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One of the things I have enjoyed over the last few years is traveling to Australia. I have the majority of my family over there and so far have been 4 times, I have 2 cousins and an Aunt and Uncle who live in Perth and I have a half sister and her children who live in Brisbane. I love it so much I now consider it to be my second home and somewhere that I will one day go to live in, be that in the next few years or when I retire.
Until my cousin went there to live I had never given Oz a second thought, the only thing I knew about it really was gleaned from neighbours and the sullivans.
That first trip over was the start of a love affair, the country, the weather, the people, all were fantastic and I can think of no other place that I would really miss if I could never go again. The other thing with traveling to Oz is the ability to fit other countries in on your way either too, or back from it. So far we've only stopped at Singapore for 3 days last time we went, which was last march but the plan is now to try and do a different country everytime we fly, Hong Kong is next on the list, we've been through it on our way to Oz once but never stayed so that's a must do.

Whilst in Oz we've been to Brisbane and Sydney, sydney being my favourite city so far, It's fantastic and if you ever have the opportunity I fully recommend it, Nothing can prepare you for the excitement of seeing the harbour bridge and opera house for the very first time. It really was a magical experience and one that I long to repeat, I could have spent all day travelling around on the ferries alone, but the Gardens and beaches were incredible also, the food is excellent, nothing beats sitting in the front terrace of a restaurant on the rocks in the harbour looking at the opera house as the sun sets, fantastic.There is so much to talk about that I am going to tell more of my adventures in future posts, so, bye for now :)

So, today I had one of the most frightening days I've ever had as a postie, I had just delivered a parcel to a house and jumped on my bike, rode of to the next house, straight into a swarm of bees, not just some bees, hundreds of thousands of them, and that is no exaggeration. I quite literally dropped my bike and ran. I have never seen so many bees in one place, the whole street was, well, swarming. I don't like bees, I love honey but hate the little buggers that make it. Fortunately I didn't get stung, which is just as well because if I had I don't think I'd have made it out, I believe that once you get a bee angry him and all his little mates have a go, and quite frankly, there were so many I'd have been exceedingly lucky to get away with just a few stings.

Anyway, attack of the killer bees aside, another fairly ordinary day :) I still have a cold and it's not getting any better, but y'know, we muddle on bravely, I'm such a trooper :)
Playlist for today.

This blog seems to be going fairly well so I figure it's time to give a little background about myself.
I live in Norfolk, have done now since I was about 2, I was born in Sunderland but the whole family moved south about '71. For the most I love it round here, it's not exactly excitement city but after the initial teenage years where all you want to do is party and chase girls I've settled down into a lovely quiet country family life.
2 cars, both VW's, 3 cats and 1 daughter, not necessarily in that order :) For a job I'm a postman, mostly in the village where I live, occasionally in the town about 7 miles away from here, I much prefer the village walk I do as opposed to the town one, it's quieter and less stressful for a start.
I used to live in the town but moved to the village about 18 months ago and I can honestly say as far as I'm concerned it's one of the best things I ever done.
within 2 weeks of moving here this was the view from my window :)
So, I think that'll do for now, there's much more to tell, but not enough time tonight so I'll leave you with today's playlist which is not one of my own, but one that I have borrowed from someone else :) Enjoy!

Well, another beautiful day in good old blighty, it really makes you glad to be alive on a day like today. Village life is good, in fact, it's brilliant. Huge amount of excitement today when there was a gas leak in one of the local pubs, 2 fire engines turned up. It was like something of the tv, or so you'd have thought judging by the amount of excitement it created, so in tribute, today's playlist.

No playlist today, I've been up the hospital all day with my daughter so that she can have a blood transfusion, it's a regular occurrence, she has Diamond blackfan anaemia so she has to go through this about once a month.
Anyway, it's been a lovely day again, weather wise, but not much else has occured, here's a little piccy I took last week when the wife and I went for a walk in the local woods.

Cor! What a lovely day, the sun is shining, birds are singing, it's a wonderful day. Better than yesterday by far, it wasn't 'orrible or owt, just very cold where I was, up on the north norfolk coast.
Still, had a nice day and all but I wish it was like it is today then it would have been glorious, anyway, because it's so nice I thought a nice cheery laid back playlist for today, a little bit of reggae/ska.
Days like today make me glad to have the job I have, being a postman on days like this really is excellent, especially in a small village where it's quiet as well. I've been doing this job for nearly a year now and I can honestly say it's the best thing I've ever done, I used to work in a chicken factory and my God, it was the most tedious godawful job anyone could have, how I stuck it out for as long as I did I'll never know, I'm so glad to have got out of there.
Life is good, really good at the moment, we've just ordered a lovely conservatory for our house and all going well it should be in in about 4-6 weeks, I can't wait, it's massive and it's going to be so nice to be able to sit out in it in the evenings watching the world go by. Time for a nice cup of tea I think, more later :)

Had a great day out yesterday in London, took a break from the norm and did a couple of different things, normally we do the shopping thing and trawl around covent garden and neal street and the like, but for a change yesterday we went to the Tate modern and then the V+A museum, neither of which I'd done before.
The Tate was a complete shock to the system, never really taken in any modern art before but I thoroughly enjoyed it, can't say I totally understood what most of it was about, but I still came away with a feeling that I had in some way become slightly more cultured than before. The V+A was awesome, we didn't even get around half of it so there's scope there to go back real soon and see the rest of it, some incredible exhibits in there.
Anyway, My last day off today, back to work tomorrow, for one day anyway, then it's the 'weekend'. So, some good mood songs, a shortish playlist today, a few tracks to keep the mood up:)
Ciao.

I have a keen interest in photography, however my actual skill level is probably less than good. What I consider a good photo probably leaves a lot to be desired, so with that in mind anything I post on here is open to criticism, but please, be gentle.
The first shot I'm putting up here is one that I consider to be pretty well near my best shot so far and the funny thing about it is the original leaves a lot to be desired, I just happened to be bored and started messing about with it and was very pleasantly surprised with the end result.

I have discovered Spotify. What a revelation,











every day it gets better and better, for anybody not in the know it's a completely free, (unless you choose to pay) music player, with just about any tune by any band you can think of, there are exceptions of course but more and more tunes are being added all the time.
The aspect of this whole thing that gets me all excited is the ability to share playlists
,, think about it, bored, want something different to listen to, go to one of the many different spotify list sites click on a list and et voila, new music, maybe something you've never heard of before or an old favourite you forgot about.

Anyway, that's enough harping on about that, The aim of this blog is to put up some of my playlists of music that I enjoy,and maybe give a little bit of background as to why I've chosen those songs or the relevance of the list as a whole, they may be lists I've created, or I may well share other peoples lists, whatever. If anybody has a list they'd like to share then feel free to add it, the more the merrier. So, without much further ado, here be one.

Superstylin' , created by me, the first playlist I created, so a historical moment here folks, no particular reason for the tunes on this one, they were just the first tracks I found as I was stumbling my way around.