Merry Christmas

Russ and I hope all of you who read this have had a wonderful Christmas and we wish you all the best for 2007. Our WA Christmas was great-lots of good food wine and fun and did enjoy my first ever Christmas celebrated outside Victoria!


Blair, Leah, Todd, Russell and I provided lunch (seafood, ham and salads) for 12, then dinner for another 4 plus a few drop-ins for drinks later on. Dinner was more traditional with turkey, pork, beef, leftover salads, roast veg and several sweets. The guests kept us supplied with nice drinks. As you can imagine, lots of fun was had shopping and cooking for the day as well. The kid’s house is a great place for entertaining with the beautiful pool out back and their huge table and many chairs. It was a pretty warm day so the pool really got used and enjoyed.
Carly Morrfield

I have lots of photos of the day so will post some soon. We had Russ’s NZ nephew with us and it was nice to hear from Daniel, Mick and Ryan and Kirstyn. Mick is leaving Whistler on January 5th, so will be home in Warrnambool when we get there.


Tim from NZ


Leah's parents Christine and John

Boxing Day was spent very quietly-we came home and I slept for 3 hours! We had stayed over in our van on the two previous nights. Today we went over and collected a few of our things we’d forgotten, ate the last of the turkey and had several swims. Leah was home as she is in between jobs with 4 ½ weeks off before she starts the next. It looks like the weather will stay hot until New Year’s Eve, so I think more swimming will be in order for us. The plan NYE is to spend it quietly at Blair, Leah and Todd’s with a very few others.

WACA!!!!

Saturday we had our first shifts at the WACA. Russ got moved into the members bar and loved it.
Russ is at work today. I lasted one day and quit. It was awful-dirty, disorganized and not looking like it would get any better. I had no idea what I was doing as a supervisor and my staff (when I finally got some) had no idea either-what a recipe for disaster that was. I had faulty equipment, no stocks of some things ….the list just goes on and on. Russ on the other hand is really enjoying it. Night before last he worked in the player’s bar which impressed him a lot. He got to serve Ian Botham, Denis Lillie and Kim Hughes amongst others. If I had my time over, I’d have asked for corporate bar work too!

Yesterday he had a day off, so we lazed around then went and picked our NZ nephew Tim and his mate Sam up and brought them over to see their cousins and Leah. They have plans to live and work over here for a while which is great as we've never spent much time with Tim. They are loving Perth already (lots of hot girls apparently!) and just need some work for things to we perfect I think. They are living in Mosman Park which is on our train line about 4 stops away so nice and handy to us. We organised a BBQ and salads for dinner and all enjoyed another of those lovely perth evenings sitting outside by the pool.

Today I am over here again doing my laundry and waiting for a delivery of bedroom furniture for Todd. Tomorrow, Leah and I are off to do a bit of shopping. We want to get as much done for Christmas as we can.

We're coming home!

Another week’s gone by in a flash. I did my supervisor training (and Responsible serving of alcohol!) at the WACA last Friday and worked there for a day Tuesday doing set up. Russ worked Monday and Tuesday doing the same. We were both to work today but they are ahead of schedule with set up, so we weren’t needed. I work next on Saturday and Sunday at an England v WA game, then again on Tuesday for a 20/20 night match. Then The Ashes begin a couple of days later.

Last Friday we went over and had a drink with Leah after work, then stayed on until Blair flew in and had Thai take aways sitting outside beside the pool. It’s a nice life style here. Saturday we ran them to various Christmas dos and picked them up from the races when they couldn’t get a taxi-it’s nice just to be here to do the family sort of stuff.

Todd turned 28 yesterday, so 11 of us went to Chutney Mary’s (an Indian restaurant in Subiaco) to celebrate. It was a really fun night with really good food. Chutney Mary’s is on the really busy corner of Hay and Rokeby Sts right in the centre of Subi and our table was on the footpath right at the traffic lights. Dame Edna was playing at the theatre opposite. A very interesting place to sit, eat and watch the world go by!

Also yesterday we got word from the bride to expect an invite to a family wedding in March. I hope she meant it because we’ve booked our flights and will be gate crashing otherwise. Our plan is to arrive in Melbourne, catch a train to Traralgon, then go to the wedding in Werribee with my sister Glenda and BIL Peter on the Saturday. On Monday we will head to Port Fairy to spend a few days with Ryan and Kirstyn, then maybe go down to Portland for a night (Deb), come back and spend a couple of nights in Warrnambool, back to Melbourne then Perth the following day. We’ll be home for 2 weeks and hope to catch up with as many of you as we can.

Mick tells us he will be home in January-that’s 12 months he’s been gone. I think after a trip up to see Daniel on Hamilton Is. he will head to WA to work. There’s heaps of well paid work out in the mines and in construction and right now I think that’s what he desperately needs.

Today we planned to go fishing, but we have slightly unpredictable tummies after all that Indian food last night (probably the goat I reckon!) so have decided to write our Christmas cards, shop and do a bit of banking instead. We’ll probably fish tomorrow instead.