Almost 2 years

Ryan turns 2 on Easter Sunday. He has a remarkable number of clear words now - it must be close to 200. He now tells us what to do! "Mummy sit", "Daddy drive", "open fridge", "over the bridge"

It seems from some web trawling that my old boss has severed his ties with ANU. I wonder how the newer personnel are working out. Seems most of the women have left! I don't really miss that place apart from them.

I've been uploading some photos from France. It's been good to look at some of the trips and walks we did again. Pat may go to Sophia and Brest in June but I don't think I fancy flying 24 hours with Ryan.

End of NZ holiday

Yes, we're back after 5 weeks (not 4, due to a flight booking stuff up).
All went well. Did lots of camping, some tramping and some tram riding, all in the South Island between Christchurch and Nelson. Ryan enjoyed most things except going in the carrypack after the freedom of walking on his own. He is now in a bit of sleep debt and has happily gone back to long daytime naps (time for me to catch up on some Toppy recorded TV).

I think Sydney had more rain while we were away than NZ did - we had only about 6 days with some rain and only 2 days rain while tramping. My plants survived the hot days. We have to replace the jacaranda and eucalypt that the neighbours removed while we were gone. They think the jacaranda had got into the drains. Now we have a lot more hot sun in in the morning.

Tonight we're getting our monthly DSL dwonload before the end of the month ten minutes ago!