Mad English girl Down Under

I have been keeping notes all week of things to tell you but the list is massive so I'm going to break it down a bit if I can. I have all the time in the world to write but I'm conscious that most of you still have real jobs to do.  SCARIES .. lets start with this.  Have you seen the film I am Legend? With Will Smith? If you haven't you need too because I turn into him when its dusk (not literally turn into him but if you've seen the film you'll understand)  I can be happy as Larry or happy as Bob in the day occasionally (every few minutes) scouring the room for scaries (living in a house where everything is white and having no furniture but 2 camping chairs, 4 bars stools and 4 airbeds I see EVERYTHING) Come dusk I'm literally climbing the walls in fright.  The first night here going to bed walk past the laundry room and see a 6' shadow lurking, turn the light on its a cricket. Calmly call Sean who meanders down and says 'yup that's a cri...

Hey guys.  Well 2 weeks  down   under  and here's the news....  Hope you're sitting comfy?!  Firstly  Missing all of you very much so please pack your cases and get over here.  Secondly can anyone please tell me why I'm having so much trouble with this damn washing machine.  Everything is coming out covered in fluff and a tea towel came out dry yesterday. I kid you not.  If i remember I'll attached a pic of the offending machine.  And also the tumble drier while we're at it a complete nightmare too. The button keeps jumping off and the whole thing randomly stops. Or like it did last night a nd instead of stopping after the agreed 30 mins it went on for an hour and a half.  Seriously what's this all about.  Which leads me on to me my next what's this all about.. (apologies to Ju who heard all this yesterday)  Supermarkets.... I hate them with a passion at the best of times.  But ...

Well we're here. Arrived yesterday and after checking the baggage allowance when we were in Bangkok we realised our weight limit exceeded the airlines maximum weight from Sydney to Canberra. So instead of trying to wear 8 kilos worth of clothes each we changed the hire car to be picked up from Sydney and drove to Canberra. Which was better actually as we got here quicker (there was a 4 hour wait at Sydney)  And we could see a bit of the country. Win win. The flight here was very long (funny that!) Extremely hot and very boring oh and did I mention long?  2 out of the 4 hand luggage were also over the weight limit for Thai airways but with a bit of fluttering (by Sean I have to say) the guy at the desk let us off! Sean and I got search and I have to say I'm not sure who was more embarrassed me or the security guard... I'm sure he said strip, when actually he just asked for my belt, shoes and watch to be removed.  I then got asked the same in Bangkok I...