Overland with Kids

Having returned from our shakedown trip approx almost 4 months ago, much has been happening. As per our last post, mainly with regards to us trying to get our house, lives and all important ‘finances’ in order before we leave next year. We’re still working on all 3 of these and next on the list [...]

Like most, we’ve had a pretty busy year with one thing and another. Earlier in 2009, we met some fellow overlanders who have now become firm friends - some who have since left on their travels and some like us, about to leave during early 2010. We had our first couchsurfers from Spain during Spring. We have [...]

Since our last update, we had paid a total £3,125 GBP or $6,250 AUD toward Andrew’s Australian Sponsored Skilled Visa application. Since this time, Andrew was granted WA State Sponsorship (4th November) at an additional cost of £538.20 or $968.02 AUD and we could now finally apply for the long-awaited visa. We lodged this immediately [...]

Vehicle Preparation

We bought a 1998 Land Rover Defender 110 CSW 300TDi - 12 seater bench seat standard base vehicle with no modifications during November 2007.
We thought long and hard about our chosen vehicle before buying and then about how we wanted to modify to suit us, our children and the more longer-term trip to Australia. [...]

A huge big thank you to everyone who came to the shows during October and November and donated £1 to have their photo taken with Pesky afterwards. Please page down to see if you can find your photo/s.  If you can see your picture/s and would like us to email you a copy of your photo/s, please hover over [...]

With copyright permission of Lauren Child, we commissioned a company called www.costumesandmascots.com to make an adult sized ‘Pesky’ costume (mascot) and 4 of the main rod puppet characters (Pierre the Chinchilla, Oscar the Siamese Cat, Nibbles the Rabbit and Andrew the Scottie Dogs) especially for us, in time for the shows. See here for more information about the shows.
As the shows have [...]

Please find a printable tri-fold leaflet attached, for you to print out and keep, detailing information about the up and coming shows:
Amateur Puppet Show That Pesky Rat
For more information regarding our fundraising cause or for further details about the shows and to see a selection of puppet profiles, please click here. Alternatively, please have a look at our Fundraising [...]

Please support us!
“Sometimes when I am tucked up into my crisp packet, I look up at all the cosy windows and wonder what it would be like to live with creature comforts. To belong to somebody, to be an actual pet.”
Working together with the children’s author Lauren Child’s team, we are supporting www.ceem.co.uk, Crosshall Infant School [...]

Please click the following for recent local newspaper article about us hunts-post-article-sept-2009…….doing anything and everything we need to, to raise the profile of our fundraising cause and forthcoming puppet shows. See article, photo of us and scale of the puppet shows planned.  Why not come along and watch us make complete fools of ourselves (featuring Andrew [...]

We were in touch with Kai Brethouwer (Dutch origin) and his family who ‘lived’ in Australia and hoping that they would be leaving roughly around the same time as us next year. Had thoughts of possibly meeting halfway somewhere. They also have two children. But all being well, they have managed to sell up, get organised [...]