Thursday, December 22, 2005

our own domain

So, we decided that instead of having 3 blogs between us that were difficult to totally customise and stuff, we would get our own domain. OK, it was mainly Graeme's decision, because he wanted to be able to do fancy, nerdy website things that he couldn't do without his own site. So, we now officially own the domain www.kateandgraeme.com Feel free to check it out, although you won't find much there yet, other than links back to here and our other blogs.

Kate

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Well, put in for an FFA Travel Package...

Hopefully the e-mail won't bounce and will get through ahead of 30,000 other people getting us a ticket to Germany!

Fingers Crossed... plus toes and eyes and ears... ;)

-- Graeme

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Germany in June

Now the draw is complete, hopefully we can get tickets. If we do we should be in Kaiserslautern on June 12 to see Australia vs Japan, Munich on June 18 to see Australia vs Brazil and Stuttgart on June 22 to see Australia vs Croatia.

Wunderbar!

--Graeme

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Yay! Socceroos Will be in Germany...

and hopefully we will be there with them next June. With a bit of luck we should hopefully be able to get tickets to see at least one of the momentus group matches. With another bit of luck I won't need to sell a kidney for us to pay for these tickets ;)

Go Aussie!

--Graeme

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

the background story

Graeme and I met in 1994 when I started going to the same high school as him. In January 1998, after being close friends for a year or so, we started going out. We finished school and went to university for a Bachelor's degree each, he as a computer nerd, me as an industrial designer. We were married in April 2003, having finished our degrees and ready to be adults :) Since before then we have talked about going to England for a couple years on a working holiday, but we kept putting it off. In 2004 I went back to uni and obtained my teaching qualifications. This made us both totally employable in pretty much any English-speaking country in the world.

I didn't get a permanent teaching job straight out of uni, for various frustrating reasons I will not go into here, but have managed to be steadily employed as a teacher for most of the year. It turns out I could have work for the future as well, but that is all null and void now, since we agreed it was finally time to just decide we were going and make the move to England.

The plan was still to just go for a couple of years on the working holiday and if we really loved it to see if there was any way of staying. So Graeme went in and told his boss. To put it briefly, he has been offered work in their London office, which means they are (hopefully) in the process of applying for a work permit. So in 11 weeks, we fly to London. We don't know how long we'll be gone, I don't know what I'll do while we're over there (probably teach, at least to begin with) and we don't yet know where we're going to live.

But we're going… and you will be able to read about our adventures here...


Kate

Friday, October 28, 2005

Sunday will be 100 days till we go

On Sunday, February 7 will be the 100th day away (making today 102 days away) and next Tuesday will make it 14 weeks till we go to London.

Graeme

...Maybe I should make a countdown... ;-)


edited by Kate to apologise for the nerdish behaviour of my husband -
Sorry

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

We have Moved

Just an update to say that we have moved over the last weekend, and now begin the wonderfully mundane task of unpacking and sorting everything we have.

--Graeme