A Flying Baked Bean Tin


Our helicoptor was the size of a large baked bean can
Our pilot was a chiseled Aussie Hugh Jackman lookalike hunk called " Forrest"
(Tall,  all tan and white teeth...you get the gist)
He was, on reflection bigger than the aircraft
As it turned out Forrest was from Flint........and Flint is a scruffy little town 15 minutes away from Trelawnyd
It's a funny small world is it not....?
Anyhow flying around in a baked bean tin was great fun.....it was a lovely experience




Everything In Technicolour


London has pigeons. Trelawnyd has chickens and Sydney...well Sydney has rainbow lorikeets , the very serious and depressed looking Australian Ibis , and the chattering and spectacular noisy cockatoos.
Sitting in the Botanical Gardens today was a feast for the senses .
It's like home but every bird and plant seems to be in technicolour..and it's still only spring.
We've had a tour of the Opera House today and have booked a show and a concert there. It's a stunning building for sure. Tomorrow we do a helicopter ride over Sydney bay.......then down the Hunter Valley wine tasting with some dear old friends.
And....It's only day three

G'day Mate


Can You Guess Where We Are Today?
Another Clue
The Prof is liking Sydney
As you can tell both Roger Moore eyebrows are raised!



Sydney

25 hours later I'm in Sydney!
Well to be perfectly frank I am in bed with my husband with my first large gin and tonic
Hey ho.....around the globe....completely .......how fantastic

Singapore

My Chicken noodles was nice.............just got off a flight from hell.......baby next to me screamed solidly for a few hours and I'd just managed to zone out to " A Very Long Engagement" with Audrey Tautou when one of the stewards curled a finger at me and took me to business class for the rest of the flight
I could have kissed him......
Presently in Changi Airport waiting for my flight to Sydney...........
Hey ho

Post 2 Munich

I am waiting to get on the plane again...........we are in Munich
Managed to watch the awful SAN ANDREAS
Which drowned out the numerous babies in the main cabin......I sat next to the overly friendly and very camp Bertl who has just had a pneumatic week visiting his boyfriend in Manchester. His boyfriend is 24 and he is not a day younger than 50 ( though he insisted to me that he is just 40). Thank God he got off in Germany....I don't think I could have stomached the lurid details.
Apparently Bertl means Nobel in German......or so he told me.........
Hey ho
( btw ..and this is so true...I have just googled " old camp German" to find a suitable photo to illustrate  this post.....and all I came up with is an old picture of Auschwitz)

Ada Quonsett .


Well, I am sat at the airport feeling a little like Helen Hayes
( older bloggers will know what I mean)
I'm trying to look all superior but it's hard to concentrate as there is a group of girls on a hen week to Greece downing slammers in the bar just nearby....... And it's only just past 7 am
How positively awful.
Anyhow the flight to Sydney is on time ..I fly via Germany and Singapore and I have a selection of films to critique on the way, so I shall be fine.........
Speak soon x
I will drop comments below when I get to Munich and Singapore
Hey ho

Rebecca Ferguson


Some people just shine on film
Relative newcomer Rebecca Ferguson is one of those people
I think she will be a big star
Mark my words.
I saw Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation this afternoon
She blasted the rest of the cast off the big screen