Having been here 4 weeks the time had come to move out of my serviced apartment (Can’t believe have been here 4 weeks!). I can’t move into the new one until Sunday so after considering my options around paying for a hotel for an extra couple of nights either in Brisbane or up the coast, I decided to jump on a plane and head down to Melbourne to see Kul (Pams sister, my former London housemate) & her fella Glenn. Its only a 2 hour flight – just like gett...

This weekend my friend Pam came up from Sydney. We had a few drinks Friday night and so Saturday morning was a lazy one & we just watched a film We headed out around noon for brunch & then we shopping before heading to the Valley for a curry and then it was back to the flat to watch another movie - all very civilised and relaxed! Sunday was pretty similar, brunch, shopping, a walk along the southbank through the French festival & a glass of wine as ...

At work this week I've mainly been focused on writing the functional plan and associated annexes (risk register, change control process etc) It's also been NAIDOC week which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The Office of Commonwealth has developed a Reconciliation Action Plan so attended the NAIDOC festival in Musgrave park on Friday to promote it - along with Borobi the Commonwealth Games mascot. Our team went along to support, there w...

After an hour at the gym & a few laps of the pool I set off to explore kangaroo point, the suburb I'll be moving to in a couple of weeks. So far I've only seen it in the dark so though I should check it out in daylight. It was another bright sunny day, around 22oC. I crossed the storey bridge & dropped down towards the river. My new apartment is set back from the river with parkland in front of it, and to the left was a larger park area where friends &am...

After a lazy morning catching up on corra I set off to walk to Tenerife, a suburb of Brisbane rather than a canary island I walked the long way round the river, the way I was too tired to walk last week. The sun was shining & the sky clear blue, a lovely day. It was 7km round to Tenerife ferry terminal. I arrived around 3, just in time to meet Clare, a friend of a friend who I'd let a couple of times in London. She'd invited me to the Tenerife festival, a ...