is a weekly diary to keep our UK 'gapping' daughter in touch with the family life she leaves behind in sydney
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TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING

Dear Alice, Well Teacher Mum is out tonight having dinner with five men she met on the Internet, Tris is asleep in bed and Elliott is somewhere north of here, sleeping over. I guess I’m feeling a bit lonely really. So I thought I’d write to you, who’s, errr… away for a year! Ahh well, there’s always the dog. He’s not much company though. Upside down in the lounge, legs rudely...

NO CHANGE

Dear Alice… Life ticks along here still, pretty much as you’d remember it. Below are a few snapshots taken this week on my soon to be updated iPhone. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version… assuming you want to that is. Captions below. 1.  2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. Rainy – It’s finally stopped raining at last, so I’ve cancelled the building of the ark and we’re going to...

MORNING HAS BROKEN

Dear Alice… This morning I went all English. I began with a McVities Digestive biscuit and a cup of PG Tips in bed. Later I had a poached egg on toast with Marmite, bacon and Worcester sauce before a final slice of toast topped with Frank Coopers marmalade. Thankfully all these products are readily available in Sydney; were they not, I’m not sure what I’d do. You’d probably be posting me food...