Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Its off to work we go!

It's been an unforgivable long time since we updated our blog, but we have now got ourselves totally set up, and both have found great jobs!

I have found a job which is far better than I expected I would find, especially after a month of looking and not getting any offers. These things always work out in the end somehow. I am now a web developer for a company called Trinity Street. They look after online ticketing for big festivals and bands as well as online stores for their merchandise, so I am building the sites and managing the web servers and that sort of thing. The IT team is only 3 people, but the company is a bit bigger as they manage the whole ticket printing, warehouses for the merchandise, client admin type of things as well. Everyone there is really friendly. The web programming area is exactly what I really wanted to gain more experience in, so am really excited. There are some interesting technical challenges, as 60 000 000 people try and log onto their sites at once to buy their Robbie Williams tickets or whatever when they're released. So far I've been there 2 weeks, and am really enjoying it. Also both weeks I have been offered free tickets to events and music festivals, so thats definitely a little perk of the job!

Ang is working as a teaching assistance in a school for disabled kids. It's a small class of about 6 kids, most of whom suffer severe disabilities. She is definitely enjoying it, but I don't think she is as stoked as I am with my job. After the last few years of juggling an intense uni workload, hospial placements, and 3 jobs all at once, she is very much liking finishing at 3:30, and not having to think about it outside of work at all. And she does get to use her psychology experience working with learning difficulties etc.She has also recently joined a local theatre group who put on musicals and such, called the Harrow Light Opera group. We went and saw one of their shows, and they were of very professional standard! It'll be great for her to be involved in some singing and dancing (which she hasnt been able to do much of lately), and should be a good place to meet new people too.

Having some income, we can now relax a bit money-wise, and can start doing fun things. Next weekend we are off on our first trip to the continent, we're off to Denmark for the weekend. There are really cheap flights around, so it's costing us 1 pound there, and 9 pounds back again each. There are some airport taxes of about 15 pounds each way, but it's still very reasonable!

There are a bunch of people we know from home that we have now caught up with over here. It's nice to have some old friends to hang out with.The photos below are from last weekend when we went down to Brighton for the day with our friends Kath and Rosco. We had a great day, even though it's quite lame compared to any of our beaches at home! You can almost understand why the poms get so excited about their crappy icy beaches, as it was rather nice just to see the sea again.

Not bums anymore!!

Hi everyone,

HEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEE!!

We can finally announce that we are both now employed!!! Only have 5 mins left on the internet now so will post details next time. We've going out for dinner tonight to celebrate :)

Love Ang & Col.

House Pics!!

Easter Pics

Helloooo! Well, finally I have got around to posting our pics from our easter weekend in the countyside. We hired bicycles to explore the rolling hills on, and so all these pics are from our cycling adventures. We didnt seem to end up with any pics of where we were actually staying, or of our little group who invited us along on their weekend away. Thanks T and Chris for a GREAT weekend!!
We dont have huge amounts of other news - we've basically postponed doing much until we have jobs and some money coming in. Our poor savings are dwindling! The good news is that Ang has her first day of work today, so we might actually soon be able to eat again! She has some teachers assistant work - so she can use her skills to assist children with special needs in the classroom etc. Its not full time yet - but may become full time down the track.
I still dont have any lucrative job offers - but things are looking hopeful.
Hope everyone is doing well, chat to you all soon!
Col and Ang.