New life. New city. Same ginna.

This post marks the first entry into my new blog. What, new blog? Yeah that’s right, http://theginna.co.uk was my first attempt at this blogging lark, but just like going out with someone with ginger hair, that was a bit of an experiment. In my last job (good lord that was a bad move) I wanted to get out and what better way to do this was to learn some new web languages. I always wanted to learn PHP so I did and built a blog site. Updated it for about one month and got this job and gave up, the blog that is.

I digress. This blog like anyone else’s is to make a journal of my life – write about music, films, feelings and, erm… other stuff and Star Wars.

So here we go.

I’m in Australia now. I’m in my second week and this is the first chance I’ve had to write this blog. Last week I was on a training course and drinking the rest of the time. Plus I was feeling like shit. What is it with long haul flights and me, I always get a flu/cold when I fly? Of course the idiot at the check-in desk at Edinburgh Airport didn’t exactly help things by sneezing in my general direction – I felt it hit the back of my head.

Shitebag.

Keeping the Australian economy going though with all the drugs (prescription ones I must add) I bought last week which didn’t really do much apart from make me sleepy during the day. Or was that the course? Don’t get me started on that. Let’s just say, glad I wasn’t paying for that course…

Nice way to spend my first week in Melbourne though, got to see the city. The office and apartment are on the outskirts of the city so not where it’s all happening – there’s nothing in Abbotsford, really the closest thing is the train station that will take you to somewhere better.

Saturday I went to a footy game – Aussie Rules Football: St Kilda Vs Freemantle at the Telstra Stadium, it’s a huge stadium, nothing like I’ve been at before. I’ve never been a sporting person and never really been into football back home, so this was a new experience for me. Plus it was strange to see whole families go to the game and no trouble either. No sign of Bovril being pissed in or shoes being shat in.

The ticket I got was free, but I believe you can walk up to the ticket office on the day and pick them up from $14.00 – about GBP6.00! Something unheard of back home (if comparing it to a regular event like football). It was good fun – had a few beers and a couple of “meat” pies. It wasn’t until the second pie that I looked at the ingredients on the wrapper: “25% meat, beef, mutton ..”

Now, hopefully you’ve noticed how beef and mutton are NOT encased in brackets in relation to “25% meat”, meaning that as well as the beef and mutton, there’s a generous helping of 25% of other meat. I’ll leave it up to your imagination as to what that “25% meat” consists of.

coughlipsandarseholescough.

This week is going well so far, finally getting into some work.

I think I’m going to enjoy my new life in Oz. Even better when my better half gets here to share it with me. Only 8 weeks away.

That’s all for today, more about my adventures soon. I probably lost you all at “PHP”. Feel free to add a comment below.

G

PS. Mum/dad if you are reading this, sorry about the swearing. Please take this as a disclaimer for all future posts also, I might even use the ‘F’ word.