- News from Australia -

Dec 2013 to Jan 2014

Christmas 2013 and New Year 2014 - UK and Penang

Back at Withy Spring - cold here!

Tree preparations. Nobody admitted to knocking it over later...

Covent Garden!

Covent Garden festivities

On the bus, Oxford Street all lit up

Out on Farnham Common

Oli finds some ice glass

Christmas eve bedtime stories

Mug painting for presents

Breakfast champagnes

Mike and Mary and the painting

Daddy and Daniel build a plane

Many many hours later!

ice skating. Katie and Lotty tow/lift Daniel

Mike blasts around the track to the tune of 'Dont stop me now'

Pip apres ice skating

At the rink

Hands around the tree in Farnham common

At Steves place

Flying the model helicopter

Grandad and Daniel drawing planes over dinner

At Susies, making the gingerbread house and biscuits

Susie plays in the local pub

Not the cleverest of cats

A game of snake.... remember that?

Out on the moors near Susie in Chagford

With Liz in Chagford

Huge painting of a grubby Daniel camping, painted by Susie

Out walking - Widdicombe on the Moor, I think.

Fossil hunting in Lyme Regis

Great ammonites in the rock

Oli with Steve and Hazel

At Johnny F's place with Sarah Cahoon

Painting would not fit in the tiny Juke. Novel solution needed!

At the Bayview Hotel, Penang

Huge beds and pillows made great dens

Daniel playing in the hotel water park

Under the tipping buckets

Beach on the hotel front

Yeng Keng Hotel, Georgetown, Penang

In the pool at the Yeng Keng

Butterfly farm

Butterfly farm

Oli with the A380 of moths

Beautiful flowers and butterflies

Feeding new hatchlings after everyone else went home

Snakes and Ladders - on a grand scale

In the Spice gardens restaurant. Time to go home soon.