I'm looking for my mummy

Simon and Harrison spent a few days down south this week, and one night H got himself worked up about missing me, and wouldn't go to sleep. Each time Simon put him to bed, he would come out a short time later. One time he came out carrying Simon's mobile phone, and handed it to him with a very serious look on his face. Simon noticed that Alison's name was on the screen. The conversation went like this -
Simon - "Hello"
Alison - "Hi, a little boy just rang this number looking for his mummy"
Simon - "Hi, it's Simon!"
Alison - "Hi, my name's Alison. A little boy just rang this number saying he wanted his mummy"
Simon - "Alison, it's me Simon - your brother in law!"
Laughter all round....

Kayley and Laura visiting

We have another set of visitors this week. Kayley and her friend Laura are visiting. Both 16, and lovely guests. The new Weber Q is getting a workout, and Harrison has developed a real 3 year old's crush on Kayley. Lots of hugs and hand holding... Laura is thinking of doing primary teaching when she gets to Uni. She is obviously on the right track, because she chose a lovely, age appropriate book as a gift for Harrison (Bob Graham's Let's Get a Pup). Here’s the Amazon record… I really must get going with Library Thing and catalogue H's books.

Qantas wins hearts and minds

Last January I had the fun experience of being made to wait 5 hours for the next flight to Perth because I missed the check in deadline by 1 minute. Qantas out did themselves this Christmas.

We all flew to Brisbane on Christmas night, arriving about midnight. Unfortunately one of our bags did not. It appeared at the time that another passenger with an almost identical bag had taken mine in error, leaving his behind. There followed 2 weeks of repeated phone calls and several visits to the Brisbane airport trying to get answers about where my bag was, and trying to get them to contact that passenger. The day after I got back to Perth, I got a call from one of the coach places inside Brisbane airport saying my bag had just been handed in (apparently intact). That same day as my bag was discovered in Brisbane, Simon flew in to Perth (he had a different flight from Harrison and me), with his luggage and a jogging stroller. It almost defies belief, but THE STROLLER DID NOT ARRIVE!!!! So now we had TWO pieces of missing luggage to be delivered. Thankfully they are both now at home, and I can hardly wait to get home tonight and make sure that everything that should be in the bag is there.