This Mums place last night...note the water pouring in the door carck and the water spout coming up through the floor drain

...the dining room and kitchen had a combination of rain water and sewage

...the bedroom...wall to wall spa

...the lounge room was also a little humid...the carpet used to be cream

...it was nice NOT to wipe your feet when you entered

...water level at the back doors

...the water came up through the shed...note water level on back wall

this was a couple of houses down from us...sort of glad that we removed that damaged jacaranda tree from our yard

...they wont polish this dent out

Pasha Bulker...a recent icon to Newcastle"s Nobbys Beach

...the money shot

photos by Jamie Gilmore,Little Green Frog Marketing

THE DUBBO TRIP...for aunty ritas 80th...Mum,Therese and myself...

driving as tag team is the way to go...here therese does the "cow swerve" tactics...score was NIL.

pit stop at sandy hollow

Sort local interaction

Merriwa has something for everyone...

Therese looks for art at Merriwa

interesting brand

...We stopped at Dunedo a country lunch on the way over

1. I used to stop at Merriwa but they would have to be the crankiest unhappy bunch of towns folk I ever met...so these days I dont stop there to eat anymore
   

...and the local features of interest

Grandmas house..at Dubbo...Its now heritage listed...she raised 10 kids PLUS 2 adopted here..12 boys and 2 girls...it used to buzz with activity

The reason for our visit..Aunty Rita's 80th...the oldest of 10kids...mums only sister

...I think that there is ROYALTY somewhere in our blood line...what you think?

Aunty Ritas place just out of Dubbo at Troy...was a place I spent lots of school holidays with couysins Chris and Terry...

...lots of interesting things to see for a city kid

Mum visited her brother bill...bill had a stroke a while back and is better than Our last visit I think