A blog update!!

With a huge Bunya pine cone

I've finally got around to updating my blog!!  We're getting ready for a traditional English Christmas here.  Sha and her parents are expecting a large turkey, cranberry sauce, setting the pudding on fire and all the trimmings.

The bunya and hoop pines

Since the last blog update, we came back from Canada. went to Parkes, won the NSW Tall Poppy prize(!), Sha's parents arrived in Australia, played again in the Beecroft orchestra, went to Melbourne to be Mike's Best Man at his wedding, went to Tasmania for a spectacular holiday and then back to Parkes again.  Today we went to see the large Bunya pine cones at the Cumberland State Forest.  Sha is getting all excited at the moment and cooking some cup cakes.

The Bunya pine cones really were very impressive.  They weigh about 15kg and drop from a height of 30-40m.  Actually, the path was closed due to the danger of one falling on your head, but we ignored that.   Then we found a pine cone and wished we hadn't ignored the advice.

Sha with a strange fruit