Hi all
Here’s the news for January! Once again I am putting up
photos rather than a lot of text as I know most of you prefer to look rather
than read, chuckle!
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| The hydraulics |
Firstly here's Mike with his adapted wheels and backpacks
which he hopes to be able to use if he goes walking in Spain again this year. It took him quite a while to sort it all out, but he now has 'Mike made'
hydraulics on the trolley!
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| The adapted trolley with backpack |
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| A test walk |
Also his
Historical Novel about the Moors and the Christians is now published on Amazon
books and here are the 'Look inside' inks:
For our friends and rellies in other countries, type www.amazon.es (or .de or .dk. or .ch or whatever) and then type Between the Sword and the Wall in the search bar and Mike's book should come up.
Emil and Maya had their birthdays this month, and although
we couldn’t get down to Denmark (WA) to be with them, John gave us some photos
of them when they came to visit on the Australia Day weekend. One of the presents he had was a Japanese Maple Tree.
Emil’s birthday:
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| The presents |
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| Opening the presents |
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| I think this was a special breakfast (with candles!) |
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| Some of the birthday cards |
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| Emil and John playing with the remote control car | | | | | | | |
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| The cake! |
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| Emil and friends - birthday tea |
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| Digging the hole for the Japanese Maple tree |
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| Benjamin lending a hand! |
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| Time for a break! |
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| Emil and his tree |
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| Benjamin with one of their chickens |
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| A lazy roo watches what's going on! |
Maya’s birthday
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| The birthday girl! |
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| Some of the presents |
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| Emil's birthday card to Maya |
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| Benjamin's birthday card for Maya |
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| 'Anne of Green Gables' |
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| This looks like a card from Auntie Jo! |
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| A special birthday candle |
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| Wow! A beautiful Barbie doll! |
The party at the Denmark Adventure Community Garden Park
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| Opening friends' presents |
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| John and Emil organizing games |
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| The cake! |
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| Blowing out the candles |
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| More games |
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| Emil up the big tree! |
Mike and I had a lovely day out in Fremantle recently, starting off with a lovely meal at Bennie's Bistro - we've been there before and they always do excellent food. Unfortunately only Mike could have wine with it, as I had been bitten on the finger by a spider a couple of days before so had to have a tetanus injection and was on anti-biotics with advice not to drink while taking them :-( ! It was called 'Surf and Turf' - fillet steak with creamy garlic sauce, king prawns and scallops!
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| Surf and Turf - yummy! |
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| Walking ads for Freo markets! |
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| The Freo Ferris Wheel |
Jo has been busy recently doing a 'plien aire' art course - which she thoroughly enjoyed, even though they began at 6am in the mornings! Alex and Lizzie also enjoyed their holiday with Tricia and John in Bali.
Bowls news - our 1st Division Green Pennant team
isn't doing too well this year, as it's quite a big change coming up from 2nd
to 1st, but we're trying hard and hoping to at least keep from
dropping back down to 2nd division. We have 4 more games to play.
I have managed to
reach the finals of the Plate in the Ladies Championship Singles, so will
tell you how I go in next month's blog!
Weather wise it
has been a very hot month here and we have been struggling to keep cool.
However swimming in the pool and using the air-con when necessary has helped a
lot, chuckle!
Well, that’s
about it for now. Mike may be updating his Mike Downunder blog too during the next few days, so you might like to
visit it too a bit later on. At moment he is suffering from a bad cold.
Enjoy! See you
all again next month.
