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Well we're here and settled. We have a house, a cat, and both have jobs we're enjoying. We also have a phone. The number is (02)8005 0562 and is a local number in Sydney. We would love to hear from you. There's also an ugly button.
For the past 9 months my bus driver to work in the morning has almost always been the same guy. I can think of 2 or 3 occasions when it was someone different, but it has almost always been him.
For some reason, my morning bus always runs 5-10 minutes late. I always end up sitting [...]
Posted at 12:45 pm in the category Random, life, work | Be the first to comment
today, sarah (my best NZ girl friend) had an ultrasound to tell her that she was going to be the proud mother of a baby boy in a couple of months - and it kind of got me thinking about the number of friends and relatives i have, that have experienced parenthood, and how it [...]
Posted at 8:50 pm in the category life | 1 Comment »
Hi everybody, sorry I have been so quiet, not an awful lot happening. Life continues on as normal. Australia Day was super low-key, and it was very sad to be at work yesterday when we knew everyone back home was having a public holiday, but that’s ok.
The most exciting news so far is that I [...]
Posted at 1:53 pm in the category Design, work | Be the first to comment
Ok so i am feeling uncharateristically good for a Friday - maybe thats why, cos its Friday… but either - its nice to be alive today.
have a few things to be counting down for and today is 2 months and 4 days til Mum arrives and i an quite, quite excited.
also, the cricket started yeaterday, [...]
Posted at 1:45 pm in the category life | 1 Comment »
i have to say i was genuinely shocked to hear that heath ledger died… thinking of his poor daughter growing up without a father, his family never really knowing what happened, Michelle Williams being devastated…
i think the worst part is that he is going to be remembered most for portraying a gay cowboy… and thats [...]
Posted at 6:54 pm in the category life | Be the first to comment
Despite the weather being generally a lot colder over here, yesterday was a lovely summer day. Sunny enough to get the washing line instead of the dryer, and pull our chairs out into the courtyard to to sunbake and read for a little while. We’re both now a little bit browner. Then we had a lovely [...]
Posted at 11:59 pm in the category life | 1 Comment »
We have found this week that it has been both good and bad to be watching live sport from australia. on one hand - becuase of perths 4 hour delay - we are getting to see a lot more of the cricket (despite Oz playing badly) but the 2 hour Melbourne delay has been depriving [...]
Posted at 10:46 am in the category Jaxon, life, photos | 2 Comments »
jordan is forcing me to write this blog despite me being quite sad about it.
Friday at work i was giving out an email address and spelling a name (for the second time) when the guy on the other end of the phone said - “oh im sorry, im an aussie, i couldnt understand what you [...]
Posted at 6:56 pm in the category life | 3 Comments »
Ok, so the deadline for tax has come and gone, but i decided this week that i should go about seeing if i can sort out our Australian tax while we are still over here.
It turned out that God had us well sorted out.First I found out that our normal tax agent (H&R Block) does [...]
Posted at 11:45 am in the category Random, life, news | Be the first to comment
OK so i am ‘enjoying’ my second day back at work after holidays and lamenting the fact that its only Tuesday.
Not only that - we have our first Team Cabbage soccer match tonight so that should be interesting - playing the team coming last so that sould be a bonus for us!!
UPDATE: Despite the bruises, [...]
Posted at 10:46 am in the category life | 1 Comment »
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