Kate & Simon

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As a quick aside, reading the Adelaide Advertiser this morning over an excellent breakkie the Nobel Prize winning author JM Coetzee (author of Disgrace) was awarded an honoury doctorate yesterday at Adelaide Univeristy. We were walking past there yesterday afternoon after looking around the museum and saw posters telling students where to go for graduation […]

Today we went on a River Murray Experience tour. Here’s what we learned: Christine discovered that in 1956 they had the worst flood ever and the local hotel in Mannum was in water up to the first floor. However, they managed to keep their business afloat (ha ha) by having the bar on the first […]

When Simon and I climbed the Fort Walk on Magnetic Island we didn’t realise that it was the hottest day of the year so far, but more than that it was the second hottest day on record! It was 42 degrees - the record being only 1.1 of a degree higher. I think we were […]

We have just had a lovely lunch at Barefoot bar on Horseshoe bay, which is on the north of the island. Am writing this to help digest so I can go and swim (in the enclosure) in half an hour or so.

Magnetic Island is wonderful! Last night we ate dinner on the veranda of our holiday home and there was so much to listen to - so many birds here making some very strange noises. A skink (small lizard) joined us for dinner, while 2 mosquitoes decided to dine on my knee (of all places). Here […]

G’day guys. Crikey it’s hot here in Townsville! When we went on our orientation walk yesterday afternoon we immediately started to crisp up like shrimp on a barbie. We needed more bottles of factor 30 sun screen and while we were making our purchase a friendly pharmacist told us that the temp they show on […]

Last evening we headed into Syndey to watch Festen, a play at the Opera House’s drama theatre. Kate and I have seen the play twice before, once in Dublin performed in Polish with subtitles (it was excellent) and once in London. Festen is based on the DOGMA film by Thomas Vinterberg, in my opinion […]

Yesterday started off badly for Simon. His ears were still popping from the flight, so we decided to visit the Bondi Medical Centre. The lucky lad had his ears syringed and then felt much better. Bondi Medical Centre are now the lucky owners of Simon Jones original ear wax (enough to make a small candle […]

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Bats, lots of them, originally uploaded by simon r jones.

Walking through the Sydney Botanic Gardens (lovely as they are) we
came across a few trees full of hundreds of bats curled up sleeping. A
few were […]