heat wave

hi its me again its to hot today its 39 and it's set to get hotter I'm not telling you that to show off. i have been looking on the Internet at the pictures of St Helen's and the snow and if i could i would swap places with anyone it looks so nice all that snow the heat is OK but after a bit it gets to much i think its because of the heat that i always seem to be ill i have had more illnesses since I've been here than i had in about 4 years in England I've had a bladder infection over Christmas and i have had 3 lots of antibiotics .

Connor is up to his old tricks do you remember this time last year when Connor broke the screen on the LCD TV well he has done the same thing again yesterday so we are claiming on the insurance again.

callum is still not happy here he is only happy when he is sat in front of the TV he hates going outside he says it always to hot.

Megan is growing up to be a little lady its her 7Th birthday on Monday so we are taking her to the pictures to watch Alvin and the chipmunks 2.

Caitlin is Caitlin she still acts like a 4 year old i think she does things just to get told off its not that we don't give here any attention we always do things together she likes to play makeovers so you can imagine what i look like when she has finished .

today is a special day for me and Greg we have been together 10 years today but it feels like 30 so i think i will make something special for dinner .

i would like to thank Pauline, rach,Steve, Chris for the lovely gift

it time to go again i will write some more soon

merry christmas

hi all sorry I've not added anything since we moved  we would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a very happy new year.

 today is 42 its been hot for a few days now but its going to go down to 28 on Christmas day for me it doesn't feel like Christmas that's the thing people don't think about when they come to Australia that Christmas is a family time and to spend Christmas on your own its not the same and i also miss the weather believe it or not i can't cope with the heat some days i don't even leave the house .

it's also that time again SCHOOL HOLIDAYS it's the one time of the year i hate having the kids home for 6 WEEKS i love them to bits but they do my head in when we are stuck in the house all day because it's to hot yesterday they decided to have a pillow fight in the TV room and broke a glass so i gave them a job to do  i gave them all a block of wood and tub of filler and some shells and beads and the end result was the 4 very nice pictures above so today we might make some cup cakes or maybe not 4 kids and a bag of flour ?

a few weeks ago it was the last day of school so it  would have been the 11Th December anyway i picked the kids up from school as usual and we walked it home when we got in i sat down and fell asleep for about 10 Min's and i was woken up by Caitlin when i opened my eyes she looked like a ghost she was covered head to foot in flour her and connor had been having a flour fight in the kitchen i wish you all could have seen it my kitchen was white i have a grey floor and that was white the flour was every were anyway i've got to say goodbye connor is being connor again and i don't mean in a good way .

hi marie and phil how are you? hows the family? we will phone you again over christmas .

hi pauline how are you? hows the family? we will phone you over christmas merry christmas miss you all  lisa 

hi we have now finally moved in to our new house we have been here 1 week and 2 days I'm glad we moved out of that other house when we moved all our stuff we found 3 red backs in the house. never trust real estate agents i think they were put on this earth to rip people off i spent 2 days after we moved out cleaning that red back nest before they came to inspect the house so that we could get the$2000 bond back  and we were told the toilet was not clean enough  there was dirt on the cooker hood  and there were dirty foot prints on the floor but the thing was i had moped the floors just before she came in and the muddy foot print were hers so as of yet we have not got the bond back anyway we seem to be getting this house sorted everyone seem abit calmer here greg does not shout as much so i dont have as many headaches the kids have there own playroom and big garden and we are getting foxel put in there room next week so i should get my tv back and i might just get a bit of peace and quiet for the first time in 10 years. how is everyone doing ? here are some more photos of the new house the furniture you see in the photos are not ours .

hi everyone this is the house we have just bourght we move in september 21 if you want to see the inside go to www.realestate.com
click on sold properties
click SA
enter suburb: banksia park
and it is Marsha drive
weather has not been that good we have had lots of rain it reminds me of back home we have been here nearly 12 months now we have had a tough time there has been more downs than up i just hope buying this house will make us feel more settled so far life has not been better here we have done nothing but argue over everything not just me and Greg but callum and Greg don't seem to be getting on . callum hates Australia he wants to go back to England because he misses his nans and grandad so everything we ask him to do ends in him playing up so i hope he settles in when we move. we still have days when we feel like coming home but if we did we wouldn't have anything Greg job is more stressful here i don't know how he does it i couldn't and to top it off a few weeks ago i was ill with a virus and ended up going to hospital to have a ECG because i had an irregular heart beat but I'm getting over that now .

hi Marie Phil miss you loads
congratulations Suzanne on the birth of your baby boy
hi Pauline how are you ?

hobby

hi everyone this week i took up a hobby you will laugh when i tell you what it is i took up knitting when i finish if i ever do i will post a picture of it i must be getting old you wouldn't think i was only 30 i feel alot older thinking back 10 years ago i spent all of my time in pubs and club 3-4 nights a week i used to drink and smoke and now i don't drink or smoke and i don't go through the door in bed by 11 and I've started knitting that's the signs of getting old .

the house i was telling you about in my last post we missed out on it because the owner would not wait until end of Sept ho well we are now looking at living in Adelaide hill with all the snakes that's what Greg wants anyway i want to live in the foot hills near the shopping centres so i can get a job . Greg got a second opinion about his back it is not as bad has he was told hes not ready for the scrap Heep just yet but he still thinks he can get out of doing thing because he is a man his back is worse than everything a woman could have . anyway i better go and make the kids tea hope the british weather is better than here its winter and its cold and wet its like being back home .

may

hi all things are starting to look up where the house is concerned we are going to see the mortgage company on the 18Th and hopefully we will have a house in no time it only takes about 6 weeks to buy a house here from start to finish

things are still up and down with the family kids are still playing up Connor is becoming out of control today he decided to put pepper in the butter give his self a bath in cold water tip all the ear buds in the bin and put toothpaste all over the window ledge and that's in between being a power ranger and fighting the bad guys (the bad guys are callum,Megan, Caitlin ) so you can imagine what its like here if that's not enough Greg has had a bad back and sciatica so its been like having 5 kids and i've been ill again i've been ill more time in 7 months here than i have in 2 years in the uk it must be all the stress i'm still not sure that we've made the right chose people say it gets better but we still get home sick at leased 3 times a week i hate weekend when gregs at work because i've not passed my driving test yet so me and the kids dont get to go to far away and thats seems to be when the kids play up the most so i have to tell them off so they always want to go back to england

march

hi everyone sorry I've not posted anything for a while but we have had my mum and  dad and Greg's mum over for a 2 weeks it was the the first time Greg's mum has been to Australia i think she enjoyed herself Greg didn't see much of them because work wouldn't give him have any time of instead he had to do more late's than usual the kids loved having them here but it was hard for them when they went home while they were here me and Greg treated our self's to two days away from the kids and we stayed in a nice hotel in the city it was nice to take a bit of time out of our busy life's to do nothing .

kids have finally settled into school callum has made friends he likes his new teacher Caitlin loves school Megan loves school  and Connor is still a power ranger .

this last few weeks its been hard for me and Greg because the lease was up on the house we are renting this month and we were so we sighed the lease for another because we wanted to stay here for another 12 months  so we don't have to move the kids as they were starting to feel settled but the new lease was only for 6 months so Greg signed it and took it in to ask if we could extend it to 12 months then to be told they the owner intends to knock the house as soon as they get planning permission and to top it off last week the coating on the bath started to bubble and we were told the owner does not want to spend any money on the house unless it becomes a health and safety problem and the other day was the last straw when harry (the dog) killed a rat in the garden we were all set for coming home because up to now we have had spiders, mice ,cockroaches , lizards and now rats all in 6 months