Pat in Perth

Not sure if you have seen this yet, but my mom has a blog too: http://suzukipat.blogspot.com/ and yes, I am robbing a lot of her pictures for my blog.... 

The Black Velvet Band

Heres Jane, Adam and Me (with a questionable bow hold) playing our weekly gig in the Jarrahdale Tavern. Nice Irish bar in the middle of nowhere. Had a great weekend with the mother. She is having a great time here. Unfortunatly the weather has taken a turn and the winter has kicked in. Some showers today with a high of 19 but should be ok for the rest of the week. Ideal golfing weather. 

Inlaws & Outlaws

Here is Mom, George, Adam, Denis, Jane , Nadine and Ann. My mom met Janes folks for the first time last friday night. Great craic was had by all!

Mom and Me

Here we are enjoying a few drinks and laughs in our new front room last Friday night. 

228 The Strand

Here is another shot of our gaff. (Note: White picket fence) The place is really coming together now, gradually getting settled in. 

The lads at The Strand

Heres Mom and her gang in our garden just before her first ozzie BBQ experience 

Mom becomes a Granny

Mom meets Reilly. An emotional moment! 

Supermom Arrives

Not the best of photos (camera phone) but here is a quick one of the lads (Mom & George and their friends Jack & Vera) arriving in Perth this morning. The plane landed at 1230, but Mom forgot about all the fruit in her luggage so they were detained for a while (sticklers on bringing in anything that has grown outside the country here for fear of foot'n'mouth etc)

We drove out to where they are staying (25 mins from town) a beautiful place right on the beach and 15 mins from 3 major golf courses and about an hour from where the Johnnie Walker Classic was on a few months ago.

We are having a big BBQ at our place today and once the jet lag wears off in a few days we will commence with the royal tour of Perth. 

Eamon Heads Home

After a 4 weeks of sampling everything Perth has to offer (including destroying at least 1 phone per week in a never ending variety of odd events) Eamon Nash departed on his long journey home, back to Melbourne and then off home through America. Those 4 weeks Absolutely flew! See ya in Cork at christmas Eamon.
 

Departure for the lads

Well, it was a fery short 3 weeks. The lads left today, still slightly hungover and smelling oddly of korean cuisine. It was a great 3 weeks with the lads, we got up to all sorts of shenanigans in Perth, doing all the sights and taking advantage of any situation to have a BBQ and beers. Supermom is arriving in a week so we get to do it all over again!

 

Feeding the Wildlife

Hello guys

Here is a few snaps from the weekend. It was an all BBQ affair this weekend, 1 BBQ on Saturday and 2 on Sunday, one of which was in a national park/forrest. Here is a picture of Margaret and Hugh enjoying some australia shaped biscuits before we headed off for the day:


Here is margaret feeding some green birds (forgot their name, but they sound a bit like R2D2)



Here is one of Hugh feeding a kookaburra from his hand. They swoop down and grab the food. Noisy wee feckers too!



Here is Margaret feeding bread to some kangaroos around the back of the pub in the park.



All in all twas another fantastic weekend. Plenty of outdoor activities and plenty of beer & food. Not a bad combination.

G'day Bruce

Here is hugh (looking suspiciously like the joker from Batman) sporting his new ozzie fashion he purchased in the freemantle markets. 

Supermom Strikes again

Here is mom in the new school of music. Some of the staff went in yesterday and tested the rooms acoustically, made suggestions to the engineers and got the place sounding all prim and proper. All my years of college to try to get a job with sisk and there is mom sporting their new summer season 2006 hi-vis shirt and steel toecapped boots! 

An eye for an eye.....

 

Weekend update part 1

Hi guys,

Just back from a late night, pretty tired so not much speil, sorry about that. Enjoy the pictures though.


Heres one, a bit blurry of Margaret and me finally in the same band!

Jane feeding a Quokka in Rottnest island yesterday

Another Quokka getting his dinner

One final shot of Margaret and Jane on Quokka feeding duties 

Weekend update part 2

More photos.....

Margaret and Hugh enjoy a Thai curry on Friday night

Jane & Reilly on the pier as Magz & Hugh dive for mussels

Adam the masterchef cookint the mussels with chilli's
 

Lost in translation.....

Doesnt quite capture the feeling of the original... 

Margaret River

Here is a great shot (except for my thumb) of us eating infinite free chocolate in the local chocolate factory. Impossible to leave the place!!!

Wine Valley

We went wine "tasting" up in the swan valley yesterday. Here is a picture of me drinking wine which came from those vines. Great experience. We sampled all they had on the menu and came away with 3 red and 2 white, which we drank that night. Great day out!