Dave and Peter Woods

We are having a very pleasant time entertaining Dave and Peter Woods.  Adam adores having Peter (16 years old) here. Peter is a great musician and footy player. A good role model for our boy! Trumpet lessons are underway, as is a healthy resurgence of a scouse accent (although only from Adam...not Soph :))

Most of the weekend was spent chilling out although we did hit the pool and of course we watched all the available footy.  Last night we went to Leo and Joanne's annual summer music fest.  Adam and Peter did a turn off the back of about 10 minutes rehearsal.  Hats off to Peter to accompanied Adam on the guitar despite having never actually heard the tune before!!!

Here is a link to a vid of the "fab 2"

Ooh...almost forgot.  Adam competed in his first swim race at the Edgewood Club last week.  The team is called the "Edgewood Eels". Have to say it was an excellent day out.  Lots of great kids, great parents, great coaches.  Just good fun.  I am impressed!

Bike Camping With Scallywags

Shame on me for being being such a slacker. Life has been busy, cameras have been lost and found, Facebook serves as an easy distraction for sharing news but, let's face it,......I must try harder!

Loads has happened.  Much of it forgotten (which is exactly why this blog needs maintaining).

Adam played the Spring footy season at Pittsburgh Dynamo.  I coached...which, frankly, was a bit of a disaster because I naturally revert to "Scouse Git Man" whenever there is a large round ball nearby.  None of the kids (except Adam) has any idea what I was rattling on about but we won all our games anyway so something must have gone right. Actually, I think we did well because, well, a) the kids can actually play well and b) Brent Plummer did a top job of translating and organizing and....er....coaching.  So well done us.

Last weekend was Father's day here so Brent and I took our boys (and the Soph) bike camping.  We rode 16 miles South East along the Yough trail to Adelaide with all our gear and camped overnight.  It was a great weekend!  Adam and his buddy Caelen rode their own (new) bikes.  Soph rode on Brent's tandem and Aiden rode with me.  Packing was a bit of a nightmare. I took too much and forgot half of what I actually needed (including raingear) but we saw a Copperhead snake, got rained out in a lightning  storm and then sprayed by a skunk so what more can you ask for?

Shaz's brother Dave and his son Peter arrive tomorrow. Will try and update with more news soon.