Friday 22 December: Special Christmas Greeting

Well who can believe it's Christmas all ready? It hardly seems five minutes since Di and I were in Adelaide last year and Catherine and Mark were about to leave for England! But what a year it's been! Cath and mark travelled, Mum and Dad moved to perth, Di and I moved to England, then Catherine and mark had Amaya! Di and i got to travel and catch up with all the English Relatives and have a great holiday in Egypt and off to Scotland tomorrow for Christmas! And now it's Christmas again... Well we thought we'd make a special greeting for all the family back in Adelaide. As we won't be home for Christmas we thought we could at least send you a greeting so you could see us.


Happy Christmas to everyone and have a safe and blessed Christmas!
Lots of love, Pete and Di Hobbs

Sunday 17 December

Today Uncle Paul, Aunty Chris and I went down to birmingham to go and visit the grave of my Nanny Harris. She was a great woman and it was nice to go and visit and say hello. We also got to put some flowers there.

Following the visit to the cemetary we went to Aunty June's house for dinner, to pick her up to take her to the Carol service at the Cradley Heath Corps. There we met up with my Aunty Margaret which was really great!

However I didn't get to see her that much as she dobbed me in to play in the band, which was a good laugh, I got to sit next to Santa! I went and sat with her for 15 minutes during the meeting which was nice.. Got her laughing...

As I hadn't played for over 18 months I was a bit rusty, even on 2nd cornet, but I soon got my lip in, as you can see with this picture of Bob Stokes (I look like i have makeup on! Rest assured i don't), old friends of mum and dad. It was nice to meet up with Bob and his wife Doreen, hadn't seen them since 1987ish.

It was nice to have the family around together for Christmas! Well my three Aunties and Uncle Paul! I miss Di cause she is still working night shifts! Next week holidays!! YAY!! Scotland!!

There will be heaps of photos of Di then!

Howz That????

Well you can only describe Australia's performance so far in the Ashes as nothing but awesome! Being in England and watching our fine team play back home has made us home sick, but also their passion and determination has been infectious.

It's been fun getting up really early to watch our team play but watching the humiliating defeat of England this morning was very satisfying. Go Australia! Australians certainly are so talented and so blessed to live in a country which is so amazing, with such great attitudes, a fighting spirit and so laid back and fair dinkum!

As much as DI and I love the countryside and being around our great family and friends. Nothing compares to the lifestyle and life we have in Australia! I am so glad mum and dad moved out there back in 1988.

Australia is certainly blessed and is a very lucky country! What an awesome Cricket team we have!! The worst thing is England has an additional 40 million people to choose from and yet they still can't get a good team together??? I think they should take a leaf from Australias team and learn a few lessons! Two words to start them off Kanga Cricket!

Anyway enjoy these photos!!

Sunday 10 December

Today Di and I wentdown to Birmingham to meet up with Uncle Paul, Aunty Chris, Aunty June, Uncle Derek and loads of other people!! We were going down to go to the Salvation Army Birmingham Citadel Corps's Christmas Concert in the Brmingham Symphony Hall.


Before we got to the hall though we stopped off at a place most harris family members will recognise... Number 82, Nanny Harris's house. The House where Mum, Aunty June, Uncle Derek and Uncle Paul all grew up in. It was quite a nostaligic trip...

From there we headed into Birmingham and went to the Christmas markets. Then we headed to the Christmas concert and guess who we found ourselves sitting next too??? My mums brides maid Margaret Cullingworth. What a small world!

After a really great concery Di and I headed along with Robyn and Cheryl to visit Aunty June and Uncle Tony. Where they put on a great feast for us!! It was a really lovely day and we got back to Middlewich about 9:30pm

Saturday 9 December

Mum and Dad Hobbs, here's the jackets you got for us as a Christmas present!! They are really great. Thank you very much! They are keeping us so warm all ready. Di lives in her's as she's always cold... they are so warm!!

Special Amaya Presentation

Well as I said in the previous post Cath and Mark have been sending us the cutest photos of Amaya.

We have so many that our blog site couldn't cope with uploading them all onto one post (great keep sending more), so I thought I'd make something special so you can all appreciate them and ooohh.. and ahhh.. at the whole selection. With special thanks to YouTube.com you can all enjoy this presentation.

Mark and Catherine you have a cute litte girl and we're very proud relatives if you can't tell! not long now till we get to see her!

Saturday 3 December

Today after a long sleep in Di, Robyn Cheryl and myself drove to Sherwood Forest for a special Robin Hood Christmas Dinner!!

It was really great. We had a three course meal then an evening of dancing check it out!!

We ended up driving home at 11:30pm and getting home about 2am.. but it was a really great night!!

Sunday 26 November

This morning we got up and Linda cooked us the best English breakfast... was really nice!

After breakfast Dave and I got a desire to go looking for remote controlled helicopters, so we all went to a super centre nearby and hit Toys'R'us but unfortunately they didn't have any... of course Linda and Di had a chance to look at clothes. This is what we're looking for "The Honeybee"

Then We went to the White Rose shopping centre in leeds.. The best I've seen in England so far!! However we didn't find any good helicopters, but Di and I got new jackets, which we had as a present from my Mum and Dad!

After a few good hours of shopping we said goodbye to Linda and Dave and Di and I headed back to Middlewich as Di had a night shift.

Another great weekend!!

Saturday 25 November

Today Di and I went to visit my cousin Linda and her husband Dave. We had a really nice day together, when we arrived we got to tell them all about Egypt then we went out for a the most fulfilling Thai meal Di and I have had since we've been here in England.
Obviously we were stuffed after eating such a huge banquet.


Leeds, a really great city... Although nothing beats Menai Thai in Sydney!!

It was a really great night and we also visited the German Christmas Markets in leeds, where they had some strange christmas treats...
We had a really Great night!!