Oct-24

 

Danesh's farewell was last month, but here's a couple of more shots. At the Indian place in Parra, near the town hall, near the light rail.

Left: Haresh, Tekkie, Dawood, me, Shadi, Mohamad El Bisy, Ebin, Mohammad E, Danesh, Saurabh, Pinkesh and Nirmit.

From left, me, Mohammad, Haresh, Danesh, Dawood, Saurabh, Tekkie, Ebin, Nirmit and Pinkesh, in the lobby at 1 Smith St Parramatta.

Halloween. Lou dressed up as Adam.

Walked the dog on the weekend. marie went next door for the regular Halloween drinks with the ladies. I went out to try do some snooker with Danesh and Mohammad. At North Ryde RSL, they have tables, but they were setting up for a band, so we couldn't do it. Took a cab ride to Gladesville RSL to find, they'd recently removed theirs there. Bus to Town Hall, the snooker place had tonnes of tables and a one hour wait. Went to the pub for a couple, got home v late, nice time.

Right Oli is having a go making Gnochi.

Below, Olie and Goldie dog.

A lovely gift from Peru from Juan y Luz, after we sent them over some Australian wine, via Claudia.

I think that the boys cooked this. 

marie, Zdenka, Tihana, Julie, Vince, Kristie, Jason, Harley, Mark, David, John, Vonne, Tim.

Tihana's 1st birthday! With Scot and Natalie.

The boys are trying out cooking. I think this turned out pretty well.

School holiday central: me and Enno

Kids, my advice is to never get a holiday house. On the plus side, you get to see many more people when they stay. On the down side, sooner or later, it ends up being such a pain in the arse in being a second place to do all the cleaning and maintenance. Cheaper to just get a rental, or stay in a pub somewhere, then you don't have to bust your arse on the constant upkeep.

Akemi, Lou, Esteban, Oli

David, Kevin, Michael, Anke, Marie.

Looks like Laurens in the back yard

Lou, David and Oli in the pool at The en trance

Sept-2024

 

Me and Oli went to Eastern Creek to watch the car racing. Oli was very happy to have a look. Not many people, so it was easy to wander around to check the different corners.

Tims 70th at King Toms club. Ater too much, had a nice time all the people danced traditional dances. 

Danesh's farewell... you will be missed at work Danesh!

The fam and Mumma cat.

I volunteered to help out Clover's re-election effort, again. She got in, again. Got to hat to her about her mum, and bike lanes. She is surprisingly easy to chat to.

Make it new! I went on a denim repair workshop. My old brown jeans got a much needed patch on the knee. I've got a lot of projects needing some stitches for sure.

Lunch at Fils!f

At Olympic Park with the boys for something to do. Went for a walk to the cafe, got some interesting sweet drink

Aug-2024

 

We are part of a fruit and veg coop to pick up these from the Sydney markets at Flemington. It's a big amount of food. Connaugh gets up at 5am to get in before the crowds build up. She is a chap who does this every week.

We've had a competition at work for ping pong. So we've been spending a lot of time preparing. 

The new leg of the Metro opened this week, so I had to go check it out, with Marie and Lou. It is impressive, and so far been a smash hit for moving people around.

Jaime and Marie hard at Pandemic, a cooperative board game. Players work together to keep viruses contained before they spread to too many cities.

A weekend away with Tim Trish Jaime and the kids. An excellent time.

I had to go up early to empty the bins.

A night at Tone and Vonne's

We had everyone around for lunch at our place, including Aunty Ellen. Ceal couldn't make it but the cousins did.

Took Mohammad and Lou for a ride along the Parra river, v good.

July-2024

Not much happened this month, as I was on S1s. Here' s anice shot of the local station.

Finally finished off the patches I've been working on for a month.

We went up the coast for the holidays, and had some fam for visitors.

This is the view from the train on the way home. I think it's some of the most beautiful spots in the world.

The walk to the beach is v nice. Goldie just loves the dog beach.

The back yard.

Out the front.

I caught up with Dan, Chap and his sister Cathy for a game of the Swans. They lost pretty badly. Oh well. Nice to see the guys after a good long while.

2024-May

 

We went for a plant tour at Riverstone where Haresh explained how everything worked. It definitely had the feel of an exciting factory tour.

Persian food! With the experts: Mohammad, genuine foodie from Iran, and Danesh, Mr Zoroastrian from Pakistan, from Iran, partly connected to India-this guy is Mr International. We have many interesting restaurants close in to Parramatta.

Went on a really lovely walk from Watsons Bay to Double Bay with Saurabh, Danesh and Mohammad from work.

Here they are at Watsons Bay. Great city views, bush views, interesting homes.

Happy birthday to one of the most beautiful people in the world, our Lou. Eeek we're all gettin old.

Had Lous birthday. Sunday said he could do anything. We went for breakfast at the local Cafe, had French toast, then the rest of the day was spent in a game mode.

 

I got some photos from Ellen, of Pop's. Some interesting ones in there of the Dorahys, my Mum when she was young, Pop and a Christmas from 1985.

On the day, we went to Sushi with Vonnie and the cousins. 

On the actual day, down at the Brighton Cafe like 30m from our front door. The boys always get French toast minus the bacon. It's kinda like pankcakes but bread, too nice.

One night i had to get up early to go to site. The night before i had vivid dreams of living in a 6 bedroom house with problems, and Marie had a collection of 15 sewing machines. Nothing unusual there.

Managed to get a snap of our lovely Oli smiling at the camera. Usually it's a grimace for the camera, fair enough.

Blurry is how I felt eventually, but had a really nice mid week catch up with Rara, Vonne, Tony, Marie telling a tall tale here, and Nick the most civil of engineers.

Parra town square. This place suddenly got fancy.

The office refurb now includes a ping pong table.

Had lunch at Fils again. Thanks Fil for your kind hospitality.

Ellen brought along a few interesting historical snaps.

Went for a walk with Goldie which invariably seems to catch some baseball. It's actually pretty interesting. I think I'd prefer to watch baseball to cricket, not that that is saying much.

I inherited these boots from Lou. His feet are now bigger, and his old boots fit me perfectly. Thanks Lou, these boots are awesome.

Random spontaneous night at our place with some local parents: Tim, Jaime, Claudia and Trish, with Andrea at the end here.