It is official, and in case you have been living in a cave of some sort, Lindsay and I are expecting a baby. Baby Holmwood, affectionally known (this week) as Mango is due on or around the 19th of October.
At 11 weeks there wasn’t much to see
At 17 weeks I looked like this:
Just 2 [...]
Its been a long time since I blogged. I finished up the backpacking and being-back-home stories and just lost the desire to write. Writers block! And its not like we were not doing heaps of fun and exciting things!
A month after arriving back home in Australia, Lindsay and I flew to New Zealand for [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Posted in Family & Married Life
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Also tagged babyholmwood, easter show, family, home, house, lca, lindsayholmwood, linux.conf.au, mount colah, Sydney Royal Easter Show, wellington
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January 2, 2010 – 6:35 pm
Yikes! I am so behind in my blogging (how unusual, I know).
Anyway… where were we?
While we were still in Den Haag, Beer went to Kenya for a week. Katherine, our friend from high school, who had just moved to London came to visit us for a while. She stayed with us at Beer’s house.
Her first [...]
October 28, 2009 – 7:18 am
To get to Hvar we had to catch a ferry. We walked down to the port and bought our tickets for the ferry. We walked the wrong way then doubled back just trying to work out where the boat was.
The view as the catamaran pulled away from Split was awesome.
This is where the catamaran [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Posted in Backpacking
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Also tagged bay house, brusje, clear water, concussion, crabs, croatia, ferry, hvar, hvar town, lindsayholmwood, luka, luka's lodge, lungo mare, picnic, swimming, wasps
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October 3, 2009 – 9:58 pm
Our second day in Berlin was depressing museum day.
First stop was the Topography of Terror
It was an open air museum about the history of the site which was once an arts school but then the head offices of the SS and Gestapo. There was so much information it took us about 2 hours to [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Posted in Backpacking
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Also tagged Add new tag, artifacts, berlin, birkenstock, checkpoint charlie, eurail, lindsayholmwood, museum, pergamon, ruins, temple, topography of terror, train
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September 11, 2009 – 6:44 am
After having a rock and roll time in Liverpool it was time to head to Yorkshire to see my Uncle and Aunt, Peter and Mel and my lovely little cousins Charlie and Monty.
Mel picked us up from the train station and drove us into through the gorgeous Yorkshire country side to the farm where they [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Posted in Backpacking
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Also tagged aunt, baby, barn conversion, children, cousins, drywall, england, family, farm, farm stay, lindsayholmwood, sheep, todlers, uk, uncle, walking, woods, yorkshire
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August 30, 2009 – 8:57 pm
Welcome to “Pimp my Blog” today Lindsay has been very busy removing the orange. (I hate the colour orange, don’t tell Holland they may kick me out)
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Lindsay has named the theme Windy Elf…LOL
We only fought once or twice didn’t fight at all while designing the layout.
I have decided [...]
August 27, 2009 – 12:46 am
After leaving the Ferry from the Channel Crossing we caught a train to London. We had had about 4 hours sleep each. Our hostel was near Kings Cross station. The station that is famous for Platform 9 3/4.
We were going to go through but there were a bunch of teenage muggles hanging around running at [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Posted in Backpacking
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Also tagged Add new tag, britishmuseum, bunkbeds, cannon, catholic cathedral liverpool, crazy, crazy people, greenwich, greenwich ferry, greenwich markets, greenwich mean time, hatters, journeyskingscross, kingscross, lindsayholmwood, liverpool, liverpool maritime museum, london
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August 26, 2009 – 2:15 am
So if I failed at blogging before, I fail even more now. Its been over a month…or 2 months or something since I blogged! jikes.
Another thing I failed in? We met Avi, after talking to him via Beer we finally got to meet up with him at Beer’s house. I didn’t take photos and forgot [...]
By Julia Holmwood
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Posted in Backpacking
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Also tagged bikies, castle, cousins, englishchannlel, family, ferry, holland, lindsayholmwood, netherlands, nijmegen, oma, opa, zombie
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