to uphold the snakes and beer for Santa.... this was followed by "the Reading!"

"Twas' the night before......"

Christmas lunch

Haven't had so many prawns in so short a space of time.......
Trophy one more time went to the young one: Master Ewen

January:

A fairly uneventful month, we ate, Merle ate and  a trip to Aunty Jo's:









February:

We had a couple of beach Sundays for Boris to try out the snorkel mask with the inbuilt camera, there were war games going on on one Sunday and there were many more ships than this.




 


Then, we finally got an opportunity to go camping and test drive the new tent. We went to Pebbly Beach a couple of hours south of home. 


Our tent


Girls Tent

The Camp

All was good until 3am Friday night/Sat morning when we recieved 60 mil of rain in an hour, our tent kept out the rain, the girls found themselves wading in all 60 mil, so in they ran bringing much moisture and wet stuff with them , they were drenched, all their stuff was drenched......

Next Day:
sunshine and swimming at beach



There were some great rockpools





March so far:

So far March has only confirmed that my children are strange!

Which brings me to beer o'clock on this fine Sunday, safely tucked up at home below!



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