Stuff...

...no, really, I mean stuff!!

When we came home earlier in the year, between work, meeting people for meals, coffees and drinks, and shopping, we also managed to pack up most of our remaining belongings to get them sent here. We didn't actually do the packing ourselves- thank god! We used a shipping company that offered a full service - this meant it took 3 guys about an hour and a half to pack about 20 boxes/ parcels including our old sofas!





When the stuff arrived, nearly 3 months later, we had forgotten what we had sent - so it felt like Christmas had come early! At this end it took 2 guys less than an hour to unpack everything... its taking a bit longer to get stuff put away though!!
A lot of the stuff we sent over was homeware - a lot of kitchenware to be honest!





By the way, this isn't a strangely taken picture... one of the delivery men was a GIANT!

This picture is especially for my mum and my aunty as I know it will make them proud of me!

Although we have been calling Sydney home for a while now, having all our stuff here is another step towards this being permanent!

Bye for now

Football fever!

Well, watching World Cup games at 4.30am certainly seems to have more disadvantages than advantages!
We watched the England v USA game at Cheers bar in the city. With about 200 England fans, 30-odd Americans had no hope of out chanting us - even with the 10 random Scottish guys who were there just to annoy the English!! Here is a video that Julia took of the rowdy behaviour (look out for my boob shot at the end!).
The following week was the first of my meat raffle wins at our regular Tuesday pub quiz night (I have won the meat tray two more times since!) So we had a few people over for a bbq and then headed over to Darling harbour to FanFest to watch the Socceroos v Ghana... ok so that didn't end particularly well for the Aussies, but it was a great atmosphere anyway!

Its been a real struggle to watch games as the earliest ones were 12.30 and some were 4am! I guess thats the silver lining to England's RUBBISH World Cup!
So Londoners, fear not, assuming England qualify for Euro 2012, we will try and be home to watch it there rather than here!

Bye for now
Kunj x

Wheels and visitors

We have a car!!
It all happened quite suddenly, but within a week of our first test drive, we drove home our new car!
The idea is that we are going to see more of Sydney, and eventually Australia... we will keep you updated on that ..!


May is also Sham's birthday month, and this year, he had his best friend Ajay and his cousin Asha and her hubby Nik here to help him celebrate! We partied like we were 21 even though it was the tenth anniversary of Sham's actual 21st! The night ended in the same way lots of Sham's birthdays tend to - with him being asked to leave! Luckily for us, we were near the infamous Pancakes On The Rocks, so we managed to get fed before getting home.


We had a lovely breakfast the next morning cooked by Nik and Ash - just what we needed!



Having visitors here gave us an excuse to do all the touristy things that we haven't done for a while. We went back to Manly for the day - this was the first time I have been there since we moved last October!



It was really nice to have people from home here and it was sad to see the kids go!
There are no visitors booked yet... no pressure guys, but who is coming over next?!