Brog Blog

Every year about this time Canberra is infested with beetles that mate then die.  This morning I heard on the radio what these little beetles are called. Now fair warning this is the real common name and not a joke at all. The “Cockchafer“, yep you read right, beetle is a member of the Scarab [...]

Firstly, as you know, we are moving to a bigger house with the same rent.  So this week we are doing all the organising… you know phone, power, internet etc. First the good. we get to keep the same phone number we get to keep the same postcode we are closer to my daughters school [...]

Got this in the mail today. You are running late for work yet you still arrive before 9am. You can see your breath in front of you at 7:30pm INSIDE THE HOUSE. You can’t walk through a mall without greeting 10 aquaintances. You RARELY go to the coast (and come back as red as a [...]

Yesterday our family and some good friends of mine, Jase & Bec, went to Cowra for the Cherry Blossom Festival. We had a great day and took lots of photos. Cowra was the location for a POW camp in WW2, holding Japanese captured by Australian Soldiers. After Peace in the Pacific Cowra became the centre [...]

Ok today was an interesting day, started as usual driving to work. Like most people, I have to be careful of other traffic and pedestrians, however this morning I had to give way to a kangaroo as it crossed the road in front of me. Lunch time saw me drive to the city to have [...]

Well as you can imagine things have been a little hectic. I have started work, the kids have started school and Dani has already put her name down to help tuckshop and the P&C. Only got my broadband back yesterday, man talk about withdrawal. Work is crazy as usual, but at least I am busy. [...]

Ok we have just arrived in Canberra. Very good trip, long tiring but now complete. We are collecting the keys to the house tomorrow and our furniture arrives on Friday. I will post up some more information after a sleep.

Ok well things that have been on simmer for a while have come to the boil. I have been offered and accepted a new role and promotion down in Canberra. This means that in the next 2 – 4 weeks I am going to have to pack up the whole family and move them. So [...]

Ok now this is not about my relationship with my wife (that’s actually going very well, thank you very much), I am getting frustrated with the lack of response from parts of the company I work for. I can’t go into details (don’t want to have to write one of those “I’ve been fired” posts), [...]

Well another year has passed and here in Australia we are just about to celebrate our great country. Now before you get the wrong idea, I am not a raving patriot, I don’t believe we have the greatest country in the world, I don’t think we can’t improve and I don’t think we have nothing [...]

Ok so I am back in Canberra for a week. Getting to grips with some more work I have to do down here and as usual it looks like there is enough work to last months. After this week I should have an ongoing plan for the next 3 months at least and from that [...]

Ok down here in the southern hemisphere it is spring time. Now this is the time of year that Canberra shines! So have a look below. Flickr Canberra

As you can see from Dani’s post, I am away again. This is my second last week away, before a few weeks holiday and then work in my home city. It has been so long since I have worked for a project within my normal field, in my home city I can hardly imagine it. [...]

Well in a day or so I am off to Canberra for another months worth of work. This will be my last trip, before starting on a new project in Brisbane. As usual I will keep you all posted.

Ok so some idiot decided to refuse a security check at the airport and evade the security guards. So myself and about 400 people have to wait at least an hour while the security guys and a dog confirm he did not take a bomb through. …. shithead.