Mmmm snails!

MERRY CHRISTMAS GUYS! While you were chomping on... ah.... turkey and ham... we were munching into snails, and let me tell you they were great! Christmas in Paris and having a good time. Yep, wish you were all with me! Funny, love the lights and the cold feel and all that, feels sort of more Christmassy, but being away from home doesn't. Did a few of the main sites today, Notre Dame, walking along the river, eating a not-so-great crepe, and we actually scored an upgrade in our hotel from the turned out to be nice (amazing I know!) French lady in the hotel. Bitterly cold here. Feet and fingers freezing! Couldn't see much of the good old Eiffel Tower today through the fog. Let us know what you are all up to, would love to hear! Love Jodes and Danxx

Merry Christmas

Hi All

What's going on? No new Blogs in a while :)

Well, I thought I would just say that I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Only 5 sleeps to go. Hope everyone gets spoiled.

Cheers
Danny, Bob, Lachie and Kenzie.

Fun at work

This is a couple of pics from last week at work. We were raising money for Make a Kids Day (clown doctors mainly). The first pic is me and my staff at the bank and the other is our Dollarmite Addy (all the kids thought she was Dora the Explorer) in front of the bank car. It was heaps of fun walking down the street with this Dollarmite, everyone was just gob smacked, it was funny, we raised about $260 which wasn't too bad from one day.

You want photos!

Ok what do we have here. St Finbarr's Cathedral in Cork - very cool inside - has a touch of Westminster Abbey to it I think. Where we live on the map, but Danny would already know that (lol). And a portrait of me!

Yep, pictures are ALL MINE

No recent significance with this shot - took it while in ummmmm Egypt. What other photos would you want me to put on this site?

Can't ad a picture????

Hi All

I have been trying to ad a few pics and Ellie, I know you have been having trouble too adding pictures. Apparently there is something wrong with Blogger, I was in their forum and about a million people are having same problem, so my bet is to ride it out and it should get fixed.

Cheers
Danny

Alca-ma-hol...

Hey guys

Just a quickie as there's lots of bumming still to do... only 3 wks to Xmas!! And then it's the NY and I have to start job-hunting! No fair!

Not much going on - in between eating and drinking very well (!), I'm still cruising at the beach, but I'm also teaching myself French from this DVD I've had for ages now - it's really interesting. J'aime la plage! I'm also doing a bit of drawing, which I don't think I've done since high school - interesting too, although think I have a way to go before I'm a particularly good drawer!

Lisa and I had a brilliant bum around and catch-up the other weekend when she was down in Sydney (no pics of Kylie Lisa?). And last weekend Mark and I went up to the hunter valley and did some wine tasting - it was brilliant! I've never done it before, but it was so good and so much fun - I want to go back again soon. I can't believe I lived in Canberra for so many years and never visited the wineries around there! Doh...

Has anyone seen the movie The Corporation? We rented it and watched it again last night - such a thought-provoking movie (although it's a bit propaganda-ist itself!). I just ordered a copy of it online. It really is amazing when you think about how much stuff you buy and how much of it you throw out again (packaging etc but also when you just chuck stuff out instead of trying to reuse it or fix it if it's broken). Was just having a dig around and found this good little checklist of stuff you can do that's really easy to build into your routine. Think I'll go back to hankerchiefs...

Hmm no pics today since the site won't let me upload them for some reason - will try again another day. Take care guys.

Well.... here's some more.

well hello again. Been a little quiet lately... been busy at school and doing some social writing for the paper. Cool thing with the paper is I get to go to whatever social events I want for free (pretty much). Went to the theatre this week, and a wine tasting and the launch of the mini cooper (which wasn't that great... more like a night club and I am getting too old for those sort of things.... lol)
Anyway, to fill you in on some bits: last weekend we went away and stayed in a nearby county called Kerry again. We helped out a mate of ours who is doing his Phd on some sort of fish studies. It was beautiful there but really cold! Nice local pub though, in practically the middle of nowhere! Stayed in our van in the pub's carpark. So windy here lately! Yesterday a guy got blown off the bridge into the river because it was so windy. And I was on bus duty at school which means because these kids have so many 'problems' we can't let the little things walk from the bus to the school building - who knows what they will do or where they will go. So in practically terential rain and wind I had to go out and lead these kids in, bus after bus... lovely!
Taking it easy this weekend though. The pics are us at a lake on Kerry, the lake, and Dan and some of our mates in a pub on his birthday.