Down under

Hello my lovelies! I am having an absolutely marvellous, marvellous time in Australia. Today I found out that a baby platypus is called a puggle. A puggle! That quite frankly made my day. I spent today in Taronga Zoo, which is absolutely fantastic, and of which I have many photos. I saw kangaroos (including one with a joey in its pouch!) and emus and elephants and giraffes and wombats and multitudes of other beautiful animals. And this weekend I was in the outback and I saw lots of wild goats, and my cousin's ENORMOUS sheep farm and I got to drive the landrover and I went round on his quad bike and it was all magnificent. And when we arrived it was forty two degrees. When it got to Sunday I thought it was quite cool given that it was only thirty two. Ooh and Sydney is an utterly beautiful city.

Tomorrow I am going to Cairns, where it is currently thirty degrees and sunny. Hurrah! And that's on the Great Barrier Reef. And then I'm going to Canberra to see yet more family. Hurrah! It's hot...and December...bizarre...

Love! xxx