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Pies!

This is what 250 meat pies looks like : )

They are for Jun's school festival - his idea for a special food stall for this year - just finished Day One - sold 220 - 280 to go!

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What a trip

Hi All

Well we're home safe and sound, it's great to be back with the boys. They were very excited to see us as we were them. James grabbed a whole bunch of our photos to make a PowerPoint presentation to take in to show his class today.

Dom and Emma it was a fantastic wedding celebration and it was wonderful to be able to celebrate it with you. Hope you're having a lovely time in the sunshine and are thoroughly relaxed. Thanks to Claire and Andy for having us in Romsey - Abigail, hooray! I hope that Solomon was busy tracking all our flights home as he was on the way over. Paul it was great to catchup with you, Maki and the kids, you can pass on to Jun that Ryan was wrapped with his nanoblocks. M&D hope you have fun on the rest of your trip with Mon and Andrew before settling into your new digs and Dad take up fly fishing off the balcony

Mike and Rose had a great time with the kids and we are most grateful for the opportunity they gave us to get away.

I'll put some more photos up on the website on the weekend. If anyone wants me to add some let me know and I'll get them off you

Love Matt and Fiona

Matt

The Godfather

Claire

Abigail got Christened

London Dates

Hi All

I've added a page which has the highlight reel of dates I've been able to work out so far.  If there is any information I've got wrong or need to add let me know

Claire, Andy, Mum and Dad I've got nothing for you so far

http://mcinerney.tv/uktrip

Cheers

Matt

Weeks 5 and 6

Hello everyone

About time I did something and fill in the gaps for the last couple of weeks. I will take it day by day and see if I remember much.

August 3 and 4 - quiet days again for me packing for Amsterdam and resting my foot. Really can’t remember what anyone else did - perhaps Dad had another game of golf.

August 5 - We flew to Amsterdam. Andy and Solomon dropped us at the airport around noon. We arrived about 5.30 after finding our way on the train and the metro without mishaps - i even used the ticket machine to buy the tickets - I love that there is always an English option! and it also helps to be familiar with public transport in you own country! The apartment was about 12 minutes out of town and the station only about 200 metres from the apartment. The apartment was in a high-rise building with lots of others which included residences and business. There was a small supermarket at the station where we could buy the basic supplies and an old circular building which was a sort of pub down below us and a very nice restaurant on the Amstel River which was very close. There were other restaurants about 15 minutes away and also larger supermarkets in the other direction. That first night, we walked the 15 minutes to a restaurant which had an area on the river full of young people. I was not that fussed about it as the food was a bit ordinary and also they lost our order which meant we waited at least an hour!! Grrr Grrr!! They offered us a free drink which Tony took very happily. It was all a bit late for me and my foot was feeling a bit horrible.

August 6 - Dad went off to check out the supermarkets and came back with tales of nearly losing his life to the bike riders - they were flying everywhere!! So it was always best to start out after 9 by which time they had all gone to work, It was fascinating to see people on the bikes in all sorts of gear - except lycra - you didn’t see any of that!! The girls rode along with the longest and the shortest skirts and the lowest and the highest heels and didn’t come to grief. You didn’t see any racing biles and people were mostly sitting upright. And no helmets - on anyone! Children were in many different positions on the bikes - front and back. Some of them had carts for 2 at the front, others were dinked on the handle bars, One thing, we never saw an upset or accident. the other interesting thing was the lack of motor traffic - even out in the countryside.

We caught the metro into town and set off for a walk through Amsterdam Central which was interesting as it took us past the main sights of the city - the Dam, the Palace, the Old and New Churches, the Bejgonhof where we saw the oldest wooden house, the secret Catholic Church in the roof of a house, the red light district and the Catholic Church - in that order. After this, we took a cruise around the canals. The boat took us out into the harbour past the new Musikgebouw and other public buildings which seemed to me to be reasonably new in that they were very modern and large. The Europeans seem to go in for large even now when they construct new edifices. Perhaps they only know that way of doing things. The cruise also took us around one of the old canals which passed the old houses of the middle classes of days gone by - I think they would have been traders at the time.

After that, we walked back through the Dam to the metro to go home. By this time, the place was packed and it was hot. There did seem to be a lot of rubbish on the ground and loads of cigarette butts! Not so attractive…

August 7 - Friday and we started off catching the tram over to Anne Frank House thinking we would get there early and avoid the large queue. Famous last words as the wait at that stage was 4 hours long - we had tried to buy tickets on line before we left but it said ’No tickets available’ Strange! We decided then to do another walk through the Jordaan district which is where the artists congregate. Pretty area with lots of interesting streets. I had printed the walks off Frommer’s website so there was a bit of commentary to go along with the walk. I was interested to find that there were lots of almshouses built by wealthy people to house less fortunate such as women who had been left by their husbands and unemployed seniors - they were all single sex abodes. Sometimes you could enter the buildings and found they had little gardens and courtyards and there were other courtyards leading off each other. They are a bit like rabbit warrens.

In this area, there is a great shopping district called ’Nine Streets’. This was my sort of place so, to avoid frustration on Tony’s part with my popping in and out of shops, he went off to check out the big department store in the Dam. We met up after an hour or so and went off to the Museum District to visit the Van Gogh museum. We caught the tram out there and had our lunch in a bistro in the square which is a huge garden with statues, the main ones being Miffy in different costumes. I didn’t realise Miffy was Dutch. Fortunately, we had bought our tickets already so the wait in the queue was only 20 minutes. It was a wonderful exhibition tracing Van Gogh’s life. We then caught the tram home which was another little adventure as there were road works and we had to find a different way home.

August 8 - Saturday was a trip The Hague to tour the Peace Palace. It was an hour trip on the train through the countryside which was good to see - the odd windmill, lots of agriculture, people riding bikes and very few cars. We were a bit surprised when we arrived in The Hague to find it to be very modern even in the Centre of town. We caught the tram to the Peace Palace where we had an audio tour in the Visitor’s Centre and then a guided tour around the Palace. It seems a bit sad to think that this all started 100 years ago and there doesn’t seem to be much peace in some parts of the world. We caught the tram back to town to have a look around the old part of town and then caught the train back to Amsterdam. Trains are terrific here- so clean and fast! I think this was the night we had tea out and as Dad wanted Tapas, I found one in my tour book in an old part of town - at least, it was off the beaten track. That was ok - not like the tapas at the restaurant in High Street, Malvern - we can’t compare it to Spain properly yet.

August 9 - Sunday and we caught the metro into town to attend Mass at St Nicholas Church near the Central station. interesting - they sing the same hymns but to different tunes. Also, they print out booklets of that day’s mass for the whole congregation. After Mass, we went for another walk to another part of town behind the station and across the harbour. We took a bus and ferries this time. There is a lot of development going on there with new apartments springing up everywhere. I always wonder how people in Europe manage to live happily in Apartments while we need to have the 1/4 acre block - not that they are that big nowadays - or they live in houses with several floors at any age.

August 10 - Monday and I wanted to go to a market which was the usual disappointment with the usual handbags and other stuff you find in ordinary markets - I wanted the antique one but I think I missed out there. Dad went off to the Heineken Factory which was in the same area. We met up and took the train to Utrecht for the afternoon - pretty place with unusual church, canals and old buildings. We came home for a rest because we had decided to line up for another go at Anne Frank house. The line was still hours long so that was that. We went home and walked around the river to have a drink at an old house with a view down the river. That was a bit interesting to see another side of Amsterdam. There was a swimming club with people doing laps in the river. It was roped off from the boats although there was a water police boat at the end to protect the swimmers.

August 11 - Tuesday and our last day in Amsterdam. We went to Delft for a look and for me to buy the Delft Porcelain. The trip to Delft through the countryside was great and Delft was another pretty town. But my search for the Delft bargains was fruitless as it was quite expensive and no chipped plates so I decided that I didn’t really like it that much. I settled for a +/- 1700 tile with a wooden frame. I was quite happy with my purchase till I realised Australia is quite funny about wood products and it might have to go into quarantine! So I will have to think about that one. After we got home from Delft, we popped into another little restaurant on the river for the view and a bite to eat. and that was Amsterdam done!

August 12 - was the flight home to Romsey.

August 13 - Thursday was a trip to Winchester and a look at a house to rent.

August 14 - Friday and a trip to Southampton and another look at a house.

August 15 - Saturday and a quiet day. Tony and Andy drove to Brighton for Dominic’s stag night - that is a British thing - with Paul, Toby and Toby’s dad.

and that brings us up to today.

Bits and pieces no 4

…see now you even getting photos…

This edition of b n p is about holland/Netherlands….

1. Some hundreds of years ago the government decided on a fairly unusual basis to tax people…Daniel Im sure there are some interesting cases. They taxed property owners on the width of street frontage….so much a metre. The natural consequence of this was/is that they build narrow fronted deep and high homes. To maximise living space, they built houses with very narrow stairs to the second third and fourth floors which made it very difficult to get furniture into the house….hence the photo… You will notice the little gantry and hook sticking out from the top of the houses …this is to crane furniture up and through the windows at each level !!!!. This is not and exception virtually every house has the gantry…even the ones built fairly recently
2. As far as I can tell there is no place called “ Holland”. The Netherlands has a number of provinces including North and South Holland …but no Holland. yet their football team is called Holland??? …bit like the difference between England and Britain???
3. Not a great place for Emma and Maki. While we there we only saw 3 dogs in a week!!
4. I still don’t get Doonas. Sheet and blankets are so much more adaptable to prevailing temperatures….much more functional
5. I know that our family all speak a second language ????. The people in europe are fantastic the way they speak englsh as well as their native tongue..makes life a lot easier for people like me who only have ‘sign” as a second language.
6. Finally, I went through a place called the “heineken experience” …the history of Heineken beer. Interesting …started in 1850’s then one of the founders sons - Freddie Heineken - took the product to the world. He had crates of beer in New York two days after prohibition was lifted. Also in 1951, he decided that they needed new a new ‘Brand” for marketing purposes. When he saw the new labels etc he decided to add his own touch. He decided that the “e”’s in Heineken needed to be smiling “e”’s so he turned them slightly anti clockwise…you need to check a Heineken label to see what i mean….

…the Mothers detailed report is now overdue and penalities may apply..

Cheers dad/Tony PS I think I mentioned somewhere that beer in Amsterdam is as cheap as water…equivalent to $12 to $15 a Melb slab!!!

Gyoza! (Not Goyza)

Having Gyoza at the Yokohama McInerneys tonight (for Mum: pronounced gee-yoh-za) - made by Sara!!

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Adventures in Oz

Turns out there are some lovely places to travel in Australia too.

To weddings:

And to talk to kangaroos:

And ski!!

Cheers Dan

I missed the first one...

But saw her roll for second time today!

Monica 0423 290 494

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British summer continues

Claire

Week 4

Here is the activities of the last week - bit quieter because of my ankle.

July 26 - Sunday - Dad went off to play golf at 6.30 and I stayed at the hotel till he returned at 10.30. We then drove off to the Scottish Borders to stay at Hawick (pronounced ‘Hoick’). On the way, we stopped at Peebles for lunch. We then drove through the Tweed Valley to Hawick - it was a beautiful drive. We stopped at a great BandB just off the main street. By this time, it had started raining (again) so we dragged out the umbrellas and went down to the pub on the main street for tea. The pub was a bit ordinary.

July 27 - Monday - The town of Hawick is not that interesting but the main reason we were there was that there were woollen mills which produced cashmere and I was ready to buy metres of fabric. But, alas, there was no material! A bit frustrating especially as one of the factories did sell it from their main factory about 1 1/2 hours from where we had been staying in Blairgowrie! So, I had to be content with buying a jumper. That night for tea, we found a pub in the next town which was a bit quaint. The meal was served in a room that looked as if it had been set up for a country wedding - the meal was delicious though.

July 28 - Tuesday - This morning we drove to Castle Howard, an historic house, north-east of York. The drive was through the Cleveland hills and York Moors which was spectacular. I have decided that it is a bit useless trying to catch the scenery on camera because it just doesn’t do it justice. Castle Howard is the house in the filming in the series and film of ‘Brideshead Revisited” so lots of splendid stuff in it. We then drove on to Harrogate where we stayed in a great BandB. We stopped here as it was a spa town that featured in the Georgette Heyer books that mum, Claire, Carmel and I used to devour. Mum stills reads them over and over again - she says she never remembers the plots anymore so it doesn’t matter that she re-reads them. It is a very elegant town so it was easy to walk around and admire the buildings.

July 29 - Wednesday - Tony went off to play golf at a course outside Harrogate and I went for a very, very slow walk around the town stopping for a scone and tea at Betty’s which is famous in York and Harrogate for their cakes etc. that night we strolled over to a pub for a meal - I was getting a bit tired of pub meals by this time…

July 30 - Thursday - in the car again and off to Romsey stopping at another big house, Woburn Abbey - we are really getting our money’s worth out of our memberships! We then drove on to Romsey and glad to be back again. We received a lovely welcome from Abigail. Solomon was here too as he is on holidays for the Summer. Next week, he and his mother are going on a 12 day cruise to the Canary Islands.

July 13, August 1 and 2 - these last 3 days have been quiet for me as I have been resting my foot. Tony has used his membership at his new golf club but hasn’t played in a proper competition yet so is getting a little frustrated but, at least, he played with 2 other fellows rather than hit 2 balls around - although this means he always wins!

and that is about it for this last week. We are off to Amsterdam for a week on Wednesday. We fly out of Southampton which is pretty handy to Romsey. We have booked an apartment which is supposed to have wifi so will see when we get there. We will be in contact with you if it works otherwise we will have to rely on McDonalds and it mightn’t be too often.

Love to all

mum xxx

Jun is back from ISAK

Hi everyone

Jun got back from the ISAK summer school on Thursday - he had a ball - I spoke with some of the teachers and they said he was great - contributed to all his classes and worked incredibly hard on his English - he was a changed man when he got back and is talking about going to ISAK for high school! (years 10-12)

They had a talent show and Jun sang a song from Monkey Majik - his favourite band - have a look - quite the crooner : )

http://youtu.be/3Lxl7hag8BI http://youtu.be/3Lxl7hag8BI

Now we need to get ready for the next big event in Rye!

Cheers

Paul

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Hi there

here is our latest week:

July 19 - Sunday was the 3rd day of the Golf so Tony and Andy went off early. Claire and I had a relaxing time in the morning and then went for a scenic drive and had an afternoon tea at an old hotel in the countryside. It was lovely and grand set in beautiful grounds but a little shabby - the chairs were lovely and comfortable but if you moved the cover on the arms, the fabric was a little worn-out. Nonetheless, the afternoon tea was delicious. When I mention the drive as being scenic, there is not much of this country that is not scenic. It is very magnificent and stunning in most parts. Tony and Andy had a great day at the golf as there were plenty of people still playing. I think Dad dragged Andy round the course twice trying to keep up with the 15 Australians playing although I am sure he made up for it by getting him into the HSBC hospitality marquee. Dad went up and made himself known as we are HSBC Premier account holders (which means we owe them our lives). Anyway, Andy might have enjoyed it but Dad was a bit taken aback when he found you could only get haggis crisps and whisky!

July 20 - Monday was fine and almost sunny so we drove down to Scone Palace (pronounced Skoon) and had a lovely walk in the gardens and a tour of the palace. The chapel here is where they used to crown the Kings of Scotland. It is quite small and a copy of the Stone of Scone is outside - this is the Stone upon which Kings placed their feet when they were crowned - there is a big story about the stone being stolen by the English king Edward 1 (or one of the Edwards) and then being stolen back by uni students. Anyway, you can google it - I rely on Lonely Planet for my information. Another funny thing, the chapei is on a mound and this is supposed to have come about because when the Scottish King was crowned, all the lesser lords and earls etc would bring soil from their own lands IN THEIR BOOTS and empty it on a pile from which grew The Mound! Can you believe it? Tony and Andy then drove on to St Andrew’s for the last day of the golf which they enjoyed immensely especially when there was a 3 person play-off. Bad luck for the Australian. Claire and I drove home to Blairgowrie.

I don’t think I have mentioned the house - it is a big old stone place which has been refurbished. There were 3 quite large bedrooms all with ensuite bathrooms - even Abigail could have her own shower. They were all very comfortable. Downstairs were the kitchen and lounge room which were well set-up. We enjoyed being in the house. It was lovely and warm even though Andy kept saying it was summer and we didn’t need the heating!

and on this afternoon, I slipped on a gutter and sprained my ankle! So annoying and it has been quite sore - my leg looks a treat. Lovely and colourful and my toes are quite black with bruising but it is all getting better now - I think I am on the mend. Monica, dad bought a bag of ice so I am in bed putting ice on my leg.

July 21 - Tuesday, Dad took me to the cottage hospital in Blairgowrie to see the doctor who told me I had a sprain then I went home and sat on the couch for the day. Dad went off to play 9 holes of golf at the Wee course of Blairgowrie - yes, Andrew, 9 holes only!! He didn’t like to leave me for 4-5 hours apart from the fact that it cost 65 pounds a game!! Green fees here have been a bit of a shock for him although club memberships are so much lower than Australia.

July 22 - Wednesday - as I couldn’t walk, we decided to do this drive from Blairgowrie to Rannoch Station via Pitlochry. It included driving along a couple of Lochs which Lonely Planet said shouldn’t be missed. It took about 2 hours each way but it was a great drive. It was very scenic and ended up on the edge of mountains where you couldn’t drive any further. We had morning tea on the Rannoch station which closes over winter as the snow closes the road and the rail. We then drove back to Pitlochry where Tony and Andy went off to inspect the smallest whisky distillery in Scotland. Claire and I looked at a couple of shops and had a coffee.

July 23 - Thursday - we had a late start today after Abigail had her morning sleep. We drove up to visit Glamis Castle - about 1/2 hour away - which was the former home of the Queen Mother - did you see the movie ’The King’s Speech’? The Queen Mother is the wife of the king - She was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Her family has lived in that castle since the 14th century although the castle was rebuilt in the 17th century. It was very beautiful - and interesting stuff in there too. A stuffed bear that used to be the children’s pet?? and hundreds of deer antlers on the wall. (is that an idea for family pets? you could ask Cousin Lucy Selleck to help you out as I think she has stuffed birds…)

After that, we went for a drive 20 mins the other side of Blairgowrie to inspect the town of Dunkeld. There is a great Cathedral there and we stopped and had a drink at a pub in the very shining sun - the reason for Dad wearing his handkerchief on his head.

July 24 - Friday we took a drive to Stonehaven on the East coast for lunch. We have been very disciplined making up rolls to take for lunch and just buying a tea or coffee. We have been taking it in turns to prepare dinner so this was to be the treat. I had read that it was the best place to go for a seafood lunch and it was very worthwhile. The restaurant overlooked a pretty harbour, the sun was shining and the food was delicious. After a bit of walk along the beach, Claire and Andy went the short way home while Dad and I took the scenic route. We drove through the Cairngorm Mountains - it was superb. This country is so, so beautiful!

And that was that - Andy had prepared a lovely antipasto platter for us and that was the last night. It was a great week.

July 25 - Saturday, we packed up and Andy took off in the car back to Romsey and we drove to Edinburgh with Claire and Abigail. We had a bit of a walk around Edinburgh which looks great in the sunshine. It only started raining about 3.00 and I was in the Scottish Museum inspecting an exhibition called ‘Finding Fashion’. It was about the Scottish knitwear company, Pringle, favoured by the Queen, Princess Grace and Tilda Swinton. The Queen is given a piece every year and each year, she responds with a handwritten thank-you note. In the meantime, Dad was out looking for a pub we had a meal at last time we were here in 2005. He found it so we went then for tea- the only probably it was full of very noisy people drinking so we had our very nice tea and left to go to our hotel which was also full of very noise people drinking. Fortunately, I think the hotel management put us on the top floor and the others on the floor below. Anyway, I can’t say I heard them at all and the hotel was pretty cheap. We chose it because it was a bit cheap and also not far from where Dad was playing golf next morning. This course was free as it was one of the reciprocal clubs for Riversdale so he played 18 holes early in the morning.

That is it for now -

Love to all

Tina xxx

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Alls good in this part of the world...except Tina has turned an ankle on one of our walks..repairing slowly..still black and blue. I thought you might be interested in some golf happenings... Obviously golf highlight to date has been the Open. The weather gods were kind to us so we got to see two days instead of one. ...and we got into St Andrews on the Monday for only £10...compared with £80 for Sunday. As you know 10 of the 15 Aussies made the cut and we saw all of them at one stage or another. We had a great view of the last two holes of normal play and also all 4 playoff holes. Leishman (and Day) got SO close, but a great memory in any case. Apparently Leishman landed in a divot on the first playoff hole...but he also hit a bad first putt on the same hole. The course has to be seen to be believed....if you know this stuff, my apologies. The fairways are just meadow grass...no where near as good as RGC. It's basically an out and back course with 4 holes in the middle that go around in a circle. There are 8 shared greens which mean that often players playing holes 12 to 17 and players playing 2 to 7 have to wait for the others to holes out. Greens and tees are often very close together. Players often wait to putt until a player drives on an adjacent hole and vice versa On the way out and also on the way back, the set up of greens and the next tee are very similar to RGC 6a and 6b...often even closer We met up with a local at the 9th green. Interesting character. He has been to every Open since 1985. He is also a member at StAndrews. He told us that as a Fife county resident (which includes St A) his 7 day membership costs him £530 pa !! ...what's more that membership also gives him full access to the other 6 courses at st Andrews. His only gripe was the fact that the club closed the course to members 2 months before the Open...but he was playing on the Tuesday. When he left us he was headed to the members bar at the Club...overlooking the 18th...

Of much lesser interest, I have joined Romsey Golf Club ....(RGC ?.??). Very pretty and tight course..they are very proud of the fact that the Club was founded in 1900. We should value our Riversdale history more highly.... I had a game at Ely GC near Cambridge....another beautiful course ....annual subs again only £510. I'm getting the impression that these natural grasses must take much less maintenance and attention that our grasses...otherwise I'm not sure how they pay the bills When we were in Scotland for the Open we stayed at Blairgowrie...about 1 hour from St A. Sam Cowie told me before we left that he thought the Rosemount Course at the Blairgowrie GC was about the best in Scotland !! They have two 18 hole courses and one 9 hole course...all manicured. Their annual subs are really up market £710..... Anyhow at Peter Copes suggestion, I made a very tentative enquiry with their Manager about whether they might be interested in a reciprocal arrangement with Riversdale and the answer was positive...Peter C and Christian are now following up ....we will see if it comes to anything..

Finally.....before we left Edinburgh this morning, I played Bruntsfield Links Golf Society course which is already one of our reciprocal clubs. Apart from being a great layout with fantastic views, their history is amazing ...founded in 1761 and they claim to be the 4th oldest golf course in the world ....

Enough from me...hope you are all well Cheers Tony Mc

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Abigail on her summer holiday to Scotland

Claire

Dad worried about the Scottish sun

Claire