10 September 2013 When we first drank the homebrew, back in July, it was, let’s be honest, bloody awful. The colour was good, a light amber ale, slightly cloudy, nothing wrong there. But that’s just it, it lacked everything else. No body, no head, no nothing, and if you drank the whole 23 bottles, Read More
13 July 2013 How hard can it be ? The lads from Top Gear usually say that when they’re going to botch something up, in my case, I guess it applies as well. So on May 20th 2013, I was back in Perth while Troopy was still in Bangkok, having a bath. The mob, Read More
13 July 2013 And so I brewed beer. Well it’s rather easy really, especially when you receive a home-brew kit for St Valentine’s day… And you have great friends to help you out. So, the kit. What is it ? Well it’s a 23L plastic container, it’s 30 x 75cc bottles, it’s a thermometer,, Read More
17 May 2013 May 11th – 18th It took well over three months to plan this. Between the contradictive information about whether or not Troopy was allowed to remain on foreign soil for so long, between getting the right price for the right job, I finally booked the tickets to get her home. I, Read More
23 April 2013 It’s been a while, I know, since I updated this blog. Though a lot has happened, there wasn’t one particular event worth mentioning. I look back and see myself a year ago, I had just started this journey, Claire has just flown to Broome, we had only started the Tanami Track,, Read More
14 March 2013 At last, we have our own place. Not that we were sick from Jenni and the girls, far from it actually. They’ve been nothing but awesome. We’ve actually grown pretty close to the whole family, even Ronnice the mum, Caz the sister, and the friends, and of course Shiobby and Katie., Read More
2 March 2013 So it finally came through. We’ve received the good news yesterday morning : I am pleased to advise that Brice Gery Jean Servais has been granted a Temporary Business Entry (Class UC) Work (Skilled) (Subclass 457) visa. This visa allows you to travel to, enter and remain in Australia and is, Read More
19 February 2013 The past week certainly tested my patience. You’d expect when you’re wiring money from one account to another, even from overseas, that it shouldn’t take more than 48h. Realistically, it’s kinda like copying a file onto a USB stick, right ? Wrong. Banks will debit your first account on the day, Read More
9 February 2013 It’s not that Claire’s Hyundai Excel is bad or anything. But, a) it’s hers, b) she needs it to go to work (waitress at the moment, but sooner or later, geologist) and c) it’s not very reliable as it overheats in traffic and if we can avoid a blown head gasket,, Read More
9 February 2013 Well I expected I’d find a job pretty quickly. But I had forgotten that there was Xsmas, then after there was New Year’s Day, then after there was Australia Day, and then it was school holiday. This meant that pretty much from mid-December until early February, Australia was hungover. I did, Read More