Monday, April 28, 2008

Who's that?!

My friend, Jillian, sent me an email telling me I needed to check out her blog to guess who one of the people in some new photos was (apart from her or her husband, I presumed).

It seems with the IPL going great guns in India Jillian has bumped into an old acquaintance of hers from a previous tour to India by the Australian cricket team: Warnie!

Perhaps at this point I should point out that Jill was not a text messaging friend of Warnie's (like so many women, it would seem) but met him at a bar once, along with 'Pup' Clarke, umpire Billy Bowden and a few others associated with cricket.

Anyway, Warnie - ever the charmer - has told Jill on this latest encounter that he remembered her from several years back. Maybe, maybe not. But it looks like everyone had fun at the party.

A home

We have recently bought a house.

At present we are going through the process of filling out paperwork, organising payments, etc. Settlement is a few weeks away but things are going along nicely.

We have been looking around the area we live in at the moment but in the end found a great place over in the Sutherland Shire. So it will be a return home for me.

We wont be moving in straight away once settlement is complete as the place currently has tenants in it. We have agreed to give them time to find a new place.

Nonetheless it is very exciting and we are looking forward to the move when it does happen.

So what is the place like?

It is a duplex (a single building with two dwellings in it). We have bought one of the dwellings. Now with many duplexes around the backyards are tiny. Not in this one. It has a backyard typical of a normal house. So we are very pleased with the opportunities it offers us. The building is seven years old and needs a bit of a paint but is otherwise in great condition.

Once the place is ours we will take some photos to share on here.