Thursday
A day long meeting with the whole TW team, we met at the 60L building in Carlton apparently a very eco friendly building. Their website is down at time of writing.
We all went for a vegetarian meal round the corner and then headed home to hotel.
Saturday, 22 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Eighty Six
Wednesday
Went into work late as I'm flew to Melbourne today. Took the 4pm flight and arrived into a cold Melbourne at just after 7pm. Headed to the hotel and then we went and met the rest of the team ant the Afghan Gallery Restaurant on Brunswick St.
Back to the hotel by 10.30 and off to bed.
Went into work late as I'm flew to Melbourne today. Took the 4pm flight and arrived into a cold Melbourne at just after 7pm. Headed to the hotel and then we went and met the rest of the team ant the Afghan Gallery Restaurant on Brunswick St.
Back to the hotel by 10.30 and off to bed.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Eighty Five
Tuesday
Absolutely scorching day in Brissie today, was 30+ when I walked to work at 8am. Stayed hot and sunny until a thunderstorm in the afternoon.
Here is a good selection of pics from the floods for history...
The aerial view
http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.468907,153.025475&z=14&t=h
The pictures
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/environment/weather/the-most-striking-photos-of-the-floods/20110114-19qz3.html?selectedImage=1
and pictures of the clean up
http://media01.couriermail.com.au/multimedia/FourDaysThatHealedOurHearts/day1/index.html
Absolutely scorching day in Brissie today, was 30+ when I walked to work at 8am. Stayed hot and sunny until a thunderstorm in the afternoon.
Here is a good selection of pics from the floods for history...
The aerial view
http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.468907,153.025475&z=14&t=h
The pictures
http://www.smh.com.au/
and pictures of the clean up
http://media01.couriermail.com.au/multimedia/FourDaysThatHealedOurHearts/day1/index.html
Day Five Hundred and Eighty Four
Monday
It's weird getting up in the morning with no Kate here. Walked to work, its certainly getting hot here in Brisbane now the weather has turned.
Spent day working out consequences of flooding on event.
Came home and spent the night following up some wedding issues and then off to bed.
It's weird getting up in the morning with no Kate here. Walked to work, its certainly getting hot here in Brisbane now the weather has turned.
Spent day working out consequences of flooding on event.
Came home and spent the night following up some wedding issues and then off to bed.
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Eighty Three
Sunday
Helped Bill and Carol move a pot in the garden they had bought.
Kate and I then drove to West Pymble to have a BBQ lunch with Steve and Val our friends from London who are now living back in Sydney.
We came home to Willoughby, Kate drove me to the airport and I headed back to Brisbane. Kate is working in Sydney this week.
I naughtily took some pics from the plane
Our old Newtown Flat (just above top right corner of park area)
Our old place in Glebe and the Anzac Bridge
Darling Harbour
The Bridge
The Bridge again
Clouds
Sunset
Sunset
Sundown
Sundown 2
Helped Bill and Carol move a pot in the garden they had bought.
Kate and I then drove to West Pymble to have a BBQ lunch with Steve and Val our friends from London who are now living back in Sydney.
We came home to Willoughby, Kate drove me to the airport and I headed back to Brisbane. Kate is working in Sydney this week.
I naughtily took some pics from the plane
Our old Newtown Flat (just above top right corner of park area)
Our old place in Glebe and the Anzac Bridge
Darling Harbour
The Bridge
The Bridge again
Clouds
Sunset
Sunset
Sundown
Sundown 2
Day Five Hundred and Eighty Two
Saturday
Another early start for a weekend, this time we had a meeting with our cake maker, this was at the Toaster, the Aussie folks will know what that is, anyone else just ask.
That all went well and we spent another 3 hours or so in Sydney buying things for wedding. It's all starting to come together nicely.
We nipped back to Willoughby and then back into town to share in Birthday drinks with Pru at the Beresford.
Got home late and crashed.
Another early start for a weekend, this time we had a meeting with our cake maker, this was at the Toaster, the Aussie folks will know what that is, anyone else just ask.
That all went well and we spent another 3 hours or so in Sydney buying things for wedding. It's all starting to come together nicely.
We nipped back to Willoughby and then back into town to share in Birthday drinks with Pru at the Beresford.
Got home late and crashed.
Day Five Hundred and Eighty One
We got up and drove to the Sergeants Mess for our final meeting about the wedding, it all went very well and we have most of the final details sorted.
Kate dropped me at the station and I grabbed a train into work at the Sydney office.
Went out for lunch with the Sydney TW team which was great.
Grabbed a train over to St Leonard's, Kate picked me up and we had a quiet dinner in Willoughby with Carol.
Kate dropped me at the station and I grabbed a train into work at the Sydney office.
Went out for lunch with the Sydney TW team which was great.
Grabbed a train over to St Leonard's, Kate picked me up and we had a quiet dinner in Willoughby with Carol.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Eighty
Brisbane dodged a bit of a bullet in the early hours, predicted high river peak of 5.5 m was only 4.6m in the end. This was a good thing.
We got up and packed up and head to the airport, no easy feat, a journey that takes 20 minutes took us 1.5 hours, basically a massive diversion round this...
The road to airport id the highway in bottom left of pic.
We also had to find petrol, we barely use any in the car these days and rarely fill up, typically when we did need to every station we passed was closed, finally found one with one pump running so stocked up
Got to airport and got bumped onto earlier flight, virgin were just getting people away as they arrived to free up seats for later.
Glad to be in Sydney for a bit, I think Brisbane will be a bit of a war zone for a few days.
Spent afternoon in office in Sydney and then had a nice Thai dinner in Willoughby. Tomorrow is wedding venue meeting.
Once again thanks for the texts and messages of concern for us, we are all OK.
We got up and packed up and head to the airport, no easy feat, a journey that takes 20 minutes took us 1.5 hours, basically a massive diversion round this...
The road to airport id the highway in bottom left of pic.
We also had to find petrol, we barely use any in the car these days and rarely fill up, typically when we did need to every station we passed was closed, finally found one with one pump running so stocked up
Got to airport and got bumped onto earlier flight, virgin were just getting people away as they arrived to free up seats for later.
Glad to be in Sydney for a bit, I think Brisbane will be a bit of a war zone for a few days.
Spent afternoon in office in Sydney and then had a nice Thai dinner in Willoughby. Tomorrow is wedding venue meeting.
Once again thanks for the texts and messages of concern for us, we are all OK.
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Nine
A crazy day in Brisbane
No work as office still closed. Spent the day kind of working at home and making frequent trips to the river to check it's rise.
The river was flowing very fast and finally took it's toll on the CBD as seen below
(AAP: Dave Hunt)
There was lots of debris coming down the river, including pontoons, boats, trees and all kinds of things including part of the Drift restaurant. I caught this on the video posted at end of this post.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/iconic-brisbane-restaurant-sinks-beneath-river-20110112-19nar.html
We both fly to Sydney tomorrow, Kate was on the 11am flight, me on the 8pm, Ive decided to go earlier and get out of town, it does feel a bit like rats deserting a sinking ship but it's going to be rough here for a few days and we were due to be in Sydney anyway.
Thank you for all the calls of messages of support etc, my phone is out of credit so don't worry if you have not heard from me.
And so as we go to bed we await to see what the peak of the river brings at 4am
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/brisbanes-central-business-district-survived-its-first-high-tide-test-with-floodwaters-failing-to-hit-predicted-levels/story-e6freoof-1225986458412
No work as office still closed. Spent the day kind of working at home and making frequent trips to the river to check it's rise.
The river was flowing very fast and finally took it's toll on the CBD as seen below
(AAP: Dave Hunt)
There was lots of debris coming down the river, including pontoons, boats, trees and all kinds of things including part of the Drift restaurant. I caught this on the video posted at end of this post.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/iconic-brisbane-restaurant-sinks-beneath-river-20110112-19nar.html
We both fly to Sydney tomorrow, Kate was on the 11am flight, me on the 8pm, Ive decided to go earlier and get out of town, it does feel a bit like rats deserting a sinking ship but it's going to be rough here for a few days and we were due to be in Sydney anyway.
Thank you for all the calls of messages of support etc, my phone is out of credit so don't worry if you have not heard from me.
And so as we go to bed we await to see what the peak of the river brings at 4am
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/brisbanes-central-business-district-survived-its-first-high-tide-test-with-floodwaters-failing-to-hit-predicted-levels/story-e6freoof-1225986458412
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Eight
A day where the situation in Brisbane escalated rapidly. It started out as a normal day with the ongoing flooding in QLD. As morning progressed 30 suburbs were marked as at risk of flooding including the area we live and where I work in Fortitude Valley.
By 11am the CBD saw people packing up and leaving as areas where beginning to become inundated with water. Kate messaged me to say Valley would be next to flood. The poeple in the office on same floor as us had already gone by time we declared the office closed and evacuated home at lunchtime.
Through the afternoon the situation has escalated, the Wivenhoe Dam is releasing ever more water into the Brisbane River to allow capacity to deal with all the water which caused flooding and disaster in Toowoomba yesterday.
Current predictions show flooding will be worse than 1974 particularly on Thursday. Unfortunately we are both scheduled to fly out of Brisbane on Thursday, Kate in the morning and me in the evening. Needless to say if roads are flooded etc we wont take any risks trying to get to airport.
There's a possibility we may have the power cut off tomorrow. Watch this space or not if there's no updates!
A vid of the river across the street
By 11am the CBD saw people packing up and leaving as areas where beginning to become inundated with water. Kate messaged me to say Valley would be next to flood. The poeple in the office on same floor as us had already gone by time we declared the office closed and evacuated home at lunchtime.
Through the afternoon the situation has escalated, the Wivenhoe Dam is releasing ever more water into the Brisbane River to allow capacity to deal with all the water which caused flooding and disaster in Toowoomba yesterday.
Current predictions show flooding will be worse than 1974 particularly on Thursday. Unfortunately we are both scheduled to fly out of Brisbane on Thursday, Kate in the morning and me in the evening. Needless to say if roads are flooded etc we wont take any risks trying to get to airport.
There's a possibility we may have the power cut off tomorrow. Watch this space or not if there's no updates!
A vid of the river across the street
Monday, 10 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Seven
It's rained pretty much constantly all night and all day. It's simply the longest I've spent anywhere with continual rain. The state of Queensland has been trounced in last month.
Its been a nightmare in Toowoomba this afternoon with flash flooding, as I write this 7 people are confirmed dead...not good
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/weather/seven-believed-dead-in-toowoomba-flash-flooding-20110110-19kti.html
As for my day, a general day at work, at the evening was spent in front of TV and cutting up name cards for wedding tables.
Its been a nightmare in Toowoomba this afternoon with flash flooding, as I write this 7 people are confirmed dead...not good
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/weather/seven-believed-dead-in-toowoomba-flash-flooding-20110110-19kti.html
As for my day, a general day at work, at the evening was spent in front of TV and cutting up name cards for wedding tables.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Six
This morning we wen to the art and craft shop for more card to make wedding stationary for the day, also went to Bunnings to get some bits for work tomorrow. I have to put up whiteboards in the office so needed some fixings. We rounded our shopping trip off with a trip to the supermarket.
The afternoon was spent giving the printer a run for it's money! We also went for a walk along the river and walked back in the rain, surprise surprise.
We spoke to folks on Skype in the evening too.
The afternoon was spent giving the printer a run for it's money! We also went for a walk along the river and walked back in the rain, surprise surprise.
We spoke to folks on Skype in the evening too.
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Five
Saturday
We really didn't leave the house much today, we spent a lot of time doing wedding related stuff, working out where we are with everything.
It's difficult to get out anyway when it continually rains here in Queensland.
We did speak with Bill and Carol on the phone in sunny NSW.
We really didn't leave the house much today, we spent a lot of time doing wedding related stuff, working out where we are with everything.
It's difficult to get out anyway when it continually rains here in Queensland.
We did speak with Bill and Carol on the phone in sunny NSW.
Friday, 7 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Four
Friday
7 weeks til the wedding then!
Another rainy day in Brisbane, some day we might get some sunshine!
A quiet day at work, just 2 of us in the office.
A quiet night at home too.
We did find out we that randomly we get charged for our ambulance cover through our electricity bill. $109 dollars a year covers us for calling an ambulance anywhere in Australia. Its an Aussie thing having to pay for your ambulance, and a Queensland thing that it is paid for already through your electric bill....
7 weeks til the wedding then!
Another rainy day in Brisbane, some day we might get some sunshine!
A quiet day at work, just 2 of us in the office.
A quiet night at home too.
We did find out we that randomly we get charged for our ambulance cover through our electricity bill. $109 dollars a year covers us for calling an ambulance anywhere in Australia. Its an Aussie thing having to pay for your ambulance, and a Queensland thing that it is paid for already through your electric bill....
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Three
Thursday
Walked to work this morning and got on with lots of things.
It's still raining here in Brisane, so much for the Sunshine State! Theres an interesting slideshow here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12120239
You need the sound on....
Walked to work this morning and got on with lots of things.
It's still raining here in Brisane, so much for the Sunshine State! Theres an interesting slideshow here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12120239
You need the sound on....
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy Two
Usual day at work, although did get to put together our new kitchen furniture for the office which is a bit of a change. Nipped into the city at lunchtime for some more wedding card/paper.
Came home and did some final wedding invite stuff.
We had a massive storm this evening, the wind got strong and blew rain against the front of the building so that the windows leaked and it came in a bit. Was even coming through the floor form upstairs.
Will be interesting to go to work tomorrow, the street mentioned in article below is one St down from our office.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/cars-submerged-as-heavy-rains-turns-brisbane-city-and-fortitude-valley-streets-into-streams/story-e6freon6-1225982647414
Off to bed now!
Came home and did some final wedding invite stuff.
We had a massive storm this evening, the wind got strong and blew rain against the front of the building so that the windows leaked and it came in a bit. Was even coming through the floor form upstairs.
Will be interesting to go to work tomorrow, the street mentioned in article below is one St down from our office.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/cars-submerged-as-heavy-rains-turns-brisbane-city-and-fortitude-valley-streets-into-streams/story-e6freon6-1225982647414
Off to bed now!
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy One
Tuesday
Back to work, office very quiet as most people are still off for Christmas breaks.
Walked home and a quiet one this evening.
Back to work, office very quiet as most people are still off for Christmas breaks.
Walked home and a quiet one this evening.
Monday, 3 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Seventy
Monday
We got up and went to the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament. I had bought Kate tickets for Christmas. Was a good day, a nice venue and we saw some good tennis.
Sam Stouser
and the rains came....
We made our way home and chilled out doing very little this evening. Tomorrow its back to school for me for 6 weeks before wedding stuff all begins. Sadly Pete Postlethwaite died today, one of my fav actors. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12106753
We got up and went to the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament. I had bought Kate tickets for Christmas. Was a good day, a nice venue and we saw some good tennis.
Sam Stouser
and the rains came....
We made our way home and chilled out doing very little this evening. Tomorrow its back to school for me for 6 weeks before wedding stuff all begins. Sadly Pete Postlethwaite died today, one of my fav actors. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12106753
Day Five Hundred and Sixty Nine
Sunday Jan 2nd 2011
We got up and drove ourselves back to Brisbane. Was an interesting drive as a ute in front of us had a blow out in the fast lane. He was fishtailing all over the place at 100km an hour whilst I was trying to avoid his flying tyre debris. Thankfully he kept it upright and we were OK and drove on.
Back in Brisbane we relaxed, Kate did some food shopping. In the evening we Skyped the folks.
The evening was spent watching Spooks sent over from the UK.
We got up and drove ourselves back to Brisbane. Was an interesting drive as a ute in front of us had a blow out in the fast lane. He was fishtailing all over the place at 100km an hour whilst I was trying to avoid his flying tyre debris. Thankfully he kept it upright and we were OK and drove on.
Back in Brisbane we relaxed, Kate did some food shopping. In the evening we Skyped the folks.
The evening was spent watching Spooks sent over from the UK.
Saturday, 1 January 2011
Day Five Hundred and Sixty Eight
1st January 2011
A wet day, we got up after seeing in the new year on the telly in Sydney and watching the Gold Coast fireworks across the distance.
During the day we drove to coast, sat in the rain watching the rain on the beach - typical steward family affair.
Came home and then went back out for dinner along Coolangatta Beach.
A wet day, we got up after seeing in the new year on the telly in Sydney and watching the Gold Coast fireworks across the distance.
During the day we drove to coast, sat in the rain watching the rain on the beach - typical steward family affair.
Came home and then went back out for dinner along Coolangatta Beach.
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