Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine

999....

Dropped Kate to work and headed home before then going into work for an hour on my day off to join team meeting. Wouldn't usually do that but everyone is in and out for the office this week and this is main time we are all together.

Spent much of the day at home sorting out some of our stuff in preparation for our upcoming move into property number 4 in Australia.

Went out and picked Kate up at 5 and headed home. Spoke to both Kate's folks and my folks on phone and Skype this evening.

Tomorrow is our 1000th day down under.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Eight

Tuesday

A busy day of meetings at work. Not too much else to report for today.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Seven

Monday

Back to work, got lots done today. Picked up Kate and we Skyped Hazel in the evening which was good. Brought some boxes home from work to start packing for our upcoming move. Still humid and lots of rain in Brisbane.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Six

Sunday

A day of chores, strangely Kate was up and about before me and went out and bought the papers and breakfast. We spent the day knocking things off our to do list and did some shopping.

Had a Skype call with folks in the evening.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Five

Saturday

Ah the weekend, in the evening we had takeaway and vegged out in front of the telly.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Four

Friday

Not much to report today, writing this a long time after Friday ;-)

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Three

Thursday

Kate and I viewed the place in the London Woolstores, it was good and we have put in an application. It's in this building

http://www.londonwoolstores.com/

The place itself is slight;y smaller but not far different from our current place in Dakota.

I dropped the application back in at lunchtime with a deposit cheque.

In the evening Kate and I went to see Jessie J at the Riverstage.

Some Pics

http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/photos/galleries/138129/jessie-j-professor-green.htm#01

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety Two

Wednesday

Not much to report today, although phoned an apartment in the London Woolstores Kate and I will go and look at in the morning. Will be good to get it if it's any good as it is just down the road and has a 6 month rental opportunity. Skyped folks in the evening.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety One

Tuesday

Not too much to report, a usual day at work, got locked out for a while as I had given my keys to someone else and the entire train system in Brisbane was bust this morning so I got in first and there was no one to let me in.

Day Nine Hundred and Ninety

Monday

Got into work early as our new volunteers coordinator was starting today. All went well.

Had the nonsense of Kevin Rudd trying to get Prime Minister ship back from Julia Gillard, he failed.

Picked up Kate and headed home

In other news the flat sale has gone through so we have to find somewhere new to live in the next 4 weeks. Back on the rental inspection merry go round.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Nine

Sunday

We checked out at 10am and headed into Noosa again to have Brunch. We wanted to check out Bistro C which was our first choice for dinner the night before and next door to where we actually ended up.

http://www.bistroc.com.au/

Had a lovely brunch. Took a walk in Noosa and visited a few more shops including the Peter Lik gallery which was interesting to understand the value of his work, especially as we have one here which I bought back in 2002.

We drove over to the beaches further east before driving home in the afternoon, some shopping and a usual Sunday night at home.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Eight

Saturday

Happy Anniversary to us, a year since we got married.

We awoke to a dry morning after all the rains of last night. We had a nice brekkie in the hotel after we had opened lots of lovely cards form family and friends and presents and cards to each other.

After breakfast we went for a walk along the coast to check out the beaches, it was very wet underfoot and stupidly humid. A few pics below.











After our walk we tried to book a restaurant for the evening to celebrate our anniversary. Our first two choices were booked out by weddings (a good weekend to get married we would agree). We ended up booking a table at this place.

http://www.berardos.com.au/Bistro/Berardos/Bistro

Before dinner we walked along Hastings Street doing some shopping and then headed back to the hotel and had a swim. We got ready for dinner and lucked out by landing this table.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Seven

Friday

A usual day at work and then left early to go and pick up Kate so we could drive to Noosa to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. All was going well until the last 20km into Noosa when we got caught in a massive storm. I've never driven in worse conditions, relying on the Satnav to tell us how many meters to the next roundabout etc.

The downpour has been reported here

http://www.noosanews.com.au/story/2012/02/24/rain-warning-hold-your-hats/

and a snippet

NOOSA BATTERED BY STORM

AN incredible 100mm of rain has fallen in just one hour at Noosa, prompting fears of flooding.

Emergency services have again warned drivers to stay off the road unless absolutely necessary.

Heavy rain is expected to continue in the Noosa Heads area before contracting inland during the night.

The Bureau of Meteorology warned that, at 9:25 pm, very dangerous thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Maroochydore and Noosa Heads.

These thunderstorms are slow moving.

Very dangerous thunderstorms are forecast to affect Caloundra, Eumundi and Nambour by 9:55 pm.

Very heavy rainfall and flash flooding are likely.

90mm of rainfall has been recorded at Noosa Heads in the 1 hour to 9:30pm.

Upon arrival at the hotel we checked in and decided it was easier and safer to eat in the hotel restaurant. Food was lovely.

Here is our hotel

http://www.outrigger.com.au/queensland/outrigger-little-hastings-street-resort-noosa/overview.html

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Six

Thursday

Back to work with a day of catching up and meetings.

Picked up Kate from work and we went shopping to Chermside before coming home. Spent the evening packing in readiness for our weekend away to Noosa to celebrate our first wedding Anniversary.

There be no blog updates for next few days.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Five

Something I had written yesterday was the fact it appears the flat we are renting is now being sold, I only happened to stumble across this fact when I checked the agents website to see if it had been removed form sale because we had heard nothing for weeks to see it was in fact 'deposit taken'. A narky call to agent seems to conform it will be under contract later in week.

So Kate and I have to find somewhere else to live by looks of it.

I spent day (my day off today) collecting rental lists form local agents and set up two viewings in the evening after Kate finished work.

The first was nice and nearby but more expensive and two bedrooms, one of which we don't need.

The second was horrible, it was like a grey prison cell in one of the newer wool stores down the road.

Spoke to folks on Skype.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Four

Tuesday

A normal day at work, not much to report, have a day off tomorrow though, woohoo.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Three

Monday 20th Feb

Back to work after a great weekend. Had to make a couple of trips back to the car which I had to park on the street as the car park was full.

Picked up Kate and headed home via the supermarket.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty Two

Sunday

Happy 31st Birthday to my gorgoeus wife Kate.



I headed over to 612 Brunswick and picked up Bill and Carol and brought them back to the flat. We had a Skype call to Adelaide with more present opening and shortly after made our way to Eves for lunch.

Was very pleasent and the food was good, a selection of images below.

We relaxed around the flat in the afternoon before taking Bill and Carol to the airport.

Before going to bed we checked the flight status and to our dismay we found Bill and Carol had been diverted to Melbourne because of the Sydney storms. Spoke to them and they were off to the Hilton and then flying back to Sydney on Monday morning.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty One

Saturday 18th Feb

A big day today, although Kate was blissfully unaware of what was to come. I had organized with Bill and Carol for them to come to Brisbane to help celebrate Kate’s Birthday tomorrow.

I had engineered a plan to meet Bill and Carol by surprise at The New farm Deli on the premise of Kate and I having to pick up their parcel from the post office next door.

All was going well, I managed to get Kate to the post office but she rushed off ahead to get in the queue, having not been able to locate Bill and Carol at the Cafe as we walked past I had to admit there was no card to pick up the parcel form Post Office, briefly this made Kate a bit 'unhappy' as she had asked me to make sure I had the post office card before we left the house.

After some explaining the parcel was being hand delivered she grasped her folks were in town and headed into the Deli to meet them. Was a very nice reunion.

We had a lovely breakfast at the Deli before heading back home.

We went and checked Bill and Carol into their accommodation before heading back to the flat again and a trip to the pool downstairs.

After a nice swim we all went for a walk along the river and drinkies at The London Club. We walked home again and then got a Thai takeaway in.

An evening of Scrabble followed and Kate and I won an game each, my win came off the word Emerging in my last go which netted me a 106 point go and a cruise to victory.

Late in the evening we dropped Bill and Carol back to their accommodation.

Day Nine Hundred and Eighty

Friday

Not much to report from work, and after picking up Kate we haeded home. I spent most of the evening cooking a cake for Kates Birthday on Sunday. Here is the result