Day One Thousand One Hundred and Forty Four

Monday 30th July

Spent the day working at home on event scheduling. A nice casserole dinner in the evening cooked by Carol. Watched a bit more Olympics too.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Forty Three

Sunday 29th July

I got up early and went into the office ot get some work done. At lunchtime Kate met me at Central as she came over on the train and we went for a pub lunch on Cleveland St with Caroline, Ben and John which was nice.

Late afternoon we headed home and relaxed, while watching lots of Olympics.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Forty Two

Saturday 28th July

We got up at 5.50 to watch the opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. Was a fantastic spectacle and makes me very proud to be British. 

In the afternoon/evening we went to the pub in Alexandria to watch the Sydney Swans game with Caroline, Mike and others. Was very nice to catch up with them all after our time away in Brisbane.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Forty One

Friday 27th July

More work!

Congratulations to Stu and Cate on ther arrival of thier first son, still to be named.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Forty

Thursday 26th July

Just another day at work, nothing exciting to report!

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Nine

Wednesday 25th July

Trip to work on the train and spent all day ploughing through event preparations. Came home and drove back from station to home.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Eight

Tuesday 24th July

We both got up early and drove to Kennards round the corner to take delivery of all our stuff form Brisbane. Unfortunately the staff at Kennards didn't show up on time and were 25 mins late arriving which held up our removalists who arrived bang on time at 8.30.

Once all the paperwork was done the two guys unloaded all our gear in, we packed the unit quite a lot bit it all went in thankfully.

Once done we headed back to home and dropped a few things we pulled out of the delivery.

Kate drove me to St Leonard's and I caught the train into work.

Most of the afternoon was meetings and unpacking gear for the event.

Came home, cooked dinner.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Seven

Monday 23rd July

Spent the morning with my colleague Alana visiting various Checkpoints and the Finish. Once done we headed back to work and refined a few of the site plans as a result.

An afternoon of more stores packing for the event.

 Drove back across the bridge in the crazy rush hour traffic and we spent the evening in front of TV watching the last week of Masterchef.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Six

Sunday 22nd July

A very lazy day hanging out at home, we don't getup too early and once we were up and about we went and did some shopping to buy some lunch etc.

The afternoon we spent some time sorting more stuff out. I cooked a Risotto for everyone during the evening and after that we had a skype call with both the folks in UK and Hazel and Peter which was good to catch up with them.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Five

Saturday 21st July

We got up and went shopping most of the morning at the Westfield in Chatswood.  Kate bought a new top and some new jeans which look great.

Early evening we headed over to Ultimo to got to a colleagues BBQ which was good fun. Kate drove so I had a drink or two. We got home at about 11am and went to bed.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Four

Friday 20th July

Kate dropped me to the station and I went to work for the day. Not much to report, just ploughing through more event prep for Sydney.

Caught the train home and we had a dinner at home.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Three

Thursday 19th July

Not too much to report, a day at work!

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Two

Wednesday 18th July

A day of meetings and unpacking tens of boxes formthe store room at work. Headed home on the train and had dinner.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty One

Tuesday 17th July

Kate drove me into the station again today and I caught the train into work. Spent the day in meetings and trying to get my head around the Sydney event. Knocked off at about 6.20 and caught train home. I helped Kate cook dinner this evening and we spent a bit of time sorting out the study here to make it more of a lounge for us.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirty

Monday 16th July

Got up and Kate drove me to Artarmon station and caught the train into the city across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.  Arrived back  into the Sydney office, its a bit strange almost like the last 2 years didn't happen and I'm back in the office.

Spent some time catching up with the team and then sorting out lots of things and finding documents etc.

Departed at about 5.30 and headed home.

Kate had spent a lot of time sorting out all our bags and getting our bedroom sorted which looks great and feels like our space.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Nine

Sunday 15th July

We got up and had breakfast at the cafe we had dinner at last night. We then got back on the road for the last 200km or so sharing the driving between us.

Soon enough we found ourselves back in Sydney after almost 2 years away in Brisbane. We spent time unloading the car and then I spent a lot of time putting together our Wardrobes we had stored here from way back when we lived in Glebe when we first arrived.

Skyped the folks in the evening before heading to bed for some well needed sleep.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Eight

Saturday 14th July

Day two of our driving. Not much to say beyond we drove from Ballina to  Nelson Bay over the course of the day we a couple of stops along the way. Kate took some great pics on the Ipad from our road trip I've copied in below

We stayed at The Nelson Resort & Conference Centre in Nelson Bay. We wondered around Nelson Bay looking for a decent dinner in the evening and settled on a cafe bar in the Marina.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Seven

Friday 13th July

Moving day! We got up at 6.45 which wasn't pretty but worth it as removal men arrived just after 7am so we had to be up to let them load our bed onto the truck. They loaded out all of our gear over a couple of hours after which Kate and I went and got a hangover cure fry up downstairs.

Cleaner arrived at 11.30 and we left him cleaning while we went for a trip around Brisbane to kill time.

We came back and signed off the flat with the building manager and said goodbye to Brissie and drove south to Ballina. Drive was horrible with heavy rain and traffic and added fun of it being dark.

We got to Ballina at about 8pm and crashed in the hotel (Ramada Ballina).

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Six

Thursday 12th July

Last day in the Brisbane Office for me. Was in and out and finalising things there. In the afternoon I headed home to help Kate with final packing before moving tomorrow. We then both got ready and headed back to the office before going out to Cloudland in the Valley to celebrate our departure and celebrate TW 2012.

We had a nice dinner and lots of drinks and ended up getting home at 2am a little worse for wear.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Five

Wednesday 11th July

Drove to work this morning and then myself and Antony went to Kennards and packed up final four pallets of gear to be shipped to both Sydney and Melbourne. The Sydney delivery is timed for me to take delivery at the Sydney office on Monday when I start there.

Once we were done we handed back our ground floor unit. Back at work I did my annual performance review which was quick and painless and went well.

Walked home early afternoon and spent lots of hours packing up the last of our stuff. We have a fair amount of stuff for the removalists to collect on Friday.

We spoke to folks on Skype in the evening.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Four

Tuesday 10th July

Went into work in the morning before Kate picked me up at about 2pm. We both carried on packing in the afternoon and taking apart furniture so it takes up less space in our storage unit in Sydney next week.

We went down to the London for a last dinner there before we head back to Sydney.

Spoke to Bill and Carol on phone when we got back from dinner.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Three

Monday 9th July

Met Bill and Carol for Breakfast at Brio downstairs before they headed home to Sydney. I walked to work and did a few bits and pieces before heading home to carry on packing with Kate. We cooked up some Mexican for dinner.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty Two

Sunday 8th July

Awoke to find our Foxtel had finally been cut off, I assumed we would have it today as it was due for cut off on 8th, oh well.

At 11.30 Bill and Carol arrived and then we drove down to the Gold Coast to grab some lunch and then go and watch the AFL game between the Gold Coast Suns and Geelong. Not a bad game.

We drove back after saying our goodbyes to Chris and Hannah who are staying on the Goldie tonight before flying back to Adelaide tomorrow. We had some supper at home and then Bill and Carol went back across the road.

We are presently watching the tennis at Wimbledon as I write this, go on Murray....

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty One

Saturday 7th July

Was awoken by the sound of the the Teneriffe Festival Organisers setting up out the back of our place this morning. The whole of Teneriffe is becoming a festival today and the lane way out the back window hosts a bar, live music, a fashion show etc.

We got ourselves ready and then met Bill and Carol and wondered around the festival for a bit and then grabbed some lunch and brought it back here to eat. Once lunch was done we cracked into some packing as we only have 6 days left before we move south. 

The festival outside....

 

We relaxed a bit during the afternoon and then went to Bill and Carols to watch some of the Swans game. We then came home to get ready for dinner.

We walked over to James St to got to Bucci for dinner. We met Chris and Hannah there. The meal was interesting, it was disappointing they had a number of meals which were not available, but what we did have was very good,

Walked home through the closing down festival and headed to bed.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty

Friday 6th July

Happy Birthday to Hannah!

Got up and headed into work for the day and Kate spent the day with her folks and Chris and Hannah in the city. Kate even made it onto a ferry on the river. I knocked off early and wondered down to the hotel to meet them all to share tea and cup cakes (which Kate bought) to celebrate Hannah's Birthday.

Chris drove us all back to Teneriffe and we got ready to go out to Dinner. We all met up at Bill and Carols place and shared some Champagne and let Hannah open her presents before we all went to Brett's Wharf for dinner.

After dinner we took some pictures by the river and headed home.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Nineteen

Thursday 5th July

I spent the morning at work and Kate and her folks went to meet Carols sister Jan and her husband Kevin at Mt Coot-tha as they had driven down from Crows Nest. I went to meet them all for lunch at the summit cafe at Mount Coot-tha to catch up with them.

I left them all there and headed back to work for the afternoon.

I came home at about 4.45 and picked up Kate and we went shopping at Chermside for a few bits and pieces. We bought some food for dinner and came back here to eat it.

Later on I drove Bill and Carol in their hire car to the airport to collect Chris and Hannah, unfortunately their flight was slightly delayed so we waited in a very deserted Brisbane Airport. Brought them back to our place to see Kate and we had some tea etc before they went to the city to check into their hotel.

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Eighteen

Wednesday 4th July

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Seventeen

Tuesday 3rd July

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Day One Thousand One Hundred and Sixteen

Monday 2nd July

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Fifteen

Sunday 1st July

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Saturday 30th June

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Thirteen

Friday 29th June

Up and about early, alarm went off at 5.55am and we picked up Bill and Carol at about 6.30 who had travelled to Brisbane overnight on the train. We brought them back to Teneriffe and then Kate and I went to work. It was Kate's last day at Q Shared Services as her contract has come to an end along with about 3000 others. I picked her up after she had said goodbye to everyone.

After getting home we packed quickly and then all drove up to Mooloolaba for a welcome break away. The traffic was crap on the way up, its always busy near the Nudgee junction.

We checked into the Mantra Sirocco at about 8pm and wondered out to get some dinner.

Came back, relaxed and then went to bed.

 

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Twelve

Thursday 28th June

Day One Thousand One Hundred and Eleven

Wednesday 27th June