Hello all,
It seems our flat finding missions have finally paid fruit and we have found this amazing place to rent in Flemington near the racecourse, in Wellington Street ironically. It is an older style three bedroom brick house with polished wooden floors throughout, a log burner amazing kitchen/dining area with huge north facing windows - it will be extremely hot during summer I'm sure. I'll post some photos when we eventually move in. We have the keys and can move in now but we are still waiting for most of our belongings to arrive from Wellington, so will probably wait a few more days before we spend our first night there.
Today we have to go bed shopping most importantly and also try to pick up a fridge and washing machine at some stage.
On a more negative note my damn luggage never arrived - I blame some dodgy baggage handler in Europe. It's more of a hassle than anything else, I mean a should get a good compensation payout from QANTAS/insurance but it is a pain having no clothes at the moment and somewhat of a chore going shopping for more.
I am going to Perth this week for a job. I have never been to Perth before, so that should be quite interesting although I'm not sure how much time I will actually be in the city. We are doing a modelling job for a huge industrial mining network, six power stations - 1000 km of line - quite big by mining networks standards. I think the job will be quite straight forward, although I'm told getting the required information might be more difficult.
Okay all bye for now, some picks of our house will follow over the next couple of weeks.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Melbourne you beauty
Hey team,
time for another timely post. Well, we are starting to settle down in Melbourne now and have started the mission of looking for a place to live. I mean starting because Melbourne is so bloody massive that it is hard to narrow down your search and say, hell I'd like to live in this area. We have at least narrowed it down to the local "Melways map" area, which, although it only covers the inner Melbourne suburbs is still pretty massive. At the moment we are staying with some friends in North Carlton. I quite like this area so we might concentrate on finding a place somewhere around here. We have some good friends, M&C and M&K who have been kind enough to put us up while we have been here so far. Although we have been kinda playing musical flats, but hey I'm not complaining about the free accommodation and good company.
Work has been good so far, although a little quiet. We are waiting for a whole heap of jobs to come through and then I will be burning the midnight oil - that's the nature of consulting though, seems you are either crazy busy or dead quiet...
We are going to head out and catch some comedy from the fringe festival tonight so that should be interesting. One of the great things about Melbourne (well I guess this applies to big cities in general) is that there is always something interesting going on meaning there is always plenty of choice for something to do.
time for another timely post. Well, we are starting to settle down in Melbourne now and have started the mission of looking for a place to live. I mean starting because Melbourne is so bloody massive that it is hard to narrow down your search and say, hell I'd like to live in this area. We have at least narrowed it down to the local "Melways map" area, which, although it only covers the inner Melbourne suburbs is still pretty massive. At the moment we are staying with some friends in North Carlton. I quite like this area so we might concentrate on finding a place somewhere around here. We have some good friends, M&C and M&K who have been kind enough to put us up while we have been here so far. Although we have been kinda playing musical flats, but hey I'm not complaining about the free accommodation and good company.
Work has been good so far, although a little quiet. We are waiting for a whole heap of jobs to come through and then I will be burning the midnight oil - that's the nature of consulting though, seems you are either crazy busy or dead quiet...
We are going to head out and catch some comedy from the fringe festival tonight so that should be interesting. One of the great things about Melbourne (well I guess this applies to big cities in general) is that there is always something interesting going on meaning there is always plenty of choice for something to do.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Hello from the sporting capital of the world
Well we arrived back in Melbourne yesterday morning, only to find that yet again my baggage didn't arrive with me. Man what is it with this suitcase, it must be cursed or something - I mean twice in two journies now it has gone missing. I checked before and they still hadn't found it, so hopefully it turns up.
On with more positive things. It's nice to be in Melbourne, 20 degrees C, sunny, not a breath of wind - this place is magic! We are staying at our friends place, Claire and Mark, right in the centre of the CBD. It's an absolutely mint location, big ups to them for finding such a cool place and for offering to put us up until we sort out something for ourselves.
Asia is sleeping now. I tried to convince her not to, to stay in synch with Aussie time but alas tiredness has overcome her and she is not in the land of the conscious...
Been doing some of the mind numbing things today, setting up bank accounts, applying for tax file numbers etc etc. Now I think I might go and buy some more undies as I have only two pair with those b**#$$#s misplacing my baggage.
Okay everyone, peace out and keep the fan mail coming.
Brad
On with more positive things. It's nice to be in Melbourne, 20 degrees C, sunny, not a breath of wind - this place is magic! We are staying at our friends place, Claire and Mark, right in the centre of the CBD. It's an absolutely mint location, big ups to them for finding such a cool place and for offering to put us up until we sort out something for ourselves.
Asia is sleeping now. I tried to convince her not to, to stay in synch with Aussie time but alas tiredness has overcome her and she is not in the land of the conscious...
Been doing some of the mind numbing things today, setting up bank accounts, applying for tax file numbers etc etc. Now I think I might go and buy some more undies as I have only two pair with those b**#$$#s misplacing my baggage.
Okay everyone, peace out and keep the fan mail coming.
Brad
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