May-25

On a walk near Stanmore with Goldie.

Close to Newtown.

Outside Jaime's office at Sydney Uni, a bit further along the walk.

Me and Mohammad went for a bike ride, stopped at work for a chai and ping pong...

...then went to a show; The Stevenson Experience. They were pretty good, not too much filth haha.

Marie and the big GD.

Trish, Jaime making Pisco sours (so delicious), and the back of Marie's head. We got some kind of take away to keep it simple.

Saurabh, Jay Tomar and Pinkesh, on Jay's last day, in "Little India" aka Harris Park. Mmmmm I feel like some Indian food now. He's off to another company for much more pay, and he's a bit of a genius so I think he'll do really well.

Happy birthday to our beautiful boy. He had a bunch of friends come up to the coast, and they gamed the whole time pretty much, apart from the odd walk. Apparently they really liked it: "A bunch of guys gaming Dad, how do you think they'd like it, they loved it."

While we were up, me and Marie went to see James Valentine's Surprisingly Upbeat Review. Some good jokes, and really alpha virtuoso grade jazz musicians.
 

April-25

 

We went to Dinner Plains for the school holidays. It was way cool.

Our typical day consisted of: go for a bush walk in the morning, come home for lunch, maybe watch a movie or have a snooze, then go for a walk in the afternoon. Very pleasant, although given the number of places for sale, maybe you don't want to do this all the time.

Omeo on the way there: it's a beautiful town.

Me, Marie, Gab, Ang, and Steve at the Lakes Hotel at The Entrance. We went up for a couple of days during the Easter long weekend.

More snaps from Dinner Plains. Some of the tracks are really beautiful.

Near Dinner Plains on a walk with Oli.

Day time fun at the unit.

The place had bikes available. We did some mountain bike riding with the boys as well.

At Adelong: there was a local rock crusher in the river, for sifting through for gold.

At the local pub for dinner, Adelong. We stayed for a night, at a different pub, there, on the way to Dinner Plain, to break up the trip.

At Canberra on the way down, with Tom, Fox, Marie and Lou. 

(Sorry these photos are in reverse order)

On the train, probably to Picton, outer Sydney is wonderful.

With Amir, Has, Marie, Fiona at the new Persian restaurant at Haberfield, near enough to us. Delicious. Iran is a real culinary centre of the world.

March-25

We went to Kylee and Dave's for the weekend! Good times.

Ceal, Fil, and Lib came along. Hugh dropped in briefly before going to Sydney to visit his brothers.

I picked up some furniture off the street, stripped the paint off the top, showered our front room with dust, got into hell trouble with Marie, and the kids even. I think the unit is ok! Mohammad moved into a bigger place in the hope his wife can come to Oz soon.

We went to Ellens home. She's moving out, getting rid of everything. I thought Mohammad could get some, but I don't think he was interested.

Anyway, I love this piece of art here:

Other stuff that happened, for which there are no photos; we went up the coast, we went to Michael and Louise's for their combined sort of 50th, went to Hass and Amir's, went to the art gallery with Enno and Andrea. I got no notes on those.