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Twenty-Fifteen thanks - you've been great!

2015  a very delightful year! Family highlights: Schools out for ever ! All Kids at University.  Travel:  Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, UK, Belgium, France, Vanuatu Career highlights: returning to paid employment with Asylum Seekers.  Isn't it interesting to see your most popular posts,  compared with what you believe are your best posts ?! Here are the most viewed each month  with March's My Sunday Photo "Escape" coming in the winner! JANUARY Happy Australia Day 2015   FEBRUARY Welcome to our Melbourne Madhouse  Australia I love having the Japanese girls to stay! MARCH My Sunday Photo: Escape  Australia APRIL Good Friday Royal Children's Hospital Appeal Melbourne  - Australia MAY I remember Wren  - UK JUNE Paris memories  - France JULY Alice in Oxford  - UK AUGUST Spring in Melbourne SEPTEMBER When two world's collide ...

Alice In Oxford

This year marks the 150 Anniversary of  Lewis Carroll's children's book  Alice in Wonderland Now where to start? “Begin at the beginning,"  the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”  ―  Lewis Carroll ,  Alice in Wonderland If your name is Alice,  or you have long blond hair and a blue dress  you would have been entirely at home in Oxford last weekend. There were Alices everywhere... 150 to be precise, all there to celebrate 'Alice's Day' “Curiouser and curiouser!”  ―  Lewis Carroll ,   Alice in Wonderland But as I have now been joined in the UK by my daughters, we are back to the "don't be embarrassing Mother" comments and I am banned from photographing every gorgeous young Alice! “Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”  ―  Lewis Carroll ,  Alice in Wonderland Alice's ...