Plans...

A new laptop and the installation of broadband means that the blog is back, for a bit, well certainly for this update anyway. It seems a real effort to blog here in good old England, but I'll attempt to keep it going a bit more consistently this time.
Lots of planning is the norm at the house of Flanagan these days, a house that was to be a very temporary home, has turned into a home till October, when hopefully, we'll be winging our way back to Australia. Yup, we've just not had enough of the old travelling lark and we loved the west si-eed so much, we've gone and (fingers crossed) got ourselves jobs in Perth. We'll be working in the Cath Labs at the Mount Hospital on a years contract. Will we stay longer? Who knows is the answer to that, it's all very well travelling round a country and loving it, but working there away from family and friends is another thing. There's several months of hanging around waiting for paperwork, visas etc to sort themselves out before we go, so in the mean time we've been organising a wedding and when I say we I obviously mean Sam, mainly. The venue has been booked, the evening do sorted and all manner of other key items have been bought or ordered. We'll be having our ceremony and meal at Blanche House, a very cool, hip hotel for groovy people such as ourselves and then we're off to the newly refurbished Hanbury Ballrooms in the evening for a bit of a dance and possibly a spot of making box shapes before the night is out. We went for a meal at Blanche House last weekend to road test the food and its amazing, its looks beautiful and tastes gorgeous, phew, here's a pic of the chocolate cake and ice-cream pud I had mmmmmm.
Enough of the plans for the moment, exciting as they are, more waffling from me soon, here's a video of Margo, one of Helen's sausage dogs or the Dachshund Defenders as they're known around here. See the way she shakes the tennis ball about, that's what she did to a massive rat the other day, snapping its neck, what a dog!!