Last week, Oli, a whole bunch of ex-pats and I went to see Billy Elliot the Musical - which was FANTASTIC. Bizarrely, although we have already seen it, the premiere was this week as Elton John was in town - he did the music.




As Tor who organised the night for us had bought the tickets months ago, we were about five rows from the front - thankfully there was not repeat of what happened at Swan Lake - sweat being thrown off the lead dancer!

In case, you don't know the story, it is set during the miners' strike, hence the Maggie Thatcher songs. As it is set around Newcastle, there were translations in the program for those that didn't understand the accents and slang.

I know it is only showing in London and Sydney, and then eventually New York, but if you get the chance, you should definitely go - I am thinking of going again.

On Sunday (25th Nov) we, and about 50,000 other Sydneysiders, went into the city to watch the inaugural Sydney Christmas Parade.

About 60 floats, marching bands, groups and Miss Teen Australia all walked past as we waved and sang along (although Christmas carols about snow in 30 degree heat is not right!)


It all ended with the main event . . . SANTA!!!

Although we don't live in Glebe, we still visited the Glebe Street Fair again this year - although with our weekly visit to our local market, the Glebe Fair wasn't quite as impressive as it was last year.

A couple of highlights were the man cutting silhouettes in two minutes with practically one cut


and the petting zoo