Thinkabouting.......

Hello all,
As Steve did such sterling good work on the last blog and even managed a few laughs in it, i thought i would update you with this weeks goings on, which will take all of about three sentences.
We're still working away, this however is my last week with Ebsworths and i have decided to head up the coast to brisbane. So i leave on the 17th July and i'm gonna stay up there until mid september and then come home then via the far east and so i'll be back in beautiful belfast at the end of september (just in time for my birthday on the 8th Oct ) Steve, Sinead Emily and Niall are going to go up the coast and backpack around for a bit, i'm skint so as soon as i get to brisbane i'll have to try and find work to keep me going for the 8 or so weeks i'm there.
So at the moment its all about saving to head away and we're all really looking forward to moving on again. As great and fantastic as sydney is, its good to head off travelling again and not have to work in the morning.

Speaking of working, for the last few weeks we've been watching the world cup which due to the time difference has been played between the ridiculous hours of 11pm and 5am in the morning. Although we haven't been able to watch all the games we've stayed up through the night to watch the Aussies. Everyone over here has become soccer fans, with flags flying from cars and everyone in work chatting away about the merits of ronaldhino and how fat ronaldo has become! Last night the Italy- Oz match was on and i have to add that we were all very disappointed with the result. Australia had the majority of the possession but lacked the killer touch and someone to step forward and score therefore it was left to the dirty i-tai's with totti scoring the penalty. As we made our way to bed after 3am we were quite sad but happy that we'd stayed up to watch the match and be a part of aussie history!

AJ arrives in a few weeks, 12th july to be exact so myself and steve are looking forward to seeing him and having a few schooners of tooheys with him and the rest of the people he's with. Will be good to see someone from home and catch up with all the gossip. He's even bringing some buckfast over, so that will keep us occupied for a night or two at least, i'd imagine that after one swig we'll be on our backs as we haven't been drinking anywhere near as much as what we do at home. We'll have to get plenty of practice in as soon as we arrive home to get back to our best.

Have to say congrats to AJ and Tracy on their finals results and have a great graduation day.

Thats about it at the moment, i don't think we have anymore pics for now but as soon as we do we'll be putting them up.
Hope everyone is keeping well and enjoying the summer, we'd also like to see some more comments, We know people are viewing the site so just a quick comment would be much appreicated

Anyway take care
Marty

hi everyone. ive been pretty quiet on blogging recently. My job right now is turning into ground hog job. It was initially meant to be for 4 weeks. ive been here about 10 now. its very monotonus and boring work. i stare out the same window at the same buildings. ive learned 3 things from working in australia.

People do actually return mail to sender.

People cannot , cannot fil out application forms properly ,

and there are some crazy fuckers out there who want to be incharge of trains.

Its like they got that train set as a xmas present and the dream of some day driving or signalling that train never diminished. i pray everytime i get on a train. sydney is cold right now. wet this morning. kinda depressing. i guess you cant have everything , well for now. we're migrating up the coast for a while to brisbane/cairns direction. where its gona be frickin hot again. i like it just in the middle. just nice shorts and tshirt weather. The world Cup is going strong. so i hear. its so annoying that the matches are at 11pm 2am and 5am which means that generally your hearing the scores on the radio or tv in the mornin. lose a lil of the tension and excitment that way. i think i will be watchin the socceroos game 2moro morning tho. get up at 5am andstay up and go to work. should be fun. itll be really shit if they get knocked out at this stage.
Went to Jacqui O's house on Saturday night for their leaving do. Was a bit messy . v drunk on Colonel Quikimarts Kentucky Bourbon. But fun for all the family.

Want to wish Laura P all the best in NY. you'll do a great job and maybe we'll see you if we go through JFK any time soon.

Hi to mum and dad , Michael and Catherine. Be home soon ;O)

my brain is melted at work.

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Your always happy in a Poncho!( Even Steve can manage a smile!) At the Sydney Swans game there was torrential rain for the whole match so steve and myself had to purchase these very attractive rain ponchos to ward off pneumonia. Swans ended up losing by two points. Got the tickets for free from a fella at work, have two more for another game wohoo!

Went to the Olympic Park where the 2000 Olympics where held and rented bikes for the day, topped of with a picnic. Very nice day

Surry Hills Music Festival. Ahh nothing beats buying a cheap bottle of Bourbon at 11am and finishing it off by early afternoon. Some good music on show, especially a band called Extended Family.

Me and 'Yer Man' from Neighbours,also met Boyd will get pics of that momentous meeting up soon. Also met Toadie again (Yawn!)

Marty on the horsey things that go round and round at a fun park. Went on a ride where we went upside down and stayed there for a minute, was quite an experience, all my change fell out of my pocket, hope it didn't hit anyone!

Me and Boyd

Well its friday evening and i'm in work, only 55 mins to go. Wohoo! Its a long weekend this week so we have monday off, why is that i hear you say. Well its all because of the Queens Birthday. Never thought i'd say this , but thanks mam for having a birthday so i can have a bloody day off and have a lie in on monday morning!
Heading to luna park this evening, its a theme park with rollercoasters etc, not really the theme park man but its 20 dollars for unlimited rides plus you get a free beer so can't be all that bad. Hopefully will get some pics from it too. Tomorrow nite heading to see some Aussie rules with the Sydney Swans playing St Kilda who come from outside Melbourne. Should be a good game, got the tickets free off a bloke who comes into work to pick up old printer and photocopy toners, Got talking to him and found out hes a steward so he offered me some tickets cos i'm irish
Theres a jazz festival on sunday too in darling harbour along with fireworks so i think we're gonna go to that too.

By now Laura should be getting ready to head off to the big apple. Even though we haven't seen you in nearly nine months we're still gonna miss you laura. My advice as i've already left on Bebo is to Marry some rich yank and settle down over there and buy a big apartment so that we can come stay. Such a good plan i think. Hope you have a good time and enjoy every minute just like we're doing down under.

I also hear that badge got into a little mishap with the police Orange halls are not for relieving urself on mr bradshaw and members of the PSNI look very dimly on such matters.

Went to the casino last week (again) This time though managed to spend no money at all. Was going to play some poker with finish guy Yana but it was 100 dollars to join a table so we gave that a miss. That nite also went to a spanish niteclub. Was just like being in Central America again, oh how i shed a tear!
Dame mas gasoline, dame mas gasolina.

Talking of which Aliza is heading off to Puerto Rico in search of Daddee Yankee so hope her mission finds some sucess and she can settle down and become Mama Yankee. Also have to say a big Happy Belated Birthday to Wes, Hope you had a good one man

anyway thats about it for the moment.
Hopefully will have some more pics up soon.
Hope everyones enjoying the weather back home while we freeze in the rain over here, sods bloody law wouldn't ya know it!

Anyway be good everyone and take care
Marty

Hello Everyone.

Hope you are all keeping well. i just returned from Hunter Valley where i spent the last couple days. Had an excellent time. Went to various vineyards and winerys and sampled the local vino. Got quite tipsy by the end of the day and had a lovely woodfired pizza loaded with everything that was on offer. had beer and gathered round the fire. It was pretty cold during the night.

on the friday we went cycling into town and got stuff then came back to go fly our plane!! Best thing ive ever done i think. v weird experience. the pilot takes u up to the start of the runway , asks you to release the throttle and pull up whn u feel its right( yea right!) but it was all cool. took off and took here round to the left then right. then he took over and did a bit of mad uppey downey stuff which was cool then he said "take over for a while" (ok.. bit scared) so i did and it was v cool flying about seeing all the vineyards and the hostel. flew round for a bit then he suggests taking it into land. so i go right and right more and we line up for the runway and take in throttle and reduce airspeed and slowly come into land where he took over and guided us onto tarmac . love it.

On the Saturday we went horsey riding through some vineyards and over hills for a couple hours. Never been on a horse before so it was pretty intense.
Once i was on Percy he was a lovely lovely horse. my arse was quite sore by the end tho.

REally cool weekend relaxing and exciting and good to get away from sydney for a while. .

anyways. gona go now. back to work on monday (
take care all

steve

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