We're still here!

I have made several promises in recent weeks to update the blog, so here goes...

As was probably always going to happen, many things have got in the way of trips around Australia in recent months, but we've been enjoying our life here so as time has gone on we've made spending time with friends and family our main priority. Also we've both been working pretty hard recently which inevitably eats into time! I think it's fair to say that we're not in especially stressful work situations for the most part, so even though we're doing more hours now - 3 days and extra bits here and there for me, and pretty much full time for Andrew - we actually enjoy it most of the time. I get on very well with the people I work with and the organisation is doing some great work, so I will take away lots of happy memories and also some great experience when I finish at the end of June.

Yes, that's next month! Unbelievably, we're leaving Melbourne to head back to the UK in about 8 weeks - finalising travel details at the moment. We're very much looking forward to the next step, and to catching up with everyone in England but of course the other side of it is waving goodbye to the Aussie crowd. As you can imagine we have a sociable few weeks ahead (any excuse!) and we also have some more things we want to see before we go. That said, we will of course be back so there'll be plenty of chances in the future to be Aussie tourists again. Who knows, I might even persuade Andrew to do the Neighbours tour with me!

That's all for now, but I'm about to put up a collection of short posts about some of the things we've been up to in the past few months so keep reading...

Updates!

Finally the time has come to get our blog up to date - life has well and truly got in the way of the internet over the past few weeks! We're now having a quiet few days to catch up with ourselves a bit, so at last here are some updates for you...

We haven't forgotten...

This has to be the longest we have gone without posting so thought we should at least say hello...

We're now in Melbourne so really busy catching up with everyone, being tourists with my mum & dad, finding somewhere to live etc etc. A friend of Andrew's sorted out a car for us before we arrived which has been great. Armed with our shiny new copy of Melways (equivalent of A to Z) I'm starting to have a vague clue of where I am, despite getting used to driving with trams being quite a challenge at times!

More updates and loads of photos (including NZ and our wedding party) to follow very soon. In the meantime we really must start Christmas shopping...