Morning walk guides are Aerem, Sam & Ascha,
giving me my first guided tour around their Billabong.

THE GAME IS AFOOT . . .

Bill was playing a game, placing a piece of bread in the tree and calling each dog individually. I think in this shot, only Aerem & Ruby are being good and sitting

To which Ascha replies:

Ooooohhhhhhhhh Auntie Libby!! how could you say such a thing?

That only Ruby & Aerem was sitting nicely, not me & Sammy . . .

Mum says I can write to you strate away cuz what reeeeeeeally was happening is that Sammy had already gotted his bisxcuit and is eating it, I was stretching up to reach mine, and Aerem & Ruby (in the pritty pink coat) were waiting for their turns. That's why they were still sitting properly.

It's a game we play in memory of our big sister Alice. We call that her tree, cuz she always liked to sit beside it and Mum wood take her photograph there. Now, most evenings, we all run around the billabong after dinner time, and the game is to sit while Dad poots a bisxcuit on the tree trunk, and corls us one by one to come and get it.

I honstetdly do think you cood ask Auntie Andréa to . . . er, slightly moddify the caption, cuz you know how v-e-r-y well behaved we are!

It was a very cold morning; you can see that Sammy still has his blue jarmies on, and Ruby's got her pink ones on, too.

We loved looking at your pictures, especially seeing Auntie Lizzie & Chester, too!

Woofs & licks from Ascha in Oz - we miss you lots and we love the toys you brought for us, and Mum speshally loves the red ATRA bandanas and all the other gifts that filled your luggage!

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