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Nick & Atty get hitched!

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:09:46 +1100

Love is in the air in Thailand! Hyperlink to block of photos 1 Hyperlink to block of photos 2 Hyperlink to block of photos 3 Hyperlink to block of photos 4 Hyperlink to block of photos 5

Baby makes three

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:51:08 +1100

NOTE: Click on ‘read more’ below to go to the blog page. Once at the blog page, click either of the ‘Baby Makes Three’ headings above to return to home page. Click HERE to go to pix. Click HERE to go to more pix. George decided to join us on 14 November 2009 at 16.22. As many of you know, he was a bit reluctant to leave the womb, arriving 13 days after his ‘due date’. As with all things ‘baby’, conventional wisdom only tells half the tale in that I now understand there is no such thing as a

Back to Britain

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:59:45 +1000

After our final final departure in September 2005, we wend our way back to Jolly Old to find it still very much England and our family & friends still very much fabulous! We decided to limit the number of moves we made once actually in England to limit Amy’s exhaustion. This inevitably meant hard decisions about who we were going to see in 3 weeks, but I think it went very well. We stayed with my parents, Felix and Dominic, Chris and Gilly, Ed and Arianna, and at a B&B in Totland Bay.

Our foray into regional NSW

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:47:13 +1000

To see a few pictures of our trip, click HERE. In an attempt to avoid that dilemma so often demonstrated in London of immigrating there only to never ever step a small toe outside, say, SW3, we exited our Balmain Village and trekked it steadily westerly. Actually, I drove ‘a solitas’ meeting Bobrail - who had been on a ‘site visit’ with work consisting of travelling in convoy in natty 4WDs from Brisbane via Toowoomba, Goondawindi, Moree and Gunnedah with a bunch of engineer-y types eyeballin

Tortilla a la espanola

Mon, 25 May 2009 07:54:24 +1000

This entry is for all you cooks out there, but particularly for one Slovenian kitchen whizz (you know who you are!). As an intro, this dish is tasty and, key during these tough economic times, inexpensive. You don’t get much cheaper than potatoes, eggs and onions. The single most expensive ingredient is olive oil, but you really don’t use much of that. You can serve the dish hot or cold. It keeps for days and is a delightful picnic dish, as you can wrap it in cloth, aluminium foil, whatever