Monthly Archives: January 2016

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Bonjour Ma Famille

Email Sent 22 January 2016

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This morning I arrived at the office like a drown rat. I was walking to work as usual (takes just over an hour) and fifteen minutes into the walk there was an enormous thunder storm and the heavens opened. I whipped out my little fold-up umbrella which was good for only a few minutes. I discovered with the force of the rain that was falling it soon became saturated and the water seeped through. The rest of the walk was pretty uncomfortable!

Maddie wrote to tell me she is looking for a full-time job as wants to save as she is planning on going to Canada in December to attend a wedding of one of Simon’s clan.

Peter and Rebecca are back and we had them to dinner this week to catch up on all their travel news. Now Peter is back into at work and he has already sold a property this week! They are so excited with their new property settling in under 2 weeks.

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My Small Tribe

Emailed 12 January 2016

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I have modified my original suggestion after Kate suggested I do a Blog. In the past I have paid someone to set up website etc but this time I am doing it all myself. I am hosting with a US host and keeping it all separate from my company website host, designer etc. I will be learning as I go. I decided to paste in the first emails I sent so it goes from the beginning of this project. You can add your news by adding a comment. I am also looking into how to smoothly make it a private site. I have added the plug-in but I don’t quite understand how it works yet. 

Hi

After a great time in Sydney we are back at work.

I have been doing quite a bit of reading over the last couple of weeks to try and keep that ‘holiday vibe’. I read an interesting piece from a woman who has family and friends spread all over. She made the observation that when you are in very regular contact and then meet up there is no issue in getting up to speed. However, if you have let contact slip for quite a while even though you really have more to catch up on it is more difficult – maybe because just so much has happened since prior contact. Long story short the suggestion is to send Update emails on a fairly regular basis.

The only rule is that they can be boring – yes can be boring. No obligation to respond – though an update from each family would be good to receive as most of the time I have no idea where in the world some of you are.