Year 6 and the Trip

hmm, I'm not posting too much right now. Blog's seem so naughties in these days of twitter and facebook.

I had to blog about two things though.

We've reached year 6 in a couple of days, and we're still very settled. We're studying (Nursing for Fay and Science majoring in mathematics for me) and working (aged care for Fay and Java coding for me).

I'm off on my dream trip of riding the Alps on a bicycle, and then watching the spectators watch the tour. It should be great. I'll be updating by twitter (http://twitter.com/crankymax) if you like that sort of thing.

Final Check on the Renovations

We have had the final inspection for our renovations this morning and we're very happy it's over, and we're very happy with the results. Have a look at the difference yourselves.

Year 5 Day 1

It's been a while since I blogged last. Too much holidaying, working and running around; however I had to blog about our 5th anniversary in Kingscliff. It's amazing how quickly time has gone, although when we think about all that's happened while we were here we've covered a lot of ground.
We celebrated by heading over to Roughies restaurant at Salt, which was in the final stages of completion when we first got here, and had a great meal. We chatted with the chef and manager of the restaurant, as we were the only ones there. We stumbled home taking care to watch for midnight snakes; as we almost trod on one on another midnight stumble.
Fay has completed her first semester at Uni, and she did rather well, by her account. I'm contracting to the usual guys in Melbourne, bless em, and doing all right by that. So life is rolling on here in Kingscliff and we don't see any reason to move anywhere in the next 5 or so years.
In fact after spending a larger sum of money that we wanted to do our place up, we'll have to spend that many years here to get the value from it.
So drop in sometime and see us.

Fay's first Day at uni

Today was Fay's first day at University. Well actually not the first day, but the first day this century :P

She did a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics in Sydney the 70's, and attempted a masters at RMIT in the 80's, but now she has decided to head back to Griffith University on the Gold Coast to do Nursing.

I keep asking her is she is excited, as I seem to be more excited than she is. Her version is that she was excited when she was accepted, but now she just wants to get stuck in.

I'm excited. Unemployed; but excited.

Mountain Biking in Nerang

Fay and I went mountain biking yesterday. It was great fun... at first.

We both fell off and it was pretty hot. I think this photo says it all :)















We'll definitely give it another go, as it was great not having to deal with traffic.

Man of Leisure updates blog.

I finished up my contract on Nov 21. It was great to finish up and get back to Kingscliff.

I've been attempting to get fit and play with all the toy's that I've accumulated over the last 12 months. More on that as I get some photo's.

A Turtle in the creek!!

I was just taking a quick break from working at home (no really!) and I happened to see a sea turtle swimming around out the front of our place.
The first two are from our balcony


Here you can see the scaffolding on the left of the image.

This is a closer shot from the pontoon.

On the work front; I only have two weeks left before I finish my contract. Yay! I'm looking forward to a good long break.