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Stag and Hens

lawfordmiles — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:04:21 +0000

The calm before the storm. Or is it the storm before the calm sanctity that is (or supposed to be) marriage. Either way before we got hitched we had a couple of awesome stag and hen dos. Actually we were lucky enough to have two each. All the pics of my second one are all on facebook. (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=49881954858)

So for round one of the stag and hen, Nance blinged it up on a beautiful house boat for weekend up the Hawkesbury river. Complete with spar and enough champagne and wine to open a winery showroom, the ladies enjoyed a 3 day chug among the natural beauty of the area. To tell you the truth, the recipe of alcohol, boat, river and intoxicated ladies didn’t fill me confidence that we would ever see the wedding together. However, Nance had an excellent time and only had a couple of life threatening moments, when looking back on them do you think, ‘How did I survive that?’

My first stag do of course was a surf trip four hours up the coast to a place called Boomerang Beach. We hired a house and despite the lack of surf, we had a fantastic time. We even had a visit from a couple of naughty angels hence the last couple of pics where i’ve been stripped to my undies and got covered in source.

New York, New York

lawfordmiles — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:38:27 +0000

Sooooo… at last some time to fill in on our trip back to the uk. And first stop, New York. Firstly, New York is by far the best city Nance or I have ever visited. Was so much fun with loads to do and even though we both have never been there before, we recognised loads. We felt safe all the time even in the parks and subways at night, public transport was cheap and effective and the street grid system was so easy to navigate. We stayed at the Murray Hill inn, which was about 3 blocks from the Empire State Building. Was pretty basic, but super close to everything. I would love to do a stint living in New York to experience it as a New Yorker. Maybe one day when I’m not allow near an ocean for a year to two (god forbid!)

October thing

lawfordmiles — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:59:46 +0000

So all go for the up and coming wedding. So looking forward to it. Need to start on that tan for the Christmas fun.

We’ve been trying to get fit over here with Nance trying her hand at a triathlon and me just doing the usual, but more of it.

As you can see from the pics we’ve found a new haunt for the summer. The Manly Dam. Can’t believe it’s taken us 3 years to find it and it’s only round the corner. Ah well, better late than never.

Another great find is Narrabeen lake. We won a couple of nights in the hotel up there and was blown away with how lovely it is. Even though only half an hour up the road it felt like a proper get away. Made even better with a visit from the usual suspect, Amy, Gaz and Loz. Good times!!!

Luna Park, Bundeena and EP Launch

lawfordmiles — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:26:12 +0000

Sooo, busy busy busy. Main thing has been the launch of our long awaited EP, Orange. The launch party was excellent complete with balloons, loads of people and muchos beeros. Thanks to everyone for their support.

We also treated ourselves to a trip to Luna park, which is the fair ground on the harbour. We timed it just right so that we got sunset on the big wheel. AAARRRRrrr….. Was very pretty. Then to top the evening, we has suckling pig with Amy and the G man, which we pre ordered. If you have never had suckling pig, go out now and find somewhere that does it. Tis the best!!!

Right i is off to find some pope action as he is in town today.

http://sc1.sclive.net/12.2.1265.1006/Web/Parts/PhotoAlbum/script/slideshow.swf
[ M a r c u s ]: Luna Park, Bundee and EP Launch

The Grand National

lawfordmiles — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:00:51 +0000

The other weekend, we hosted the Grand National. Its funny how any uk event is treated with the highest of importance and done to the best of our abilities. We may have watch the race back home, or even popped a few quid on it, but as far as inviting loads of people over, laying out cup cakes, pims and hanging the union jack on the wall, people would have thought we were going over the top. We even dressed up.

I managed to grab a copy of the race on YouTube, as it was broadcast in the middle of the night here and replay it at a more sensible time.

Office on fire

lawfordmiles — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:33:11 +0000

Went to work the other day to be welcomed by fire crews, police and news teams. Our office had been taped off and there was smoke bellowing out of the office next door, which was in fact on fire. It turns out a homeless man started the fire and has been arrested. The fire started early morning and by 11am, we were allowed (unfortunaty) to return to our smoke smelling building.

Easter and Birthday

lawfordmiles — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:54:45 +0000

Easter, easter, easter, and birthday, birthday, birthday.

We’ve had an excellent couple of weeks. For my birthday, we went to Jack Johnson in concert and dined at a restaurant called Tetsuya’s, which is by far not your normal restaurant. Tetsuya’s currently ranks 5^th best in the world!!!!! And I can certainly see why. We had to book a table 6 months in advance, but was def worth the wait for the 5 hour dining experience over 14 courses. Check out gaz’s blog for some pics of the food.

For Easter, we headed down to Fingal Bay, which is a little passed Port Stephens. Basically, we surfed, played board games and ate our own weight in cheeeeese. We also drank wine, went on some beautiful walks seeing some of the best scenery so far in Oz.

Good times had by all!

Cave Odyssey

lawfordmiles — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:08:51 +0000

Wowzers, tis been a long time for a blog update. Will probably post some back track ones over the next couple of weeks if I’ve got time.

Anyways, this weekend we found ourselves in the Blue Mountains, living in a cave. That’s right. A massive sand stone cave, right in the heart of the Blue Mountains, about 1.5 hrs from Sydney. The place is called Hatter’s Hideout, and is probably one of the coolest places I’ve ever spent the weekend.

We stayed there with band and co (16 of us in the end), so you can imagine the evenings were very much filled with music. We also had about 6 drums, and a couple of Donkey Bass’s which you can see me straddling in couple of pics, which made for some epic rhythmic sessions.

We also had time for a walk to Wentworth Falls, which made for some excellent photos.

No doubt there will be a video of the fun on Gary’s site soon enough, http://g2007.com/

Christmas, Nance’s Birthday and New Year

lawfordmiles — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:12:06 +0000

So another year fly’s by. We had a good one and really ended it in style aboard a lovely boat on Sydney harbour disco sylie! Perfect clear and warm evening for the fire display and bad dance moves. Also managed to give Nance another extreme experience for her birthday, diving with sharks! Good one! Christmas was chilled with the turkey roast, drinking wine, playing the wii and hanging out with our special Christmas guest jenny t. hope you all had a great Christmas and new year and look forward to seeing you back in the UK in may!