I suppose that we have been from Australia for a little over 3 weeks. There has been so much to do to have time to blog and this weekend has produced the first photographs of our time back.
We visited nan a week ago and she is well; having moved back into her newly decorated room.
We have met with Jan and Lawrence a few times.
We visited are elderly friend Joy who went into a nursing home about the time that we left. She just about recognised us but kept thanking us for coming and saying that she was going now. There is nowhere for her to go. She keeps wanting to go home.
This weekend we had Iona and Izzie to stay for three nights while Tim and Isla had a break in the Lake District. The girls were very good and kept themselves occupied when we were busy. They spent time on the allotment picking carrots and clearing up the soil.
On Friday morning we went to buy models and accessories at the railway shop in Long Eaton. They spent hours carefully building the cardboard models and enjoyed working on the layout.
Iona and her model shops
Izzie and her terraced houses
On Saturday afternoon the Stapleford Carnival was on the recreation ground opposite. There was a pretty poor cowboy re-enactment. Both of them did the cycling to light up a low energy bulb. Iona enjoyed holding an owl. It was pretty cold and we came off quite early.
In the evening we played board games (Cluedo and Sunken Treasure).
Tim and Isla collected them quite early on Sunday morning but not before they had gone up to the allotment to collect more beans and rhubarb.
I think that we all had an enjoyable time.
