Some pictures of Stella and Lula, the dogs I am living with. Lula is the little black Staffy. She's holding her toy hoping that I'll play with her in this shot. Stella is a German short haired pointer.

I woke the other morning spooning with Lula! She had crawled into my bed in the night. For one very brief second I thought I had gone to bed with a very short, hairy man! :)

The other picture is of Salisbury: one of the areas where I work. I took this shot because it had been raining. Which is kinda unusual for here. I reckon I could count on the fingers of one hand the amount of times it has rained since I got here. But now Autumn is here I wonder how much more it will rain?

OK, so maybe not the most attractive shot of me ever. But let's face it. You've all seen me looking a hell of a lot worse too!

I got an iPhone this week and this is me testing out the camera on it. It looks like I am at a call centre, but actually this is me at our new offices.

Do not expect any birthday or Christmas presents this year, as I will be spending all my money on Apps for my iPhone. Today I downloaded 'Press Up Fu'. This is a program designed to get you to be able to do 100 press ups in 6 weeks. O yeah! Look out chest and shoulders! :)

One of the GP's I work with is moving to England for a year. She is looking for someone to stay in her house whilst she is away. She has a labrador that she needs looking after. So as a deal, she has offered me the house for cheap if I agree to take the dog on too. Went up to look at it today. House is great. 4 bedrooms and a pool. Dog is a cute slobbering mess of a thing. Where I am staying just now is only short term as Brad is renovating top floor of gym into a studio apartment. So as I will have to move out of here at some point in the next few months probably anyway, I have agreed to take on Naomi's place. Move in in 8 weeks. The house is in between Adelaide and a small village town called Gawler (pictured).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gawler,_South_Australia

I work in one of the surgeries in Gawler. It is north of Adelaide. Just before you reach the Barossa wine region where they make, amongst others, Jacobs Creek wine.

So that means there will be plenty of room for visitors! And lots of wine! If anyone fancies popping 24 hours in a plane down under! ;)

No Bali for me :(

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This weekend I am doing a 24 hour Relay Race for Life. As the name suggests it's a 24hour relay race.... in aid of cancer research. We start at 1pm on Saturday.

If you think you can donate, please click on the link above. If you think you have any friends or colleagues who would like to give money towards my foolishness too, please forward them the link!

Just away to put my leave application form in... if it's accepted, I am planning to go to Bali next month! O yeah! :)

Election time here in Australia. Did you know that it is compulsory to vote here? Failure to do so result in a fine. They of course are not interested in my opinion, not being a resident... so I am excused.

I have posted off my visa application forms. This is to apply for the longer stay business sponsored visa. I am currently only on a short stay working holiday visa. So fingers crossed I have filled it out correctly!

Should be moving house this week. Keep you posted how it goes.

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Check out this link to see the website for Port Adelaide. This is a suburb of Adelaide where I viewed a nice house this evening. It would be sharing with a girl who is a Psychologist and her younger brother who is a Paramedic. Port Adelaide is a bit like Fittie in Aberdeen. But sunnier. A lot of the buildings there are heritage listed. It has lots of character. House was nice.It has 6 bedrooms. But they want to split it 3 ways. So that means as well as having 2 living areas and a large kitchen, we would all have 2 rooms each. One bedroom and another room to do with as we please. Roll top bath, open fire places, exposed floor boards. Courtyard out the back, and a small balcony on the front. Sounds good, huh? 5 mins from the beach, 20 to the city and about 35 to work. £5 a week more than I am paying currently. So not going to break the bank. Having a couple of days to think about it. But reckon I will probably go for it.

I've been to a few comedy shows this week. Ross Noble on Wednesday night was the highlight. He was hilarious! I've not laughed so much in ages. He's a Geordie. And someone I was with that night, asked if I still found him funny even though I would be used to hearing that kind of accent! She just thought he was hilarious because of the way he talked! :)

Talking of Geordies, one of the girls at work was telling me that her sister has just called her baby Geordie! I didn't explain what it meant in the UK. But it did remind me that I used to think that Milo was a good name for a boy. Until I got to Oz and found that it is the name for a Malted drink here. In fact you all got some for Christmas!

Veering back to Fringe events I've seen this week, I also went to see a comedy musical which was quite good. Although I was tired from being out the night before, so I may have been hard to please that night. And last night I went out to see a female only troupe of comedians, called Titters. They were an International group with acts from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Some of which were really good. We ate at a really good noodle bar in the City beforehand, so it was a really nice night.

That's the Adelaide festival drawing to a close soon. So my recent splurge of night's out will be drawing to a close. Which I'm sure my bank account will appreciate! :)

Which got me thinking about my reading matter. I finished Slumdog Millionaire. Which I really enjoyed. Mum had thought the movie was good but harrowing. Although I didn't feel that about the book. From what Dad said they maybe dramatised bits of the book for the movie and played up some of the upsetting scenes. I'll need to watch the movie to compare.

I've started reading the book 'Eat, Pray, Love'. Which for some of you may mean nothing. But Lucy has read it. So thought I'd mention it. It's about a woman who hits 30 and looks at her life and relationship and thinks 'this isn't me' and then up sticks to try and find herself. Sounds highly improbable, don't you think? Who would do something like that? :)

Hope you re all having a good week. Happy Mother's Day to mum. xxx