A month of madness

The moving to Australia plan has really taken shape this month – meaning we now have a clearer plan of what to do and have started ticking some of it off. So here’s the monthly update (and in months to come, hopefully I can look back on this with a big sigh of relief that [...]

Things to do before we leave London

We leave London in 205 days on one way tickets to Sydney. After spending nearly 7,500 days in this wonderful city (yes, I cheated by using this site), there’s not a lot I haven’t done that I still want to do.

But there are a few things.

watch the Aussie cricket team play England live (I am [...]

Has it been THAT long?

Gosh, haven’t blogged since the end of August! No particular reason – just been busy, busy, busy. Since I last visited, Wordpress has gone through 2 new releases.

I’ve even turned a year older.

S’pose I’ve been busy mulling over loads of ideas for self learning. Thinking about trying my hand at wordpress theme design (but [...]

The waiting begins

Finally, on Wednesday we submitted SDF’s migration visa application for Australia. I say finally because it took us ages to pull together all the supporting evidence needed – official documents, statements from friends, certified evidence of our relationship, copies of bills and so on.

Now the waiting starts. No idea how long it will take until [...]

A wonderful new adventure

Within a couple of days of arriving in Sydney, I’d decided that for so many reasons it was probably time to move back permanently.

What I hadn’t done after 20 years in London I was probably never going to do – and I was torn between my dislike of corporate life generally and my desire to [...]

About time

As the song goes, “I’m coming home, I’ve done my time”.

Unbelievable that next week it will have been twenty years ago that I left Sydney for London. A 6 month trip soon became a year, then 2, then 5, and now 20. But the time is right for me to bring my family to Australia [...]

Surfin’ NSW

Seattle was great – met some of the Amazon guys that I’ll be working with in the coming year and they all seem nice. Also had a fun time with my manager and the Amazon UK guys we went over with and feel I know them a lot better now, which will make for an [...]