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Best. Engrish. Ever. Without a doubt - although closely contested by the 'Beantiful Dees' T shirt we got in the markets in Hong Kong - the first one is a T-shirt my Grandparents got Nick for Christmas and the second is a 'Care' tag from a hangbag I bought my Mum - great handbag, just beware those overweight loads of Sheng. Enjoy!

Pretty self explanatory really - a lovely new (to us at least) couch from George's parents and a nice new rug (on sale would you believe!) and we almost have a grown up lounge room - except for the AWESOME train track running aroung the rug - well, you can't have everything.
Lounge 1Lounge 2Lounge 3

Guess who's three? Nicky had a lovely day at his Bob the Builder party - and Mummy made an awesome digger cake - behold the licorice tracks, behold the youghurt coated sultana 'rocks', ignore the slightly crazed face...
A good time was had by all - espeically 'Gandad' who acted like a pied piper with thre present opening. Thankyou to everyone for coming and all the lovely gifts - we'll have to write some nice thankyou letters.

So now we can no longer use the excuse that 'you'd better be good or Santa might not bring you any presents!' - but apparently Nicky was very good as Santa was extremely generous in the form of trains, and a table and lots and lots of track! A few photos of our wonderful christmas day here - not in th least the great feast prepared by my Mum - and yes, Nicky did share it with us.
All our best wishes for a Happy New Year too!

So I recently had the luxury of spending a weekend with my friends from school in Sydney, as two of them now live there, and Lauren is the next to be having a baby. So a good excuse for a girly weekend/baby shower.

OK - so it's getting close enough, and someone is getting excited enough about 'Tanta' that we thought we would put our tree up. Just put a few pics up to try and envisage the excitement, especially as instead of an angel, we have a lovely birdy that Nicky and Daddy made - using 'man stuff' in the shed. One part Hoot from Giggle and Hoot and two parts Mighty Boosh don't you think?
A psychadelic happy Christmas to you all!

Nicky was pleased to see 'Aunty Lucy' who's out from Canada at the moment. Do you think he knows what having his photo taken is all about?
Nicky and Lucy

So - George and I have been lucky enough to have had a few nights out on the proverbial town in the lead up to Xmas etc so I thought I'd share my thoughts on a few locations; some to visit, some to avoid.
I'd steer clear of esquire on the Eagle St Pier (Sorry Julia...);purported to be one of Brisbane's first forays into molecular gastronomy but just tasted like the cooks had not actually eaten through the menu and realised that all they had done is exercised some impressive cooking techniques on a mismatched and lacklustre combination of ingredients.

Well the good news is that George has passed his final fellowship exams, so now only has time to serve until he is finally 'like a boss'. Such an enormous weight off our minds (collectively).
here's a great shot of him being 'welcomed' by the court of examiners. Pretty happy here - unlike 24 hours later - still hungoverf (but much deserved).
The bad news is that now it is my turn :-( But everyone knows you can't study unless you have new stationery - and officeworks has delivered.

So - its seems that now I am back to full time work that being overseas is the only time I have enough time to update the blog.
Currently in Lugano, Switzerland for the 11th Internation Conference on Malignantf Lymphoma, and not a bad location for a conference if I do say so myself. Happens every two years from here on in and it will be hard not to be back in 2013.
The park
The lake