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Yet another Labour Day public holiday missed because of travel to Australia.  I worked out that I have had one Labour Day public holiday in the last six years because I’ve worked for companies based in Australia and they don’t have the same holidays and seem to organise things for this week

Here’s what I’m up to over the next month:

• Sunday 26th October - Fly to Sydney for a sales conference in the Hunter Valley
• Thursday 30th October - Fly back home
• Wednesday 5th November - Fly to Sydney with Vic to watch the Phoenix play
• Saturday 8th November - Fly Back home
• Thursday 13th November - Fly to London
• Sunday 16th November - Fly from London to Prague for a technical conference
• Thursday 20th November - Back to London for a few days
• Monday 24th November - Fly from London to home
• Wednesday 26th November - Get home! yay!

Phew………

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In the last 3-4 months I have been flying relatively little and most of that has been international.  I’m sitting in the airport lounge at the moment waiting for a short, 35 minute flight to Nelson and the barista remembered what coffee I drank and even that I take one sugar.

Seeing that I haven’t used her services for at least three months and that she must make a couple of hundred coffees a day that’s pretty damn impressive

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So I’m in Melbourne this week and it’s been raining on and off with some high winds (just like home really :))  I was walking from the building that my course was in back to the hotel and had to walk along the banks of the Yarra river.  Rain plus high tide ensured that my walk was somewhat disrupted……

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While Vic and I were in Sydney a few weeks ago and on a harbour cruise one of my colleagues was wandering around taking photos. He then put them up on a server and I spotted this one of Vic.

I reckon it’s one of the most natural and beautiful shots I’ve ever seen of her…..

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How cool is this? Melbourne airport’s website has a live “radar” view of all flights coming into and going out of the airport so you can see exactly how your flight that you are interested in is getting on.

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Hello from Melbourne. As is usual I awoke at silly o’clock on my first day in Oz and this time decided to get out and about early to get the blood pumping. I was out of the hotel at about 6am and thought I’d take a few photo’s.

These are all handheld at very slow shutter speeds and edited (well, resized) on my work laptop so I have no idea what they really look like.

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I’m sitting here on Saturday after watching the Hurricanes lose in the semi-final of the Super 14 thinking that I should really start packing.  I’m off to Melbourne for a week tomorrow and have a full day planned from 09:30 until I get on my plane at about 15:00 so don’t have a lot of time to pack in the morning.

Unfortunately I still have to:

• Sync my iPod
• Make sure I have some books on my Sony reader
• Make the bed
• Pack
• Decide whether or not to take my 30D and if so what lens to take (probably my 28mm)

Oh well better get off my chuff.  Have a good week everyone and I’ll twitter if I can

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Hello from the lounge at LAX

Sorry there hasn’t been an update while I’ve been here (I got here 14 hours late) but my week has been mucho filled with training sessions, meetings and copious amounts of drinking….

I was looking through the photos on my camera and came across this one. Max had a party a couple of weeks ago that had a pirate theme. Naturally Elliot wanted to join in

Update to follow (probably)

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