It was a great weekend, we will post all about that later, but for today, by request … Sean, you are a bad man…..
My sunburn. I had on Factor 25. So, you can see where we had missed bits. Turned out we missed a LOT of bits.
Ouch. And this is it fading slightly…
And at the joondalup craggy island funfair, they had a band doing this…
All they needed was the leek.
(bet you follow the link now…)
This is Joondalups Sunset Market …
http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/cms/templates/coj2_business_grp.asp?id=498
Yeah.
I had wanted to go see the Sunset Markets since we arrived in Joondalup and I googled what this place has to offer.
I bugged Ian for the last few weeks about this. Between one thing and another we hadn’t made it down to look at it. So… tonight … as we are watching Back! To The Future! and I am skimming through the Joondalup Times I spotted a Sunset Markets photie from last week. So, with all haste we paused the movie, and went to sample Joondalups Kulcha.
Yeah.
So, it was kinda like 8 stalls at the Barras. Of which 4 were selling donuts and hot dogs. And one selling what they called “scottish tablet (fudge)” so, we got two slabs. And its definitely tablet 😀 So, thats the high point of Joondalups cultural events for the year. Condensed milk and sugar. Not complaining about the tablet. Just the marketing of the tablet ….
I am quite careful not to say too much about my work on the blog (even though I know that a few of the readers are co-workers). It’s just professional not to say anything in such a public forum that might cause people to look at the company as if I spoke for them (on anything more than techy things) or, conversely, that I was somehow responsible for them.
But then, sometimes things are so cool you have to say *something* So, without giving too much away…
I have been in Melbourne, working on a huge government tender – how huge? well, the solution has over 340 Tb of storage space, over a hundred servers, and costs more than any of us are likely to see in a lifetime (barring a big lottery win). absolutley exilirating, to even be involved in this is cool, but to be playing a key role… it’s incredible… and off the back of that one, I’m now involved as the solution owner on another big tender. I am one happy, happy bunny right now.
So much so, that I didn’t even mind that much spending my birthday in Melbourne whilst jen was stuck back in Perth. We tried not to think about it.. but here’s the thing. Australia is so big that Jen and I were further apart than we have ever been before in our entire lives, even before we met.
I took this from the top of the Rialto tower:
The rialto is one of the ‘great towers of the world’ – and was the tallest in the southern hemisphere until recently. Being in Melbourne was pretty cool – it reminded me of being in a vibrant city again. I have considered myself glaswegian ever since I went to University (hell, you gotta do something to lose the stigma of lanarkshire, right Scott? 😉 ) but even more so now. Glasgow is one of the great cities of the world, and I don’t think I’ll ever look at it in the same jaded way again…
What this did do though was through Perth into sharp contrast – so I have a new video too:
that’s all for now, I need to sleep – I have work in the morning, and I can’t wait.
We almost wept laughing, whilst the Perthonians walked past, bemused at what we found so funny.
May we present, for your amusement, today’s exhibit:
by women, for women..
Spin. Gotta love it.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM, the Aussie MET Office) released its summer weather forecast today. Summer starts in 4 days, on the 1st Dec. Tonight it is once again chucking it down. It was at least beautiful and blue skies for long periods and the rain whilst heavy was at least in showers rather than constant.
So, the summer forecast is not very good, or great, depending on the spin you put on it.
Weather bureau predicts wet, cool summer
WEST Australia’s unseasonal weather is set to continue with forecasters predicting a wet, cool summer.Perth has recorded the wettest and coldest November in 17 years – the seventh-wettest on record – and the trend is set to continue.
WA Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Glenn Cook said a warm Indian Ocean and several high-level troughs — or low-atmospheric pressure systems — had produced the wintry weather Perth has experienced during the past few weeks.
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According to WA Bureau of Meteorology forecasts, central WA has a 70 per cent chance of exceeding average summer rainfall between December and February while maximum temperatures are predicted to remain average or cooler than normal during the same period.
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This time last year, Perth was on its was to recording the warmest November on record. But so far this month the mercury hasn’t reached 30C.Cloudy skies are also robbing Perth of one hour of sunlight a day as the average 10.7 hours of sunshine is cut to just 9.8.
“It is the first time we have not had a 30C in November since 1964 ,” bureau forecaster John Relf said. …
Hot summer on the way, bureau forecasts
26th November 2008, 14:21 WSTIt’s going to be a long, hot summer.
The Bureau of Meteorology has released its summer weather forecast, and it’s tipping hot days in the southern states, and hot nights in the north and west.
But there’s some good news too – there’s wet weather ahead for some lucky areas.
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When it comes to overnight temperatures, most of the country is in for a warm summer.Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory are the areas most likely to have unusually hot nights.
The mercury may rise this summer but there’s some relief on the way when it comes to rainfall.
Western Australia is in for a wet summer, as is north-east NSW and south-east Queensland….
So, its either a great hot summer thats going to be fab because of the rain, or a cold wet summer. Both from the same forecast. Gotta love that spin.
What they havent clicked yet is that its down to us. No matter where and when we go somewhere, the rain soon follows. The rainclouds worship us. They followed us to Jamaica, Lanzarote, Majorca, all over. And now they are here. The reason the UK had such a bad summer this year is that the clouds were sulking because we werent there.
*sigh*
Yup, time to pick ourselves out of the doldrums and get on with it. Australia is a pretty big dissappointment but that’s not going to change – we have resolevd to make the best of it for the time we are here.
We are seeing a bunch of adverts about Australia the movie with the first actress I ever had a serious crush on, Nicole Kidman. quite surreal to see what is portrayed (sunny, blue skies, wide “red dirt” country) comapred to what it’s actually like – very cold (there was snow in New South Wales this week – and remember, this is supposed to be summer!!), unbelievably wet (according to the government website, Perth actually gets more rain in a year than Edinburgh) and quite lush and green (from all the rain!).
It’s odd that weather plays so big a part in this for us, but really, that’s the one thing we were looking for. we reckoned being far away from home would be sufferable, and missing everyone would be tough… but hey – at least the weather will be better, right? anyways. positive. upbeat.
We have a plan!
We basically have about twenty to thirty hours a week with absolutely nothing to do (basically, every week day night, and at least one day of the weekend). Perth is essentially a waiting room for a mortuary, so there’s plenty of free time (seriously. there’s more night life under a plant pot.)
actually, we have two plans – the other plan is for coming home. It won’t be until 2010 at the earliest, so don’t get the party hats bought in just yet, but we have started the plans – sorting out stuff to ship back to the UK now (so we don’t have to lug it around when we move house here!) and the stuff that needs to stay with us.
We have mentioned the plan(tm) to a couple of you, but here goes: we are coming back to scotland. As I say, this won’t be happening right away, but we will be coming back when our Visa runs out (if not before). The reason this has now become something we are looking forward to is…
RTW tickets.
A few of the big airline groups (like the Star Alliance with BMI etc) offer round the world tickets – you have a maximum distance, and number of stops, and they work out at only a grand or so more than the cost of actually flying directly home!!
Don’t say anything. That’s how it goes right? it explains our lack of posts for a while unfortunately.
This is apparently all normal, and what happens when people emigrate – a sort of culture shock.it’s biting pretty hard at the moment, which is probably down to living through the longest winter of our lives.
in the big scheme of things, we have very little to complain about, and we need to keep reminding ourselves of that.. but sheesh. every time I wake up and the weather is cold, wet and miserable (and it got down to 3 degrees above – with no double glazing, no central heating and no insulation, remember) I just slump.
So, here’s the latest video – not my cheeriest..
After that, we needed to cheer up… so we went to the range… and the the day improved 😀
Or not!
Our stuff is here!
Woot! It arrived on Tuesday, we have spent the time since unpacking , setting up the sofa, the tv and the wii! The place is filled to the brim with boxes, and I spent an hour and a half tonight playing my favourite songs and getting reacquainted with guitar hero…. on easy I managed Baracuda and The Metal on 100%! and nothing below 97%. Till I got to The Fire and the Flames. Which I got to 85% before getting boo-ed off. Ah well. Tomorrow!
We will post pictures and video at the weekend 🙂
Then :
Now :
Nothing has changed much 😉
How many people can you spot, its kinda like a Wheres (the) Wally 🙂 (Click on it to see a bigger version)
So we went out for dinner to celebrate our anniversary, we went back to Outback Jacks and
it were well tasty so it was. Ian had nachos and wagu steak. I went for the “Rib and Lace” … a bowl of pasta, followed by ribs and chips, for as many times as you can eat it. So I had a second ribs, they were amazingly tasty.
Well, we have had a fantastic weekend!
Its been really sunny for a whole week now, with temperatures at least 22C each day, and getting to around 27C this weekend. The nights are still a little chilly, but nothing we (and 20 minutes with the oil heater) cant cope with.
We got word on Friday that our stuff had cleared quarantine – Ians boots needed “decontaminated” because of his smelly feet, but they will clean them up and we can collect them in a week or so – but everything else is arranged to be delivered here on Tuesday. I cannot stress the relief that will be! We have coped OK, but we have bare minimum to live with at the moment – 4 plates, forks, knives, cups, garden chairs and the cheapest crappest sofa ikea provides. We are still mostly living in the computer room. But when our stuff arrives we will finally spread out and actually use this place!
So, on Saturday morning we went out shopping and got Ian a new phone – we have been looking for a few weeks, since his stopped working properly and refused to acknowledge the SIM card (we have been using it as an alarm clock since.) The battery on mine cant last overnight, so we both need new phones. On Saturday we got one for Ian, and I had near enough a panic attack – the phone cost $100 (£50) more in the shop than it did online, but the online shops looked particularly dodgy. Apparently I am still not quite over the “dont spend a single penny more than you have to, they might take the house” from the company going under. Looks like it will take more time to get over all that …
Ian is happy though, he loves his new toy 🙂 I will get one soon too. When my heart rate recovers.
We then came back and spent the afternoon in the garden – I did some sun bathing and have ended up a little sunburned on my back. Ian pottered about and cleaned the pool. Then we tried out the pool. Oh my god but it is still cold, it takes a long time to warm up a puddle of water that big 😉 We still went in though … but I think we could have caught hypothermia if we had stayed in much longer. Billy Connelly and his “In you go, you big jessy” came to mind 😉
We are not that close to anything particularly here – by car is fine, but walking we are a wee bit out of range of most things. But, there is a Botanical Garden about 15 minutes walk, we still havent seen the garden (and the mini golf) yet, but they have a cafe, which on a Friday and Saturday does pizzas. So, we took a walk down there and had tasty pizza and beer and a wander back up. It was fantastic, and we will definately be doing that again.
Walked up the road, grabbed another drink, and sat in the hot tub for half an hour.
What a brilliant Saturday!
Today, we cleared up as they will need space to put our stuff, then, for lunch went to the movies! We had booked seats at the “Gold Class” showing of Wanted. What a refined way to see a movie… private lounge to wait in, you turn up a bit early for the film, peruse the menu, go up and order, and tell them when you want it to arrive. When you go in, you get a giant recliner (electrically operated) and a table for the food and drink to go on. Waiters then bring the food and drinks you ordered, when you asked for! So, we got some tasty starters a glass of wine and a beer about 20 minutes in, and then half an hour after that another set of drinks, and a pizza for us to share. It was fab!
I am so looking forward to the wii getting here!
Anyone bored with their wii fit that they wanna send over? I cant get it for love nor money in the UK atm …..
Well, again, in an attempt to find some night life, we were out the last two nights.
Well, we went to see Get Smart last night – we reckon its only got a week till its gone and managed to find a showing that wasnt in the afternoon.
Halfway through, it jumped forward by a few minutes – at the time I thought it was just crappy editing. Except …. right in the middle of the BIG EXCITING END BIT – it died. Much “WTF!” goes on, and they get it back within a couple of minutes, a good 30 seconds of movie skipped. For roughly 90 seconds, when it dies again. For about 15 minutes. When they only skip about 10 seconds – we watched them faff with sellotape. And then, yet again … it died as they were doing the closing scene. So everyone left and they didnt bother trying again. The queue outside was enormous – it was a showing of Wanted and I reckon it was not far from sold out, all waiting outside looking disgruntled.
There was no bother getting a refund – or rather, a “Breakdown Voucher” as this happens enough that they have a “sorry your experience was disappointing because our projector broke down” pre-printed voucher.
Tonight, we went out for dinner to Kulcha Cafe & Noodles House … it was hoaching, so the only table we could get was was beside the toilet. Fair enough …. cept it took them ages to take our order. Sigh. Then our starters arrived, but no cutlery, So, had to ask for cutlery. And then grab a passing waitress to put in a drinks order. The drinks arrived quick enough, and the starters were very tasty.
Then it took them AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGES to bring the mains. And each time staff passed they were studiously avoiding taking away our old plates. Ian was *this close* to throwing them on the floor (he was very grumpy by this point). We finally got our main courses and they were very tasty and HUGE portions. We wouffed them down coz we were rather hungry by then… it was however bloody cheap – two starters, two mains, two bottles of cider for $36 (around £19)
What was the really annoying thing was that on the wall beside us was an extract from this months “Welcome to Perth” magazine saying how great this restaurant was, how the service was “Friendly, courteous and fast”. HA! My arse.
So, basically – we went to the pictures and it broke. We went out for dinner and it was cheap and tasty, but terrible service.
We are now on a mission to eat at loads of restaurants till we find the good ones!
One of the things that makes being on the other side of the world less of a big deal is the easy access to webcams and stuff.
We are using my laptop webcam for now, and it’s magic – I have been chatting to my Mum most weeks for a bit on the webcam, and it really does make it seem much less of a deal to be so far away.
I also took part in a podcast interview about home automation with a guy in England, and another in Northern Ireland on Sunday there – again using Skype.
I have been a bit of a misery about Skype in the past (it’s using a closed protocol, and not ‘open’ in the slightest), but to be honest… what more do you want for free?
So c’mon folks – get Skype installed. It’s a free download, all you need is a set of earphones and a microphone (cheap headsets from PC World are about a tenner). A Webcam is better, but not needed… and give us a shout online.
Well, Google have the Street View thing working here in Oz as of this morning.
Basically, go to maps.google.com.au, go to Perth, in the top right of the map is wee boxes for StreetView | Map | Satellite | Terrain – click on Street View and zoom in on one of the blue marked streets. You can then drag a wee man and see the street from that position. You can turn round on the spot and see all around, or click forward or back and “walk” down a street.
I am not going to put our address on the incredible edible innernet, for that would be silly. However, if you dont have it yet (or our mobile number) let me know – I did text everyone two weeks back, but I dont think that many people got it.
Street View is well cool, we have spent ages playing with it already and its only been available for a few hours.
My mum had asked about the night life. Well, we havent found it yet. To be fair, there are pubs and clubs – including a local pub that in the height of classiness has a once a month “no wives” night with strippers and topless waitresses. Classy indeed. We were never heavy pub-goers, and its years since we were at the Cat House for a night of moshing, so thats not quite our scene. Most of the shops close between 5-6pm, which is not that great for picking up something after work. The local Co-op equivalent closes at 8pm every night, so we arent ever stuck. The petrol stations are also open 24 hours, so again, if you are hit with munchies at 2am – there is somewhere to get those munchies.
We went out for a drive last night, sat in a car park by the beach with the top down on the car (and the heat up) and did some star gazing. It was pretty awsome – you can actually make out the Milky Way. On the way back we decided to get a bag of chips. Man was that a difficult task – We know our local chippy is open 4pm – 8pm and thats your whack (damn fine chips btw). But we didnt think that would be the case everywhere. We found a couple of places open, a few Subways, couple of pizza shops, but couldnt find a chippie. The places that were open looked like they were closing up as well at 9:30! We found one part of Perth that looked open, but by that time we had decided to head home and just get some toast instead. So – nightlife – I am sure its out there, we just dont know where!
And our stuff finally arrived in the country yesterday.
Which actually came as a bit of a disappoint to us as we were told it had arrived a week ago!
It will take at least two weeks to go through customs, so we were hoping to have it next week, but it will be at least two weeks from now. Sigh.
But its nearly here, we nearly have a tv and a comfy sofa and my Kenwood Chef and pasta machine and decent pots and most importantly the wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Well, the weather seems to have broken a bit – nice sunny weekend, and after our usual shopping trip we headed off to the GO 3 Expo. A Gamers show, where it seems that pretty much everyone in Perth plays Call of Duty 4, and Perth (unlike E3) still employs ‘booth babes’. oh yeah.
Today, we headed off to the Avon Descent – basically a bunch of crazy people throwing themselves down the rapids in rafts, speedboats and canoes. it’s an annual thing, but this year the river is really high, and has burst it’s banks in places. We realised that this was serious when we started to see canoes floating past on their own. yikes.
Still, good fun and on the way back, we managed to solve the Mystery of the Roadside Pumpkins! Yes, it’s time for another video:
One of the things we had to think about coming out here was the cost of living – the received wisdom is that it’s cheaper to live, that the standard of living is higher. To be honest, the closer we got to flying out, the more concerned we were getting that this really wasn’t the case..
So, here we are two months after arriving – we are paying bills and just getting on with normal life rather than the really unusual ‘is this still a holiday’ feeling. How has it panned out? The exchange rate is currently 2.05 AUD to 1 GBP, so basically, take the prices I am mentioning here and divide them by two, you are pretty much on the money.
Well, there’s the obvious ones – Petrol is cheap cheap. We pay between 1.40 and 1.50 for a litre of fuel, which is insanely low – although, you wouldn’t think so to hear the local press. They are moaning about this as if it was the end of the world. Public transport is not too bad. I spend 3.83 each way on the train each morning: which gets me about the same distance as going from Wishaw to Glasgow Central.
Electricity is about $126 a month – and as you know, we are not light users, what with the computers. We don’t have a gas bill yet, so we have yet to see what the Hot Tub costs to run!
Eating out is expensive – and very, very poor. We have had two hugely dissappointing chinese meals, both with gristley meat, dry chillis added, and bizzare selection of odd veg – cauliflower and broccoli? in a kung po chicken? blech. The indian food is even worse – Angad and Naveen, the two indian guys in the office reckon that it’s just not possible to get a decent indian meal in Western Australia… still, getting back to the point, a pretty poor indian meal (not even as good as you would get from the 3-in-1 on a friday night) set me back about $55, a similarly poor chinese meal was $46.
The exception is steakhouses – they are pretty darn good and seem to be very cheap: The ‘Hog’s Breath’ in Joondalup cost about $40 for plates that were quite a challenge to finish – and tasty too.
Pizza Hut is interesting for the differences – the pizzas are much smaller for one! the ‘large’ Australian pizza is about the same as the medium UK one: they don’t do one as large (except as special promos). They are cheap though – we got Three large pizzas for $13 and ate them over two nights!
There’s a fish and chip shop in the local shopping area, and they do portions that could , in all seriousness, cause a heart attack in one sitting. two ‘scoops’ of chips for $4, which is about 30cm by 30cm when wrapped up… a fish supper (that’s a ‘barramundi’ or ‘red snapper’ supper, of course, not cod or haddock!) is about $12.
We did a big shop today (one of our famous batch cooking sessions to fill up the freezer), and that’s a good chance to show what the prices are like for just normal ‘stuff’. We get our veg from a farmer’s market rather than Woolworths or Coles (asda/tesco in everything but name)…
That lot cost $31 – including $2 for the 2L apple juice and about $4 for the eggs (which are free range – they don’t seem to do any other kind). One thing that’s a little eerie, and I need to point out – the fruit/veg really is that colour – there’s no paint/photoshop trickery here.. The stuff just seems more bright, crunchy.. almost more ‘real’. That’s one thing – we are eating dramatically more wholesome food here in australia – the fruit and veg is delicious, and just seems to taste better.
I guess I should doff my cap to Iain Lawson at this point and admit defeat – it seems that my defence of Tesco etc was misguided!! C’moan the fairmers!
in fact, when we popped to the farmers market today, a wholesale butchers has opened in the next unit so we are using that too. it’s a little like costco’s butchers department in it’s scale, but that’s all it does.
Em and Anna are probably the ones who will get this (being Costco meat junkies like us!) but this lot came to about $160 – which includes $31 for a side (yes, a whole side) of lamb, and those giant packs of chicken ($9 a kilo) The mince is premium lean stuff, and costs about $4 a kilo.
Soft drinks are about $3.50 for a 2L bottle of diet coke – the harder stuff varies a lot: beer is cheap, whisky is, how shall we say it.. not. I found a shop selling Bruichladdich ($79 a bottle) and Bowmore 12 year old ($75 a bottle).
so… basically, yes – the staples of life are a bit cheaper. Our problem came from the fact that we lived out in the boonies, lived very cheaply from low cost supermarkets etc, and wore clothe supplied by George and Matalan… so we started from a fairly low base. I suspect that anyone who lived a slightly more upmarket life in the UK would be finding Perth quite a bit cheaper.
Righty, time to get the next bacth of mega-bolognese on the go…
So we better get more wine then!
Had a really nice weekend (and here we are almost at the next one and only just writing about it now.. tsk!) last week – we were invited out for dinner on Friday night, which turned into an all nighter, and we slept over.. before rushing back to get the old squad together for a mammoth session on ‘City of Heroes’.
lots of fun – we started about 9pm, 2 in the afternoon for the UK guys, then continued on until the wee small hours: 4.30am! of course, when we woke up in the morning (just), the UK guys were only just finishing off themselves – also at 4am. damn, but that’s one addictive game!
so, where does the Wine come in? well – on the sunday, we had a very pleasant meander through the Swan Valley wine region (Perth is build around the Swan River) and visited a small vineyard – the absolutely beautiful Henley Park Winery. It’s run by a couple who emigrated here from Denmark, and they have a wine tasting during the day.
A beautiful part of the country, and not that far from civilisation (well, not any further from civilsation than anything is when you are in the world’s most remote city!) – and the vineyards themselves are positively iddylic.
I think we have a new goal in life… 🙂
So, one of the reasons we came here was the weather.
Dont believe it….
There is currently a severe weather warning for Perth. Thunder, gales, HAILSTONES!
Thats right …. HAILSTONES! Balls of ice falling from the sky. Not an unusual occurence for Airdrie, but we were led to believe that Australia was warm and sunny.
Arse!
The houses have no insulation (so much so they sell a tool that helps with laying wires by shining a laser inside the wall so you can see it from the roof space down the inside of the wall coz they havent anything in the way) The bathroom windows have an open bit about 2 inches thats only got a fly screen on it, so just now when its cold wet and windy, its helluva drafty, so we have taped up the one in the en suite.
We got a load of stuff for the garden at the weekend, a lemon, orange and keffir lime tree. Peppers, tomatos, strawbs and so on. Hoping it all survives …..
Anyways. Enough of my stream of conciousness ranting.
I am fighting off a flu, but still went into work today – you only get 2 weeks of sick pay here, so I figured I would prefer to save the sickpay in case I get really sick. Blearg.
So, our big news was *supposed* to be that the ship with all our stuff had arrived in the port of Freemantle, just a couple of miles south of Perth. We had been tracking it across the world, and it was scheduled to arrive yesterday. Yesterday morning we checked the tracking and it was past Perth. Way past Perth. Past Perth enough that there was *no way* it had been in, and back out again that fast. One phone call to the shipping company later, we find out that the ship it was supposed to be on from Kelang in Malaysia had left without our stuff. And without the stuff of a load of other people, in fact, it had decided to leave everything for Perth in Kelang, so they didnt have to stop there.
So, our stuff is stuck in Malaysia. Hey, at least it isnt getting tossed around in the extreme weather…
But most importantly, MY WII IS STUCK IN MALAYSIA!
I WANT MY WII!
Two names that we have become very familar with over the last few weeks. We have been using a couple of cool websites (well, cool for this one purpose – dull as dishwater for anyone else, I am sure!): http://www.sailwx.info and http://www.vesseltracker.com
Our stuff was all loaded by Crown into a container, which was then punted by truck down to Southampton. From there, it was loaded onto the first – the CMA CGM Verlaine, an open deck container ship which sailed to Bruge, to finish getting loaded, then cugged it’s way along the english channel, down through the Bay of Biscay, across the Med to the Mouth of Suez.. along the canal, then out into the Red Sea. It docked at Jedda, then headed out into the Indian Ocean, and east towards the Port of Kelang (Kuala Lumpur).
At this point, our container was unloaded onto the dock, and verlaine continued on to China to pick up it’s next load of stuff en route to Europe. In the mean time, the second ship – the APL Zircon. I don’t have a picture of her, so here’s a picture of her sister ship – the appropriately named APL Scotland.
Zircon left Kelang on the 9th July and began her journey south towards the Port of Fremantle (or ‘Freo’ to the locals), where she is due to arrive on the 15th July…
along with all of our stuff! now we just need to wait on Aussie customs poring over everything and deciding what they do and don’t like the look of, and we should get the Wii back, and the Telly.. and our bikes… and the couch…
sigh. I kinda miss our stuff. very Tyler Durden in the whole ‘the things you own, end up owning you’ I know, but dammit, I just want to have a comfy couch to sit on and watch a movie on something other than my PC monitor.
In the meantime, Jen and I have been like a couple of explorers, giving new names to stuff.
First was when we made a spaghetti bolognese from some minced kangaroo.. we could’t quite decide – should it be a boloroo? or a kanganese? in the end, we settled on… Roo-gu! pure genius.
Not as cool as today’s though – we spotted another Skippy-related roadside incident, and Jen came up with a new name for them.. Roo-dkill. heh.
I’ll get me coat…
