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What is Scotty.com.au? – A personal web site that we use to keep distant family and friends up to date. There are thousands of photos to view, but to do this you will need a password.
Latest Update – Sunday 7th March 2010
It has been an unusually long time between updates to Scotty.com.au, those of you with young children will no doubt understand why. Isabella has been walking for the last few months, we were both eagerly awaiting this milestone and it is great to see her toddling all over the house, the downside of course is the fact that most of the time our house now looks like it has been turned over by burglars. Every weekend I spend a couple of hours child proofing the house even more, first it was locks on the cupboards and drawers as her favourite pastime was emptying the contents of both all over the house. Now we are up to the stage of bolting the bookshelves to the wall, seriously.
We spent three weeks back in Tasmania over Christmas it was very nice catching up with everyone while we were there. We spent time in Launceston, Swansea, Hobart and Bruny Island.
Belinda’s wedding celebrant business, Bell’s Weddings, is going fantastically. We spend a lot of our weekends at all the scenic spots around Brisbane marrying people. I am her ‘roadie’ setting up the PA equipment and carrying all the heavy stuff. Everyone is always so happy and excited at weddings and that is a bit contagious, so it makes for a very enjoyable day.
Sadly Belinda recently said goodbye to her much loved Celica. Two doors and an ever growing baby are not a good combination. Despite her angst about changing she is now very happy zipping around in a much more practical Mazda 3. The Mazda 3 is blue (of course) and it is just like Belinda has bought the new version of the Mazda 323 that she had when we first met.
Speaking of when we first met, we celebrated our tenth anniversary as a couple recently. Instead of buying each other presents, Belinda organised for us to spend the weekend in Banglow near Byron Bay. We stayed at a small place called Summer Hills, it was a very nice location, our room had its own private spa on the deck overlooking the lush green valley below. The Bangalow market was on the same weekend and we had a great time wandering around the market buying yet more plants for the garden.
The home renovations have slowed down a lot since Isabella was born, in recent months I have spent a lot of time trying to improve the drainage around the house, still a lot more digging required with this though. I also painted the roof, it had previously been an odd baby blue sort of colour which didn’t really suit. Luckily I had the help of Dad’s heavy duty spray gun, I managed to put 30 litres of paint on the roof within a few hours, it would have taken days without the spray gun. It is hard to believe that it has been over twelve months since Dad died, we spent a lot of time painting together over the years and I actually feel quite close to him when I paint, almost like he is still there giving me instructions on how to do it properly.
My work is going really well, although still quite volatile the sharemarket has picked up a lot from its lows and I am quite optimistic looking forward. Belinda’s work has also improved, although it can be hard juggling work and looking after a baby at times.
Update from Wednesday 22nd July 2009
Recently we all headed off to Fiji for our four year wedding anniversary and our first overseas family holiday. We stayed on the main island this time and had a hire car so that we could tour around and see some of the real Fiji. Before we left I spent ages trying to obtain Fiji maps for my GPS or a paper roadmap, it turned out to be totally unnecessary as there aren’t that many roads over there, you are either heading clockwise or anticlockwise on the main road that circles Viti Levu. We stayed at the Warwick Hotel which is about half way along the Coral Coast. The Fijians are all incredibly friendly, they were constantly asking to hold Isabella who loved the constant attention. We had been trying unsuccessfully to teach Isabella to clap for quite a while, one night we went to a Polynesian show, at one point the native warriors asked the crowd to clap along, it was at this point that we looked at Isabella and realised that she had suddenly become an expert clapper and was enthusiastically clapping away and flirting with the warriors.