Life in Oz

Considering we aren't working, life back in Oz has been much like an extended holiday, but a slightly less productive. A few days to cover jet lag and the novelty of it, and we were looking for something to occupy us. Mum had a list of things she wanted help with like, we need a new TV, i need a blind on the kitchen window and i want to get my stuff out of storage (their old house was much large hence a lot of collectibles and stuff the old people hoard ended up in storage). The TV was sort quick smart, the blind took a week and then we embarked on the last request.

It became clear that the current house was only meant to be a stop gap while traveling, but since that has been put on hold due to the Myeloma, to quick became obvious that a new house was in order! With Hughie putting up a strong resistance, we resorted to steamroller tactics and brought them a new place. Its a nice four bedroom place down in Hastings, south of Melbourne near the water but more important close to mum's three sisters. We move them week commencing the 15th of December.

On a more active note we sent out mountain bikes over from the UK but due to piss poor service from EVL (never use them!) it quickly became evident that they would not be in OZ until Xmas at the very earliest and with all this time, plenty of sunshine and our good mate Brendy getting back in to biking and having Fridays off, it would be criminal not to be riding so we brought a couple of Giant hardtails to make the most of summer. We started riding the You Yangs, Listerfield, the Yarra trails and forest all of which have proved good. You Yangs is a little more gnarly with some wick downhill trails, Listerfield is for cross country and Forest is the best but a long way to go.



We had a few days down at Barwon Heads, with Mum and Dad which was nice, a chance to get out of town, sea some ocean. Kat and I did a coast walk one day and tracked up to Forest for mountain biking another day. We dropped in to Sydney a couple of times for Sam, our nephew naming ceremony and again for his Birthday. Also managed a week up at Hamilton Island in the apartment that I brought a few years back but had never seen. Now we are hooked on Hamilton and looking for another property up there.



That was all back in November. December has been a little slower, mostly preparing for the house move, playing Xbox (yep brought one of those quick smart!) and a bit of Xmas shopping. Once we get the folks moved in we'll have a fairly large family Christmas. Suzy and Michael and the two boys will be down, and the new house has room for all, and will have all my mum's sisters and some cousin too! Once that is out of the way we'll be heading over to Queenstown in New Zealand on the 3rd of Jan for a few weeks to do a bit of hiking and biking!

Thats it for now

B