hello all. Yes yes I know what a slacker I am. I hope that everyones christmas and new year where good and safe. We left the rainy skies of Queensland on boxing day and headed off to victoria via laurieton and Canberra. We finally arrived at Lakes entrance on Friday afternoon. 1700 long kilometres later. it was so nice to be back at Bellbrae and to be able to spend New Years Eve with dad, Joy, Julie and Peter. We had a great 10th Anniversary (NYE) we went on a river cruise up to Wyanga Winery for sampling and lunch totally smashed by the time Joy came down to the harbour to pick us up. We did take home with us 12 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of port and 1 bottle of muscat liquer. NYE was great (after I woke up from my nanna nap) Peter and Julie had friends around and we partied on into the night well I partied till about 2am I think . I let Andrew buy a six pack of bundy rum lights on the friday and he managed to make them last till the Monday so that was good and responsible (god I hope he is not going to be like me lol).




The weather down at Lakes was sooooooooo very hot we had 36-40 degree days arghhh. We left on the Wednesday and stopped at Canberra on the way home. Ed and Andrew went to the war muesuem and I went to Cockington Gardens a little minature village place unfortunately I had on a very thin shirt and no sun screen so I had to hop from shadow to shadow and just take pictures as quickly as I could so I did'nt get sunburnt. I think I was only there for about an hour. We arrived home on Friday afternoon, the most glorious site to ever see was my garage door going up to signal that we had made it home alive and well.

Well the magpies have come out of the nest and happily coming down to the yard I have even managed to name them. there is Whinny because he/she gets a hoarse throat after a while, then there is snuffles because he/she sounds like they have a snotty nose and throat and then there is Rowdy for obvious reason. They still come down each afternoon and sometimes during the day. Fatboy seems to have disappeared I think the lorikeets scare him as there are so many of them and only 1 of him. Well that is enough catch up for the moment I will try and come in tomorrow to do some more and to post some photos.So till next time thank you for reading "Ravings of a lunatic", please secure your tray table and return your seats to their upright position and have a nice day"