Happy Birthday to Lucy!

It's Thursday here so I thought I would put a quick post up to say Happy Birthday to Lucy! Will try and Skype you v soon sissy! Hope you have a great day xxx

Perth Birthdays!

Some pictures of this weekend's trip to Perth. Some were taken from the revolving top floor restaurant we went to for my bday on Thursday. I won't tell you how much we spent on cocktails. But. It. Was. A. Lot...... I may have to reconsider my trip home in October... ;)

Only joking.

The others were taken from the boat we hired on Sat for Soph's bday. We had a posh BBQ on board, drinking and lots of dancing. Good times.

Picture taken whilst out walking the other night down the beach....

2 days til I go to Perth. It's Sophie's 30th birthday so we are going out on a private boat. Here is the menu for the food and drink we will be having on board.

I have also arranged to meet up with Paul Symons, he used to live next door to us. He lives in Perth with his girlfriend. Last time I was over I caught up with Mikey Aitken (his mum used to own the jewellers in Banchory) and he put Paul and I in touch again.

Did the Barossa Half Marathon yesterday.... very scenic running around the wine region just north of Adelaide. Did the run in 1:49... which is a PB for me... :)

Official race results for the Mothers Day Classic Run I did on Sunday: I did the 7.5km in 36:09.... and was placed 248 out of 1400.....

Explaining my facebook posting.....!!!

OK... so here is today's lesson in Australian.... for every word... shorten it. And then add an 'O' on the end... so 'smoke break' becomes 'smoke-o' and 'Freemantle' becomes 'Free-o'.

Alcohol is sold in the 'bottle shop' so it's called the 'Bottle-O'. The bottle shops are drive thru...which I think is genius! ;) Why don't we have that in Scotland..?!!

Bundy is a type of rum made in Bundaberg in Queensland. Its potent. I like it.

So my FB posting was questioning whether it would be a step too far to go to the bottle shop for rum in my pajamas....? The answer of course is 'yes, it probably is!'

But I still did it..... ;)

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Other news: I have now had both ears pierced for the third time on each side. I think it looks nice. You ll all need to hold on to your excitement until you can see it in October....! I hope you will survive.....!

And.... I got my first speeding ticket this week. I was doing 94km/h on a dual carriageway which was 80km/h. Oops. $220 fine. And demerit points. Boo :(

So who would have thought that moving to Australia would mean an increase in my drinking habits...??! ;)

Not much to say this week, so I have attached a couple of photos from a girls night I went on on Saturday night.

Would you credit it that some other British people made it over to Australia before me...?! All these ladies pictured are Pommes!

No half marathon for me the next day. Although I rather ambitiously tried to get up to do RPM (the cycle class at the gym) the next morning. I knew as soon as we had done the warm up track that I was in trouble.....! I didn't spew. But it was close :)