Turns out William is and Aussie kid. Sure, he treated avocado with some disdain, but this photo shows his reaction to vegemite on toast.

He loves it, like any aussie kid should!

I went along to Adelaide's big car race today, the Clipsal 500. They say a picture is worth 1000 words, and as such the whole event can be summarised in 2000 words.

We were woken at 3 am this morning by the commotion caused by the house across the road from us catching fire! No prizes for guessing my exclamation as I opened our front door to be confronted with this scene.... [hint]

Those of you who are not parents, who don't want to be put off of having children, might be best to skip most of this post and just look at the pictures.

Last week, William was infected by a delightful little virus by the name of Gastroentertitis Rotavirus. Good old Gastro, a bug that will strike fear into the hearts of even the healthiest person, made its way into our house through William, and made it self known by Karen getting up to William to discover that he had been sleeping in his own vomit. (That's my boy!).

Of course since this little bastard is highly contagious, Karen was struck down by Wednesday night, and by 4am Thursday morning, I was down too. It was, if you'll pardon the pun, some nasty shit.

This all happened against the backdrop of Tara and Nicks impending wedding, for which Karen was the Matron of Honour. Whilst Karen and I recovered reasonably quickly, when William let loose a projectile vomit at 2am Saturday morning, there was a level of stress in this household to rival the elastic in Rita McNeil's undies.

So William went of to stay with Karen's Mum and Dad on Saturday, despite being quite infections, because we couldn't exactly pull out of the wedding. They were harvesting the grapes on the property that weekend, and almost everyone who helped ended up with the lurgy.

As did Nick, and other guests from the wedding. Fortunately, the wedding had been over for a good three hours before it hit Nick.

Despite all this, the wedding was bloody excellent fun. We had a ball, and I got to try my hand at some "Serious" wedding photography. You can see some of the results in my Deviantart gallery, along with a lot of my other "best work". For those that can't be bothered, here is a quick pic....



It doesn't end there though. Due to the rapid spread of this virus amongst the circle of people we saw last week, and Williams yet to be fully developed immune system, the poor little bugger came down with it AGAIN!, and a couple more vomits saw Karen reach the end of her tether and whip him round to the Women's and Children's hospital. He is now on a rehydrating fluid, which is like baby Powerade, and hopefully recovering.

Have I mentioned yet that this year we are going to a whole metric shitload of weddings?

We have one wedding per month for the first 5 months of this year, and that combined with all the bucks shows/hens shows/kitchen teas/catching up with friens from interstate makes for a busy social calendar.

So first of all in January was my little brother Andrew's wedding, which I already mentioned. February's wedding was union between Karen's little brother Steven and his now wife Sarah.

It was an absolutely spectacular day, and all of the hard work getting the farm at Aldinga ready really paid off, as can be seen in this photo. That lawn is a work of art, you have to admit.

I once again assumed the role of M.C. for the event, and had a blast hamming it up with the microphone as usual.

And you know its a good party when I went to bed at three-ish, and was far from being the last one. So anyway, for the record, here is one of my happysnaps of the couple in question.


The wedding for March is Tara and Nick, look out for photos here soon!