Content tagged: brisbane

Hi from London

Hi to everyone! Thanks for the great news from home. Sarah and Pat, your emails are great and my RSHS staffroom pals, thanks for keeping me posted. We now find ourselves in June, quite certain that our nephew or niece will be born this month. Jiselle has now finished up work and hopefully will have a bit of time to herself until she is a mum. We managed to catch a replay of the first, albeit disappointing State of Origin at a Walkabout pub. The UEFA cup final between Manchester United and Chelsea in Moscow was on the same night ... more

Gotta love free wi-fi

Well, the year long adventure has officially begun. We're on our first five hour stop over after an eight hour flight into Taipei. It was awesome to discover the free1 availability of internet, now all I need is power and I've got these five hours totally covered. So...back to the waiting. Update: 5:07 PM 29 December 2007 GMT Frankfurt wasn't as free flowing as Taipei with the Wi-Fi so it's had to wait until now. We finally made it to London a mere 36 hours after we left Brisbane. I am oh, so tired and Laura has already crashed. She ... more

Nature Shines

This afternoon1 was one of those afternoons when you step out of the office and everything is gorgeous. It's as though that little box chock full of beautiful stuff which the world usually keeps mostly hidden away has just exploded and there's beauty just dripping from everything. Looking out my window and watching the clouds roll in from the south-west it strikes me that I don't have an umbrella at work and I don't particularly feel like getting wet. Normally storms make me very excited, but this isn't really a storm, more just an afternoon shower. As the rain eased, ... more

Damn! I went through the whole day thinking it was yesterday.

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

Scooter Limbo

There has been a post brewing for a while about our activities on Australia Day, namely the Second Annual Scooter Limbo Championships1. I realise I'm almost a month late, but the post still isn't done, so I've prepared this quick teaser. That's not to forget the pie eating contest, barbecue and the slip'n'slide. [↩]