We have had a busy start to the New Year.
After Christmas with the grandchildren we travelled to Kalbar for New Years with our members from Caravan Club - and we had a fantastic time - albeit very hot with afternoon torrential storms.
We left there on the 3rd of January and travelled to Armidale to spend time with a distant cousin - Helen Nancarrow. What a wonderful hour and a bit that we spent with her and we hope to go back and spend some quality and quantity of time with her.
From there we travelled as far as Glen Innes and spent the afternoon beside the Beardy Creek and watched the trout swim by. Darryl didn't get the rods out as he wasn't sure what licence he needed and didn't want to have the fisheries men catch him.
The next day we travelled to Walcha and had a lovely couple of hours wandering the town and did some grocery shopping before travelling out of town to the rest area and met up with Mr and Mrs Hart - parents of Tim Hart the golfer. We enjoyed a lovely afternoon and early evening with them before heading in at 8pm to prepare dinner.
On the 5th January we headed down the windy road to Wauchope and pulled in to the Timbertown RV stop for a 4 night stay. Whilst here we visited Darryl's Mum and Dad at the Innes Memorial Garden and cleaned their headstones and filled them in on what was happening with the family.
We visited with Uncle Max and Aunty Kath and then on the 7th we helped Uncle Max celebrate his 90th Birthday with friends and family. It was a lovely luncheon and then back tot he house for a few quite beers and some nibblies before returning to the van.
Monday was not a good day for me with my Meniere's rearing its head and I spent most of the day in bed with the air-conditioning on.
Tuesday we left Timbertown and headed down to Taree and caught up with Shirley and Neville and the family. All are looking great and are well. Sam's little girl Lucy is meeting all her milestones after a little rocky start to her life.
Amanda and Ally and Mark are living with Shirl and Nev until they can get a place of their own.
John, Kiarna and Noah are going great and are expecting a new family member in late June/July.
We then travelled to Grafton and spent quality time with Amanda and Peter and saw Jared and Alyssa over the weekend. It was a great three nights and fantastic spending time with them
Monday we headed back to Queensland and arrived at Groomsville about 3pm and set up at Tom and Sandra's farm.
We are looking after the farm whilst Sandra and Tom have commitments in Victoria.
We have spent time with the grandchildren and witnessed their first week back at school. They all seem to have enjoyed it. Miss G is in Grade 7 at High School, Master M is in Grade 5 and Master L started Prep. Bec starts back at Uni next week.
Ben is still with Woolworths in Victoria Point and looking forward to a holiday in Thailand in May with Julie, Dan and Aurra. He is still planning a trip to the Octoberfest in Germany and then on to the USA with Bradley for next year.
Bradley is still doing his Bakery Apprenticeship with Woolworths at Helensvale and awaiting his assessment by the Apprenticeship Board to progress to second year.
Darryl and I will be at Groomsville until about 10 Feb and then returning about 26th March to caretake the farm until the end of April/early May.
I am also going to be teaching some local school students basic coiling weave during this term. I am hoping to be asked back to the Spinners, Weavers and Dyers group for another session also.
We hope that you are all keeping well.
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