Made it! On Saturday, we bid fare-thee-well to the busy, traffic-lined streets of Sydney and hopped aboard the legendary Indian Pacific railway to plough through the outback to relaxed, recumbant, Adelaide. After our horrid trek acorss the city that was plagued with misfortune (the one day of the year Sydney metro decides to not run any trains whatsoever coinciding with the one day of the year we try to lug all our bags plus our bikes to Central station, which -...

With every era of greatness, there is a timely ending. Today, I fear, may well be the last blog entry from Sydney; at least for a long while, anyway. And while there is much to look forward to in the coming days (Harry Potter at the IMAX on Friday. Well, he won't be there, obviously, but the film will be), the time has come to start to pack up our little bags, wave goodbye to the busy junction outside our humble abode, bid fare-thee-well to the enthusiastic owner...

Well hellllooooo Mr Blue Sky. Thank you for joining us. Finally, FINALLY, the sun has flung open it's proverbial trenchcoat to reveal big, shiny summer days. The past three days in Sydney can only be described as 'scorchers' and to place the scarlet cherry on the delicious, iced cupcake of life, at last I actually got some work. Hooray! Thursday was a true roaster and my first of two exhilerating days doing after-school care. Thrilling as it was, I don't feel i...

What a difference some sunshine makes. After Thursday, Friday and Saturday were all overcast, grey, miserable days, the sun made an appearence in Port Jackson yesterday and cast a shadow over the dark days that had kept us glum and cooped inside. At first sign that it was going to be half-decent weather yesterday, we made our way to Circular Quay and hitched a ride on a bus headed straight for the coast. Howie was quite determined that it was going to be a glori...

There's been much ado about nothing in the Petersham crib over the past few days. It's mostly been:Job-seeker job-seeker jobseeker man,Find me a job as fast as you can,Make it well paid and with free toast and jam,Oh find me employment oh job-seeker man. I've been to a couple of interviews for recruitment agencies and Howie has had a call from a lady to tell him the jobs he's applied for are beneath him. Which is very complimentary but not neccessarily productiv...