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What are you on about Ron?? Box of fluffy ducks?!? Is this some peculiar and obscure Oxfordshire aphorism?  I have started to erect the barricades and ordered the machine guns against your imminent arrival. (Though, seriously Ron you are welcome: we have a spare room and live in a northern suburb of Sydney (about 40 minutes from the city). So if you do plan a trip you are more than welcome to stay.). My wife and I were in your vicinity this time last year: we stayed at Shilton and used that as a base to visit Burford, Swinbrook,Oxford,Woodstock, Bladon. Had a great time.

Now having invited you to stay,let me give with one hand and take away with the other: we are going away on a trip to Western Australia later this year. Will be away for about 2 months (September and October) . As we are driving it will take us a week to get to our starting point in WA before we start our serious touring and another week to get back to Sydney. It can be a long time between drinks over here, unlike the UK! Cheers.

Ha, ha Phil have I got news for you brother!  Don't spill the beans yet Diana please, but isn't that just the funniest thing? Oh by the way, thank you for the invite Phil. Once again members....the power of POE eh?

Incidentally, box of fluffy ducks is a term used by the Kiwi's but I reckon you already knew that! It means (apparently) that everything is good!

Boy, I can't wait to drop the bombshell! Watch this space folks!

Traveling basically around the South-West. Starting in Kalgoorlie and the goldfields, including a little place called Gwalia where we will be staying in a B&B which was once the house Herbert Hoover lived in when he was a mine engineer before he went on to bigger and better things! Then across to Shark Bay (the area the Dutch touched on in 17th Century, then down south for 10 days in Perth and Fremantle, before heading for the wineries of the Margaret River region (best reds in the world!!) and the forests of Pemberton and then along the South coast through the National Parks and windswept beaches and cliffs. It will be our autumn;temperature should hover between 26 to 30 degrees. There is no way I would do this in Summer!  The drive across the Nullarbor will be a first for us and an experience we are looking forward to over 2700ks( 1677 miles) of flat hot road with not much to see, except where the road skirts the coast of the Great Australian Bight.

Have you been to Australia?