I'm certainly not a celebrity, so just leave me here please!

Just loving this apartment. Made first major mistake of living in the tropics. I left a bag of mints and some sealed crackers out on your work top. Got back from my little exploration to find a few ants showing an interest. It says on the blurb from the hotel, empty bins daily and cover all food! Oh well.

It turns out that the monsoon is in fact a cyclone! No idea what that is, wet and windy I guess. A rather nice guy in one of the shops I went in was telling me. He says he's been tracking it on the radar (as you do) and the wind is not moving it. But by all accounts it should start improving tomorrow. I couldn't care less, it's rain, warm rain. You get wet, you dry out again!

Port Douglas is lovely, my type of place. For you Cornwall girlies it's like there. Very laid back, nothing is too much trouble - I love it. I have bought so much 'stuff' today lol. It has to be done. Found a nice surfers style cafe and had a mixed fruit cocktail, delicious. Then more shopping for more toot (translation: a southern expression for crap lol) to take home. Believe me, I could have bought a lot more if I could have carried it all lol.

Went food shopping, I love doing that in a different country. The fresh fish and seafood is amazing. Didn't take any pictures as that is a bit sad standing in the middle of Australia's Sainsbury's clicking away on your iPad lol. The supermarkets don't sell alcohol here you have to go to a Bottle Shop. I didn't bother, I couldn't carry any more. Anyway it's happy hour back at the hotel and they do cocktails lol.

So I'm back at my lovely apartment. Food all our away from the bloody ants and I'm sitting out on the patio in my swimming costume listening and watching the rain. Every now and then you hear a cuckoo borough (I don't know how you spell it but you know what I mean) laughing in the trees. No sign of anything else there though, but I bet there's something lurking lol. That guy Stan from HK was telling me when we met that two of his sisters dogs got attacked, whilst they were protecting her children, by a cobra. They died, the dogs not the children lol. All I've seen are flies, ants and a gecko lol.

It's funny to think that you are all sound asleep ( I can hear some of you snoring lol) as it's 5.30am there and 3.30pm here. I can't really work that out says Chicky Lickie. And what is it so warm and sticky here and there's no sun? OK Nikki I know, I'm thinking too much.

OK just checked happy hour is 4-6 so happy two hours yay. Better go and put one clothes on then. Mmmmmmm I do like cocktails lol. I'm still beaming and I'm so happy x