I got nuthin'. So hang around in Dubbo for a bit, if you like.

Back in April we had a family holiday.

You can scroll down and get straight to the good bits or dawdle and read my whinge first.


I had a great time taking pics and when I came back Blogger rejected the whole bloody lot.

No reason.

Just Blogger bastardry.

Suse kept saying 'Get Ye To Flickr' and I couldn't make that work for an extra-specially-long time.

Then she explained it to me again. And finally I got it.

(the trick, folks, is to use your 'edit html' tab, and paste in the urls you can generate after uploading pics to Flickr. Then come back to the 'compose' tab for all your normal tidying up like italics and bold etc - try it, you'll never go back. Shula, you asked about this ages ago and I am not sure if this will work in Typepad?)

So for the last few nights I've been playing around with Wordpress and setting up a mirror site to this one, purely because Wordpress has categories and until Blogger Beta deigns to look my way I DON'T have categories and I am sick and tired of waiting.

I so lust for categories.

I'm not sure though.

Wordpress seems a bit clinical.

And I've just got all these pretty flowers and things onto the Ladies Lounge.

Anyone else got thoughts on changing over?

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Getting back to my original point. I got nuthin' for ya.

Other than some pictures from the holiday at Western Plains Zoo way back in April.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. We're planning on going back every couple of years as it is an easy drive from Sydney and a good value trip for all.

Things we learned in Dubbo

Getting there can be part of the fun:


At least, it can be fun if you're the mum, and the passenger, and in charge of the camera:


It was really too early in the year for the grass to be this dead - anyone doubt the drought?:


And onto the Zoo.

See that thing with the foot in the ear? I can do that when I go to yoga regularly:


It's a sad fact - lions look out of place anywhere but Africa:


Not so the tigers, who mostly just looked hungry. Until they fed this one a baby goat. I wish I could play you the sound of the bones cracking.


Giraffes are interesting no matter which way you look at them:
forwards...


... or backwards...


Is this not the most beautiful dingo?


I think he had his eye on this mob:


We had two cameras on this trip: one for the Pea Princess to use to take photos of the holiday, and one for me to use to take photos of the Pea Princess taking photos of the holiday...


And without the Pea Princess' camera in the back seat we'd have missed some of this:

It's nice to go home, and take some tigers with you...


You have to be very quick to catch the giant Stockman on the old camera, Pea Princess caught his head over the top of Sparkle's here:



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So what do you know? Maybe I had sumthin' for ya after all.

Mtc
Bec