January 2008

Dear Family and Friends,

We have had a lovely January. The weather has been superb and we have been making the most of it with visits to the beach and BBQ's.

Last weekend James, Zoe and the kids came over for dinner and we thought it was about time we had a family photo so here's a couple...

Amelia is still a cheeky monkey and while Iain was away in Brisbane last week we had girlie fun. Here's Amelia in her pigtails (and the white stuff is yoghurt) - she has a penchant for cucumber and yoghurt dip with her food at the moment!! She is also WALKING!!! We are very proud and she is just loving being mobile. She's about 10cms off the height chart so tall and now she's walking you can really see it. Wonder if we're going to have a supermodel or a basketball player on our hands???!!!!


And here we are with our matching palm tree hair!!

And here we are enjoying a day out at the beach.


We have also had a few lovely relaxing dinners with friends in the hills. Last week was the Stirling Community Carnival which is part of the Tour Down Under cycle race. It's great fun and we went to a new place in Stirling called the LocaVore. It's a tapas place but serves only food grown within 100 miles of the restaurant. It was very delicious with a couple of bottles of great local wine. We grazed over a 3 hour period with our friends Sam and Jane and their little girl Emily. Here are the 2 girls fast asleep.



Last weekend was Australia Day long weekend and we were delighted to catch up with my friend from Perth, Pam who is over for a couple of weeks. The 3 of us went down to the Bay at Glenelg and spent the afternoon enjoying food and wine in the sun. Here's Sarah and me.

Dave McDonald is staying with us this weekend. He lives back in Sydney now and is off to Barossa Under the Stars. A few big names playing again this year and the weather is perfect for it, 28 today. We are heading off to see James who is looking after the kids while Zoe is working. Tomorrow we will take Dave to some of the local wineries, Nepenthe and Shaw and Smith wil be our top picks and Bird in Hand as they make a cracking rose.

For those of you interested in a top drop. We recently bought some Chapel Hill Shiraz, which was a lovely wine. So good, we've ordered some more!

My job is still going really well. I've really settled in now and am getting to grips with the industry.

Hope you are all well and as usual we'd love to hear your news.

All the very best to Jane and Jason who are moving back to London and to Anne who should be a mum any day now. Looking forward to hearing the great news!

With much love to you all
Caroline, Iain and Amelia xxx