Number One

Finally started our blog. I was going to start one when I moved to Kowanyama in mid 2003, but never got around to it.
Well here it is, a great resource to write stuff in, add photos and generally keep posted anyone that is interested in our progress/travels.
So I hope the postings are informative and enjoyable.

We have moved into a town called Barking in the Essex county, it is zone 4 on the London underground. We moved there so my missus could do supply teaching in Essex - she got the contract before we left Oz so our choices were limited. This is the closest we could live to London while still being close to her schools.
For a laugh, do a search on google for Essex girl or Essex boy
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=essex+girl&btnG=Search&meta=
There are lots of funny jokes about them.

Barking is a very multicultural, cosmopolitan place. That's what I keep telling Meredith anyway. When I tell English people we live in Barking they generally say "What the **** are you doing living in that **** place!" and that's the civilised responses.
Meredith was talking to a local Barking guy who noticed her Aussie accent and when she told him we lived here he said "What the **** are you doing living in this **** place!
So that's Barking.

We think we are the only Aussies in this area, sort of like pioneers I suppose.

Cheers from the 2 mad Aussies in Barking.