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Only 92 days…

Only 92 days since my last blog. I could give a few excuses but I won’t. To those of you that have tried to keep me honest and have encouraged me to blog via email, Facebook or even Twitter I apologies for ignoring your requests. Anyway only 92 days since my last blog here is the next installment.

Lots have happened in the last 92 days. Considering that 92 days ago was Noah’s birthday… a lot certainly has happened. I have finished (and survived) my first term at work, we’ve had a few family get-togethers, the weather has slowly began to cool down, we have moved into our own home, I have been to Melbourne for a weekend at the Formula One, the baby inside Anna has continued to grow and as we speak Noah is sleeping for the first night in his new bed!

I have been on holidays now for almost a week and am glad to have finished my first term at work successfully. I am beginning to get to grips with the NSW Curriculum (although we are about to change to a National Curriculum – so it’ll be all change again – just when I thought I’d seen the back of A Curriculum for Excellence), the Australian accent and sense of humour. I think they are beginning to get to grips with my accent and sense of humour. Although there is one boy in my Year 11 (S5) class who feels the need to continually butt in after every sentence (either from me or someone else in the class) with, “what he’s saying is….” I am slowly trying to break that habit in him!

At the end of March we moved into our new home. With the help of family, friends and work colleagues the move was quick and easy. We are very lucky to be living in a lovely little private community with 50 or so house. We have a communal swimming pool, tennis court and club house. It is a very safe little street and Noah loves to be out in the sun playing. We also have a couple of families from school living in the street as well as a couple of families from church which is great since we’ve had enough of meeting new people for the moment.

The house is great… perfect size and location for us. The only problem is the back garden… not the most ideal layout. It has chilli bushes everywhere. So if you happen to be in the area and would like some chillis then drop in and pick them up. We’ll live with it for the timebeing!

Four days after we moved into the house, I abandoned Noah and a slightly pregnant Anna to travel to Melbourne for the weekend. In my defence it had been booked since Christmas (and there was no way I was passing up the chance to go to the F1 in Melbourne). The noise and speed was immense and we’re already planning our next few trips… Melbourne 2011 and maybe Singapore 2011???

Anna has done a fantastic job of unpacking our ‘stuff’. It is very strange to see our stuff from Scotland sitting in a house on the other side of the world but nice nonetheless. Most of our stuff arrived undamaged. That which was damaged was insignificant for the most part and the insurance company seem to be happy to pay out on that stuff which is great.

So I’ll finish now with some pics from the last 92 days and an assurance that it will definitely not be 92 days until the next post. Given that it is only 49 days, 1176 hours, 70,560 minutes, 4,233,600 seconds until baby two is due, I’m sure I’ll blog again soon…..