On Friday - miracle of miracles our stuff finally arrived from England! It only took a brief 5.5 months for them to get their fingers out of their arses and sort it out. Also we didn't get any customs or quarantine charges or anything, which I was a little surprised about, but pretty pleased. Maybe this is because some senior people from customs were at our conference and I pestered them to just wave it through or I would stand next to them scratching my lurgy til they were sick.
Saturday morning I volunteered, and Stu went to look at a house. I had a great morning volunteering - a rainbow lorikeet was brought in, and decided that I was his best buddy. He wouldn't budge off my shoulder all day and ran away from anyone else who tried to handle him. As I was chopping all the fruit for everyone else he kept climbing down my arm to pinch it. It was very sweet and I am a little bit in love with him. Unfortunately no-one warned me about their amazing liquid projectile poo. Also I got chatting to one of the cat ladies, and she said that there are some vacancies coming up there soon, so I might get to indulge my love of the kitty soon, and help find them all new loving homes. Yay!
Stu went to look at this house, which is in Paddington, a very nice burb of Brisbane and next to my work which is nice. We have put in an application, but are having some trouble with getting a reference from our current apartment. The staff here are about as much use as tits on a bull, and keep on losing the reference requests. If we lose out on the house because of their crippling incompetence you will probably be able to hear me shouting from the UK.
On Sunday we went over to a park in Kangaroo Point for the inaugural SMS ashes. Stu's company have hired a shitload of poms lately, and in the interests of fostering cordial international relations they arranged a poms v strines cricket match. Which bright spark thought it was a good idea to organise a competitive event in order to bring peace, harmony and understanding between these 2 nations I don't know. The important thing is - we won. In your FACE Australia. Stuart Robinson (despite having an interesting running style) managed to take out 2 wickets. I was all proud.
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| The SMS Ashes |
Today is a public holiday here, which is nice. Then we have Thursday and Friday off, and on Friday we go on a wee road trip up the coast to go whale watching. I am quite excited, and may have to invest in some Tena Lady to avoid embarrassment. I am also quite interested to see how our driving is after 6 months off. You can expect an extremely over excited blog next weekend sometime.
In other news, we are now fully set up on Skype. If any of you have the equipment and want to talk to us (and see us!) for free, our username is teamrobinson. I have to say it is ace and I am quite the convert to internet calling.
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