November 2009 News

2009 has finally entered the home straight! Amazing how this has year simply flew by.

Carina finished TAFE (college) or formal classes and is now only doing practical or may we call it slave labour. Amazing how the attitudes at the institute changed since they became full-time apprentices. She is suddenly very disappointed and the sad thing is that it is the old residents that suffer under these poor attitudes!

I have decided to become a Bulls supporter! Before some of you cheer and others start going for the rifle: this is the local Tea Tree Gully Cricket Club and it is a yellow bull on red background. Michael has joined the club and they play and practice on Friday evenings. Hopefully he will be able to join the U12 league next year.

Bought myself a digital SLR camera with 2 lenses covering 18-55 and 50-250mm. Long and hard decision to decide between Pentax and Canon. I had a Pentax SLR in the old film days before someone applied affirmative shopping after we moved to Edgemead and was very happy with it. I never replaced it because it wasn’t used much and film was very expensive. We later bought a Canon compact and is still very happy with it. I miss the speed of the SLR so I have taken the plunge and got the Canon EOS-450(Rebel Xsi in US) from an online store in the US (www.bhphotovideo.com), they are a few 100 $$ (20-30%) cheaper than local Oz prices. It is still a lot of money but I am looking forward to honing my skills again over the holidays.

We are camping again for a few days at West Beach here in Adelaide. Shaun and his family will join us. Carina is unfortunately working some of the days and will commute from the campsite. It is actually closer than travelling from home. I am still toying with the idea to take an additional week’s leave over that period as well. If we cannot get Michael enrolled in Sport academy for the holiday period I may be forced to take off the days that Carina is working