Rum & Dal

We did it, one whole year and what a fantastic year it has been.  Managed to get good jobs within weeks of landing made some good friends and our house is well under construction.

Yes that’s right; we have been here for one year today. The year has sailed past with no major glitches.  There have been high points and low point, but not so many of the low.  Many of you thought we would be back in six months and I bet you thought we were back for good when we turned up last Christmas, but that only encouraged us and made us stronger, we truly believe we made the right decision.  Though we miss everyone back in the UK the webcam is only a switch away.  Will we ever come back home, who knows; the adventure has only just begun.

We have been lucky enough to make some great friends, friends from Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Germany, Philippines, China, and many more; sharing their stories, culture and food.

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Its Sunday morning and Dal and I are a bit worse for wear. Well what do you expect? We went on a bender the night before. The occasion? Was there one? We just need an excuse these days. Oh yeah… we went to Kate’s birthday bash, her Hen night and Gerald’s Stag. These two love birds are getting hitched sometime soon. However the guest of honour was James, Gerald’s best friend from London. Many jokes were told, piss was taken out of others and pints went down smooth in the 35°C heat. Plenty of fun was to be had and it felt like we were home with our British/English friends and mostly the British sense of humour was on form.  Sitting in the Riverland pub on the edge of the Yaara River

Grand Prix morning, Dal and I met up with G and James, at the Transport pub at Federation Square… but where else. It’s about two in the afternoon and the sun is steaming and baking us in 41°C  this is one of those times you wish you brought a spare pair of undies. The crack of my ass was steaming.

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Took a trip to the Royal Melbourne Zoo on the weekend as it was a bank holiday and the sun was out.  In fact it was around 35°C and we were worried that the animals might not be moving around much.  How we were wrong, they were shagging and all sorts…  nah nah just kidding.  The lions were roaming; one was chomping on a piece of meat while another just continued to roar. There was a Puma that just continued to walk around in the same circle, over and over… made you dizzy just looking at him.  The monkeys were fun, one Orangutan looked like he was about to throw up over the side while the other had wet a towel, draped it over his head and was sound asleep under the burning sun.  Still haven’t seen a Koala yet, it was just too hot for the little guys I think.  The kangaroos were sitting under trees enjoying a cool drink.

Watched a young lady get over excited at the site of a peacock, she wouldn’t leave the poor thing alone, the peacock was to fast for her and she never got her photograph.  It was fun to watch her chase the peacock around the park and shouting to her friends to quickly take a picture, at least that is what I think she was shouting.  Classic photo time incident.

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Hi everyone.

If your looking for the activation code for your ford stereo then you’ve come to the right place.  You will need the code for your stereo if  you are reinstalling it or you had a flat battery.  Ford service centre are more than happy to help, oh! and they will charge you for your code.

I wasn’t about to do that, so I searched the net but to no avail.  Finally I came across a little program that calculates your stereo code once you have popped in your radio serial number.  This program worked for me, I hope it works for you guys too.

Firstly I only have the software for A, L, C and M series stereos and I have only used the M series software .  If you have any problems or you can’t get this software to work sorry I won’t be able to help you.  I found this through a torrant site, downloading and install at your own risk.

A huge congratulations to Mick and Dee on the birth of a beautiful baby boy on the 2nd March, which for those of you have forgotten was Mothering Sunday, which makes him that little bit more special.  I tried to calculate the probability of having a baby born on Mothering Sunday and got as far there is one in seven chance of it being born on a Sunday and one in twelve of it being born in March..  Pally you are always quick of the mark with these ones… help me out.

Amrit Singh Rai was born at 00:25 hours and weighed a super 8lb 2oz.  Both mother and baby are doing great and we hope to see more pictures of the happy family soon.  Ladoo have already been passed around in Manawali, India to celebrate and I do believe the Rai’s has a Triple S (Super Saturday Session) this week.  Let us know how that went, sorry we weren’t there.

Well done guys, enjoy the late nights and dirty nappies that your little bundle of joy will be giving you.  Will this little guy be a doctor, lawyer or engineer?

There is a beautiful and convincing explanation given by the Chinese…..

Thumb represents your Parents
Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
Middle finger represents your-Self
Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
& the Last (Little) finger represents your children

Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back
Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip
(As shown in the figure above)

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