Our spare bed has been somewhat neglected in the past few months, but over the next couple of weeks we’ve got a stream of visitors coming to see us.

This weekend an old school friend of John’s will be passing through Sydney on his return from a wedding 160km from Dubbo (ie very remote NSW). We have a loose arrangement to catch up, but John warns me that if he meets a pretty girl at the wedding it is more than likely that we’ll get unceremoniously dumped.

Then, at the end of the following week the long awaited arrival of my sister and Amy will finally be here. They’ll be staying for a week with us, although for the first two nights we’re heading up to the Hawkesbury River.

At the end of the next week we’ll be exchanging Michelle and Amy for John’s Mum, Kate, at Sydney airport. Kate will be staying with us for a long weekend and we’ve planned a trip to Billy Elliot and a meal at a new restaurant we’ve discovered. That weekend John and I will get to sleep in our spare bed as we have an ‘over 50′ rule for giving up our comfortable bed in exchange for the less comfortable futon – sorry Michelle and Amy.

So you can probably guess what we’ll be doing this weekend – cleaning! In particular we will be finding the spare bed under all our visa paperwork.