Numero Uno: Congratulations are in order for the Kulhan household! We just settled on selling the property in Redcliffe and as a result the proceeds paid off the house in Scarborough. We now own a house outright! How cool and exciting is that? It'll be a while until we get the title to the property in our hot, little hands but it's on its way. Woooooo hoooooo!
Numero Dos: Speedy travel wishes to my mum who is about to embark on her journey to Dubai and Turkey. {She was supposed to go to Egypt and complete a trip of a lifetime but due to the troubles there it was taken off the table and instead is going somewhere else exciting!} Apart from the freezing, cold weather that she is anticipating to encounter {gotta love the web} she will be visiting Gallipoli, an important part of any Aussie and Kiwi's history. I visited there 20 years ago and was unbelievably moved by the courage that those soldiers had to have had to have gone forward in the face of such a hill. Where they were supposed to have landed was one or so miles down the coast and flat as a tack. They would have been able to land and make their way onto Turkish soil with minimal {if any} casualties. Instead they got straight off the boat and had to make their way up a hill that had heavily armed Turkish forces laying in wait for them. Some of my fellow travellers found metal shrapnel still in the hill in 1990. 75 years ago - April 25, 1915. It's a magnificant memorial to some extremely, brave, wonderful diggers. I hope my mum really gets a lot out of her trip. Bon voyage mum!
P.S. Sorry, didn't mean to get off direction on my mum's news. I can't help it, I'm a proud Aussie!
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