What I did on my holiday in Australia

G'day mate, as they say around here - actually hardly anyone says that at all.

We've been in Australia a little while now and thought it was finally time for an update.

The flight here was fantastic, much much better than expected. Tim slept for 1 hour during the 6 hour flight to Doha and then for 6 hours and 1 more hour on the 13.5 hour flight to Melbourne. We had great seats - front row just behind business class, and Tim got his own little cot. It was only barely big enough for him but it saved our arms and backs immensely.
If anyone is ever flying anywhere we can't recommend Qatar Airways highly enough - they were absolutely fantastic, giving us better seats than we had reserved for ourselves, providing great food and excellent service both in the planes and on the ground. This is the way airlines used to be I swear it is, it made a really fantastic change to flying on the various el-cheapo airlines we fly with in Europe.
See seats right at the front:

When we got to Melbourne, mum picked us up, and when we got back to her place my brother was waiting there for us. He'd brought over the car seat for Tim, and as he got very cheap flights it was better for him than posting it! So we sat around drinking most of the night as he was flying home the next morning already.

Still had some trouble adjusting to the time change, but overall it wasn't too bad even for Tim. Did make for some cute photos though - one matched pair please:

Other fun things we've been doing - sorting out the shed (again, but we all swear this is the last time). This time we're going through every box and deciding if we want to keep some of these things a. 1/3 of a cheap candle, b. broken dishrack thingy, c. 40 Million other items of dubious worth.
It turns out we kept a lot of junk, and we're now trying to flog this on eBay (with quite a bit of success actually). If we have time we might try for a garage sale too for the really trashy stuff, but I suspect we'll just bin it or put it out on the side of the road.

We've managed to catch up with Anya and Greg, Tanya and Maya and Greg, Tanti, Alexis and Polina's Grandmother too. Still so many people we want to see but Polina and Tim have gotten a bit of a cold which has slowed them down a little.

We spent today at Polina's Grandmothers sorting out her internet (Polina) and doing the gardening (me). Here are some before and after photos.

Before



After

More photos later, these are all just off my phone (the cameras are in the other room with the sleeping baby and the sleeping wife) :)

Hope everyone is well.
Jack...