Well where to start?! Its been a very busy time recently. Getting two weeks off work for Christmas has been an absolute God send, even if it has meant a significant hole appearing in my bank account. The contribution towards that hole also came in the form of Christmas presents, as expected, though I suppose this was countered with the money sent by my parents as a present, plus all the other presents and cards my family were kind enough to send for both my Birth...

As the title suggests, had a pretty nice, quiet weekend, which consisted of reading The Catcher in the Rye, and watching The Ashes. Thats right, i've actually been watching cricket. Despite the long vendetta I have had against the sport, and my various claims of how slow, boring and painful to observe it can be, just remember that I am in Australia. I have been well and truly swept up in the furore surrounding the rivarly between the mother land and our convict c...

Its been a while since my last blog, due to the fact that my working hours of late have been long and arduous. I have found little time or energy to spend any of my freedom using any kind of technological device. Anyone who has a desk job will know that spending your working life infront of a screen inputting data, and repeating a very inflexible script over the phone, makes you want to do anything but open up your laptop when you walk through the front door of y...

A more appropriate title would actually be 'the flats are much more attractive on the other side of the street' as you will find out as you read on. But how can I really describe what I mean so succintly without expressing the well known cliche. I suppose I could have drawn on some inspiration from the worlds most famous football manager and of course chart topping novelist (though I doubt he'll be winning as many booker prizes as he did Premier Leagues) Sir Alex...

So I've got a job!!! At last! Nearly two weeks of job hunting and I'm finally sorted for the next few months. What's more the success of achieving it came in a very unorthodox and spontaneous way indeed. It was also one of the most unorthodox assessments I have ever been to, as is the job title. All sounds very mysterious to you I am sure, so here are the details. I was scrolling through a job site the other day, applying for everything I could find pretty much ...