Animal Magic

We took a short trip to a local zoo over the weekend, as we thought it'd be good to explore what they had to offer.
A little underwhleming from the outside, but inside it was great. There is a rather aged open-sided bus which tours the zoo and which makes a number of stops along the way for 'interaction'. One of said 'interactions' involves feeding the emus which peck furiously at little paper bags of seed/bread mix!!
There were also crazy looking chooks (chickens), tassie devils and the usual koalas.

Some pics are attached: -
Camel with head in bus waiting to be fed, the iconic Tassie devil, and Koala curled up and asleep in a tree. Enjoy!

Building permit

Firstly - sorry to all those visitors to our Blog. We have been remiss in our provision of new and exciting content over the last month. Normal service will resume now.

Secondly - we have our building permit. Woohoo!! All we need to do now is to agree a proper fixed price from our builder. Not as easy as it sounds, and has been a rather rocky road.

Thunderbirds are go

The local council have approved our house plans, which is fantastic, exciting and a little scary 'cos it means we're really going to build. Next step is building regs approval. The application will go in today

It's bonfire night next weekend

How weird is that!!!!

Down to Dover

We decided one weekend to take a trip down south following the coast road to Dover. This didn't involve big tailbacks on the M2 or M20 motorways, or dodgy food from motorway services.
What we did find were some lovely waterside bays, a good 'village' cafe/restaurant, and virtually deserted beach with almost pure white sand. OK it's Autumn, not Summer, but this beach is on the outskirts of Dover and is about 2 miles long.
Here are some pics of our journey.

Another Red Cross field trip!!

I'm off to Agfest today, Tasmania's largest agricultural show. Red Cross are having a tent and so I'm traveling north today to set up and then manning the tent tomorrow before returning home on Friday. It's forecast to be cool so I'm packing my thermals!!!

http://agfest.com.au/

Singapore Airlines are having a sale

Well, not just Singapore. Four airlines are having a mini price war which has resulted in 40% being slashed off some fares. Just as well as we have been really surprised by how much airfares are to fly back to the UK. Ironically it's much more expensive to fly ex Oz to the UK rather than other way round. Sooooo, we are taking advantage of the discounted fares and will be coming over for a visit in November. See you then....