Sydney

Rather a long gap but despite the fact we have been travelling about, we hope that we can make a good fist of updating you all on what we have been up to.  Before we left Sydney, we went to visit John and Libby Snowden and family at Coogee Beach.  Their house literally is a window on the sea, you look out straight into the great big rollers.  It came as no surprise to find that Coogee Beach features in the National Art Collections as a glorious seaside scene.  We had a lovely evening, caught up a bit and found ourselves thinking how despite the obvious changes which come with the passing years, much stays the same and the fact that we have all gone through similar experiences common to all householders and families, makes those passing years a flash in time.  The next morning, George and Soph dropped us off at the car hire place where we hired a new friend, GPS, Richard took a little while to begin to trust him but we found his company mostly helpful.  You can change him into a her and ask him/her to speak to you in all sorts of different ways including Australian English!  He doesn't say much as you go along the great highways between towns which is lucky because most of what he does say is hardly conversational.