Month: January 2005

We got back from Wilson’s Prom on Friday and still haven’t accepted the fact that the holiday is over. It was blissful!

For people who don’t know Wilson’s Promontory, it is the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland, so isn’t necessarily the first place you think of for a beach holiday, but this year we struck it lucky with the weather and had a full week of superb weather, swimming, walking and enjoying the magnificent national park.

I know when I return to work tomorrow, I’ll be sneaking looks at my photo album in an effort to hold onto the memory as long as possible.

[edit] Oh dear, looks like the DSE will be looking at my photos so that they can remember what the prom looked like before they destroyed it with a ‘controlled burn’!

…just wanna ride on my motor sickle – at least that’s how the Arlo Guthrie song went. Yes, my big new year’s present to myself is a motorbike. Not a great big prestige mid-life crisis motorbike, but a small, slightly gutless and not very exciting ‘commuter’ bike, (a Honda CB250). Still, it’s exactly what I want for my city-bound life these days. I love it. I’ll try to get to a photo sorted tomorrow. [edit: photo sorted now!]

we don’t usually do the ‘stay up to see the new year in’ thing, but this year some good food, good wine and good company kept us going along easily… and it was worth the wait.

Melbourne is pretty flat, but our friends have a second storey balcony and their house is perched on the brow of what passes for a hill ’round these parts, so we got a fantastic 180° view of about 8 fireworks displays in the city and surrounding suburbs. It was excellent! We also threw water bombs at the kids… all around a really good night. Happy New Year!