Lymm Warrington

... form 2&3 choir is a great group who are very keen. Boys changing voices adds an element of difficulty to finding suitable repertoire.

I have enjoyed the teaching and the challenges but much prefer a balanced load of classes, ensembles and lessons if given a choice.

It’s nice that Rhonda and I work at the same place. Some days lunch together and then off in to the city for a coffee. Manchester is not as big as Melbourne or ...

Woke up this morning. Had that 'Red Letter Day' feeling. Steve obviously felt the same as we bumbled through the usual morning rituals, all the while thinking that today was not just another ordinary day.

Having said goodbye to my esteemed host of the past week I set to getting things ready to leave (and having a final idle surf on the internet). I had initially said I wanted to be out of the ...

... or I will no doubt be sick (again)!

I will add some photo's when I arrive on the isle of Tasmania, and I will write again once I am over the jet lag.

Goodbye for now my lovely friends and family.. see you all in 6 months or so!! Love Julia x x x

... the gorge up the gorge” debacle followed by kilometres of what, bog? on top of a mountain?!! where the hell were we?!! Also, damn the reservoir where, having run out of water, Ryan requested that I wade in and try and get some water for boiling. Cold! Muddy! Undrinkable! Squidgy!

Boulder Paths

"Over the boulder, down the boulder, **** the boulder, **** THE BOULDER!!!"

There are some points where the paths are naturally made of boulders or large rocks, fine I'm on a mountain I get it. However one day we hit some hard going with a path covered in boulders which, after about twenty minutes, I noticed there weren’t any boulders OFF the path, only on it. A neat line of ******, leg-twisting boulders was ...

Hello! Today was our last day in Warrington! We had a cookout with Lisa's parents, Norma and Jim, her sister, Joanne and her sister Niko and her family-Roger, Harrison and Isabella. Harrison and Isabella were very excited about meeting Americans, even though Isabella kept calling us "The Africans"! They were very cute and a lot of fun! The day started off as many others do here-rainy ...

... tryed showing me how to work the slot machine they had in the place but i couldn't get it, it was so complicated and the most you could win was 35 pounds, lame! I wish I would have got to spend more than just half a day with Becki, we all have so much fun together. They dropped me off at my hotel and i had a whole room to myself to spread my junk all over the place and fell asleep watching The Sweetest Thing.

... with some of that ceremony still used in the coronations of today. (ps sorry for any spelling errors, but as I said, I have to hurry!) The next day (New Years Eve) Gail had read of the small town of Lacock nearby which has an abbey where parts of two Harry Potter movies were filmed, so it was off to there, but unfortunately we found it was now closed for the winter, but we did manage to walk around and take some photos. We later learned that Lacock ...

Sunday 29th October G'day After the past few days our heads were spinning, as it had been the most amazing journey and we had met so many people, and been to so many places it was getting hard to keep it all in perspective. Therefore what we really wanted to do today was to take it a bit easier and try to capture everything we had been told and had seen, so that we could take it all in. We had a leisurely breakfast with Dee and Tony, and I'm sure they thought we were part simpleton, as ...

... Veronica is Brian's only living aunt on his mothers side and was Marge's older sister, so when we walk into her house we are amazed at how much like Marge she is. As we get to know her we realize it is not only in looks but also her mannerisms are also very much like Marge's. We spend a lovely few hours hearing stories of what life was like when they were young and took some great photos that we will cherish, and we look forward to coming back and hearing more another day ...