{"id":5550,"date":"2011-08-15T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2011-08-17T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T06:16:10","slug":"the-holiday-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=5550","title":{"rendered":"The Holiday Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was only last night when we said farewell to Jen’s parents as they flew out to China did it really feel like the closing chapter to a four week winter holiday.\u00a0 It all started in mid-July when we had relatives arrive from around the world – visiting from Scotland, China and America.\u00a0 Six in total.\u00a0 Plus all of Jen’s siblings living in Brisbane were on holiday too.\u00a0 So, eleven of us really.\u00a0 The Inoue-Halligan-Clarke-Fisk family, all inter-related in some weird tangential manner that I can barely describe (Eileen from Boston is my wife’s second cousin once removed) enjoying our break together, travelling around Queensland.<\/p>\n

Although I spent large portions of my childhood as an only child and generally grew up in a rather small family unit, I’ve since married into a much larger tribe.\u00a0 It can be rather exhausting at times but I really do quite like our little gang.\u00a0 There’s a real hodge podge of people with differing backgrounds and it makes for an interesting dynamic.\u00a0 Amongst our group are teachers, doctors and lawyers.\u00a0 We have baby-boomers in the family who grew up with Elvis and the Beatles and we have Gen Y kids who were born in the 21st Century and grew up with McFly.\u00a0 We’ve managed to get together a bunch of times now – a Brunei Christmas, a Brisbane wedding, an Edinburgh summer – and we’ve always had an absolute blast together.<\/p>\n

I took this photo of the family as they waited for a bus in Palm Cove in far north Queensland.\u00a0 It helps give you an idea of who everyone is.<\/p>\n

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As you can expect with a group this size, a lot of the time people just went off and did their own thing.\u00a0 Depending on how you were so inclined, the holiday was a good opportunity to lie in the sun and read a book.\u00a0 Or kick a ball around.\u00a0 Or splash around in the pool.\u00a0 Food always brought everyone together though.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ll just let the pictures do the talking from here on in.\u00a0 Here it is – the Queensland Winter Holiday of 2011.<\/p>\n

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Until next time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was only last night when we said farewell to Jen’s parents as they flew out to China did it really feel like the closing chapter to a four week winter holiday.\u00a0 It all started in mid-July when we had relatives arrive from around the world – visiting from Scotland, China and America.\u00a0 Six in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[701,191],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-family","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}