Yesterday was a fishing day! I was pretty overexcited as it seems everyone in this world seems to fish except me, so I jumped at the opportunity when Phil's mate Pete offered to bring his boat down to the shack (beach house) for a day. Phil, Pete, Nick (Pete's son) and I jumped into the boat and we zoomed off down the River Derwent off past White Rock. It's called white rock because it's always absolutely covered in seagulls, and these seagulls cover it in seagull poo, well how about that!
I caught about 10 flathead fish in the space of an hour or two, but most were little tiddlers, not up to size. This made them not worth eating, so we threw all mine back. The others caught four big ones between them and so we went back to the shack to put 'em on the barbie! They were really meaty tasty, and we also had sausages and lamb chops and wedges and sprouts and onions and peas and sweetcorn and carrots and homebrew! Tom, Phil's son is in a band called Chamelion, who play all cover tracks, and don't write any of their own music. They had a gig last night and the Mayfair in Hobart, so anyone who's anyone went along and had a good time.
Today Phil, Rosie and I were kindly shown round the Australian Antarctic Division by Henk. That was fun.
This afternoon Laura and I came to Port Arthur, which is on a Peninsula in south Tasmania. It's a huge old prison where convicts used to be transformed through hard labour into civil citizens. There's a few photos below that I took on my way round the ground.
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Sounds like you've not quite built up the skills for catching big fish. To be honest I've never had much luck either - i remember when g and i went to france and tried to fish from the side of a river. I ended up trying way to hard to get the hook far out into the river that I flung it up into a tree and gaz ended up having to climb the tree to free the hook! At least you had some others in the 'team' who were a little less amateur and caught you some tasties to eat!
The prison thing sounds cool, the place looks so creepy!
Glad you're having fun, love you lots stodger x
Hi George - great blog!
You are having such a great time - glad the weather has improved, have you worn your shorts yet??? Have you done any work yet, knocking down houses and building sheds? I can't believe you have been away for 3 weeks - we miss you lots!
As usual I have had a very busy week - meetings and events, emails and conferences, writing strategies and meeting the Dept for children, schools and families (new name for DfES) - can't wait for my hols in two weeks time.
Charlie and Fran have had good fun this week, gone shopping and had their hair done etc etc. She is now thinking of doing her uni work next week to get it done. Dad is in Cheltenham tonight as he has been to Cardiff for a meeting.
Love you loads, miss you megaly, let's speak on Skype 9 am our time on Sunday (6pm your time).
Mumee x
Thanks for your post card we received it this morning - sat mornage. Love you lots x
Hi George, Went to a UNESCO conference in Cardiff Friday and yesterday. Poured down and had to get to a dinner at the National Mueum on Friday night - no taxis- had to walk and dried myself out under the hot air thingy in the gents. Took the train to Cheltenham yesterday. Raining again now. Weird weather. Taking the train back to London later. Who is fdfd by the way? See you! Dad
Was lovely speaking to you last night!! Glad you're well. It's chucking it down with rain here, just had my brekkie and about to get on with some work! Miss you and look forward to speaking to you Saturday night 7pm YOUR time. Love you x x x
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