Thoughts And Recollections Of A Tree Spirit

Permanent Residents At Last!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

I was just discussing with Mat this morning the sending of additional visa documentation to the Visa Office in support of our residency application when, looking up from the computer where he was checking his emails, he said that he didn’t think we would need to worry about that as our visas had been granted.

WOOH HOO!!! We both did a little woop and a skip and then re-read the email to make sure we were correct. Yes, as of the 13th May we are both now permanent residents of Australia! Grats to us! Who says the 13th is unlucky?

Abercrombie National Park

I like to add pictures to my posts so here are Mat and I in the Australian bush, Abercrombie National Park, back in March. We were camping at the Sink Campsite whilst on an off-roading trip with our friends Wayland and Kirstie and my brother – very Australian :-)

14.05.2010 Personal, Pictures 12 Comments

Project 365

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

On Tuesday, as I wasn’t working in the office, I went for a brisk early morning constitutional down to the beach. Of course I took my camera with me and after getting some interesting shots of an Ibis on the walking track to North Avalon I decided today would be a good day to start my Project 365.

What is Project 365? Well, if you are frequentor of Flickr.com you may be familiar with it as it is very popular among photographers. It’s basically a commitment that one makes to take a photograph for every day of the year (and then upload it to Flickr if that’s your choice of platform). I think if you are doing it seriously then there are other rules but I’m just going to do it for me so that’s as far as I’m going.

My main aim is to improve my composition and eye for an interesting photo by regular practice. As I only have a basic point and shoot I’m not expecting brilliant photography but I figure the science behind it is something I can learn at a later date when I get a manual SLR or the like. There is no point in being able to take a physically brilliant photo if my composition is shit. A good photo is a piece of art, in my opinion anyway.

So, you can find my photostream here for now and with any luck I will be able to add a Flickr feed to this blog later so that any new photos appear in the sidebar. Shown below are my photos for Tuesday, Wednesday and today:

Grafitti Ibis

The Ibis regards the somewhat jaded grafitti and is of the definite opinion that it is in need of an overhaul.

The first photo is already explained. Yesterday’s shows my brother’s amazing and wonderfully colourful piece of grafitti art that he did for Mat and I on his visit. I wasn’t sure whether to do a closeup or include all the surrounding rubbish. I opted for including some of the rubbish as I figured it depicted our “Life” which goes with the word “Life” on the art board.

This morning, as I was finishing tidying the kitchen I heard next door’s dog, Sparky, barking in the garden. I grabbed my camera and took the opportunity to snap some pics through the chain link fence and amazingly this one came out okay. He is the cutest little terrier (not sure what type) with the biggest sticky up ears I have ever seen :-)

Life grafitti

Our life surrounding Life

Sparky the terrier

Come and play with me, please please please...

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

13.05.2010 Australian Flora & Fauna, Moggies & Doggies, Personal, Photography, Pictures 2 Comments

Server Hacked

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

The server on which this blog resides was recently hacked which meant the site was down for a day or two. Apologies if this confused anyone but as I have not been posting anything new lately and I didn’t even notice until my blog fairy informed me, I doubt it was a problem.

Consequently the theme for this blog has reverted to it’s standard look and I will have to spend a little time changing the colours back. I hope to do this today, however, as I didn’t write down the hex codes for the exact colours I used previously it might not look exactly like it did before. Well “a change is as good as a rest” so say!

I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to my awesome blog fairy for toiling away for hours to fix it, especially as he also has his own blog, a baby blog fairy to look after and many other sites to contend with.
Thank you, thank you, thank you :-)

11.05.2010 Personal, Techie Stuff 2 Comments