Everyone’s favourite Republican out to destroy everyone’s favourite crab.

After seeing the brilliance that is Evan our friends are cottoning on. Latest arrival the most beautiful Camille. CONGRATULATIONS to Sarah and Stuart.

Evan drove 3.5tons of campervan to the north!

From the Guardian

Looking good…

Found myself unexpectedly leaping off waterfalls* at the weekend, much as one might expect a particularly frisky salmon to do. Sadly no photographic evidence of my wetsuit/helmet/buoyancy aid/look-of-unremitting-fear outfit survives.

*Not this waterfall, although it was extremely nice to look at.

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The Mittons pay tribute to the late, great Steve Irwin.

See our private photoshoot from 2003, and read about my personal experience of the great man.

News roundup:

• SMH – Worldwide praise for a bloody good bloke
• SMH – Serrated knife-like barb, not toxins, the likely killer
• SMH – In Irwin’s own words
• ABC – Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope. Twice.
• Australia Zoo
• The Age – End would have been agony
• Courier Mail – A tribute picture gallery
• Courier Mail – Steve Irwin: He died as he lived
• BBC – Obituary: Steve Irwin
• BBC – In Pictures
• Guardian – The Call of the Wild

Invasion of the Mittens – this time in East Anglia.