Daylight Savings

Daylight Saving kicked in on Sunday morning and we are now 11 hours ahead of the UK. Whilst the nights draw in back there we are now only a month away from Summer. I got off the ferry this evening just after 7pm and it was light. It won't be long before I'll be home in time to go for a swim or a surf after work.

Anyway.

It was only a matter of time until we bought one of these.....















Paperwork aside, does this mean we are now "Aussies"?

It certainly looks the part and it costs the bucks but I reckon we will got our moneys worth. I'd wanted one of those huge BBQs but we had to take the space on our balcony into consideration. I fired it up for the first time on Saturday. After yet another quality Friday night out in the City bacon sandwiches were the order of the day and what better place to cook them up than on the new BBQ on the balcony in the sunshine. You've all seen pictures of the view from our balcony but thanks to the joy of You Tube (just brilliant for the football highlights that I'd otherwise miss) I was able to take a publish this for you to see - unfortunately the quality would have been better if I'd had my camera on a different setting.

The BBQ is great and very convenient to use. After we'd eaten we both went for a swim (well you would, wouldn't you?) before heading out to buy a quality mask and snorkel each. H bought me mine for my birthday and we are planning to use them off Shelly Beach as soon as we can. We are both thinking about getting back into the Scuba Diving as well.

Saturdays here are very different to the UK. Back there I used to play football in the morning and lie on the sofa all afternoon and watch the football results come in. Unfortunately here is none of that here. Instead I went for a surf (nice!) and H headed to Bondi to see Will. James, Will's flatmate, headed to Manly to hang out with me. We ended up going round a friends house (Damian and Katie's) to play poker and eat Thai. I lost $30. I haven't really played for cash before - except a few dollars online - and it was a good night, even though I lost both games.

James stayed over on Saturday night and I fired the BBQ up on Sunday morning for more breakfast in the morning sunshine. I took this.

Damian came round shortly after in his new car.....















.....and took us to play golf. Shotgun! I used to play a lot of golf but haven't been onto a course for at least seven or eight years, and it showed. Shooting 56 shots over 9 holes is rubbish, but that was by no means the worst score of the day so you can imagine how much we hacked our way around the course. All the holes were tree-lined and all you could hear was balls smashing into trees all over the place.











































Nice swing James.....















So it was another great weekend here in Sydney. And the week got off to flyer this morning when I managed to buy a few tickets to see this band. Tickets sold out in twenty minutes.