So I've been crap again at writing, tut tut!
Today the inlays came to town for a month. Came to town is probably the wrong phrase seeing as they 'normally' live on the other side of the world!! I'm not sure how they managed to bring any clothes as their luggage seemed to be full of heat mags (for me), chocolate (for me), books (for me) oh and some whiskey (for him). I have now decided that the going rate to stay with us is four family size bars of galaxey. May have to consider putting the rates up though... Here is to a fat few weeks!
B x x
Friday, 4 November 2011
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
A message from home
Today I was greeted by a lovely little red card in the post box. Now just getting the post for me is now exciting in Aussie land (except for when greeted by bills), we don't have a conventional letter box in our flat, because (probably) we're in a flat! Although saying that most houses have boxes out on the street too. So when I saw the little red card saying I had missed a delivery I knew my mum had been busy!
The parcel wasn't that exciting: some tights (as they are very expensive here, although I know it was tricky for my mum to find them during a 'summer' back home), so left-behind-because-my-suitcase-was too-full running leggings and my old slippers!! I am quite funny about my slippers, and I tend to wear them until they are falling apart and held together by a couple of threads! So these alone have made my day!
It is so nice getting post from home, in particular when tomorrow marks 12 months since we left the UK for our Aussie adventures, where does the time go??
B x x
The parcel wasn't that exciting: some tights (as they are very expensive here, although I know it was tricky for my mum to find them during a 'summer' back home), so left-behind-because-my-suitcase-was too-full running leggings and my old slippers!! I am quite funny about my slippers, and I tend to wear them until they are falling apart and held together by a couple of threads! So these alone have made my day!
It is so nice getting post from home, in particular when tomorrow marks 12 months since we left the UK for our Aussie adventures, where does the time go??
B x x
Monday, 1 August 2011
Wedding Album
Mr B and I have been married for over a year now and we still haven't gotten round to doing our wedding album. How bad is that? It isn't that we don't like any of the pictures, or we fell out with the photographer, or hate photos of ourselves... we just haven't had time! We moved to Brisbane 2 months after we got married, this made sorting out the wedding album in the UK (from the photographer we used) pretty tricky business. So he gave us all of the high resolution pictures for us to go it alone.
I March this year I did try. Mr B was on his jollies with work (PNG - not too good for jollies) I was bored for several evenings so I did some research and came across a UK based company called Bob Books who had been highly recommended on the wedding forum I used to be actively a part of. So I start making the album (thinking that the parents will be very happy indeed), things are going really well, one Sunday afternoon I place the finishing touches to it ready for Mr B to view it when he got home, but it wouldn't save. I'm not very good with computers but even I can manage to save a document. I tried renaming it, saving it somewhere else, nothing worked and I had lost a couple of hours work. Not the end of the world - but it was all the finishing touches to make it perfect and so fiddly. ARRRRRGGGHH!
So today, project 'Wedding Album the 2nd' commences. I have decided to go for an Aussie based company (makes good sense really...) and we shall see how we go.
B x x
I March this year I did try. Mr B was on his jollies with work (PNG - not too good for jollies) I was bored for several evenings so I did some research and came across a UK based company called Bob Books who had been highly recommended on the wedding forum I used to be actively a part of. So I start making the album (thinking that the parents will be very happy indeed), things are going really well, one Sunday afternoon I place the finishing touches to it ready for Mr B to view it when he got home, but it wouldn't save. I'm not very good with computers but even I can manage to save a document. I tried renaming it, saving it somewhere else, nothing worked and I had lost a couple of hours work. Not the end of the world - but it was all the finishing touches to make it perfect and so fiddly. ARRRRRGGGHH!
So today, project 'Wedding Album the 2nd' commences. I have decided to go for an Aussie based company (makes good sense really...) and we shall see how we go.
B x x
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Bad blogger!
Sorry blog, you haven't been forgotten but you have been neglected!
Since the last post I have travelled back to the mother land for a wedding, over to the states for a race (Indy 500), back up to Darwin for a conference and to a couple of mines. Dread to think of the carbon footprint from it all!
Hubby and I have also had our 1st wedding anniversary and moved flats. Wowzers! Making me feel tired thinking about it! Oh, and I also was admitted to hospital for an operation.
Anyway, seem to be back on track at the moment and enjoying life, good stuff!
B x x
Since the last post I have travelled back to the mother land for a wedding, over to the states for a race (Indy 500), back up to Darwin for a conference and to a couple of mines. Dread to think of the carbon footprint from it all!
Hubby and I have also had our 1st wedding anniversary and moved flats. Wowzers! Making me feel tired thinking about it! Oh, and I also was admitted to hospital for an operation.
Anyway, seem to be back on track at the moment and enjoying life, good stuff!
B x x
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
The top end
So we have been here for over 8 months now (how time flies), and I have already been to several capital cities with work and many random mine sites. I'll try and summarise some of the places I have been too already, but bare with me... We'll start at the top with Darwin.
Darwin would have been a very boring place if it wasn't for the fact that one of my closest friends and her boyfriend live there. I was expecting heat and humidity by the bucket load, and that is pretty much what I got!
Darwin is a funny place, not really that near anything, and either hot and wet or hot and dry. It seems to be a transient place for people, with no one really wanting to live there forever. The area is, however, beautiful with so much wildlife to see (yes, that is a 5m long salty there, we had several swim up to the boat....)
B x x
Darwin would have been a very boring place if it wasn't for the fact that one of my closest friends and her boyfriend live there. I was expecting heat and humidity by the bucket load, and that is pretty much what I got!
Darwin is a funny place, not really that near anything, and either hot and wet or hot and dry. It seems to be a transient place for people, with no one really wanting to live there forever. The area is, however, beautiful with so much wildlife to see (yes, that is a 5m long salty there, we had several swim up to the boat....)
B x x
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Hello and welcome...
This shall be my first post in my own blog...(apparently all the cool kids are keeping one, how modern am I!?)
I have been meaning to set one up for a while to keep friends and family informed of our adventures in our adopted new country, but with one thing or another (aka my work) I haven't got round to it. Well, no time like the present hey?
I'll try to pop back as often as I can
B x x
I have been meaning to set one up for a while to keep friends and family informed of our adventures in our adopted new country, but with one thing or another (aka my work) I haven't got round to it. Well, no time like the present hey?
I'll try to pop back as often as I can
B x x
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