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As of today, Mat and I have been together exactly a year as it is the anniversary of our first date.

Just seven days after we met for the first time (up a walnut tree) Mat asked me to go to the cinema with him. We went to see The Bourne Supremacy in Stroud after going for a little off roading over Minch Common and one year on we have decided to celebrate by going to see The Dark Knight at Warriewood cinema. After this we are going to go to our favourite Mexican restaurant, Tex Mex, in Mona Vale.

It has certainly been an eventful year. After spending just ten glorious days with Mat I made the decision to follow him to Australia and here we are still madly in love and having fun. It has not been without its ups and downs but I don’t have any regrets and look forward to spending many more years together, with many more adventures.

After doing a trial day on Friday I officially started my new job today with a small garden maintenance business in Mosman.

Over the last three weeks I applied for a lot of jobs, mostly admin and accounting type roles, and I was beginning to give up hope as nobody was replying to my applications. However, last week it all went a bit mad and, like buses, I suddenly found myself with a few to choose from. I was offered two office jobs in Chatswood, which is a nasty place to get to in rush hour, then an agency I had signed up with started coming up with more jobs to put me forward for. After a lot of umming and ahing I finally decided to ditch the office altogether and turned down the first two in favour of gardening.

I wasn’t sure whether I had actually got the job until yesterday as Graham, who’s business it is, had a few more people to try out. It’s long hours as I meet the crew at 7am and don’t finish until 5pm but the people are sound and I don’t have to spend all day humping great big logs around like I did at Plateau.

Saying that, today was hard work as I had to help dig up a load of Bamboo roots and then dig a trench to put metal sheets in, to prevent the Bamboo from spreading again. There was just me and another lad, Beau, and by the end of the day I was about ready to drop. My muscles are certainly going to ache tomorrow and I shall sleep very well indeed. It feels good to be working again though and nice to be outside instead of stuck in an office with permanent air-con (which I’m sure is what was causing my allergy as since leaving Plateau’s office my nose has been fine).