No Kookaburras today.

It’s been raining overnight and it’s all good – there’s green everywhere and it shut the kookaburras up. Sent off my first job application yesterday and registered with a couple of agencies, so that’s the ball rolling. I also have a shot of a car for the weekend – looking to buy it from the

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Squawk!

Kookaburras. Bane of my life. It would be less annoying if they didn’t sound so damned funny. Yeah, they wake us up every day, but they wake you up laughing so you can’t really complain. Anyway, there’s a thunderstorm rattling away at the moment. The land needs it too – Australia is in its third

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Anyone know what day it is?

Well, we’ve arrived safe and well. The flights were fine, if a little dull, with only the Edinburgh->Heathrow hop being particularly bumpy. With the exception of the Aussie pilot on the Hong Kong -> Sydney run, of course, who said “It’ll get bouncy for a minute cos we’re about to fly through a typhoon, but she’ll

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We’re up and off

A 4am start isn’t a natural thing. But we’re up, and the taxi to the airport is due in 45 minutes. I don’t feel like I’ve had any sleep at all. Gaaaaah!

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A Brief Interruption of Service

Nelefa.org will drop off the net for a while on Monday evening – both the website and email will be unavailable. Poor old jem, the box we host on, is undergoing some disk surgery by the highly trained secret ninja administrators of the Yoyo collective consciousness. But it’ll all be fine by tomorrow. Which is

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Eek!

Nelefa.org just dropped off the net for an hour or two! I think there were strange technical wierdnesses at Yoyo Towers. I’m sure all will be revealed in time.

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Bumpy Ride

Theres no time for tears – they ll come later when we look at pictures of our friends and family once the journey is over – we have had to be strong for the sake of the kids cos kids are very perceptive!. Theres been quite a few moments when Ive had them but Ive

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Packing

Oh God, make it end soon. We’ve been packing for what seems like days. We have a baggage allowance of 20Kg each. There are five of us. That’s a tenth of a metric ton of luggage. No problem, right? Wrong – we seem to have twice that amount of rubbish kicking around. We’re filling case

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A new way to update

I’m posting this entry using Deepest Sender, an add-on for firefox which gives a nice little mini-blog-posting thingy. It’s really very nice. The only thing I’ve found that it doesn’t allow me to do via the gui is to change a link property to open in a new window, but I can do that via

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Packing

I hate packing. This is a well documented fact. It’s also why I’m sitting here writing about packing instead of actually doing it. So far, my morning has been spent dismantling Bionicle models after being nagged into photographing them from every conceivable angle to aid in their reconstitution. As if they’re going to have time

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