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Greetings everyone! Happy holidays to all my teacher friends (remember I’m not one of you anymore, so you'd better enjoy.) How are the rest of you? I know the weather has been quite mild, except for Toowoomba of course.
We have obviously had some excitement in our lives this past week, although it’s certainly resulted in a desperate bout of homesickness. It seems everyone but us has met my lovely new nephew Charlie. Simon and I were absolutely thrilled with his arrival. After seemingly taking so long to get around to being born, he was suddenly in a tremendous hurry. ... more
Damn! I went through the whole day thinking it was yesterday.
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Which means I totally forgot to wish two important people a happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Aidan and Happy Birthday Nathan!
Here is a picture I took in celebration:
Since I'm talking about birthdays I might as well do a wrap up of my birthday. The actual day was a pretty low key affair (I went to work) but I did play soccer (always a highlight) and I had the Easter long weekend to look forward to. We absolutely killed the opposition at soccer. Coming of the previous week where we knocked off the two top teams1in mens we had another ... more
I'm still less than half his age
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Today my Dad turns 50. It's not easy to express what a dad means to a person and this is most certainly the case with my Dad and me1.
I'll start by saying we go back a long way, nearly 23 years, so it's fair to say I know a lot about him and can probably make a fairly accurate assessment of his character. But let's face it, he knows much more about me than I know about him, so I've still got to be careful what I say.
I have an overwhelming amount of love and respect for my ... more
The ANZAC day long weekend put to good use
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This weekend actually felt long, which is good because it was supposed to be and they have a habit of feeling short if they're supposed to be long.
I have achieved a good amount of uni work this weekend and our project is coming along - sort of. I promise I'll post a link here when we have something worth looking at.
You may have noticed an abundance of happy birthday posts on here of late, and I have one more for you. It was Tarlee's birthday TODAY. We went up to Toowoomba to celebrate the three of us (Aidan, ... more
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