It’s about time that Julian and Shelley paid a visit to Australia! We’ve missed them! So have a whole host of other people it would seem, judging by the throng of people that gathered to see them at Julian’s parent’s house out at DumbGumdale on Saturday! I counted at least 14 before losing interest in counting; likely it was because I was too busy chasing Oscar around their acres of yard space!
Anyway – this is certainly the first time that Julian and Shelley have been in the same country with us and the Threebies for aaaaaaages, so we had Shelley’s Dad – Peter – take a photo to commemorate the occasion.
Full compliments to Peter for producing what is easily one of the better framed photos of us that we have. His discomfort at using a superior brand of camera hardly shows in the photo at all! Yet, despite his photography skills, I once again find myself displeased with how my hair looks in this shot. After the disastrous photo at Mitchelton markets where my hair was clearly too long on top, now it’s so short that I look like a total chav! I warned the hairdresser that gauge six on top was far too optimistic, and this is what I get?!
From now on, I’ll be the guy wearing a hat.
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Dang it Gerrod, I was hoping you’d ‘shop the shed out of the background!
Aaron Lewis demands an explanation of DumbGumdale… And hopes that in asking I don’t inadvertently demonstrate the point.
Great photo, but it has an’incomplete’ look about it… Like Hikes and Shelley have misplaced their offspring just prior to the snap.
Aaron: Julian assures me that “Dumbdale” is what the locals call it; but I thought I’d provide the translation for those non-locals out there.
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