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We’re also nervously watching the prices of plane tickets skyrocketing. Top tip: don’t plan flights during the Australian summertime

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Weekly “Nothing is happening” post

Gah, this is frustrating. We have a leaving party planned for Saturday. I leave my work a week on Friday. It would be nice if we actually had the visa granted by then! Really, it’s down to the last day or two now, but that day or two of processing is dependant on the Australian

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Still Waiting

Monday is the start of my last fortnight at work. Well, technically it’s my last week, but they wanted me to stay for an extra week – which is fair enough. It’s difficult to believe that it’s all likely to kick off next week – assuming our sponsor gets the documentation through from the tax

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Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP)

This is a kinda fighty-RPG-Lite, and it’s not at all bad. So far, my little girly warrior (Bague, natch) has done the first six quests (or thereabouts) so it’s still early days. I did start out with an outrageously large sword which took ages to swing. This was fine and well until I encountered my

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DING!

Trollbert has finally reached level 40 and has spent the correspondingly stupid amount of gold on a Raptor to run about on 🙂 In other news, Trollbert also popped into Ragefire Chasm to say “Hi” to Taragaman the Hungerer. Taragaman wasn’t impressed, so Trolly had no choice but to set Ookbert on him. He’s such

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eBay Feedback

eBay can be a tedious place, so I tend to try and brighten things up a bit by leaving cheery feedback. You can have a look at the kind of rubbish I speak here.

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Silence

As ever, I’m not posting because I’ve nothing to say We’re still waiting for Centrelink to be happy with the Assurance of Support information. There’s some paperwork our Assurer needs to provide them with which requires processing by the Inland Revenue, so until that comes back, there’s nothing happening. On a cheerier note, though, DIMA

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The end of an era.

Steve Irwin, conservationist and documentarian, died at the weekend after a fatal encounter with a normally harmless stingray. We’re all upset by this – particularly the children. Mr Irwin has been a part of our lives since the children were tiny and is in no small way responsible for the interest and respect they have

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Bah!

IBM begins casting Come To London IBM casts Come to London Peter is afflicted by Come to London Peter begins casting Go To London Peter casts Go to London on John John evades Peter begins casting Go To London Peter cases Go To London on James Peter’s Go To London crits James for three days

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Tundra Rap

Its the nothing-ness The whiteness The endless-ness Stretching on beyond the human imagination Desolation of the soul OH MY GOD Ice flow – nowhere to go Ice flow – nowhere to go Lost in the blinding whiteness of the Tundra Check him out They call him the shrew Arms in short then with the claw

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