Still Waters

Walking back from the garage yesterday (truck was in ARB to have new bull bar and winch fitted) and I came across this cracking sight:


Makes you realise two things; there are some cracking sights to be seen when you move around at the slower pace of walking; these sights almost always occur when you don't have the fancy camera with you.


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Yeah-in-derry Trip

For the queens birthday the co-pilot and I went on our first trip with the Nissan Patrol Owners Club drive through the Predominantly Green Hills to a little deserted minning town of Yerrendarri, which we pommes thought was prnounced Yerr-in-derry but apparently these antipedians call it Yourendery.

The official trip reporter (Nicci) will be preparing a write up and once this is available I'll share a link here.  In the meantime here are some shots of the trip:

The Starting Line Up

 

Woodies fantastic Arrows - Look at the size!!

We drove through some gorgeous scenery

We Collected Wood and Set Up Camp

And set up camp next to the local airport

But apparently JetStar don't fly here

We Lit the fire

And let it BURN!!

We were visited by Magic Kangaroos

And the vision of an Angel

And set the camera up for a shot to Capture the great star views

New morning we were visited by a Kookaburra

Who shared our breakfast

After breakfast we gathered ourselves up

and on the way home managed to find a bit of a muddy hole

To have a play in and get a bit mucky

Thanks to Dave and Nicci for organising a fantastic first trip which sets high standards in relaxed attitude, chilled chatting around the fire and quality banter for future trips to live up to.  

And thanks to everybody else for making the trip great fun.

Title adjustment

In reverence to my right honourable friend Mr Cooper and his rather pointed observation that the current title might be persived as a little narrow in breadth of remit and likely result in a swathe of 'bloody babies booties shots" I think we can expand the title to "shoes".

That should still leave scope for those so inclind to take shots of juniors foot etitre but leave scope for others to be a bit more creative.

Have fun

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Peanut's New clothes

When we found out that Peanut was a boy we bought his first outfits.  YBOD's mum has also been knitting so we have some pictures of the first things we ever received for Peanut. 

Our Son!!

For those who are not on facebook and therefore didn't see yesterdays late breaking news, we now know that we are having a son, that he's a strong and lively one and, well......lets just say it was VERY clear he was a boy........yes like his dad ;0)

We are now going to have to start that long and painful process of choosing a name for the fella, after all he can't be called peanut for ever......can he?

Peanut is a boy!

I am now just over 19weeks and have just had the latest scan.  It was quite amazing to see that Peanut really does look like a baby now.  We were able to see a brain, bones in the arms and legs and even fingers and thumbs.  Peanut was a bit shy and kept legs together throughout most of the scan but we did spend nearly and hour and a half in the ultrasound room while the sonographer got all the pictures and measurements she needed.  Peanut wouldn't lie on his back for the lady to see his heart properly so I had to keep moving around and going for walks to get him to move.  We were also able to hear a good heart beat which was reasuring.  We can vouch for the the fact that Peanut is definately a boy.  We were able to see a third leg and a scrotum, YBOD is very proud. 

Now that we know Peanut is a boy we can go shopping, my favourite bit.  Luckily blue is my favourite colour, followed by red so a boy is good with me.  It is strange knowing Peanut  is a boy as we had got used to the idea that he was a girl and the name Peanut sounds a little funny now.  We still have to see the doc on Tuesday to get the full results of the scan and make sure Peanut really is perfect. 

What do you think we should call Peanut?

Trimix Divers Easter Egg

The Easter bunny brought me the perfect Easter egg for a trimix diver....a trimix egg!!

This beauty was like an Easter bushka doll with a milk choc egg with a white choc egg in side that and a dark choc egg inside that. Genius!!




Now I would loved to have shared some of this with the co-pilot but what can I do, she's not trimix qualified so I can't do it. After all, the rules are there for her own protection, nothing I can do.

Mmmmmmmm yummy ;0D

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