BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 08:59 AM

I live close to the airport & might be able to pop over & say hello, or if they're in town for a bit we have 2 singing sessions here this week - shanty session on Thursday night & Australian songs Fri night.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:00 AM

bit of cross posting here

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:29 AM

LTS - if you need a place to stay in Sydney, you and Limpit are welcome to stay with me, just pm me.

freda

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 01:33 AM

Thought we might see them at Tir Na Nog folk club, but no.

By the way, K.T's Underwater World doesn't go under the harbour, it is all in a large sewage tank!

Well, it WAS a sewage holding tank until we stopped dumping the stuff into the sea. Then it was a large concrete-lined hole with the tide washing in and out, and then K.T. bent up the tunnel and invented the genre.
Impressive when stingrays swim over the tunnel and block out the light!

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 09:07 AM

They're baaack!

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 09:17 AM

Welcome back, guys. Rest up. Wash your hands - no telling what you picked up on those planes.
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: maeve
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 11:50 AM

Home safely? Wonderful. Thanks for letting us know.


maeve

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 01:13 PM

Welcome back! Glad you're back safe and sound

Love
Khatt and the clan! xxx

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 02:58 PM

Yes, we're back, we don't have swine flu although I do appear to have had three breakfasts in 15 hours...

By far the most uncomfortable part of the journey was the penultimate leg, by Underground train from Heathrow to Stratford.

Will post more when I get my head sorted. Manitas likes the shirt we bought him... all I can say it, it was not the loudest, nor the leeriest one available!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 04:24 PM

Get your brains re-set on your local time zone then tell us more about your trip!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Micca
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 04:35 AM

Welcome home Squeaky and Fibi, see you when you've recovered!!

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 06:17 AM

Sorry I didn't get to see anyone whilst I was dahn andah, family, time and travel constraints meant we couldn't make any side trips longer than 8 hours.

However, we did get to see some of the environs of Auckland - including the city, SkyTower, zoo, undersea world (where if it isn't under the harbour it's pretty close - the tide comes in right up to the cafe windows, judging by their thickness and the seaweed on the windowsill); the peninsulars either side of the South Auckland area, black sandy beach, white sandy beach, shelly beach and all manner of green fields, glacial plains and tectonicly enhanced mountain ranges in between. In fact, I saw more of the country in this 2 weeks than I did in the previous 2 months I spent there. We didn't exactly get a tan each but Limpit has a couple of freckles that weren't there before and I'm noticing that today is a bit chilly!

Plus I got my wish of seeing lots more native wildlife and acquiring my own Maori carvings (a lovely bone hair pin which survived Customs and the journey intact and a pendant with paua shell inset amongst others. The bone is certified beef bone). Limpit bought me a little wooden Maori Guardian who is presently on the fridge but will soon be moved into the dining room where I hope he'll be at home with the green men.

Thanks to everyone for the support, goodwill messages and help with everything, without which I would have probably gone possum (sat in the middle of the road and looked blank.. or dead.. which is the only way we saw possum there... squished and sort of startled looking).

Mother continues to improve, but is still weak. She's starting to put weight on again, and looks a lot less fragile than when we saw her on the 15th. Should the worst happen, we have had our visit and have our memories. She has a couple of more 'up to date' pictures of us and has met the teenage Limpit. She remembers her as a bouncy toddler who would not keep still... ah, how they change! I'm happy with her care, with the arrangements she has and her quality of life, which, although altered, is still fairly good. Thank you.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Micca
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 06:35 AM

Thanks for the update Liz, I am glad your Mum is on the mend, I expect the complete travelogue with slides and pix when I next see you, Sorry about the loss of dear Old Shadow while you were away, you know how fond of the auld bugger I was, and we will all miss her.

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 May 09 - 11:53 AM

Well, here are the last of the photos for this trip, leastways, the ones that will see the light of day! Rumours of the existance of a picture of me with short hair are grossly unfounded and an absolute fabrication!

Thanks again, everyone. Hope you've enjoyed the photos as much as I enjoyed taking most of them.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 01 May 09 - 03:54 PM

Great photos Liz! We've enjoyed looking at them here although Harry thinks there are giraffes in every picture...it's his new word bless him!

Look forward to seeing you when you have got settled back into life back home.

Khatt x

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 03 May 09 - 03:22 AM

Wot, no bungee jumping?

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 May 09 - 06:04 PM

We did take some pictures of some other idiots bungee jumping off the Sky Tower - they stop you after about 20' so that you're suspended in front of the viewing platform - then they drop you the other 200'...

I ain't that stupid.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: bfdk
Date: 04 May 09 - 06:34 PM

The postcard arrived in the mail today, thanks Liz for a pair of likely looking laddies :-)

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 May 09 - 07:04 AM

They were rather sweet weren't they! Glad you got the card.. that means my parcels should be here soon! They were posted on the same day and postcards are notorious for arriving long after the sender has returned home!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: LTS and Limpit off on an adventure!
From: ranger1
Date: 05 May 09 - 12:42 PM

Thanks for my post card, too, Liz. It came on Friday and I have it on the dash of the car (don't ask!).