Don't ever call me a dingo...

Well it's been a while I know. I've been busy working like a dog, fulfilling the job of a trained ape that even a fish would grow bored of in 3 seconds. Luckily, as of today, I've finished my purgatory in the oily depths of Geebung largely thanks to the fact that Rachael has started work. This means I can hold out for something a little better and take over the role homemaker for the next week!
Rachael has a job as a Group Leader at a day care centre looking after 2 and 3 year olds, she even has her own assistant to order around which is a level I can only dream of apsiring to.
Storm season has well and truly hit Brisbane. Last night I had to run down a full wheely bin in the middle of the storm as it headed out in to the main oad. Despite it raining several times a week though, and some places being flooded out we still have drought restrictions, apparently the rain has been falling in the wrong place, i.e. not in the dams. It must be the wettest drought in history!

Australia as a country seems to be extremely fond of certificates and buracratic qualifications. If you go for a job as a house painter, have never painted a house but have several pieces of paper that say you've done a course on optimum paint stroke angles and bristle types you'll get the job over someone with 20 years experience. I'm thinking of inventing a few certificates to put on my CV as a way of actually getting a job. They wont even let your work behind a bar here without several bits of paper saying you can do it. Anway, we're both completing a First Aid qualification next weekend which should help and I've applied for a couple of library jobs pretty much doing what I did in Bolton. Should be good for an interview at least.

I've also taken up Yoga which I'm teaching myself out of a book. So far I can manage, with great pain, to get one leg into place for the lotus position. Not bad for a fortnights work!

...and finally a smug note about the temperature, we're just experiecing our first summer heat wave and it's been around 35oC all week. I here it's been in the negative back in the motherland :)