Little Wandering Wren …. chats!

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 ...

Mum's Youth Hostel is officially open again. I love to travel but when we can't get away we do the next best thing... We have the world come to us!   We have our twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth Japanese Homestay guests living with us at the moment. Three lovely student nurses from Kyoto who have never been out of Japan. We do love the Japanese Always so polite and calm.  Well, until they accidentally set off the burglar alarm... then there is much shrieking and panic  on a par with the din from the alarm, but generally it's quiet  and I adore hearing their giggles! It's a big deal to come to Australia. They arrive with enormous suitcases often bigger than them. Empty of course,  as they are here to learn English,  to study  and for shopping! On the drive home on day one  I warm them about the Crazy Poodle our over enthusiastic pocket rocket of a do...