It’s been so wet and cold here of late, feels more like the Blue Mountais than a desert. Last week Alice Springs had its coldest day on record, didn’t get above 6 degrees all day. It all looks very beautiful and it is nice to snuggle around fires with hot drinks but I am getting a little bit tired of it all. It was especially not fun over the weekend as our toilet was blocked so if we wanted to go to the toilet it was either walking over to mum’s or going in the yard. Both much less appealing in the wet and freezing cold. It was especially bad timing for me as I am now going to the toilet what feels like every ten minutes. Che is taking up all the room now, so my bladder is significanlty smaller. I am very grateful it’s all fixed now. Nothing like going without to make you not take things for granted.

I have stopped working now although things have been pretty busy on the block. We had 12 people staying for a tour that mum and Keith did and then 20 for a tour that Peter and Sue are doing. Carney, our neighbour, also had five friends stay who are here for a conference and the kids are on school holidays so they are around a lot with all their cousins.

I feel very heavy and have a fair amount of back pain. Just over six weeks to go now and I am huge. It’s rather impossible to find comfortable positions especially when Che moves into bad positions. The other night I could hardly walk for a few hours. Thankfully she moved out of that postion fairly quickly. We’ve got our second antenatal class tonight. I have to say I didn’t really hear anything new in the first one so hopefully tonight will be more interesting.