Excuses excuses, and the solution

Ok OK! My apologies for the great big FAT gap in my writing (a mere couple of months…)
Excuses
As you may have gathered, writing a blog is proving not to be as easy as I hoped…. The main problem is a complete lack of electricity to run the computer, unless generated by our selves with the (er) generator. The problem with this is the high level of noise I perceive it to make, as opposed to the low level Darren perceives it to make. That is the 1st problem.
The next is that even if I write it, I then have to be somewhere I can get internet connection – which did not prove easy in the red centre.
The next problem is how long it takes to put it up onto the net, even if I have written it first, as copy and pasting onto a blog sometimes doesn’t work (just don’t ask me why).
The next is…… is…. Well, I could just say that I have written it and then my dog ate it, which is as likely an excuse as when I used it at boarding school. No one believed me then either.

Outcome?
My report: Sporadic worker , could do better. – which was pretty much the gist of my school reports too.

Solution
SO what now?
I have decided to continue with the blog – mainly because when I hit Sydney last December people said nice things to me about it (EXCEPT the sporadic part which they didn’t like), and because I will be glad I did it when I have returned to the land of Fairlight, flushing loos and employment in August.

So, please accept my apologies for really not keeping up to date. I am sure you won’t be surprised to know that I had a record 22 detentions at school for not doing my homework in time….
I realise I have 2 choices, to continue writing about October and try to catch up, OR start again from where we are NOW, and occasionally do a ‘FLASHBACK’ – when I will write about our travels before Christmas. The latter is what I have decided on, or I never will catch up.
So here are a couple of flashbacks, and then I shall tell you about what we are doing now…