Byron & Jodie - We Do

Had a great trip across to sydney for the Australian Wedding of the year.
Just a sample of some of the pictures, more soon.




Bondi Beach

Now this is a very rare photo, 'cus usually they are knocking lumps out of each other.

Ma Boy

Ma Girl

D Wife


 

D Boys. Tea Belly (Chris not me!)

The wedding location was pretty spectacular, views of The Harbour Bridge and The Opera House from almost every vista, including the dining room.

 

The Sydney skyline, with The Westfield Tower in the back ground

They need to crop that tree

This is a little one

 

Here she comes!!



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Look Who Turned Up in Perth on the way around the World.

Its Chris and 'Me Julie'.

 

They left the UK late January and via a number of destinations were on route to Jody and Byron's wedding in Sydney.

They were intending to go to Queensland but the weather was so bad they decided to come and see us instead, Queenslands loss eh?

We had a brilliant few days before they set off down south to Margaret River and to see some old friends who live in Mandurah.

The morning they left we stopped off at Cottesloe for some breakfast with John and Barb and a have a look around the annual artist display which they hold on and around the beach at Cottesloe ('Cotts' as the locals call it).

 

 

Nice shirt mate, I got one just like it!!! Yeah I know, its always stuck out like that.

'Chris, you ain't gonna get away with that bit of art stuck up your shirt mate. There gonna stop ya!!!!'

'Smile'

Bit cloudy in it?

'I'm a little tea pot..............'

These days Chris drinks more tea than beer. He is the only guy I know who drinks beer then wine but always has a cuppa before going to bed! How weird. But good on ya mate, although your gonna end up looking like this if your not careful!

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Catch Up

We've been sooooooooooo busy recently mainly because we have been moving house.
The travelling from Aveley everyday has been not very pleasant. To be finishing up between 9.30 & 10pm most nights then driving for half an hour home ain't fun, particularly along the Gnangara Road, which is in the top three most dangerous roads in WA. Never mind the lunatic drivers, its a kangaroo hot spot and most mornings there are dead kangaroo carcasses all over the place.
So we are now living at 26 Waterview Drive, Woodvale, Perth WA 6026, about 4 minutes from the shop and about 8 minutes from the beach, heaven. Was very sad to leave Pirianda Way really loved the home and will miss the pool but we do have a spa here so not all bad.
There have been some very bad bush fires this week, over by where we used to live, some of The Vines Resort areas have been very badly burnt and there has been a major fire about 5km east of that that is still burning. Thankfully no one has been injured or killed.

This is us.

Kitchen/Living

Outdoor Spa

Patio area

View from the first floor bedroom/ balcony. There are hundreds of kangaroos in this reserve.

View from the front porch.
 

Peter has been keeping up his surf life saving and swimming. He was at the school swimming carnival this week and performed admirably with a 2nd in the crawl, 3rd in the breast stroke and 2nd in the butterfly.
I have to say that the girl swimmers are far better than the boys. Some of the girls technics are just brilliant, I have never seen swimmers that can move so fast with minimum effort.

Some rare footage of Peter exercising!

R&R time after surf life saving class with his pal.

Watch out for the sharks

2nd

One of the crowd!!!!

In full flow

2nd again.

There was a surf life saving carnival at Scarboro Beach recently. None of the ocean events happenned as there were at least 3 great whites just off shore and the shark alert alarm was continually sounding for about an hour!!!
Niamh is still doing the horsey stuff, Our Wend has started to to go to the gym again and I've managed a few rounds of golf recently. Played at Lake Karrinyup with JP on Tuesday, only 13 holes as it was 40 degrees. There are one or two hills at LKCC which I gotta say nearly killed me, as we were walking and I was PULLING a trolley. The beerS afterwards really saved me! Cheers JP!
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Look Who I bumped into!!!!

Looked who turned up in Perth recently.

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They Cometh

We had our great friends Sue and John here for Christmas. It was faaaaaaaantastic.

Just a taster here, more to follow.

Welcome

"What do you think it is?"

First night of the 'Kidney Bash'

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Bondi Surf Rescue Here He comes!

Well, after 5 weeks of getting up at 5.30am 4 mornings per week, Little Pete he finally got his SRC (Surf Rescue Certificate).
Five weeks of very gruelly training, starting each session with 300m beach run, followed by a 300m ocean swim, finishing off with 300m beach run. It would of done me in I can tell ya.
He will be doing beach patrols (basically, watching the surf and beach for anyone who may get into difficulties, also keep an eye out for our Sharkie friends!) most weekends over the summer months.

Can you pick him out? (And no thats not me far right!!!!!, my man boobs are much bigger)
  

Well done Pete, it looked bloody hard work mate but you stuck at it Son and without a moan. Well proud of you.
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'O Dear What Can the Matter Be ..............

We went for breakfast recently at a cafe on the Coastal Highway, fabulous spot.
We had all enjoyed our food and were preparing to leave when Our Wend got up to go to the loo.
Well, quite sometime past and Chris said, were has Our Wendie got to. We sent Little Emily to go and have a look where she was.
"O dear what can the matter be Our Wendie stuck in the lavatory, she'd been there from Monday to Saturday nobody knew she was there"

Yeah, the lock on the loo side had broken and she was stuck. The owner was going at the lock with a hammer and chisel but it wasn't budging, then he finally got a crow bar and literally smashed the door in.

Poor Our Wend, she must have been stuck in there for a good 20 minutes.

Bit of a queue forming!

Got a free breakfast voucher for 4 out of 'em. All good eh?

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