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Best of 2009

Best of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and now 2009!. Yes the inaugural best of the year post! I’ve added a new category this year called “restaurant” fun! Album of the Year – M. Ward Hold Time Really enjoyed listening to M. Ward this year, feels like I’ve played

Manly to Sydney

I was on the Manly Fast Ferry the other day and had the camera. The little Canon camera Amy has does some pretty good quality video. The journey is probably the best tourist trip you can do in Sydney but only costs $6 (non-peak) to do as it’s actually

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Bday, Thanksgiving, BBQs and Santas

We’ve had so many action packed things happening it has been hard staying on top of the blog entries. So here’s a action packed entry with lots of different things happening! It was Amy’s birthday last week and we had a little surprise night away at the

Mel and Matt's Wedding

Mel and Matt got married this weekend in the lovely area of NSW called the Southern Highlands. Amy and I had not visited it before so it was nice to go somewhere that was fairly close to Sydney that was new. The placed we stayed in was called Bundanoon which

The Open Road

I just found this video of London from 1927, it’s pretty incredible having lived around the areas where the film first starts it’s amazing to see this in pseudo-colour! Then and Now And here’s the full 10 minute video – The video was made by Claude Friese-Greene who’

Welcome Hugo

Congratulations to Nancy and Marcus on the birth of their baby, Hugo – Baby Hugo Hugo is sporting the guitar rock look in this shot. Looking forward to some fun times with Hugo!!

Slosh Ball

For Marcy and Chris’ Australian Wedding we had a game of Slosh Ball in Centennial Park. Slosh Ball is the same as Kick Ball which we’ve been playing for a while now thanks to being introduced to the game from the USA. Slosh ball is slightly different in that

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Vegas and Byron

Last week Amy and I set off with Marcy and Chris for a long trip up to Queensland which would eventually end at Simone and Stuart’s wedding in Byron Bay. Taryn and Wade were kind enough to let us stay at their new house which was very nice, Chris

Red

Last week Sydney was covered in red sand that had travel led 1500km to visit Sydney. I woke up in the morning thinking it was the most foggy day I’d ever seen with the best sunrise ever combination. I made a video in the morning and put a little

Jamie T and Bowling

This week we went to see Jamie T at the Metro from tickets Amy got me for my Birthday, on the tour of his new album Kings & Queens. I first heard Jamie T at Mike and Rachael’s engagement party / pregnancy unveiling at Seal Rocks as Michael was a

Hot and Cold Hunter

This weekend we went on a trip to the Hunter Valley, organised by Nancy and attended by Amy, Gail, Iain, Nigel, Marcus and Myself. Amy and I left on Friday night and had a very pleasant drive up to the glorious and massive house that Nancy had got us – House

Manly 5.8km

Amy is away in Hong Kong for this weekend which is sad so I have made my own fun. I was going to spend Sunday writing computer code but decided instead, what with the fantastic weather, I’d do a walk around Manly and take the camera. So that is

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Mexican Party and Big Blue Roads

This is the 500th post on g2007! The blog is 2151 days old today which means there’s a post on average once every 4.3 days! Doesn’t seem like I do that many! This weekend we had a Mexican/Poker party at our house. We invited as many

Bioluminescence in Manly

Last night Nancy tipped us off that there waves were lighting up again. Nancy and Marcus saw this last year and told us about it and if it wasn’t for photographs on the internet we would never have believed them. So we drove down with the video camera and

District 9

Its not often I do a movie post, last time I did one was a year ago for the classic Dr. Strangelove. Last night Marcus, Stu and myself went to the cinema to see District 9, which is a science fiction film about aliens coming to Earth. Alien spacecraft over

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Holiday HD

I took the recently repaired video camera away on holiday with us and had a bit of fun trying to get over jet lag by making this video, hope you enjoy it.

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Summer Holiday 2009

We got a phone call from Qantas asking us if we wanted to upgrade our flight to business class for the first leg of our flight using our Qantas points. It turned out to be the biggest mistake in air travel I could have made. Not because it is not

Merry Christmas!

If you didn’t know already, the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are the opposite of the Northern Hemisphere so its currently winter! The moon also appears upside down but that is another story. Nancy organised a weekend in the Blue Mountains to celebrate Christmas, where we had a pretend

Quadriceps

This blog entry is a copy of an entry posted at the official Australian Kick Ball Down Under blog. Kickball is a game invent in the USA in the 1940ies that is a lot like baseball except the ball is rolled along the ground towards you and you kick it

Internet Famous

Another long gap between blog entries! Well this one is a good one, Amy and I met a real internet celebrity tonight, although from the 20 minute ferry journey chat we had I’m fairly sure Natalie Tran downplays her fame. Natalie, as I mentioned before in this post is

Hooters

27 days without a blog entry, surely I’ve set a new record? We are down to one camera at the moment and that is a DSLR which doesn’t travel well, so anything we do normally doesn’t involve taking a camera. We recently went to Stu’s 30th

Dad Rock

Last Wednesday was one of BhangLassi’s final gigs before a few months hiatus to enable some members of the band to become Dads and some other members of the band to get married. BhangLassi in full swing The gig was at the  Hopetoun Hotel which I think was one

Easter at Tambac

There has been some pretty good Easter trips, 2006, 2007, 2008 to name a few. This year was no different! We made a trip up to a place called Pacific Palms, which is a little bit North of Seal Rocks. You can actually see Pacific Palms from Seal Rocks and

Alls well that end swell

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Marcus’ birthday at Manly Dam. Manly Dam is a exactly what its name describes although it is very difficult to find, most people who live in Manly don’t actually know it exists and those that do normally spend about 2 years looking

Earths Hour

Earth Hour is an initiative of the World Wrestling Foundation where individuals, businesses and governments turn off their lights for one hour to show their support for action on climate change. The largest climate event in history where millions of people around the world will unite by turning off their