“Going to the land down under”

Well we are off again!
In just 1 weeks time, we will be setting off on our latest adventure. We are travelling to Australia to see Carmel in Sydney for Christmas!!

CARMELY CHOC

Since we last blogged in September we have both been very busy, working full time! (Even Liz is working for O2 for 6 months) and Keith has increased the amount of gigs he has been doing in the UK.

We have also been to lots of gigs including Crowded House, The Fast Show, Frank Skinner (don’t mention Frank Skinner) we should ‘ve gone to see The Police as well but Sting had a sore throat (ahh bless!) so it was cancelled.

Also Jema made Keith a grandad for the 3rd time. She had a beautiful little baby girl called Arwen on 25th October, which was also the same day that Pippa was 18 !!!!

CAITLYN, FINLEY AND ARWEN

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY PIPPA !!!!!!!!!

We are flying with Singapore airlines from Manchester, leaving on the morning of Thursday 20th Dec at 10am and arriving in Sydney on Friday 21st in the evening at 8pm. We have both got our groovy flight socks, our blow up travel pillows and travel tooth brushes, so we are prepared for anything!!

Liz is preparing for at least 24hrs without a cig. (no she’s not going to sleep all the way) she has armed herself with patches, lozengers and nicotene gum, though she’ll have to watch herself in Singapore because chewing gum is banned. And the good news is Sydney has the strictest antismoking laws in the world, not only indoors, but outdoor bars and restaurants don’t allow smoking and even Bondi beach!!!! Is no smoking!! Not that I’ll ever mention it.

Emails have been frantically flying backwards and forwards between Carmel and Liz for the last few weeks to plan our trip. Liz has put all the activities Carmel has booked, onto a spreadsheet (OCD) So nothing can possibly go wrong (mmm) Carmel has booked a variety of shows and gigs because we will be there during the Annual Sydney Festival which is a major Oz holiday event. We are staying with Carmel for the first 10 days because her house mate is away for Christmas, then we have rented a beach side apartment til we leave on 11th Jan. It has a roof top terrace with BBQ! And we are planning on doing a couple of trips overnight possibly to the Blue Mountains or the Hunter Valley Wine region, we will see?

For New Years Eve we have booked a table in a restaurant which overlooks the Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House, so we will get a birds eye view of the fireworks (if there are any left after the accident in the firework factory in Sydney last week!)

So consequently we have done absolutely NOTHING Christmassy this year, we have not sent cards or bought pressies or put decorations up, or anything, it’s been very weird. So instead, we will be spending all the money we would have spent on a UK Christmas having a fab time in Oz

(Yes Paul....LIZ 'N' KEITH ARE GOING TO BE IN CORFU - Oorstraylia?

HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL !!!!!!!!!