Monthly Archives: November 2013

Mr. Timmy

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Our long lost pal Tim Devereux, aka “Party Time”, was in town with his parents visiting us from his new home, Hong Kong. We started things off Saturday with a pub crawl in the rocks that ended far later than it should have. Sunday we went for lunch at The Commons then some afternoon beers in Walsh Bay and then finished it up by watching the Patriots/Broncos game after work Monday.

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It was also great to see our friends James and Anya who came up from Melbourne for Tim’s visit. You can tell we have been here long enough when our friends move away and are already visiting!

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Weekends AWAY!

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Rob and I went our separate ways this weekend – Rob went to Bluey’s Beach with the guys and I had a weekend away up on the Gold Coast with the girls (Annie, Keth, Sian and ME!).

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The day before leaving, my colleagues informed me that every year around this time the ‘schoolies’ get out for summer holiday – which means the Gold Coast bars and pubs will be filled with 18-year-old boys (think freshman year spring break in college). Now that isn’t all that bad, but after doing some googling I found it’s quite a big deal and is something to be avoided. ‘Schoolies’ even have their own website!! http://www.schoolies.com/. Fortunately, for us 20-and-30-somethings looking to relax on the beach with a good book, it wasn’t as bad as I would’ve thought. Sian and Keth were smart enough to know to stay off the main drag. It was such a lovely weekend … and was perfect … until we found out our flights were cancelled and we had to drive to Brisbane to catch the next flight out.

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Rob spent the weekend at one of his workmate’s family beach house – which was a four hour drive up the coast at Bluey’s Beach. The guys were able to get two rounds of golf in (surprising since it was pouring rain in Sydney that weekend) and even had a very close encounter with a huge kangaroo named Ben (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVU7lG4nx60&feature=youtu.be). Rob also caught an awesome sunset at the Rekky Club.

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Bush Fires Blanket Sydney in Smoke!

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Article from Sydney Morning Herald: Bushfires and subsequent backburning in and around the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains regions caused a thick haze of smoke to blanket Sydney on Saturday morning. Places in the city’s north, such as Lindfield, reported pollution readings on Saturday morning as high as 828 on the Air Quality Index, compared with a typical reading of about 50 for Sydney, according to monitoring by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. Above 100 is considered poor air quality and above 200 is considered hazardous.

There are 43 bush fires at the moment and 15 still remain uncontained!! We made a home video from our balcony in Neutral Bay: http://youtu.be/6TrF38ZCeaA.