{"id":1603,"date":"2013-03-19T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:00:56","slug":"the-emus-have-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2013\/03\/19\/the-emus-have-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emus Have Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The suitcases were packed.\u00a0 Everything that we couldn\u2019t take with us went back in to storage.\u00a0 Vanea and Peter drove us to Sydney airport, we said our farewells on the pavement and confirmed \u201cour booking for November\u201d with them.\u00a0 We cannot thank you both enough, Vanea and Peter. You do so much for us and we really do appreciate everything; the home away from home, the good company and laughs, the mail service, the computer help-desk, the physio treatment.\u00a0 It has all helped to make our life, without our own home, so much easier in Sydney.<\/p>\n

Oh and on the subject of physiotherapy, if there\u2019s any ladies reading this who are having babies, who have had babies and maybe also those that haven\u2019t, who are finding their girlie bits aren\u2019t functioning like they used to, or need a little care, then take a look at Vanea\u2019s women\u2019s health website www.vanea.com.au<\/a> . \u00a0She\u2019s got lots of helpful information and exercises on there and it\u2019s definitely worth recommending to friends and family.<\/p>\n

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Thank gawd for wellies\u00a0in the mud…..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We survived the long flight with only a short break to stretch our legs at Singapore and we finally landed at Heathrow at 6am on Sunday morning.\u00a0 My brother Neil and his wife Debs picked us up at 7am and drove us to East Grinstead for breakfast with the Bradfords.\u00a0 It was lovely seeing Eileen sitting outside their house, but she was still not firing up.\u00a0 Rodney, Neil, Mark and Jonathan all had a look and a fiddle about under the bonnet, but to no avail.\u00a0 So her battery was removed and put on a serious 23-hour charge and we all crossed our fingers in hope that this might solve the problem.\u00a0 On Monday morning Jonathan and Rodney\u00a0 put the battery back in place, turned the ignition key and voila, she started up!!!\u00a0 Joy of joys, we were very relieved.\u00a0 So to celebrate we drove to Leatherhead and back and enjoyed being back in our travelling \u201chome\u201d.<\/p>\n

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At least Eileen hadn’t got herself in to this state!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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So on Wednesday morning we will head north to Watton-at-Stone and Hertford.\u00a0 Eileen will have her full service and habitation on Thursday and we\u2019ll then start getting everything stored in her cupboards and leave her in a field near Hertford while we fly off to Switzerland for this year\u2019s ski holiday in Arosa.<\/p>\n

Share <\/b>your<\/i> <\/b>thoughts and <\/b>the <\/b>World <\/b>joins <\/b>in…….<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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The suitcases were packed.\u00a0 Everything that we couldn\u2019t take with us went back in to storage.\u00a0 Vanea and Peter drove us to Sydney airport, we said our farewells on the pavement and confirmed \u201cour booking for November\u201d with them.\u00a0 We cannot thank you both enough, Vanea and Peter. You do so much for us and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england-pre-europe-for-a-second-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}