Climbing the Walls. . . :)

Literally at the end of our road is a big, wall climbing facility. I've started going there with my mate Dan from work who's not long been going himself. James took me climbing in Shoreham earlier this year which was a really good first taste for it, so its wicked to have a place so near me now.
The walls are probably about 10 meters high, which is easily high enough to make me whimper like a girl once I've reached the top and have to let go to be brought safely down to earth by Dan. For those of you unfamilier with climbing, there are ropes strung from the ceiling dangling down the wall. You both wear harnesses and attach yourselves to a rope. One person climbs whilst the other person stays at the bottom and keeps the rope taut, so that you can't fall.
It's all good fun, even though it's indoors, I feel like I should be outside constantly here. I've yet to persuade Sam to come climbing, I think I'm on a losing battle here :)
I finally got round to seeing Perth Glory yesterday, Perths useless footy team. They're bottom of the league and have won only one game all season and luckily for me managed to win their second game yesterday! They were playing Melbourne Victory and yes, they've all got shite names, probably the worst being 'Queensland Roar', I wish I was joking...
$25 (£11) gets you into the ground, not a bad price, there were about 8000 or so people there, which was a reasonably full stadium and a pretty good atmosphere. There are seated and terraced sections and you can go and watch the game from almost wherever you want. The actual football isn't exactly Premier league standard, but it's ok, a few beers and the added bonus of cheer leaders during half-time made for a thouroughly enjoyable match, especially as we (I'm a Perth supporter now ) won 3-1. I managed to video the second goal for your perusal, quite a nice effort.

If anyone fancy's a chat online sometime, then download Skype from here and if we're online at the same time, we can wave and pull faces at each other via the magic of full screen video link broadband. We are often in (and online) between 9am and 12pm UK time, email me or Sam for our Skype contact info.

Perth Glory v Melbourne Victory :)

Life in Perth so far...

Yeah I know I haven't done a blog update for ages, but life gets in the way as you know. We've been getting used to life down under and its not been a bed of roses by any means, but I think its getting better. We've been in our flat for 3-4 weeks now and have started getting a few pics up on the walls and its actually feeling like home a bit more now, as opposed to an Ikea showroom / warehouse. Work is better too and for those who don't know, was a real pain in the arse to start with and still is quite a bit, but the more I think about it, the real problem is that its nursing and thats the crux of the matter. We're both doing a job that we don't like anymore and that's obviously harder to do when you've moved to the other side of the world. It's definately time to start a new career, but what?? The nurses at work are mostly very nice and we've been invited out several times by some of them. Alot of the Dr's are dicks and that's the least harsh word I could think of. They're a very old school bunch and seem to think nurses a hinderance more than 'part of the team'. I was shouted at on almost my first day for daring to pass on a message, arsehole! You can't believe the rudeness of people, we've nick-named him 'Bad Santa' due to the beard. When you're scrubbing with this particular Dr, he doesn't even say hello to you. There's another one who Sam introduced herself to saying 'Hi, I'm Sam, I'm new here'. To which he replied 'Congratulations, Well done'. Tw*t! Sam later shut a door in his face. That's work then, oh yeah every single peice of equipment is different to what we're used to, making you feel like you've never nursed before, but it has improved a fair bit since we started there.
On a positive note, life otherwise in Perth is pretty nice. The weather is glorious about 98% of the time and I winge like a proper pom if the sun isn't out constantly. We've both joined a really nice gym which is located in Kings Park, a massively gorgeous park in the middle of Perth. It's my first experience in a gym and so far it's good, I've joined mainly to get into Tennis and Squash and have my first taste of Tennis booked up for tonight, it's called 'Rusty Raquets' I can hear Flan laughing now :) I seem to have gone a bit fitness mad, I think it's something about Australia that makes you have to get out there and exercise. I've even been wall climbing, there's a climbing place just down the end of our road, you would love it James.
We've been catching up with a few people we know from Brighton over here, Sarah Dawes (Baggy) and her hubby Mark and son Evan, have been living over here for about 5 years and life seems to have been treating them very well. Also on holiday over here were Cassie and Adam from the County, we went to the Northbridge festival on the Saturday they were here. Northbridge is the suberb where we live, so it was literally round the corner from our house. They'd set a stage up in the middle of the road and had various bands on, it was fairly lame as 'festivals' go, but headlining was none other than DJ Kentaro, mental mixing man from Japan, his set was bonkers, he was virtually scratching with his tongue, really, really wicked stuff. I've posted a little vid of the start of his set, theres quite a few vid's up on Youtube of his stuff, which you will also find frequently adorning Alex's blog :)
We've been going to the cinema a fair bit too and I don't know if it's been on in the UK yet or what, but '30 Days of Night' is the scariest film since 'The Descent'. Vampire action at its most terrifying ;)

DJ Kentaro - Northbridge, Perth.



30 Days of Night Trailer.



Here's some pics of our little flat :)