We’ve been in Australia for almost two weeks now, and loving it so far! We haven’t had much time to explore our surroundings yet mainly because we were jet-lagged for the first few days and swamped with things to do such as setting up accounts, buying and building furniture, ordering appliances and electronics etc since [...]
Continue Reading →The Royston Leaving Party
The day after we got back from Manchester we had another party, this time with Callum’s friends and family. We had a brilliant evening with some great friends and family, some of whom Callum hadn’t seen in a while and Alex had never met! There are plenty more photos from this party thanks to Caitlin [...]
Continue Reading →The Manchester Leaving Party
Several weeks later and we’re finally here in Oz, with a 3G net connection and the ability to upload some photos from our leaving parties. We headed up North to Manchester for a week to say goodbye to Alex’s friends and family. A big thanks to Dee (Alex’s mum) for organising the party! All of [...]
Continue Reading →Caitlin’s Birthday
It was Caitlin’s (Callum’s little sister) 11th birthday on the 4th of August. We headed out for a buffet and to do a spot of shopping for her birthday… here are some snaps. Sorry for the lack of text and the delay in the past few posts; we’ve been extremely busy up in Manchester with [...]
Continue Reading →We went to the zoo!
We went to Shepreth Wildlife Park last week, and took Caitlin (Callum’s little sister) along for a good day out… here are some snaps!
Continue Reading →Chuck another shrimp on the barbie!
So this title is a little unrelated as we didn’t have shrimps – but we did have a barbie! There’s not all much to say; it was in the garden with the family, we had burgers, sausages and beer. For some unknown reason, burgers + sausages + beer = funny faces, as can be seen [...]
Continue Reading →Horses, Music, Wizardry & Beetles
Newmarket Horse Racing The typical British weather played its role on Friday evening when we went to Newmarket Racecourse for a night of losing money, expensive beer and gay bloke in leather prancing around on stage (Scissor Sisters). Alex put a placepot bet on which is a bit like the lottery but with horses. It [...]
Continue Reading →A day by the sea
On Friday night we both headed out with different friends, Alex to the pub with work friends and Callum with Tom and his parents to see a film about a drug smuggling Jew (great film by the way – Holy Rollers). Callum arrived home around midnight to find a somewhat intoxicated Alex sleeping (and snoring) [...]
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