Reading matter

Hi Everyone, it has been almost two months since I last posted as I have survived another stint of night duty and am to start another next week. Time flies and I don't have anything exciting to report.

I have decided to recommend a book series that Rob loaned me to read. It is the Tomorrow Series by John Marsden. I was not expecting what I got as Rob usually lends me sci fi boooks. I can recommend it as a story that manages to take a look at the way a group of teenagers survive when a foreign power invades Australia. It is written from the perspective of a 16 year old girl and chronicles the struggles to survive, fight back and overcome the terrible emotional and mental cost of war. I think it will strike a chord with anyone that has lived throuogh a war and most teenagers. Be warned the book is quite matter of fact when dealing with teenage sexuality and experience. Mature teens of 15 or so would cope well with it, but it is not apporpriate for any sheltered kids or immature ones.

Overall it is a good read for most adults.

Thaks Rob for the lend.

Night Duty

I have survived my first stint of night duty in twelve months. Apart from not managing to sleep for more than 5 hours average per day, I did well. I have a good Enrolled Nurse (EN) to work with so it is not a bad job.

It has taken me a whole week to catch up on lost sleep though.

It is only one week a month so it isn't too bad at all.

Extended family get together

Lucy, my niece, gave all of Steve's family a reason to get together by having a birthday.
Here she (in the purple top) is at a table with her friends, her mother, Julie (Steve's sister), is in the foreground with a cuppa and cake and her brother, Rowan, has his back to the camera.






Pictured here from left to right are Steve's other sister, Annie, his mother and father with a little of Dion, nephew just in frame. We all sat around in the sun outside and enjoyed a chat, cuppa and cake. It was a great way to get together.




This little cutie is Charlotte AKA Charlie, she is Lucy's niece and our great niece. Sweet isn't she?

This weekend we went camping. We wanted to make the most of my having two weekends off. Steve also took a long weekend and we were able to leave mid afternoon Friday. This is the packing up exercise. It is always the hard part and at one point we thought we would need a trailer.
Poor Steve was very patient about what had to go with us. And we managed to get it all there safely and back.


This is a picture of the beach near the campsite at Lagoon Beach between Falmouth and Bicheno. It was beautiful but there was a lot of surf and the fish wouldn't have been able to get caught if they had have wanted to. The lures kept being washed up on the beach further along.




It was here at Bicheno that we all went swimming. Yes, even me. The surf was awesome for bodysurfing. It was difficult to stand in the breakers so we headed out a bit. Hence it is difficult to see who is in the water.





Sadly all good things must end and here is the campsite as we left it. apart from Steve hiding behind the tree, there was no sign that we had even been there.

A friend gets married

On Saturday I was privileged to attend my friend Fiona's wedding. We became friends during our uni experience and we got each other through the gruelling time there. It was wonderful to share her big day. She made a beautiful bride. Mark managed to scrub up well too.

tamar odyssey

Ok, It has been a while since the last post and we have done something other than work.

To celebrate surviving 29 years of marriage we took ourselves off on a Tamar cruise aboard the Tamar Odyssey. It was a lovely day trip down the river. We left Home point in Launceston and went down as far as Bonnie's Beach just past the Batman Bridge. Here are some pics.

Happy New Year

Hi all and I hope that you enjoyed seeing the old year out and the New Year in. We did, we visited the Klavers continuing a tradition of board games and eating away the night. Mocktails were the order of the day with champagne at midnight and a game with a glow stick ball which we discovered the making of in the glow stick pack I bought.