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Everybody needs good Neighbours…..

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Laptop hasn’t been working for the last two weeks. It came back to life so I will get up to date soon….

After bidding farewell to South America I flew to Australia to see what was happening down under. When I first landed I stayed with my friend Sue. Her buddies were saying how a few of them flew home to see their folks during their year away. Luckily I had mine come to me. Mummy and Daddy Canning made the 24 hour trip to the land down under to see how their little bundle of joy was doing. Main priority in Australia for any true Neighbours fanatic is to get to Melbourne and try and see some of the actors. So off to Melbourne we went.

We didn’t get to go on the Neighbours tour because while lots of people told me how good or bad it was, no one mentioned booking ahead. We did however manage to get to the ‘Neighbours Night’, where the stars come out to play with the regular folk and we all go crazy taking photos. That night we got to meet Alan Fletcher (Dr. Karl), Stuart (Blair McDonagh) and new people who play Declan and Steve. There was a table quiz to keep us busy, while they went around meeting people. We seemed to be the only gang taking the thing seriously, and managed a respectable 2nd place. Although there was $500 for first place, and nothing for second.
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