I Love Australia!

So, as we were driving home today from the local shops (the Logan Hyperdome) I looked at Angela and I said “I love living here”. Every now and again I will just say this out of the blue and as you can imagine she’ll get a huge grin on her face and say “I’m so glad”. It’s hard to explain exactly what it is about here that I love… maybe it’s because I love everything. I love the...

Australia Day 2008

If you’re outside of Oz you might not realise that January 26 is Australia Day. This is a day when Aussies go out and celebrate being Australian… kind of like July 4th in America, but without the Independence bit ;o) Oh and it’s a public holiday.. huzzah! Long weekend! This Australia day we decided to go to the Gold Coast where the council had put on special celebrations. There...

Still Here – Strange Things of Note

Yes we’re still here, just waiting waiting waiting on the house being finished so we can actually do something useful with our time, after all, all of this going to the beach to pass your day is hard work ;o) Today we got up at 6.30am to head down to the markets, grab some cheap fruit and veg etc and also look at all the other wares on offer. We went to 3 different ones and no dogs were...

Australia Arrival! Update Day 1

Post for friends and family on our move from the UK to Australia! Date: 22nd Jan 2007 – We arrived yesterday after a looooong few flights. The flight to Heathrow was fine at a mere 55 minutes or so, we then had to leg it to make it to the connection because the handout said it was going to take 75 minutes to get from where we landed to where we were leaving for Singapore (an hour later). In...