Our News

It’s been a long time since we’ve added anything to our website, so many things have happened in the last year! So, before we start blogging again I’d better give a brief update of the last year

• We went to our friends wedding in Norfolk and had a good, albeit long, day - it takes a long time to drive around Norfolk as there aren’t many main roads!
• A dental technician job in Berkshire became available, and Dawn interviewed for this - and got the job. So at the end of August we moved back to the Reading area!
• A few weeks after we moved back, I began an office job in Reading with unusual hours (6.30am-1.30pm). Very recently I found out that a colleague of mine there was also a guest at the wedding in Norfolk we went to - bizarre!
• We had Christmas together, and were at my parents for Boxing Day. Fortunately the winter was not that bad this year as we discovered that the electricity needed to run this flat is hideously expensive - especially as it has a water pump due to low water pressure, and electric storage heating
• After 5½ months of the very early starts (I’m not a morning person!) I decided to move on, and got a temp job for a while
• For our 2nd anniversary, we went to Brussels for the weekend! We travelled with Eurostar via the channel tunnel, and had a great long weekend.
• Dawn had her gallbladder removed recently (you may remember her mentioning it before)
• We’ve given notice on our flat, and need to move out by 25 June!
• We’re also currently working on Dawn’s visa applications - for permanent residency, followed by naturalisation (citizenship). She needs to do a “Life in the UK” test before applying for the permanent residency, and this is being taken in 2 weeks time.

We’re currently not sure of what the near future holds for us, but we both feel that it’s time to move again We have a few ideas spinning around, and will have to very soon make up our minds - possible mission opportunities, maybe just a move closer to Dawn’s work, maybe something else - we’re just not 100% sure right now. Some people don’t like plans changing all the time, but really it just makes things funner

Oh, and of course the final thing to say is - welcome to our new website!! Yes, I’ve finally got round to making some slight changes to the over-all design, and altering how we publish photos. Currently the website contains pretty much the same as before, but we may add new sections as we go along. Also, our news blog has an Atom 1.0 feed so people who want to keep up with our whereabouts etc can subscribe via their browser or feed program.

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We’re now both working in Reading - Dawn is working at a store, and I have a temp job doing data entry. Hopefully after Christmas something else will come along for both of us, but right now we both have an income at least!

The house in Brisbane is now sold, well the settlement date will be next week so it’s pretty much there! Julie (Dawn’s sister), and the parents-in-law have been busy sorting out the house ready for it to change owners. This is good news, as we’ll be able to use some of that money to pay off credit cards and maybe put towards a new car or something, and put the rest into savings for some point in the future. We’ll also be in a position to put a good deposit down on a house in the future if we decide to do that, in whichever country we end up at that time.

I might get round to putting more wedding photos onto the website soon.. I have been changing websites round recently, as I’ve decided to stop hosting them for people next year. This website has changed host again, and should stay with them for quite some time now.

Christmas is almost here, and it’s got cold recently. This time last year we were getting ready to go to Albania - both of us would really like to go back there. I can still hear in my mind all the musical fairy lights that the Albanians had playing constantly (at least when there was an electricity supply), and therefore were beginning to sound very out of tune!

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Well, I asked Rob the other day to put photos of the paintings that I have done in the last month or so on the website, and lo and behold, it is done already! He is a machine! I know that my family and Claire will want to see them, if noone else. One of the paintings is of the 12 apostles in Victoria, and Rob’s mother informed me last night that one of them has collapsed! So now there are only 7 (ironically there were only ever 8 in the first place!!) So I guess my painting will have new significance.

Anyway, other than painting and searching for jobs, life is pretty normal. We have both applied for jobs in the area of Sheffied but now we must just wait to hear back to see if we get interviews. The waiting is annoying! If anyone who reads this thinks of it occasionally, could you offer up a little prayer for us??…

I would also like to use this opportunity to thank all the people who have posted entries on our guestbook. The response has been awesome! I really have been overwhelmed. It is so nice to just read a few lines and know that people have taken the time to keep in touch. Anyway, I have rambled for long enough. Take care all who read this, and know that I think of and pray for lots of you!

By the way, I really like the new format of our website!

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