We did our first spot of entertaining in our new apartment last night as we welcomed Chris and Kat to our place for dinner. Chris is a fellow Hypo promoter from Newcastle who has been showing me the ropes for the first couple of weeks and Kat is his better half who has been telling him the job is stupid (sounds familiar). They are due to head off to continue their travels in a couple of weeks so we thought it would be a great time to test out our hosting skill...

These are indeed exciting times! On Wednesday we came home from work today to discover that our three seater sofa had been modified to a two seater with an extended section for the third seat. So now we can both lie up and watch the telly!! And today we came home to find our table out on the balcony and a new larger table in its place in the kitchen. Who knows what new developments tomorrow will bring to our ever changing apartment??

Well, we have now been living in our humble new abode for all of two days and we are loving it! Once the Scots left the campsite we had a couple of days remaining before we could move in here and although they went quick enough we were extremely glad to leave and get away from the cold. We were so keen to move in that we arrived on Friday before all the furniture had been moved in and ended up using our camping mattress for the night! After spending the day walk...

Another week has passed us by in the campsite here in Newmarket and it is beginning to take its toll! Whilst we have been looking for jobs and apartments we are obviously trying to save as much money as possible, which has meant that we have been spending a lot of the day in the tent reading over the local newspapers and backpacker magazines. In most places this wouldn't be such a problem, but then most paces don't have dickheads in the corner playing damn diddl...

We have been back in Brisbane for just over two weeks now and we are beginning to see some progress in our hunt for somewhere to work and to somewhere to live for the next few months. We are currently at the Newmarket campsite that we stayed at before and our first few days were a bit of a struggle as we had a few tent issues. We arrived to be told that we would have to stay on one of the unpowered sights for the first night, which wasn't a problem in itself but...