The day after

DOWN AT Victor Harbor today, with real, live dolphins swimming in the bay - very neat!

Bloody good job today's worked out so well, as the past 24 hours have not been great. 3:30 Tuesday morning Ali passed out and smacked her head on the marble floor at the house, breaking three front teeth in the process (ouch!), so we spent most of yesterday finding then attending a dentist for running repairs. Fortunately, they've been able to repair them very well and you'd struggle to tell that anything had happened; or at least, you will once her non-collagen injected top lip has shrunk back to normal size in a few days. She's still feeling a bit groggy but seems mostly OK in herself.

I'm told that Hoopy & I are not helping the recovery on the grounds that we keep making her laugh and the fact that I'm getting a bollocking would seem to suggest that normal service is not far from resumption ;-). The dentist seems to agree with our theory based on recent events that she has extremely low blood pressure, so that needs checking out back in UKLand - if nothing else, we can't afford for her to keep breaking herself!

And then, of course, England manage their age-old trick of snatching defeat from the jaws of a draw (if not victory) and go and lose the second Test. So now we're two down with three to play. Sigh.

Advice of the day comes courtesy of Hoopy on the way down here in the car - we were talking about travel sickness and apparantly, if you sit on a newspaper, you don't get car sick. No, he doesn't know why either, but it was his parents' guidance and has always worked for him...

We're halfway through our time in Adelaide now. This trip is going by waaaayyy too fast. Next stop Perth on the 12th.