Warrawong park

http://www.zoossa.com.au/warrawong

 Got into this place for free on our zoo membership and got to know some of the local creepy crawlies... this is a leaf insect...

 Daniel and the skink

Issy and the same skink

The princess and the pea!

I  was  in  a  play  of  "The   Princess   and he   pea  "    and  I  was  the   Princess

Our stuff has arrived!

 This is our little Ikea table from which all the blogging and emailing and skying takes place!

 Our bookshelf. Notice the inspirational objects for this grueling process on the little table next to the globe - my late husband's PhD, my father's PhD, my father-in-law's Masters and my Masters...!

 Our special picture, commissioned on Gerry's 40th... Daniel had his first dream about Gerhard in Australia last night. He has dreamt a lot about him since he died... unlike Issy and I.

 Issy's room...just as small as what she had in SA and almost as full!

 Daniel's soon to be teenage boy's den...complete with Gerhard's last self-portrait on the pelmet... he has a lovely large room with lots of light

 And the (tidy) fabric wardrobe that keeps falling apart!

 My room, complete with broken mirror... was my grandmother's and sadly broke in the move along with a beloved old coffee table and TV cabinet.

Issy's teddy came with and now wears the cancer bandanna that Gerhard bought for her just before he died. Her baptism poem made for her  by her grandparents has pride of place above him.

 Our art gallery cum lounge, with all our favourite family photos and paintings... and Danny's still to be set up grammaphone. (He said last night that he wishes his cousin Iggie was here to set it up with him)

And our kitchen, dining room... with floor recently washed by my own fair hands and steam mop!

We hope to get our furniture next week!

Dear Ms. Viljoen,

Your import shipment was inspected by Daff Bio-security officers yesterday.  They have found quarantine risk material and an order has been issued for  Treatment, Re-exportation or Destruction of the following items:

1 x Nativity set with bark and grass,

 6 Xmas decorations made of straw,

 1 Xmas star made of vine and sticks.

Gamma Irradiation cannot be done in Adelaide, and items need forwarding to Melbourne plant for treatment. Costs are great including transportation costs would be over $500-

Re-exportation:   depending on where it need returning to costs would be for new shipment.

Destruction under quarantine supervision:  $88.00

Please see attached ‘’Agreement to Treat” form.  Please read carefully, complete as required and sign and date bottom of form.  Return to myself within the next few days.

The shipment is now cleared conditionally, subject to the above.

Once form is received back we can confirm the cost payable & make shipment available for delivery asap.

Kind regards,

Sharon White

International Operations - Adelaide
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Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

This one's for you Iggie... its like a massive kingfisher.

Yesterday we went to the sports day at Danny and Issy's school-to-be on a local footy oval next to the school ( http://www.norwoodps.sa.edu.au/http://www.norwoodps.sa.edu.au/). David, their principal is standing up, dressed in grey and on the far left of the group pf kids (behind the blue tent) clustered around the parachute...

Isabella' room

This is our lounge... an ex-colleague's children who are also in Adelaide let us some chairs...

Isabella's room complete with fabric cupboard and blow up matrass...
And the mural she is making of her dog Sparkles that she had to leave behind

 

our car

This is it! Our little black Getz which we swapped our polo for. And we finally figured out ho wto open teh grage... not bad for 2 weeks of trying.

Rundle mall

I  am  Isabella (issy) .  my  fine  friend  oliver  has  come  to   dine .

i  am  dan  the   man.   I  love  milk  PSP  BOOKS

Viljoens in Adelaide

We have been in Adelaide for nearly two weeks now... This is our back garden with our three recycling bins, unlike in South Africa. But just like in South Africa the rubbish is still collected on a Tuesday.

We have explored one of our closest beaches... we just took teh bus as far as it would go, to Henley beach and walked to the end of the jetty.

Koalas and

kangaroos can get up close and personal at Gorge Wildlife Park in the Hills (about 20 minutes ease- in the opposite direction to the beach). We are in STEPney, an inner city suburb in the middle. The kids are not at school yet, once they are we can show mundane photos of school and Uni