I’ve been living in Melbourne now for 18 months, but 2012 marked the end of the first full calendar year in Melbourne, so it seemed an appropriate time to mention a few things I’ve learnt in this great city. It is easier for a very fat camel to pass through …
A year ago today, Darren and I arrived in Melbourne. It was cold, it was 3am, and we’d just finished driving 12 hours. Minutes before departing the Central Coast, Darren had just visited his grandmother in hospital for what was to be the last time, and the drive was one …
We passed our 3 months anniversary of living in Melbourne without much of a blip, which is what you’d expect, really. What perhaps highlighted the change for me was that just at the cusp of that 3-month anniversary, I went back to Sydney for 2 days for work. It was …
So, as of today, Darren and I have been in Melbourne for an entire month. And what a tumultuous month it’s been. Just a few days before we moved, Darren’s work of 17 years put him off, and just a few days after we moved, Darren’s beloved grandmother died. You …
So goodbye Alice in Wonderland Goodbye yellow brick road There is a difference between dreaming and pretending I did not find paradise It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting What’s been missing in my life – Jewel, “Goodbye Alice in Wonderland” We now have a house to …
It’s very likely that in 5 weeks from today, Darren and I’ll be wearily getting up, having slept on an air mattress overnight, and shambolically gathering our last remaining possessions – cats included – we’ll hop into the car and start the long drive to Melbourne. It’s a funny thing; …
It’s seven weeks today until the move. What we started planning for in terms of maybe 1-2 years, then cut down to six months, has now collapsed to less than 2 months. If we’re counting in days, you’d say there’s 50 days to go. We’ve moved before, of course. But …
Call it a comfort zone, call it a rut, or call it walking in circles. The end result is still the same. I spent years walking in circles not really looking up to see that I wasn’t going anywhere. Some choose to see me trying to get out of the …
I normally don’t make new year resolutions, but figured it was time to make a few moving into 2011: I will move to Melbourne by the end of June at the very latest. I will move the vast majority of my email from Google Mail to MobileMe. I will learn …
When I was just a little over 18 years of age, I left home and packed my things to head off to University in Newcastle. At the time, compared to Parkes, Newcastle could have seemed like the “big smoke”, but I was already aware that it was small fry to …
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