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I just got an email from a friend in the UK to say that another friend of mine, Jamie Sessions, was killed in a hit and run over the weekend 🙁

Jamie and I worked together for almost 4 years in the UK and my trip to New York was taken with him.  We stayed with some good friends of his, Hugo and Megan, and if they read this then all I can say is “bloody hell” The strange thing is that he’d contacted me a month or so ago and we had been in regular contact again.

See ya Jamie.

There’s not much to say really – or maybe I’m just not in the mood…….

But the house has the framing for the second storey up!

When speaking to people I find myself saying “we’ve just come back from the UK” when people ask me what I’ve been up to over the last few years.

I was thinking about this today and it dawned on me that in two weeks we will have been back a year!

Where does the time go?

Well I got back from Sydney at about 1am Saturday and it’s rained ever since 🙁 The really annoying thing is it’s the same weather system that gave me rain for 4 straight days in Sydney! That’s right, I get the same rain twice – arrggghhh.

I won’t say much about Sydney – it was a week of training and let’s just leave it at that.

On Saturday morning when I was having my shower Max came into the bathroom to visit.  He’s been able to open the shower door for some time now but has been quite freaked out by the water.  This time though he opened the door and tried to come in fully clothed!  Vic thought this wasn’t such a good idea so I told her to undress him and let him come in.  It took him a while to settle down but once he got used to it he really like playing with the water, trying to grasp it and not quite figuring out why he couldn’t In the end I picked him up and he was even OK with the water hitting him full on the back – a very fun experience for the two of us I think

It’s taking shape

After one day of nice weather the next storm front has hit.  I’m off to Sydney tomorrow for a week and I hope the wind drops a bit. A weather station about one mile away has just recorded a gust of 182kph (113mph)!!

Cool – the slab’s down for the house!  We went unconditional today and paid our deposit so the house is ours whether we want it or not

Yay! Our first family all-you-can-dribble illness It seems that Max felt like sharing the bug and now we all have stinking colds… Thanks Boy!

The highlight of the day was buying a new toy – a nice wee Canon A70 digicam.  I’d been after a little, easy to carry camera for a while and this had $150 off! I’ll post a couple of pics when the weather lets up enough to get out. 

Speaking of weather, in my last entry I said the we were having floods.  Some friends of ours live in a small town 2 hours north of here (14,000 people) and they have had no water for 4 days now.  Not much fun when you have two small kids!  We offered them a place to stay but they ended up going to stay with relatives (getting out of town via the one road that was open!) The flooding has been bad all over the area but luckily we’ve escaped so far – and they are forecasting another 100mm/4” overnight 🙁