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The Maldives

As a continuation of our honeymoon trip, Amy and I went to the Maldives. The Maldives are over 1000 islands in the Pacific just to the left of India. They take about four hours to get to by plane from Dubai. The capital of the Maldives is a place called

Best of 2011

Best of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and now 2011! Best of the year 2011, this year instead of a new category I’ve removed one (DVD of the Year) as we no longer watch DVDs and replaced it with TV Show of the Year! Album of the

Doobers

Amy and I set off for a Honeymoon late in the afternoon. The flight to Dubai is 15 hours but it went past really quickly, we both managed to sleep for about 7 hours and the rest was spent watching TV and Eating. I watched the movie “Senna” which was

Married!

A year ago Amy and I went to Queenstown in New Zealand and got engaged. A year to the day later we got married! The ceremony was in the Hunter Valley at a location called Talits French Estate and the reception was at Margan, a winery with fantastic wines and

Pizza and Boats

Pizza and Boats

A few weeks ago Tom, one of Amy’s friends from where she used to work invited us over for Pizza night. The idea of the night was to bring a few key ingredients and then make your own pizza. Everyone then tasted a little slice and marked it out

New Door

Just a quick update and the reason there’s not many, we’ve been busy doing wedding plans and home stuff. Here’s the new front door that I painted in this handy slideshow showing the progress – Will do a longer post soon I can’t believe it’s been

Christmas and Birthday

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Christmas and Birthday

Last weekend Lozza, Nancy, Marcy, Amy, Chris, Marcus, Hugo and myself went up to the Blue Mountains to celebrate Christmas in July and my birthday. The place we stayed in was on the out skirts of the town of Leura. It was a nice spot with fantastic rooms. The food

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Radalaide!

Amy and I went to Adelaide at the weekend, it was a fun little trip to try and visit all of the major cities of Australia. Amy told me I was going to Adelaide but instead we went to Thailand so this time I thought I would organize a secret

Hunter Planning Trip

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Hunter Planning Trip

Amy and I visited the Hunter Valley on the long weekend to get some things sorted for our wedding this coming November. We stayed in a fantastic little B&B called “Carriages” that is right in the heart of the Hunter Valley, so made travelling to and from all

An Update!!

How long has it been since there was an update! The truth is there’s been lots of things happening just not very many of them have been put to any kind of digital media. Maybe it’s time to buy a new camera to get interested in it again!

Suprise Holiday

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Suprise Holiday

Amy had not been on holiday for a while and really wanted one. So I said for a surprise why not organize one and not tell me, a bit like when we went to New Zealand for the engagement. So that is exactly what we did, Amy booked it all

Engagement Party

Engagement Party

We woke up on Saturday morning to the rain which we didn’t want to hear as this put the location of our Engagement party in jeopardy. We were supposed to do it at Manly Dam, but there’s nothing worse than being outside in the rain. Even if you

Home Trivia

Anghard organized a night of home trivia for Saturday. We all had to make up our own trivia rounds and score them out of 100 for everyone. It was extremely good fun it started at 18h00 and ended at 03h00 the next day! Which I think goes down as the

Eastern Creek HD

In February I went to Eastern Creek race track to do a couple of hot laps in a V8 Supercar. The car is a Holden and is a Bogan’s dream. The one that I raced around the track in doesn’t have the kW of a real V8 supercar

UK Trip HD

Here’s the video that goes with the trip to the UK. In it you’ll see Dorchester, Yorkshire and London. With appearances by my parents, David and Betty’s dog Poppy, Mark, Karine, Nina, Felix, Andy, Alex, Gin, Kie, Chris, Ian, Ian C and Lorraine!

Big Society

I set off in the afternoon and set my stopwatch going, 32 hours and 50 minutes later I was in Dorchester, my parents new home town in the South West of England. The flight was really good I managed to get an upgrade for the entire journey so it was

Hello 2011

A little update from Xmas and NYE. We spent Xmas up in Brisvegas at a cross section of Sam and Elliot’s house and Taryn and Wades house which was very nice. My secret santa present an awesome iPad/iPhone charging device, a new wallet and some other bits that

Best of 2010

Best of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and now 2010! Yes the inaugural best of the year post! I’ve added a new category this year called “trip of the year”. Album of the Year – Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way This is probably the most “starred” record

Engage HD

So here’s the video which I made from various bits of footage of the engagement weekend in Queenstown two weeks ago. The old ship you see twice in the footage was built the same year as Titanic but managed to stay afloat for a lot longer!

Engaged

On Friday morning I told Amy to get up at 3:30am which she was not very happy about. Her excitement changed when I drove past the domestic terminal and onto the international one! So it was all a secret until the check-in desk told us we’d need to

The cities (my shoes) have been

Nike are a brand that promote corporate responsibility through sustainability on their website, I bought some trainers from nike.com (they don’t ship to Australia) – they are ones that are made from your own design, here’s the box in the living room – New trainers NikeID It’s pretty

Happenings

Have not done a blog post for a while so here’s one now! We’ve been busy doing stuff with the new place that we bought in September, when its finally at a stage that we like I’ll put loads of photos up on the blog. We’ve

Competition Winners

Competition Winners

Last week Marcy, Amy, Chris and I went on a trip to Western Australia. It is a 4 hour plane journey from Sydney to Perth. The first thing you notice about Perth is it doesn’t appear much different from Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney, even though you’ve been on

Segway Segway Segway

Segway Segway Segway

Have you ever wondered what the future might look like? Well wonder no more, it looks a little bit like this – Amy on an Offroad Segway This weekend we went to Olympic Park which is out West. It wasn’t the gun crime scene that the news portrays but a

iPhone 4

So the iPhone 4 has been out in Australia for a while but it is totally sold out, meaning you have to get on a waiting list for one. I’d rather just walk into the store and get one. I figured out I’d actually save money getting the