Apologies to those who hate them but this is for those who want to catch up a little and also check out the Blog. It was done in a rush in the last few days of school.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Happy holidays and + Festive Greetings to all!
Later than ever this year. Thanks for all the wonderful cards and letters. Given the late date and postal strike, I will keep this brief.
Tess and Rob will again celebrate Xmas without children this year. Tim and his partner Saskia flew out yesterday to New Zealand to unwind tour some of the country and join Saskia's folks for Christmas. Tim has enjoyed a busy year in the DECC graduate program in Canberra as well as unpaid work for Civil Liberties and a school board. And his Legal Workshops to be admitted as a real lawyer - not quite there but close. He hopes to work more directly in law next year but for now he needs a good rest.
Just over 12 months ago Tess and I had also flown across the ditch and celebrated the 25 December at a restaurant in Wanaka. Not quite the same with strangers but enjoyable nevertheless. The holiday in the South Island was a spectacular success as I hope my Blog showed. We can't wait to return but would like the children with us for Xmas occasionally.
Everyone in the family has been overseas this year with Emma chalking up the longest stretch. She enjoyed her semester at Leeds Uni and then travelling around Europe, the Greek Isles, Canada and the USA. Back in Canberra for the summer working with an autistic child and at the Dendy until Uni begins again - whenever!
We had a wonderful trip to visit Emma including 9 nights in Leeds, a week each in Bath, Windermere and Oxford along with some days in Scotland and Bury St. Edmonds. I realised how much I like the English countryside in Spring. After 3500 miles on the road, we were in need of a holiday so went spent 12 days on Mykonos, Paros and Santorini. It was hard to get back to work after that.
Health has held up generally well in what has proved to be a great year. I hope we all enjoy a positive 2010 without too many nasty surprises.
Love to all,
Rob and Tess
PS I will upload a photo to this post shortly of what was in the box.
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