Still recovering from a visit by my parents, we also had a visit from a UK friend, an Easter holiday, a wedding to attend and a birthday all in the space of a week! Now I’m back at work, getting a breather from the real world! Amazingly, I only had 7 work emails to attend […]
Category: Family & Friends
School holidays
It’s school holidays in Victoria at the moment which means that I can take a few days off to enjoy time with the kids! On Monday I caught up with a friend and his son (who is also on holiday) and we went up to Lilydale Lake for the day. The kids played on the […]
Back to "normal"
After 19 days in Australia, my folks flew out of Melbourne early this morning. They have 4 days in Singapore before heading home. It was a great 3 weeks; I didn’t even get into an argument with my mother! My kids are already missing them – they keep asking if they can phone them on […]
Weekend in Bruges
Nothing to do with the movie starring Colin Farrell. No, instead it was a very messy weekend in Belgium for my birthday in 2006 (original trip report). I travelled with my (now) wife and two very good friends. Before leaving, the boys set themselves a challenge of drinking as many Belgian beers as possible. This […]
Birthday beers
As most of my friends know, I am a bit of a beer drinker. So when the BIG FOUR-OH came along, so did a whole heap of beer and beer stuff! There was bar stuff (for my garage bar), there was brewing stuff (for my ‘brewery‘) and then there was beer. Forty-eight bottles of it […]