Taaaaddddaaaaaaa..........Yep he's back!
After an enforced absence mainly due to study, marriage, workload (yep got a job) and general tardiness I thought I had better make an appearance on this most helpful of forums.
Can I just say in my defence that whilst I haven't been posting I have been a prolific 'lurker'. I still find this forum a source of huge direction, help and more often than not inspiration as to "what are we doing for dinner tonight"
Well, where to start?
The wife and I have managed to see out our first year of wedded bliss, no seriously it has been FANTASTIC. I really am the 'lucky one'. She is quite literally the best thing to have happened to me
. Neither of us can believe that our first year has come and gone with such speed. I guess it is very true that "Time waits for no man" or should that be person in this PC world? Either way you get the point.
We have been lucky in so far as I have managed to get employment in my chosen new career - no it isn't as well paid as what I could earn if I chose to don a suit and return to the city but then I wouldn't be able to play in helicopters in the most amazing part of SE Queensland - STUNNING part of the world! All said and done, we aren't doing it so tough if honest. We have a great place in a really convenient and central part of Brissy (next to the Storey Bridge) and we have a Thermomix so all things considered.....WINNING!
We have had multiple visits from friends and family. I am convinced that they come up for the weather and the great meals that the wife and I concoct from the TMX / BBQ or a combination of both - well, there are always empty plates and practically nothing left over for me to take to work the next day so it can't be that bad........right? In fact, we have been visited most recently by both sides of the family. Mine have literally just returned to the UK and we were lucky enough to have MiL up at the same time. I am incredibly lucky as I actually get on with and indeed like my MiL (rather fond of actually!!!) and it would appear as though she doesn't mind me either (pheeeewwww!!) We had a fantastic Anzac weekend whereby I managed to drag the entire tribe out to dawn service ahead of me marching through the city. I have to say you guys and girls (Aussies) certainly do Anzac day very (VERY!!!!!) well. I must admit I think it gets a better attendance / turn out than Remembrance Day (not easy for me to admit!
).
Anyway, I digress. I guess I should post pictures like I promised.....all that time ago.
For those interested, we were incredibly fortunate in so far as MiL has a house on the NSW S Coast and we got married there. When I say it is on the beach I do mean it is on the beach......with the exception of some grass, a few trees and the obligatory sand there is NOTHING else. Very Very lucky indeed (for us).
Hope you are all well and apologies again for being so absent!
TTFN
RC (and Mrs)
