I only blogged once in 2009. Thats a disgrace!

I have now added my twitter to the sidebar of this blog, so that will keep the short snippets live and active and I shall be blogging more

After the ease of the last post I thought I would hook up the phone and upload a few quickie pictures of what has happened over the last week. The ‘new’ (2 month old) gadget is a Nokia N95 8gig version which has a great camera (5mp) inbuilt which is all very funky.

This is some home brewing, just look at this beast:

Co-brewer Nick has just returned from Thailand / Cambodia / Other such places, and it seems some of the local brews take a ‘NOB’ approach to their ABV %ages. We know the one pictured above is around 10-13% abv, however what exactly we do not no. We brewed this beast a few months back and it has certainly matured into a decent moreish beer, however in 750ml bottles it is a fair amount so one for the night is the reccomended dose.

This is a baby tree frog, taken while clinging to someones t-shirt so the fibres give some scale to it. It still makes you stop and think sometimes when you hear what appears to be jurassic park outside, hear tales of brown snakes (super venomous ones) or the local 12 foot python that has just eaten a neighbours cat in full view of the owners.

This place is quite wild compared to Europe, but I am slowly coming around to the auzzy way of getting on with it rather than worrying about what is about to leap out at you. I did see what could have been a snake tail slithering outside the other day, however I was told it was more likely to be a blue tounge lizard. I must admit I was tempted for a split second to investigate further, then then decided it was quite nippy so gave it a miss.

We were out having a great meal that night and then cocktails later on at the wonderful Bowery Bar , and bumped into these guys above kicking off the Chinese New Year celebrations plus a load of kids juggling knives / axes and banging drums. All good fun , and certainly at 29C and humid in the evening, a fair bit warmer than back in China!
Australia are playing Qatar tomorrow, the Roar v Sydney on Friday so a footballing feast to come plus the prospect of my big project actually going live for the first time means a busy yet fun week ahead.

As there is too much to update since last post I will do a quick photo tour of whats what. Initally flying into the UK for Christmas;

Chester in the winter… brr!

From there is was to Prague for more coldness and the Christmas markets

Which was shockingly rammed with idiots from England.

We squeezed in a decent game of football, Bohemians!

And of course the local beer… this one was from the famous U Flecku .

So Christmas was excellent, leaving a quick round the world dash from -5C in the land of the gods down under to 30C and sun for New Years Eve in Sydney

Top right white splodge is the opera house, coogee is one of those beaches at the tip of the wing.

Mrs Macquaries Point from which we saw the fireworks. I would post pictures but the internet could not cope it was that good.
There is a great load on Flickr of the whole harbour explosion which is well worth a look.

So there we go, right up to date. As they say round these ‘ere parts… Where the bloody hell are you?