City to Surf

Yesterday I braved a huge downpour to walk the City to Surf with the ECU School of Law and Justice. The weather ended up not too bad, so it was a pleasant morning's outing. We walked from Perry Lakes to City Beach and picnicked at the City Beach oval.

Visit from VJ

We had our first visitor last week. Veronica came over for 5 days or so and shouted Simon a ticket to the South Africa v Australia rugby test (we lost). She brought superb weather with her, and we enjoyed a spectacular sunset over Floreat beach, a breakfast picnic and walk at Lake Monger, a walk on the Kings Park tree top bridge, drinks and dinner at Little Creatures, dinner in Subiaco... VJ also went on a river wine cruise up the Swan and visited Hillary's Boat Harbour and the Aquarium of WA.

Harrison was absolutely besotted with her, and loved all the attention from his aunty. I think he was a bit disappointed when he woke up on Thursday morning with just his boring old parents to play with.

Rocky

We're in Rocky today - left Carnarvon Gorge yesterday after 2 luxurious nights at the Wilderness Lodge. We did a decent bushwalk with Harrison. He seems to be shaping up as the outdoors boy... much easier to travel with than to try to keep confined to a room. On our way to Fraser in the next few days.

Our new home

We've just heard today that we have a place to live in Perth... We're only about 1 km from our old house in Floreat. Heaps of room for visitors, so start booking those flights.

Next week the removalists come, so it's goodbye to Victor Street. We're both looking forward to a couple of weeks travelling around Qld to Carnarvon Gorge and Fraser Island - before we leave sunny Qld.

House and Garden

We've had a flurry of activity on the house. Gone is the fabulous palm tree wallpaper in the loo. Now the whole house is freshly painted and looking lovely. Our front yard is also finally the picturesque paradise we've been hoping for. It's hard to believe we've finally got it all looking nice, and now we're going to leave it.

Simon is in Perth for a few days looking for our new house. We've spent a week with VJ since our house was a bit smelly from the painting. She's been a trojan - molly coddling me (I have pneumonia), cooking for us, and being the best aunty in the world to Harrison. He gets so excited to see her. Harrison took his first un-aided steps this week. But he thinks it's a game and much more fun if it ends with him free-falling into someone's arms.

That's all from us.

Harrison during a visit from VJ

We had a lovely day in Toowoomba today, visiting both sets of grandparents.

VJ came up a few weeks ago to give Harrison his first birthday present. Here's one of the snaps she took...

Picture of Harrison

Just testing how a picture looks -

Last week at work for Carmel

It's my last week at BDW - after 9 years! Doesn't seem quite real to be packing up. I don't think I'll really believe it on Friday when I hand in my security pass, give back my laptop, walk up the circular staircase to the library one last time and say goodbye.

So much to do in the meantime. I'm looking forward to having some time to myself over the next few weeks (even if most of it will be spent organising us for the move).

Holiday here we come...

I've just booked our final Queensland holiday before we migrate west. We're doing a loop around southern Queensland, visiting Carnarvon Gorge and then going east to Hervey Bay and spending 4 nights on Fraser Island. I've never been to Fraser before, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Hope Harrison survives the long driving days.

Hello again

Testing sending a post via email.  We're moving to Perth in late July 2005, so there might not be much news for a while

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We're about to move to Perth, so I've set up this blog to keep you up to date with photos of Harrison (and sometimes of us)...