April 2023

The Oxford boys in Spain (see here for a video snapshot of some of the Easter ritual fun), multiple visitors and the wedding of the year as Pete and Shari wed.

1 And early start to a mountain climb as the month kicks off	2 .	3 Later that morning Paulie's Uni pal, Penny Deans and husband Andrew - Paulie's ex-flatmate - drop in	4 .
5 And in the evening the party gals head to Shari's hen party	6 Giving Stephen and Rosie time to put their feet & paws up.	7 2nd - James and Keno are in Madrid for some work	8 And play
9 7th - the lads head to Ubeda to visit a Spanish pal who is all kitted out for some Easter traditions.	10 And Mary joins them. See the link in the intro of this page to a video snapshot of their Spanish Easter outings	11 Meanwhile Paulie and Stephen go up to sister Jan's to help create some more of these	12 Jan has a commission to make a bunch of them. After many wire cuts to his hands, Stephen gloves up
13 .	14 8th -on the way home, a stop over at Montville's Flame Hill Vinyard	15 .	16 Paulie shares her rosé critique with the locals
17 A visit to pal Jon Outridge is in order. He and Margaret have their lovely property on the market and plan to move to Melbourne	18 .	19 Back home Stephen joined Paulie at one of her pilates classes. Ready to get that core coring.	20 9th - James and Keno make it to Sevilla for a break and to work remotely
21 Stephen sets them a treasure hunt- find where mother Elizabeth was in 1981	22 Not hard! their AirBnb has a lovely view of Giralda Tower!	23 Up close.	24 Next was this in 1981...
25 11th - they found it. The street has evolved, but not the building.	26 Back in Brisbane pal Jude drops in with her recently broken ankle on the way back to Guildford (last visited in Nov 2019- see in Photo Archives)	27 .	28 13th - off to Western Australia first to see an eclipse before heading back to England
29 Next month Paulie and Stephen head to England and France. New curtains for La Cachette are required, so Paulie starts making them	30 13th afternooon, Nadia (Jim Dunlop's sister) and Gary drop in from New Zealand for Shari and Pete's upcoming wedding.	31 The Jacksons join in as Anne Louise and Nadia go way back	32 15th - One more treasure hunt for James and Keno. Where did Stephen's spot these oranges in 1981?
33 Another easy one it seems- the lads were staying in the Bario Santa Cruz district	34 And the tree is found there...42 years later	35 .	36 Meanwhile Olivia heads to the Brisbane wedding from Adelaide
37 On the afternoon of the 15th it's time to get ready	38 .	39 .	40 .
41	42 Let the event begin!	43 .	44 And the big event kicks off
45 .	46	47 Shari's nieces have the rings for the two power cyclists	48 .
49 And the knot is tied	50 .	51	52 Ready to party
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57 A proud new mother-in-law Sherryl who came out from Scotland	58 .	59 Mother and child have fun	60 .
61 .	62 And Stephen and Jan have fun with dessert.	63 17th - THETA opening - Stephen spends a few days at the THETA conference in Brisbane	64 18th - here wth pal Pat Walsh at dinner at City Hall. Other times? Where's Wally (aka Stephen)?
65 Wally Dining	66 Wally Learning	67 Wally networking	68 30th - The St Lucia Athertons cook up a storm for Paulie, Stephen and neighbours
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