Annie's Blog

Interesting to see how quickly Christmas turns into New Year...with a birthday celebration in between. How the cassia has come back to life so nicely... a wonderful sunset to end the old year... love the way one can witness the New Year celebrations all around the world for 24 hours. the last vestiges of Christmas remain... out to lunch with family on New Year's Day  then out to the airport for some special visitors look, here they come now Hello everyone, so nice to see you again...time to have some fun again! Happy New Year Everyone.

I wish to say a Happy New Year. The sun shone yesterday for the first time it seemed for quite a while and when I saw the water moving quite strongly in the pool I wondered why, until I saw this little fellow sitting up there he'd been having a bath in the pool. After all our rain. The tawny frogmouths from down south wanted to wish you a Happy New Year too! May God go with you in 2011. The situation in Queensland is pretty dire at the moment with all the floods across the state. Many people have been evacuated from their homes, including whole towns of Theodore yesterday and Condamine last night, all by helicopter. They say the affected areas make up the size of France and Germany combined. About 200,000 people have been affected. Australia is really a strange land of contrasts. While we have widespread floods up here in our state, down south in Victoria and South Australia, after much rain this year themselves, they are once again having a heat wave and are at risk of bush fires...