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Just to keep up with everyone else when I soooo should be in bed

And I thought there were actually going to be some posts for me to read!

Ok, ok I'll fall into line then

I have only 2 words to say

Straight Feet!



Ok Left one was always worse than the right but he is up almost a shoe size just because of this, that's how bad his toes were curled around.
Nate's treatment has finished for now, she got such a good stretch in the first week she was able to put it in stretch number 3 last week which means he is out of his chair and out of plasters I admit I did shed a tear.
Anyway been up since 4am (picking the damn plaster/fibreglass off) and just finished making 50 odd fruit kebabs for morning tea at school.

Tash his feet look great! Does this mean a trip to the shoe shop?

Theoni... your alive l get so excited when l see your sig and know your still around.

I was really excited thinking l could log on with my new faster internet today, but l have to wait until after 1
At least l will have a couple of distractions.

Fi how was the trip to the airport? What size shirt does your brother wear, l'm going to be a dork and bring him a t-shirt from our bike club I could take Him for a ride on his bike Oh l crack myself up some times.

I am over having mice as pets, cleaning them every couple of days so they don't smell Zoe is still really into them so they have to stay.

WOOHOO Tash!. Great news. Nates feet look great.

Woohoo to Nate. Great news that only one set of plasters were needed, I bet he is so happy to be running around again.

Hope Kim and Loretta are having a fantastic day at Jo's house.

I'm off to my parents house for a sleepover there tonight with the boys

Thanks so much to my visitors for making the trek today.. they came by planes, trains and automobiles!
Hope you all make it home safe.

All home safe Joey, although Loretta was a little stressed out. It was very windy until Pakenham and then it poured with rain. I got home to no power and it has just came back on. I need to ask you a favour, next time you go out can you grab the number of the tinny boat that is up for sale at the end of your street? I didn't get a chance to catch the number. Thanks for hosting us today, your house is gorgeous. I love the view from the kitchen!

Tash, his feet look fantastic.

I am having anvers truffles for desert, yummo!

Hello All,

Jo we are home safely. Your house was so nice, I love it, and if you could pick it up and move it here I'd live in it LOL.
The drive was a bit hairy, and the rain didnt make it any easier but we still made good time to get Tracee on the earlier train that will get her and Abbey home by 9.

Kimmee- No power hey, Apparently there has been no power in Northern Tasmania all afternoon according to Jason who rang Fiona and I while we were at La porchetta.

It's been lovely to see Fiona again and to see Tracee and Joey was nicely surprised by our little treats all three of them.

Tash- Nates feet look great, I'm so glad the treatment is working. How long does he have to wear the plasters for now?

Love to all.

I'm home, I'm exhausted, I'm hungry but I had fun
Thanks ladies

Aww Im jealous of todays meet, you better do it all again when I get back down there. Shouldn't be long now - Raz's referee's were contacted today and then they rang him and asked him to complete an online questionnaire and then told him they would be in touch tomorrow morning

Oh just wanted to let you know my sister is thinking of everyone in here she just has a lot on her plate. So much so that I wish I was down there to help her out - just gotta get this place sold asap and I'M THERE!!!

Loretta hopefully Nate needs no more plasters. He completed the cross country today of which I am very very proud of him, he still has jelly legs and he walked the course but he did it and is so proud of himself.

Tash -wow Nate's feet look great! I'm so happy for you all!

You Vic Ladies sounded like the meet-up at Jo's was lovely although the drive home sounded a bit hairy!

We got the strong winds here too although no power blackouts where we were although lots of traffic lights out yesterday and lots af car accidents... We even got some hail last night -talk about going from extremes of weather from record heatwave to this!

I haven't got Internet access at home thanks to Ross changing over to Virgin on Monday. He leaves on Tuesday morning back to Roxby -of course I come in on Tues. evening -no net! I've tried several things he suggested but still nothing and as I'm not that technically savvy looks like I'll be off here for a while -I'm off work tomorrow and Monday (tomorrow is a little white lie "family leave" day as my parents who babysit Joel on Fridays are travelling to Barmera in the Riverland for my mum's sister's 80th!). As I have no-one else to look after him I'm afraid we must take the day off!

Theoni -please post and let us know how you are doing!

Does anyone hear from Verity? I often wonder how she is going? I guess busy with work and 2 kids!

Ok a proper post now I've had some sleep

Fi, Kim and Jo it was very nice to suprise you ALL for a change. Loretta thankyou so much for making it happen and for all the driving you did for Abbey and I. Jo thanks for having us all yesterday. Sorry I didn't get to say a proper goodbye to you all but we did make the earlier train at Loretta's station. Bugger we only got one station down before being told to disembark the train. Waited in the last undercover spot for the next train along with all the other people still waiting for a train. It wasn't too long a wait, maybe 10mins. Got to Flinders st with 15mins to make our connection at Southern Cross, was a train on the next platform heading that way. It too was delayed and we got into Southern Cross with 5mins to spare and a 5 min walk. We bolted ( as I didn't want to wait an hour for the next train, I wanted to get home) and had 3 mins to spare so quickly ran into the lolly shop, Abbey grabbed the first thing she saw, I grabbed a Coke and we got on with a minute to spare (and a VERY unbalanced dinner, LOL!). Friggen train sat there for 20 extra mins then didn't it! I could have ordered a coffee, Abbey could have had something nice for dinner, we could have gone to the loo. Oh well, we made it home in one piece and worked out we travelled enough kms over the past 2 days to have made it to Sydney or Adelaide .

The wind was crazy yesterday! Loretta you did an awesome job getting us home safe, really was quietly crapping my pants about the trees on the sides of the roads!! My windows at home are all brown and spotty from the dust and rain so looks like I have a fun job today!

Emails galore to catch up on, have to phone the machine repairest and ask where my babies are and get this house tidied up.

Love Trace

Raz got the job! Quietly poopin my pants selling and packing a house by myself. Raz finishes the 24th April and starts the 28th up here for a week and then begins his role as Victorian manager on the 5th May. It just so happens that we have flights down on the 7th May for a week so at least the house will remain tidy and hopefully someone puts an offer in while I am away so we don't have to keep it nice well it can stay nice and remain that way. I phoned and gave notice at my work today for the 24th April as once Raz goes I will have to be home at night. It's going to be a fun adventure for me and Nate here and Josh has already dates filling up in his diary for sleep overs at his cousins.
I can't wait!

Congratulations to Raz on the job. That's gonna be a heck of a commute every day though. Really Tash you've got to go live near to Loretta and Kim, that'll be much easier on Raz And way to go to Nate on the cross country that's a pretty mean feat (some pun intended )

Yay that Fi and Tracee got to make it to Jo's house too. You lucky things. I want to go check out her chooks and cubby house and all those exciting things she is always telling us about

Hope all the VIC girls houses stayed intact yesterday. Not a good day for driving hey Loretta

Re Verity - I have been a slack a*se lately (in more than just this area, but this is just typical) and haven't seen or talked to her since before Christmas. I've been promising myself I would ring her every Monday or Tuesday for the last few weeks and just have never got round to it. I will try to do so soon as I really want to find out how Sam's going at school.

Fi have a safe trip home

I almost left the girls home alone. We came home from speech, Jocks car is here, the shed lights are on and music blaring.
I am supposed to be going out, told the girls to go out to daddy. Kelly didn't want to, so l went to tell him to come inside. He isn't here, neither is his dirt bike

Raz congrats on the new job.
Tash l really hope you house sells fast so you know when you can move too. Nate is amazing! Doing a cross country so soon.

Hey all,

I have dropped Fiona at the airport, I didnt cry this time, the traffic was horrid and it took me two hours to get through the city, the tunnel was ridiculous 2 hours is ridiculous and with all kids in the car it was horrid, and that doesnt even count the hour and a half it took to get to the airport, NOT happy Jan.

BUT I had a GREAT 2 days, it was so nice to see Fiona and just have her here. It was so nice.

Jo- Grr to Jock for not being home, smack his bottom ok.

Fiona- You are very cheeky and did not need to leave what you did in my wallet. MWAH thankyou.

Tracee- Glad you got home safe, Abbey has stolen my heart,
I'll do a child swap anyday and make sure you get "Video killed the radio star" on video thats so adorable.

Tash- No plasters now is excellent, I hope your house sells nice and quick. Well done to Raz on the job.

Love to all,

I made it home, It's chilly but we have power LOL. Apparently the power was out in our area from about 4.30pm (not quite the 3pm that I must have misheard on the phone last night) until 11pm. J got stuck at a clients property when a tree fell across the road. Bloody clients who live up woop woop ROFL (they're actually closer to town than we are).

Jo, Jock's a sh*te for doing that! Thank god you checked!

In better news it was so lovely to see your home, and actually be able to put a home to the Joey that I love. I'd move out there, I could quite happily take "Southfork" and plop it on some land out that way LOL.

Loretta, if you aren't quick enough to look i'll leave more than condoms in there next time

Bedtime, my "lecky" blanket is on and i'm tired.

Just checking in to say I/we are all well but laptop is dying so finding it hard to type!
Better go have work tomorrow
Cheers
Theoni
PS Tash, wonderful result with Nates feet!!Goodluck with the move too.

I'm so jealous! Can't wait to make the trip down to Tas. And, now I want to see Joey's house.

Tash - Woo hoo, congrats to Raz. All seems to falling into place. Oh and Nate's feet, wow! Good on him for joining in the cross country.

Donna - u hoo, Donna? Are you there?

Bad Jock, bad! Glad you checked before you left, Jo. Men are hopeless sometimes.

Jon left his mobile at home this morning and I was going to meet up with him after I'd dropped the kids at school. He wasn't at the arranged meeting place, I couldn't find him. I was about to headhome when I got a 1800 reverse call to my mobile from him, he forgotten his wallet too! He thought we'd arranged to meet at a different location, well basically he just hadn't explained himself very well.
My day just kept stuffing up after that, just little things but it was so annoying. Then this evening, Joel came out of his room and presented me with a tablet, panadiene forte. When asked where he found it his showed me an old handbag of Nanna's that she'd given him yesterday for the dress up box. That woman is intolerable
Just another thing I'm going to have to double check from now on. Don't know how much longer I can do this, just dreaming of visiting the nursing home

On a good note, (cause it's not all bad, it's just been a crap day) here is my big 7 year old, Jeremiah.

Sharon - don't you just hate those days? I sincerely hope tomorrow is better.

Fiona - you are a darling surprising everyone. Just wish I was there too.

Tracee - Did you get your babies back?

Theoni and Verity and Jane and Dani, thinking of you all.

Jen - How goes the mad dash?? You can look forward to some visits from Raz too, he will be spending some time in Perth for work as the Manufacturing plant is there. Hoping I can tag along on one of his trips and finally meet you.

Mel - I would consider a move over there but right now my sister really really needs me close. And I need her.

Kristina - Grr on the Virgin Broadband, I know heaps of people that have had major troubles with them. Including one of their own employees. Enjoy your day off tomorrow.

*Warning personal opinion ahead - feel free to disregard*
Jo - Honey I am sorry but Jock sounds more like your rebellious teenager than your husband/partner/father of your children. He comes and goes as he pleases and it gets my goat. Hon you have to live with him so mine is only an opinion. I know what I'd be doin though yankin his chain in a few kilometres. Jo you deserve to be treated better than that. You are a strong capable woman (just look at that house and everything you've done) don't take it baby. Oh and hon I know I sound harsh but you also know me enough to know that I say it out of love and not to be spiteful. Love ya babe. Oh and look forward to more visits from us when we pass thru to Bdale too.

Its ok Tash, l've been doing A LOT of thinking. I'm sticking it out for now, mostly for the girls, hoping that things will get better.

I did make it to the body shop party, l did feet so l could still knit everyone else did hands.

Sharon Jeramiah looks very grown up, wish him a happy birthday from me.
Have you been looking at nursing homes?

Theoni hope you have a wonderful birthday today, even though you are at work.

Happy Birthday Theoni, 21 is a nice age to be

Happy Birthday too for Jere, love the matching shirt and cake! Grr to MIL, she is a shocker .

Fi, glad you made it home safe and sound. You do have to share what went in the drawer now you know!

Tash, my babies are back, picked them up this morning (Murray forgot to tell me they called on Tuesday ), am getting my eb fix then off to sew for the day.

Jo, just hugs cos I'm not sure what else, but know we're all here

We're off to the IL's for the weekend. We have a wedding to go to tomorrow, it will be the first time Murray and I have been 'together' at a wedding without being in the bridal party. IL's will have the kids while we party and then we get a sleep in the next day too if we're lucky .

Love Trace

Well Trace, I generally try to stay out of people's drawers except for those that hide the f**king coffee in ridiculously obscure places! Who puts instant coffee in Tupperware in their pantry!!!! I did however put some money in Loretta's wallet, most of it was for the towels she did for the girls but there was also some to cover the fuel and dinner. She's completly nuts if she thought i'd let her do it for free!!!

J and I have never been to a wedding together either LOL.

BTW Loretta, did you buy your eTag for yesterday ???

Jo, Spoke to A and he said that he is size medium, typical bloke, he has no idea - he is size LARGE, even I know that LOL. He also said you can take him for a spin, he just needs to get some bike insurance first ROFL, I wasn't sure whether that was a dig at female bikie chicks or what he was trying to tell me, but I didn't have time to run him over in my car if I didn't like the answer i'd get. He's looking forward to meeting you. Did I mention he's single and a brilliant uncle??? i'd be a great SIL(in my ever so humble opinion)...

Shaz, great cake - did you make it? He's gorgeous. Hope you had a brilliant day Bullfrog.

Happy birthday Theoni, lovely to hear from you.

Not sure if I congratulated you Raz, but YAY on the job!!!!!

Well I've somehow managed to get the upstairs computer to work (where the silly Virgin modem is) -in our house we have to have 2 of everything (excluding kids of course!!) so I'll take ths opportunity befre it may crash to wish Theoni a very happy bithday!
This computer also uses a wireless keyboard which doesn't seem to work that well so excuse any typos please! And the screen is our LCD TV monitor which is several metres away so it's very hard to see what you have typed!! But there's lovely sea view up here so that's nice!

Ironically Joel didn't feel well last night so I gave him some Ibofofren for his fever but he seems right as rain today for his "sick day"! We went shopping and I ended up at target with two knitted tops and 3 purple pansys for our 3 hanging baskets out the front which were looking rather sad....

Have been investigating an investment proprrty in UK in Ross's home town of Retford -found this one which looks nice as it is right on the river -works out to be on for around A$230 000 and the agent reckons it could fetch around A$984 a week in rent! I am finding this incredibly hard to believe maybe she meant per month but she definitely put between 450-500 pounds a week in her email!
22 Swans Quay Retford UK

What do you girls think? Bit hard to buy over the net -Ross should get his dad and step-mum to view it and give us their opinion....

Happy Birthday Theoni! Best wishes, hope you got some goodies.

Yep, I made the cake. Jeremiah's favorite NRL team is Manly Sea Eagles, like his Dad. It was free dress day at school so he wore his jersey. I let him read the messages you've left for him, he wanted to know how Fi new his nickname was Bullfrog, LOL!

Tracee - Naughty Murray, not passing on the message. He probably did it deliberately so he could have you to himself, LOL.

Joey - You're such a strong woman, love you! My boy is growing up, isn't he. He's so damn gorgeous too, bias, I know, but he is! Oh and I'm just dreaming of the day MIL goes into a nursing home, she's not quite there yet, the looney bin would suit better atm.

Suppose I'd better feed the troops, then bath them and put them to bed. Then bliss, Jon will be watching rugby league all night so I can do whatever I want.

kristina, this isn't the keyboard that speaks in tongues is it? LOL

:smileKaren -lol!! tat was a mouse bu as yoca see it's begun again -lok out everbody! bloody Ross' s wireless toys!!

Sharn - te cake looked great! Lucky boy Jer enjoy th eenig ladsas


P.S. just heard back from the agent in England -it was for 450-500 pounds a MONTH not a week -she was having a "moment" -I'll give her a moment!!!!!

If it's one of you - I want a PM by the AM explaining it, right?

Not me Fi, but did you find out who?

Kristina, lol at your keyboard antics. It was quite fun to read. The house looks quite nice, but I would get someone to check it out first.

Happy Birthday Jeremiah, your cake looked yummo.

Happy Birthday Theoni, I hope you had a great day even though you had to work.

Tash, congrats to Raz on the new job. You will be fine for a little while on your own, you will be so busy the time will fly!

Joey, Sometimes these men just don't get it. We should pack them up with Sharon's MIL. That would be good.

Tyler had his 4 yo immunisations today, I know I had been slack but it's done now. He was very brave and only cried a little bit. He even coverered his own eyes so he didn't see them go in. Emily had her first Gardasil and that was a nightmare. She was absolutely hysterical for about 20 minutes. I swear the whole medical centre heard her. The nurse who is a friend calmed her down and we eventually got it into her. She understands why she has to have it and what it does but she seems to have developed a massive needle phobia. Anyway, we have decided that Troy will take her for the next one and hopefully she won't be so dramatic. I felt so bad for her but she was totally inconsolable and just screamed, kicked, punched and cried. I need to do some research to try and help her for the next one.

Have a great weekend everyone.

i'm confuzzled fi, what the are you talking about lewis?

Oh thanks for the birthday wishes!! Got spoilt a bit. Boss even organised a cake at work.
Happy birhtday to Jere as well! He is gorgeous Sharon!
Fi,did something happen? I totally don't understand your last post. I hope your ok.
This keyboard is sh*tting me. Might take advantage of the 18months interest free finance at HN and get a new laptop.
Love to all
Theoni

Happy Birthday Theoni!

Fiona I am completely confuzzled with your post too. Hope the witches on EB aren't stirring up more stuff

Hi Guys,

Congrats on Nate's casts Tash and Raz getting the job.

Fi - ? Hope everythings okay

We're okay, Mums out, Megan's not doing too well on the gastro side (only one month till review TG - currently filling the toilet bowl with blood from her hemmaroids when she does a poo even though I've upped her Movicol back to what it was when we atarted as advised) and I'm stressed so just 'busy'. I so hope having 3 children of my own is easier than this!! I'm tired of cleaning and clearing up after her and not being able to "scream" IYKWIM. Yesterday the car had to have it's brakes replaced so I dropped it off and we walked 5 blocks uphill to a playground for Megan. I'm struggling with grinding baby and 'starting to be dodgy pelvis' but Mum just sits in the shade while I chase adn play with Megan (not that I minded having fun with my girl - I'd have just liked a sit). I finally have enough and go over and say "I HAVE to sit Mum, could you go and push her on the swing", she justs moves over on the bench and says "oh, she'll be fine' Then she wants to come over in July to 'help' I politely declined

Sharon - you are a saint living with your MIL full time!!

Happy Birthday Theoni, It would be lovely to see you and the girls. Do you think we could all manage something in the holidays?

On a happy note - Megan's speech has done a sudden burst using the m, p, b, ou, argh, and eee we've been practising and she has finally started using 2 words together I got told to "stop tal" on Thrusday

As soon as Ozkick has finished and the kids return we're off south to Kiama for a picnic and walk. Quite excited adn looking forward to a day with the kids

i know what fi is talking about now and nope, it ain't me!

What is going on Fiona? I'm assuming it's from a certain site, email me.

Kristina- The house sounds excellent, and oversea's investment, surely this means you have to go look at it. LOL

Gosh Kimmee on Em's needle phobia. Poor bugger.
BTW I only had Alanna's 4 yr olds done in December and I thought I was BAD. LOL

Love to all.

Pretty sure it aint me either

Theoni - happy belated birthday.

Rachel - Megan has hemeroids???? That sounds terrible. Sorry your mum is being a pain and inconsiderate. Are you up for a coffee night any time soon?

Mel - see above. Coffee night??? 15th, 16th, 17th April DH on afternoons so my house available, otherwise 23rd, 24th I can do cafe or other house. Let me know.

Theoni - see above.

Tash - congrats to Raz and hope the sell happens quickly for you.

M

Hi ladies,
Thought I'd better pop my head in so you didn't think I had forgotten about you all. I wont make any excuses about being busy as I know you all are too. I hope everyone is doing well, I have only managed to read through the latest thread, so I don't really know who's up to what, but Happy birthday to those that have had one, Rachel, when is baby due again? Big kisses to Jo, Kim, Fi, Trace, Kristina, Karen, Michelle, Sharon & Loretta (hope I haven't forgotten anyone)
Soooooooooooooooooooooo bloody excited about Tash coming HOME, I'm counting the days. And I am so glad you oposted a photo of Nate's straight feet tash as I hadn't seen a pic of them ot of the plaster, They lok WONDERFUL
I will endeavour to keep up the posts now that things are settling down a bit.
Speaking of keyboards with moinds of their own, my laptop has a bad habit of throwing extra 'ooooooooooooooooooo's in whenver it feels like it, apologies for all future typo's.
Not long now till you all visit Fi in TAS, you must be so excited.
Well I'll leave off there as I am finding it really hard to type, I burned my left hand last night at a BBQ after tripping over the leg of a chair and instead of falling into the outdoor pot belly (that was glowing red hot) I put my hand out to stop my fall by grabbing the glowing red chimney of the pot belly instead What an idiot!!! And ofcourse being sunday there are no doc's open here and I'll be buggered if I'm gonna spend my Sunday in a hospital. My neighbour is a nurse and she has patched it up till I can go see someone tomorrow. I can't imagine how these little kids you hear of getting burnt to large parts of their little bodies can survive the pain. My hand is just throbbing. (Time for some nurofen I think)
I look forward to hearing about all your lives & adventures.
Love & kisses to all
Tracey

Great to see you Tracey! OUCH on the hand !!! Did you manage to keep the profanities in? LOL

I really want to go and see Wicked the Musical so I thought i'd open it up and see who else would like to go too.

Thought it would be a bit more private on MSN,Link to MSN

I need to know by Wednesday, 9th April because i'll be booking regardless on Wednesday evening. These tickets are getting hard to get.

Thanks Fi,
I was so embarrassed at the time that I didn't let anyone know how much it hurt, I had had a couple of drinks so i was a little anethatised at the time , but certainly hadn't had enough to dull it completely. Needless to say i left the party shortly afterwards carrying a plastic cup full of ice with me soo as not to not make it obvious. I haven't told anyone from last night how bad it is, I think they will laugh to hard at me and prolly blame the alcohol. I just wished I'd had more to drink so I didn't feel it so much. Maybe I'll have a few tonight so I can sleep

Ouch tracey! I thought I was the only one here to do slly things like that! I hope it stops throbbing soon and heals quickly -burns are horrible aren't they?


Fi -I would LOVE to see Wicked the Musical as I am a huge Wicked Witch of the West fan! (just ask Ross who has to put up with my witchy paraphanalia around the house! )
However I doubt very much I could take the time off work to go to Melbourne in August since I'm taking 5 weeks off in May/June when we go overseas and I'll need the rest of my leave for when Joel starts scool and the school holidays! Bummer! I'm sure you will love it though and you will have to give us a full critique!

This keyboard is givin me the sh*ts! I've replaced tge bloody batteris and its plyin up again!!!
Better go befre I throw it off the balcony!

Tracey great to see you post. I burnt my finger this morning too, anothe rstupid thing too. Getting the eggs out of the frypan I put my middle right finger pad straight onto the frypan (thinking it was on the egg slide) not sure how I am going to key tomorrow night at 3000 vouchers per hour as it is my main finger for keying. Luckily the constant Ice I kept on it meant that the blister has been minimised.

Fiona - I would love to come but I just can't come up with the money this week. Im thinkin by August I will well and truly be there and I would be there with bells on but alas the $$ are tight to be able to fix you up this wednesday.

We got busy this weekend, had a garage sale on Saturday and made nearly $600 and today we had a freecycle day so ppl came and cleaned us out. I put ALL of the rest straight into the trailer and took it to the dump. The guys at the dump loved me, they made me pull up straight next to the shop and they just took it all into the shop. I did it while the boys slept so nothing snuck back into the house. (Aren't you proud of me Trace? LOL )
Poor Josh is sleeping on his cot mattress on the floor at the moment, I literally sold the cot out from under him hehe. Also sold the spare queen bed as well so even less to move YAY.

The money will come in handy when I have to pay the professional photographer on Friday, we have signed the papers and the house goes on the market on Wednesday. It should be on Realestate.com on Saturday. We are paying extra for a professional photographer rather than the RE photo's.
In between the Garage sale, Raz weeded around the pool and today did 2 runs to the landscape supplies and we have remulched the entire pool area, then we got a nice soaking rain for the rest of the afternoon so it has all settled nicely. So the Gardens are all done the house is completely free of junk and I can get on with packing.
A friend has a garage full of brand new Grace removals boxes so I bought 70 off her today for $60 and now I have almost everything I need to pack this house up. Now all we need is a contract.

Anyway I have to get dinner started
Love to all
Tash -xx-

Oooh I didn't make that bit very clear did I? I'll buy the tickets, you certainly don't have to pay for them straight away! I understand that with budgets these things take time allow for. All I want to do by Wednesday is to be able to book them so that we can all be together if at all possible. I won't receive them for another 6 weeks or so. My only proviso is that anyone who agrees to have a ticket pays for it, I don't really want to be out of pocket at the other end of it all.