Our Life Down Under

I got a call from a police detective about 5 months ago asking me about the time I worked at a chocolate factory in Sydney.

The factory had burnt down, for the second time, so they were investigating the questionable reasons behind the fire. The detective asked me if I worked there at the time of the fire. Fortunately I hadn’t as we’d already moved up to Queensland by then.

And that was that, but I was just wondering today and thought I’d Google the story to see if anything might have appeared in the news recently. So I stumbled upon this video. Thought I’d stick it up here for the curious.

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We’ve had our friends Robbie and Kylee staying with us for the last three week.

They’ve left now and flown back down to Sydney for some more adventures. It was fun having them stay and the girls really loved having some other people around.

Here’s a little story from the last three weeks.

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I’ve been a bit rubbish with the updates recently, but we’ve been very busy having a good time, sorry.

We had two very busy weeks with visitors, Michelle, Gary Tadgh and Caoilinn came to stay for a week followed by David and Laura the week after. You’ll find all the photos on our flickr page as usual.

It was Val’s birthday last Friday and I surprised her with a weekend away in Byron Bay. We stayed at a place called the Byron Bay Rainforest Resort. We had a great time Check out the flickr pictures of that too. Probably lots more I could tell you here but it’s Friday and and I’m about to leave work and go home to all my girls.  ‘All my girls’  ha ha, who’d have thought.

Couple of other quick things. You may have seen the odd photo pop up on the flickr site at odd times, these are sent directly from my iPhone, if you were wondering. I’ve also been Twittering a lot more resently, so if your thinking of trying Twitter out (I highly recommend you do) you can find me at www.twitter.com/simonpither

Now,  its the weekend, what shall we do?

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My amazingly talented Aunty Lynn sent us this beautiful painting for Christmas.

It’s a picture of Ella and me entitled “Paddling With Daddy”

I thought I’d show it off here. It is now proudly hanging on our living room wall. You can see a few more of her paintings here including the full size picture version of Paddling With Daddy.

Thanks again Lynn, it was the best present ever.

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Boxing Day at the Mcauleys

We’ve been having a lovely Christmas, mostly taking it easy with our newest family member.

Great to have Mum and Carlton here, as its making everything a lot easier while we get used to being a four member family.

We dropped in at the Mcauleys earlier this afternoon. They got the Nintendo Wii and the game Rockband for Christmas, so we all had a bit of a laugh pretending to be rock stars. It was a lot of fun.

New pictures up on flickr of Mums visit so far.

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New Pictures up on Flickr.

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