Tuesday, November 30, 2004
I got my Christmas letter!
Sometimes I complain alot, but when I get letters like this it makes me realise how much I love my family.
I received this letter yesterday from my Auntie and Uncle, how funni are they! They point out all the bakeries and pubs on the way and everything.
HAIL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE S***** FAMILY IN MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE AND BALAKLAVA…
About Christmas
It’s so good to have most of the family making the effort to spend a few days together at Edithburgh. The trip is about 2.5 hours from the Gepps Cross pub….straight up the Port Wakefield Road, through Pt Wakefield (very nice Kipling’s Bakery on tight hand side of road…recommended stop for coffee and buns….), to the turn-off to Ardrossan to the left.
Travel down the east side of Yorke Peninsula, past Port Clinton and the turn-off to Price.
When you arrive on the outskirts of Ardrossan, there is a very good bakery which may lure you in to the town. If not, a look-out stop on the top of the large heaps of BHP diggings just south of the town is well worth the effort.
Continue past the James Well and Rogues Point Signs - remember staying there A***, B**, P**** and R****?
Pine Point next, with a sign to Black Point - the most highly priced real-estate on east side of peninsula. Then continue to Pt Vincent turn-off - worth a look if you have time – new marina and much new development north of the town.
Stansbury is also off to the left further down, and then you come to a turn-off to the left to Coobowie and Edithburgh. Take this road, and ignore the next turn off to Wool Bay and Point Giles. You will be able to see the silos of Point Giles to your left. After a few kms you will drive into the seaside town of Coobowie. At the T-junction, on the sea front, turn right towards Edithburgh. Continue along this for 5kms, and you will be in the centre of the town, with 2 pubs on the diagonal corners of Blanche St. Our house is *****. Lots of parking there – at the back and front of house. Do call in before you go to ****.
We are planning our family get-together to be the evening meal on the 26th Dec. at about 6.30pm in the **** St house. It will be a buffet meal, with informal seating and eating, as you can imagine at a beach house.
As for gift giving, we have decided to ask for donations to the Royal Flying Doctor Service in lieu of gift-giving to each other. There will be envelopes available for this.
As a bit of fun, let’s all buy/make a gift – quirky and fun – to the value of $5.00 max, to be wrapped and placed under the ‘tree’, meant for no-one in particular. Then A**** will explain the next part of the fun and games, when we each go to the ‘tree’ in turn to choose a gift.
There will be the traditional game of Bocce, of course, on the sea-front though, if weather is good.
On the 27th Dec, we have booked ‘********’ café for the evening meal for all of us, if that’s ok. For the rest, we’ll work things out as we go. The Bottom End (of Yorke Peninsula, that is) is really worth a visit, if we can fit it in. And then there’s the boat… Please bring your beach gear, and suitable clothing for boating. We have a good deal of snorkelling equipment, and there are plenty of fishing lines. K****'s Wading Pool will be available for drinks and relaxing.
There will be about 19 here for at least the 3 days…some of us will stay on until the 31st. It promises to be a great deal of fun, being together.
Love to you all, and thanks for making this a priority during the Christmas break.
¶ 6:08 PM
Sometimes I complain alot, but when I get letters like this it makes me realise how much I love my family.
I received this letter yesterday from my Auntie and Uncle, how funni are they! They point out all the bakeries and pubs on the way and everything.
HAIL TO THE MEMBERS OF THE S***** FAMILY IN MELBOURNE, ADELAIDE AND BALAKLAVA…
About Christmas
It’s so good to have most of the family making the effort to spend a few days together at Edithburgh. The trip is about 2.5 hours from the Gepps Cross pub….straight up the Port Wakefield Road, through Pt Wakefield (very nice Kipling’s Bakery on tight hand side of road…recommended stop for coffee and buns….), to the turn-off to Ardrossan to the left.
Travel down the east side of Yorke Peninsula, past Port Clinton and the turn-off to Price.
When you arrive on the outskirts of Ardrossan, there is a very good bakery which may lure you in to the town. If not, a look-out stop on the top of the large heaps of BHP diggings just south of the town is well worth the effort.
Continue past the James Well and Rogues Point Signs - remember staying there A***, B**, P**** and R****?
Pine Point next, with a sign to Black Point - the most highly priced real-estate on east side of peninsula. Then continue to Pt Vincent turn-off - worth a look if you have time – new marina and much new development north of the town.
Stansbury is also off to the left further down, and then you come to a turn-off to the left to Coobowie and Edithburgh. Take this road, and ignore the next turn off to Wool Bay and Point Giles. You will be able to see the silos of Point Giles to your left. After a few kms you will drive into the seaside town of Coobowie. At the T-junction, on the sea front, turn right towards Edithburgh. Continue along this for 5kms, and you will be in the centre of the town, with 2 pubs on the diagonal corners of Blanche St. Our house is *****. Lots of parking there – at the back and front of house. Do call in before you go to ****.
We are planning our family get-together to be the evening meal on the 26th Dec. at about 6.30pm in the **** St house. It will be a buffet meal, with informal seating and eating, as you can imagine at a beach house.
As for gift giving, we have decided to ask for donations to the Royal Flying Doctor Service in lieu of gift-giving to each other. There will be envelopes available for this.
As a bit of fun, let’s all buy/make a gift – quirky and fun – to the value of $5.00 max, to be wrapped and placed under the ‘tree’, meant for no-one in particular. Then A**** will explain the next part of the fun and games, when we each go to the ‘tree’ in turn to choose a gift.
There will be the traditional game of Bocce, of course, on the sea-front though, if weather is good.
On the 27th Dec, we have booked ‘********’ café for the evening meal for all of us, if that’s ok. For the rest, we’ll work things out as we go. The Bottom End (of Yorke Peninsula, that is) is really worth a visit, if we can fit it in. And then there’s the boat… Please bring your beach gear, and suitable clothing for boating. We have a good deal of snorkelling equipment, and there are plenty of fishing lines. K****'s Wading Pool will be available for drinks and relaxing.
There will be about 19 here for at least the 3 days…some of us will stay on until the 31st. It promises to be a great deal of fun, being together.
Love to you all, and thanks for making this a priority during the Christmas break.
¶ 6:08 PM
