Our new abode.
Zoe and I moved house yesterday. Actually, to be more precise, two removalist guys and I moved house yesterday. Zoe was conveniently at work all day 
Our new flat is 1/4 of an old Queenslander. It has crazy design elements (that’s a funky way of saying that absolutely nothing matches). There are polished floor boards in two rooms, lino in another, tiles in the bathroom and carpet in the living room and study.
It’s sort of up the hill a bit, so even though we’re back a couple of blocks from the strand, we still get a breeze. The whole place can be opened up to let the breeze through and it’s heaps more secure.
It also has overhead fans in the bedroom and lounge so that’s cool.
So, all in all, it’s ok. Not as sweet as our old place. But it does save us $110/wk. So we’re pretty happy (and the move hasn’t been nearly as bad as moving up here and having to wait 2 months for all our furniture and having no friends etc…)!
There’s a link on the left to some photographs of our new abode.
In other news, IT RAINED!!!!. Zoe and I were sleeping when it started (with all the windows open of course), and I’m like, “what’s that noise?”. Haha, rain!!! In fact, it pissed down all night, so this morning it’s pretty steamy.
Speaking of steamy, Rudy the steam cleaner came over to ‘clean my carpet’ in four rooms. All for only $99. Pretty cheap as far as I’m concerned. I think the neighbours thought he was a bit noisy though 
Today, it’s back to work on the lit review (with the hope of finishing it this week). Wish me luck!
We’re going to have a house warming soon. If you’re reading this you’re invited
Lastly, check out the lomo link on the left. The Lomo is a Russian built camera that is redefining the way people take pictures, sorry photographs. Some readers (i.e. dad) might be tempted to say something like “we were doing that 25 years ago”, and they’d probably be right.
So, I guess you could say that Lomo is redefining how ignorant young photographers view the photographic process. Especially pertinent in a digital era where photos are generally relatively perfect, or not taken at all. The camera is either “on or off” as one interviewee (is that a word?) described the phenomenon.
Here’s another in the series of birds imitating industry, or is it the other way around. See ‘General photos I’ on the left for the first picture. The same street lights are featured in a sunset shot in ‘General photos II’.