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
Featured 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
Featured 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
Remastered Featured 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.
Remastered Featured 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
Russell Brand Amy, Ennette, Bobby, Troy, Tom, Marcus and myself went to see Russell Brand live at the Hordern Pavillion on Wednesday night. It was a really good evening and was very funny. The tour was called “Scandalous” and was about his recent outing with the UK press over the Manuel scandal
Was a long and dark December Sunday morning saw the arrival of loads of Kayakers to Manly who had started off from the harbour bridge, which is about seven miles of kayaking. We watched them for a little bit then met up with Marcus, Nancy and Lorraine which was very nice. The night came and Amy
AIMIA Awards Last night Amy and I went to the AIMIA Awards at the Australian Technology Park that I was kindly invited to judge at. It was a good night with free booze flowing and little mini mexican food bowls, satay chicken and rice balls which was fantastic. The section I judged
So, you think you can Dance? Last Sunday Amy and I hosted dinner for Nancy, Lorraine and Marcus around our house. We cooked the same thing that we cooked on Valentines day for our guests as we knew it was tried and tested and wasn’t going to explode in our faces if it went wrong.
More Tilt Shift Recently when I went up in a helicopter over Sydney I took some photos which I changed to make look like little models the inspiration came from various sources on the internet but the guy who has taken it to the next level is Keith Loutit who also lives in
Argentina Postal Arrival Today in the post I got a nice parcel. In fact it was a special that I had to go down to the post man to sign something. That is the first time that had ever happened (special deliveries yes, but the actual post man, no). Very Colourful Parcel Inside
