Hello!!!!!!!

I am packing to come home! Hurrah!

I will go to Grandma's house in the morning on Monday and then come and pick you all up from school.

Walking like a penguin sounds very funny, I can't wait to see you both doing that. And look at this funny koala - he's very confused isn't he?!

Now I have to wear my big jeans and boots in the hot weather to start travelling - and somehow get everything else in the suitcase......difficult......

Love you all very much, and looking forward to big cuddles,

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my new feathered friend

Hi there,

I'm tired! It's past my bedtime but I've just finished work for the night, pinning feathers to my thing. Here's a little picture of it at the start - I'll get another soon, and then I'll be trying to put sound into it - weird - and it might not be nice sounds because they're harder to do.
I'm not seeing much of the country to tell you about now, so I am looking forward to getting back to you all soon. Love you all loads, and thank you for helping to look after Grandma!

big kisses and hugs, Mummy
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work work work

Hi yous guys,

this is the room I'm sitting in right now, but it's the end of the day and people are in various other workspaces. You can see it's fairly messy! We are using materials and threads with little lights and motors, things that you can push like buttons and stuff to make strange toys and clothes. In fact tomorrow we are having a toy hacking workshop where we break toys apart and use the techie stuff from inside them....! But in the meantime we sit and talk a lot, and get told a lot of new things like in school - it's quite hard!

Have you been swimming again yet? How are your headaches? I hope you feel better soon.

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kangaroos!

Yay, I saw some kangaroos today!

My room mate Leah, and a friend, Michael, took me to the coast, about 2 hours away, and we went to some beautiful beaches. One of them had a camp site near by, and under some trees on our way back were a whole bunch of kangaroos! One of them was really big, and lots of little ones were there too. They were using their tails to hop slowly about and eat grass. I also saw Pooh Bear's cave but it's by a road and we jut passed it in the car so I couldn't get a picture - Pooh was in there though, quite big!

And me on the beach....

But I am working hard, honest!

I love you all as long as a circle - thank you Ben for that idea, it's great!

Missing you all very much, and very pleased to speak to you this morning,

Mummyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

big spider

Hello everyone,

I can't believe it's already Thursday! The teachers are working us all really hard, and I will have to do some more planning after this tonight. I think I might make something like feathers or tree bark, maybe have some bird sounds going too. The birds are mad here - there are lots of magpies, but they're different from ours, noisier and nosier. They stare at you hard, like Paddington! And there are other ones that make the strangest sounds in the morning - I'm going to try and get a recording and even put it on here for you to hear it.

Talking of wildlife, I just met the biggest spider ever. It's called a huntsman, and it was as big as daddy's hand with very long legs. It was in my front room, where I am now, and Leah, my room mate, called one of the boys from the workshop to come and get it for us - he used a big saucepan to carry it far away, but we're not sure if we'll sleep too well tonight!

I was trying to put a picture in here, but it's not working - I'll try again tomorrow. I'm not sure what I'm doing for the weekend. Some people are going up to Sydney, a big city about 2 or 3 hours away, but I might stay here and take it easy! I haven't seen any kangaroos yet, and koalas are quite rare and mostly live in a sort of zoo...I do want to see something nicer than that spider.

It rained today here, and people ran around dancing and grinning. They've been in a drought for the last ten years - that means not having enough water because it doesn't rain enough, so they were very happy! I hear you might have had snow - is that right?

How are Rainbow Teddy and Rabbit? Did they come swimming with you? I bet grandma was amazed at how good you both were - which grandma came with you? Give them a hug for me won't you, and then have a big hug for yourself from me too. I love you very much and will enjoy telling you my stories when I get back.

with all my love and kisses (you have to blow them hard from here to Scotland),
Mummy
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G'day! How are you all in sunny Edinburgh? It's T-shirt weather here of course. The birds make a huge noise, far louder than at home, and the first one I saw outside my window was a big blue parrot!

Someone told me there are possums in the trees (like these ones on the university campus where we are), and wombats too, though I haven't seen any yet. I am promised kangaroos at some point, but I think koalas are safe in a reserve somewhere to make sure they have plenty to eat.

I am sharing an apartment with a girl called Leah. She's very nice and has made a big red heart that vibrates! Our apartment is really big and everyone is getting organised with shopping now to do dinners for each other in turn so we can eat well in between working. Today we talked a bit about our work - there are about twenty of us, so that took quite a long time, plus the leaders!

I hope you get a chance to look at this and work out how to use it. If not, email me anyway and we'll keep in touch. The blog for the project is at http://www.anat.org.au/reskin/ (and click on the 'blog' link) - and I think I might be in a little piccie there from today!

Love you all loads, and will take more interesting pictures than this soon, I promise!!

Big kisses,

Sarah/Mummyxxxxxxooooxxxxx

Hello Ben and Lucie, this is Mummy here!

This is where we can talk and send pictures when I'm in Australia!