Particularly, this year!

I need to first seek readers’ indulgence for recording some celebratory events we are doing in the midst of this terrible war in the Middle East and the consequential local petrol and diesel dramas. We are also using the blog as a diary to record what is going on over the next few weeks.

Allthego and Homealone have knocked up fifty years of wedded bliss. It only seems like yesterday! A few screen shots follow , not the best…

The big event took place in Orange, NSW back in April 1976. Of course most of the older family are no longer with us and the younger ones who were there are mostly in different parts of the country.

A few weeks back we had planned a van trip down the New England Highway and back to Brisbane on the Pacific Highway to revisit a number of the motels we stayed in on the honeymoon. Still have the accomodation dockets, $10 a night with a $2 breakfast at the Walcha Motel an example. It is still there and looks like not much has been done to it. That trip is now off, the fuel situation makes planning hard and the van is also caput! To be written off due to just discovered hail damage. Now planning doing a mini version in the car.

While organising this trip Allthego has produced a wedding photo book, perhaps a bit late. Back in the 70s one mostly stuck photos behind plastic type sheets in a photo album and put them in a box where they gathered dust! Over time they deteriorated. We had some slides of the honeymoon too which also suffered from time and poor storage. We had some restoration work on a few of the wedding photos and Allthego did the best he could with some of the slides. At least the people came up ok! Got to find a box now to put the book in.

Enough though of the past for the moment. We are currently down at Rainbow Bay, near Coolangatta, for a few days ahead of the big day on April 17. We seem to be staying in a place near where Homealone stayed when she was an eight year old or so. Ah memories. We have stayed around this area before s few times, great little spot.

The Rainbow Bay Surf Life Saving Club calls tomorrow night for dinner.