Monday July 29th, 2019.
8.15 pm
Swanview Gardens, South Perth. Western Australia.
I am in a quandry.
My last entry in this blog was way back in 2015.
I doubt if anyone has even looked at it since then as I didn't advertise it and being a Neo-Luddite I am not on any social media to blather on about it.
Maybe it will keep my thoughts in order.
Act as an aide memoir?
Who can say?
So what's different in 2019?
I gained my PhD in 2016 and was offered a job on the Academic staff.
I also work in Student Support.
I am lecturing for 4 days and working at the solicitors for 1 day - so no real change there.
When I was offered the job at Uni the Solicitors offered to completely fund a full time GLD for me if I would come and work for them as a solicitor. The heart won over the head...
I am still in the same house in Oughtibridge.
Laura and I are are still together.
Laura got her Master's in Pure and Applied maths and is working towards her PhD (part time).
She does two days at Uni, 3 at the solicitors.
My kid sister starts reception class this September.
My brother is still an arse at times but his kids are still lovely.
My big sister has finished her retraining and is now a Doctor (MD).
My oldest niece, Jill, finished her degree and now has a job at DPaW in Geraldton. Started in January.
My 2nd oldest niece, Annabelle, started her Maths degree in January - also at Curtin.
She came out as gay at the same time and Suze & Pete didn't kill me or blame me in any way.
Sadly she has repeatedly said she wants to sleep with both me and Laura. (HELP!)
My Mum dumped Tony but has a new Guy Edward, who was also an English teacher. They share so many interests and she has intimated the sex is amazing - I pretended to barf. Mum bought a minature Schnauzer bitch which is called Teela - Phil's kids chose the name. Callie and her are best buddies.
[Callie retired from working on January 31st this year. She's 11 but still behaves like a puppy with Teela.]
My Dad, Louisa and Chloé spent about 10 months in the address above last year to see if they would cope with living there (here) all the time. They liked the winter but the summer almost killed them - not Dad, of course. One of the reasons was over the intervening time Dad's three dogs all died of old age...
Loll and I were out just before Dad & Co came over so we set up his flat after his tenant served his notice. Annabelle uses it now as her base for Uni - it's only a few minutes away rather than 50Km.
I used to say I wasn't sure Loll & I should marry until she'd had sex with someone other than me. In the last semester we both agreed to get a FWB. She had Jayne - over in Manchester (where she's doing her PhD) I had Greg a barrister at the solicitors. The idiot (Greg) asked me to marry him in May. I turned him down of course. Loll & Jayne split up at the end of the year too...
We bought a 2nd car - a 2nd hand Picanto for Loll to drive to Manchester & back for her two days there. It's bright red.
We spent the last four summer (their winters) in Australia - flying Emirates Business Class each time.
If I don't spend any of this year's interest from my trust fund (where Gran's inheritance went) it will hit seven digits at the end of the financial year.
Out here so far we have spent a week on Rotto, several days at Jill's and then Kalbarri, then back to Jill's. We have booked 6 Classical music concerts (1 has been) and 2 theatre shows and we've book places to stay in S & P's camper vanwhen we do a South West Corner Tour in September.
Pretty busy and such a lot has changed.
Phew.
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