Monday, 18 July 2011
Saturday, 16 July 2011
A new home.
Most of you already know this, but for those few of you that only regularly communicate with me through this blog, this is pretty big news: I'm moving house.
Its a complicated story, so I'll try not to make it too confusing. One of my bestest friends, Tiani, usually lives in Hobart with her husband, but applied for a job in Launny because she was looking for work and the job was perfect for her. She got the job, which is great, but made her life quite complicated. Tiani knew that I had been thinking about renting in town for a while so she asked me if I wanted to find a 2 bedroom place with her and split the rent so that she could live in Launny Mon-Fri and go home to Hobart on weekends. That resulted in about 2 weeks of house-hunting in Launny and Tiani making a ridiculous number of trips up and down the midlands before we found, applied for, and were offered our new home.
We signed the lease, got the keys, and delivered our first couple of boxes of stuff yesterday afternoon.
Our new home is actually 3 bedrooms, not 2 so we have a spare room if anyone wants to visit us. Its a 2 storey place with Tiani's room, the kitchen, bathroom, and living spaces all downstairs, and my room and the spare room upstairs. Its almost half-way between my work and Tiani's work so we can both walk to work fairly easily, which will be a nice change from the 30min drive from Mum and Dad's. It also has a bit of garden (in a fairly wild state at the moment) and lawn, as well as plenty of parking space for the two of us.
The power doesn't get connected until Tuesday, but after that we'll be staying there and settling in. So, if you're ever in the area, swing past and come see my new home.
Its a complicated story, so I'll try not to make it too confusing. One of my bestest friends, Tiani, usually lives in Hobart with her husband, but applied for a job in Launny because she was looking for work and the job was perfect for her. She got the job, which is great, but made her life quite complicated. Tiani knew that I had been thinking about renting in town for a while so she asked me if I wanted to find a 2 bedroom place with her and split the rent so that she could live in Launny Mon-Fri and go home to Hobart on weekends. That resulted in about 2 weeks of house-hunting in Launny and Tiani making a ridiculous number of trips up and down the midlands before we found, applied for, and were offered our new home.
We signed the lease, got the keys, and delivered our first couple of boxes of stuff yesterday afternoon.
Our new home is actually 3 bedrooms, not 2 so we have a spare room if anyone wants to visit us. Its a 2 storey place with Tiani's room, the kitchen, bathroom, and living spaces all downstairs, and my room and the spare room upstairs. Its almost half-way between my work and Tiani's work so we can both walk to work fairly easily, which will be a nice change from the 30min drive from Mum and Dad's. It also has a bit of garden (in a fairly wild state at the moment) and lawn, as well as plenty of parking space for the two of us.
The power doesn't get connected until Tuesday, but after that we'll be staying there and settling in. So, if you're ever in the area, swing past and come see my new home.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The Eagles Lair
Last week at work we had an overnight field training trip. We were split into two trips so that there were enough people not away to look after all the devils. I was on the second one and it was awesome. The trip was led by Nick Mooney, who has been a hero of mine since I was a teenager, and he was an absolute legend, happily sharing his incredible wealth of field skills and knowlegde of wildlife with us all. We focused mostly of devils, of course, but the most memorable bit for me was the detour hiking up the side of a mountain to observe a wedge-tailed eagle nest.
The only bad part of the trip was catching my workmate's cold which was pretty unavoidable as we were all confined in a car for several hours each day, but now the cold has really set off my asthma and I've had to take a day off work.
The only bad part of the trip was catching my workmate's cold which was pretty unavoidable as we were all confined in a car for several hours each day, but now the cold has really set off my asthma and I've had to take a day off work.
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