Blogs from Midland Junction, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Adam wants to go to Caversham wildlife park today if I'm interested in joining him. I have a few things to do first and we arrange to meet later. I head out to check the job scene. Bump into Netta outside the Jobshop, didn't know she's still in town. She's been looking for work and having to do a lot of 'trail shifts'; she works a shift for free. She's worked most days for the last week without getting paid once, but she's got a paying shift starting tonight. Entrance to Caversham costs $23, plus train fair to get there. When I meet Adam in the room Andrew and Kate invite us out for her leaving lunch. Adam is still keen to feed the animals, but I'm keen to save money. I follow Andrew and Kate ... read more

First off It's Mothers day in Australia today so Happy Australian Mother's day to Philip Mum back home, miss you. To mark this occasion Philip ran the Mother day classic fun run in Perth round the aptly named Lake monger in Perth 7km which was two laps of the lake, This was his first ever fun run and coming only four months since starting this regime off losing his chunk and shedding over 5 stone after bobby said he wanted to be like him fat. His sat nav gives a finish time of 44.32 the official finish time is 46:03 I think the loo break slowed him down! we finish 674 out of 1071. He gets rather emotional when he finishes but cant ring anyone back home as it still 2am! Jason, Jayne, Molly and Louis ... read more