no michael (well almost) but i bet it could make a great pub night (30 sec blitz)
can u spot the resemblance?
London here we come
Friday, July 17, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
ok ok i know
again its been a while (sorry).
tour de france duties, work, packing and organising for UK. all poor excuses i know.
life is just peachy in Perth (except it is bloody cold). Get over it sucker i hear you say. i am contemplating a trip to the store to find some headgear for "bald head" and a big warm overcoat and some gloves for "smooth office hands" - dont mock they come in handy sometimes.
box packing has started. there is going to be some god awful last minute scramble i suspect but whatever is left will be the best verge leftovers for a while in town (tell your friends to bring a trailer).
i cant believe it is only about 7 weeks and the key ingredient to this adventure still doesnt have a ticket.
oh well - what will be will be. this could be just the shortest/greatest holiday in town. all we need now is the lotto numbers
go LANCE - stick it up the French and Alberto!!
tour de france duties, work, packing and organising for UK. all poor excuses i know.
life is just peachy in Perth (except it is bloody cold). Get over it sucker i hear you say. i am contemplating a trip to the store to find some headgear for "bald head" and a big warm overcoat and some gloves for "smooth office hands" - dont mock they come in handy sometimes.
box packing has started. there is going to be some god awful last minute scramble i suspect but whatever is left will be the best verge leftovers for a while in town (tell your friends to bring a trailer).
i cant believe it is only about 7 weeks and the key ingredient to this adventure still doesnt have a ticket.
oh well - what will be will be. this could be just the shortest/greatest holiday in town. all we need now is the lotto numbers
go LANCE - stick it up the French and Alberto!!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
life goes on
its been a while again. while we havent been too busy, life has been "solid". everyone is working, some are travelling, we are still organising ourselves to go to the UK and the countdown clock is running faster by the day. it is now only 11 weeks till we go (unless i can bring my flight forward - i am still trying to get in touch with the company i brought the ticket through).
Sue is heading off to the UK this week for work and to spend 3 days looking around for areas for us to live in.
at this time we still really have nothing sorted:
- Ash and i are still waiting to get our British Passports
- I am still trying to change my flight
- Sue and Georgia still dont have flights booked or visas sorted
- we have no idea where to live in the UK and it is doing our head in looking at properties on the web
- georgia needs to get a new Aust Passport
- we still need to sort out shipping of the things we need to the UK and to relocate/store anything we want to leave behind
- Sue needs to go to UK for 10 days, to Melbourne for a week
- jeff still needs to spend a weekend in Melbourne while Sue is there
- ash still needs to go to Melbourne (as does Georgia apparently)
other that there is not really much to do, besides organising a range of going away events
so please forgive me if i dont spend too much time here over the next few weeks/months
Sue is heading off to the UK this week for work and to spend 3 days looking around for areas for us to live in.
at this time we still really have nothing sorted:
- Ash and i are still waiting to get our British Passports
- I am still trying to change my flight
- Sue and Georgia still dont have flights booked or visas sorted
- we have no idea where to live in the UK and it is doing our head in looking at properties on the web
- georgia needs to get a new Aust Passport
- we still need to sort out shipping of the things we need to the UK and to relocate/store anything we want to leave behind
- Sue needs to go to UK for 10 days, to Melbourne for a week
- jeff still needs to spend a weekend in Melbourne while Sue is there
- ash still needs to go to Melbourne (as does Georgia apparently)
other that there is not really much to do, besides organising a range of going away events
so please forgive me if i dont spend too much time here over the next few weeks/months
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
time goes by
i wrote the following a couple of months ago when my life was on the cusp of change;
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i now live with a sense that the days will look after themselves without too much interference from me and we will be OK or better (in a relative sense)
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quite frankly i am not sure that i havent interfered too much but life has certainly changed and it has more change to go. one can only tell if my musing at the time will become reality for all concerned.
whatever happens i think we will all be OK or better (in a relative sense) but like any journey in life - if you dont like the ride - you might simply have to choose to get off the "train".
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i now live with a sense that the days will look after themselves without too much interference from me and we will be OK or better (in a relative sense)
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quite frankly i am not sure that i havent interfered too much but life has certainly changed and it has more change to go. one can only tell if my musing at the time will become reality for all concerned.
whatever happens i think we will all be OK or better (in a relative sense) but like any journey in life - if you dont like the ride - you might simply have to choose to get off the "train".
Friday, May 22, 2009
apologies
this blog is neglected i know, but one has been busy. its strange but it seems that the lives of all the people close to me (and me) are interesting at the moment. there are dramas (some of them serious but generally not "major") but all of them together make life just a little bit interesting.
in some instances the parts do not know the whole so my apologies for being distracted/aloof/distant. i think of you all often i promise even if it is only fleetingly.
so what is actually happening in Dullsville:
- grandad is back in hospital (nothing serious it seems). he was struggling to get around - then he gets admitted to hospital and it now appears he is doing laps (go figure)
- nanna is getting better (but she will need some pretty major back surgery sooner or later
- georgia is being repatriated back to Australia. it sometimes happens when all monetary reserves run out
- nan and pop seem to be going ok (she has 300+ cds, a buddha, a couple of metal dogs and some more freebies on the way, he has steroids)
- maggie (a real dog) passed away today
- fi and Kee are battling on in Melbourne (one of Kee's cousins has terminal cancer - ps girls get a pap smear done regularly)
= sue and jeff are still trying to work out how to manage the transition to London (and the WA Govt arent really that helpful - frankly i am being kind. maybe one day i will actually tell the story to inside cover)
- jeff has stopped working in the BWS and has cut back his hours to 3 days to help the company he is working for weather the global economic storm
other than all that things are damn rosy. so please forgive me if i leave you out. i care for you all and i will be back
in some instances the parts do not know the whole so my apologies for being distracted/aloof/distant. i think of you all often i promise even if it is only fleetingly.
so what is actually happening in Dullsville:
- grandad is back in hospital (nothing serious it seems). he was struggling to get around - then he gets admitted to hospital and it now appears he is doing laps (go figure)
- nanna is getting better (but she will need some pretty major back surgery sooner or later
- georgia is being repatriated back to Australia. it sometimes happens when all monetary reserves run out
- nan and pop seem to be going ok (she has 300+ cds, a buddha, a couple of metal dogs and some more freebies on the way, he has steroids)
- maggie (a real dog) passed away today
- fi and Kee are battling on in Melbourne (one of Kee's cousins has terminal cancer - ps girls get a pap smear done regularly)
= sue and jeff are still trying to work out how to manage the transition to London (and the WA Govt arent really that helpful - frankly i am being kind. maybe one day i will actually tell the story to inside cover)
- jeff has stopped working in the BWS and has cut back his hours to 3 days to help the company he is working for weather the global economic storm
other than all that things are damn rosy. so please forgive me if i leave you out. i care for you all and i will be back
Thursday, May 14, 2009
life she is a changing again
the past few months have been busier (at least in a structured way) than those n the recent past before them and things are going to change over the coming months:
- nanna has had her ops and is getting better and Grandad went home (tuesday) after spending his time in respite care for ~2 months. as with every situation there is always good and bad. while it was necessary it was "awful" (and i am sure i will never go here - the smell alone affected me everytime). however, it provided the opportunity for us to spend more time together than would have been likely otherwise. i really enjoyed these times - even when we sat and said nothing!!
- i am giving up the bottleshop (i like it but it was getting to be too hard) but
- i am changing my consulting arrangement as well (moving from 5 days to 3) so while the money might go down again for a while i will have some freer (or certainly less structured) time over the next couple of months which might come in handy.
- we are going to London for sure
- nan/pop are kicking arse (no kidding) - give me some of their drugs
one thing which isnt changing - i am still not sleeping well!!
- nanna has had her ops and is getting better and Grandad went home (tuesday) after spending his time in respite care for ~2 months. as with every situation there is always good and bad. while it was necessary it was "awful" (and i am sure i will never go here - the smell alone affected me everytime). however, it provided the opportunity for us to spend more time together than would have been likely otherwise. i really enjoyed these times - even when we sat and said nothing!!
- i am giving up the bottleshop (i like it but it was getting to be too hard) but
- i am changing my consulting arrangement as well (moving from 5 days to 3) so while the money might go down again for a while i will have some freer (or certainly less structured) time over the next couple of months which might come in handy.
- we are going to London for sure
- nan/pop are kicking arse (no kidding) - give me some of their drugs
one thing which isnt changing - i am still not sleeping well!!
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