tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58479932011-04-22T13:58:24.232+10:00ozobelthe journey continues but the pace slows down and the money runs out!isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1093385329410576342004-08-25T08:02:00.000+10:002004-08-25T08:08:49.410+10:00Ok I finally got that new blog working and here it is .... Invinsobel ...
It's called Invinsobel, I don't think the name requires any explaination but if you insist just mail me and I'll spell it out! It's still not my design because these days my lazyness is outweighing my creativity and it takes enough effort to get it written and published in the slow internet cafes of developing countries isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1091054120514503122004-07-29T08:31:00.000+10:002004-08-24T10:48:34.623+10:00Well it's the end of another road and the close of this long chapter for the 'snow pea' or 'blues Hag' or Ozobel as she has become known in this huge country of Australia. Saying good bye was as ever heart wrenching but this time I know for sure it´s not for good but only 'Adieu' or 'Talk tcha later'. It's been so real, like a real life rather than a holiday, I never felt like a passer through,isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1090476442220990972004-07-23T15:09:00.000+10:002004-07-23T15:05:53.340+10:00In response to various enquiries about why I havn’t updated this thing in so long I’ve been too busy in the Flash monkey business to have time to blog. Now I get a few moments to catch up on things but as most of my time has been spent at work I don’t have too much to report. I’ve been back working with the crew in Kent st. for the past few weeks and it’s been a veritable hive of busy little isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1085013201914684952004-05-20T09:37:00.000+10:002004-05-20T10:38:01.740+10:00I've added a link to 'tab robot' at the side of the page, I thought it would be good for anyone wishing to follow in my 'blues hag' footsteps and take up guitar. What tune should I learn next? I need more musical direction, my flat-mate is trying to turn me into a gay icon, getting me to learn Madonna songs and the like. This just can't go on, I'll never have any credibility as a 'blues hag' isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1084503349399614082004-05-14T12:43:00.000+10:002004-05-14T12:56:24.010+10:00Well Idol minds make lengthy blogs and with little else to write about I'll use the age old expression "A picture tells a thousand words" or in this case sixty two thousand.
Enjoy!isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1084328569475624432004-05-12T12:03:00.000+10:002004-05-13T16:13:11.953+10:00Some of you may have noticed that I've sent more e-mails over the past 2 or 3 weeks than I have in the whole year previous to that and I suppose that sort of sums up the life of a receptionist. I'm not a real receptionist, I'm just pretending, but nobody seems to have noticed that. I spent almost 2 weeks breakfast temping and got a different job almost every day, I feel like I've worked on isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1084254376747654322004-05-11T15:41:00.000+10:002004-05-11T15:52:39.526+10:00I've put in a comment link so you can comment on each post, it'll be interesting to hear what some of you have to say for a change!
isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1082620053104539192004-04-22T17:47:00.000+10:002004-05-11T15:52:55.276+10:00Here I am back in Sydney again, it seems like a whole lifetime has passed in-between now and when I last wrote. I guess I’ll have to start at the beginning by taking you back 3 weeks. Back to the sunshine of Cairns, the tearful farewells and one last cuddle for Muffy the ‘pink eared wonder dog’.
Flynn an I headed off in true clichéd backpacker style, cruisin’ in a VW kombi van with the two isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1080963825433834932004-04-03T13:43:00.000+10:002004-04-03T13:47:25.750+10:00Once again it's time to pack up my life into my big green rucksack, I've accumulated a lot of stuff here in Cairns, my guitar and music books, dive mask, snorkel, dive books, and loads of other things that just won't fit in. It's really sad to be leaving here, Steve, Pete and Cheryl who run the hostel have become like surrogate parents for all of us backpackers. There has been the same tight isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1078794506608838892004-03-09T11:08:00.000+10:002004-03-09T11:25:06.153+10:00I bought a guitar from a Canadian called Brandon, he was broke and needed to offload some bulk before continuing on his road. I said I'd buy it only if he thought me a song and so started another novel way of collecting memories and stories. Brandon will always be remembered when I play 'Good Riddance' by Greenday, Melissa will be remembered for 'Knockin on heavens door', and Gilad will always isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1076998299364955122004-02-17T16:11:00.000+10:002004-02-17T16:14:17.186+10:00Cairns tip-toed around cyclone Fritz last week and we were lucky to recieve just the tail end of it which translates as a week of relentless rain, more like endless sheets of falling water. The boat didn't go out for the entire week wich left me and my close knit bunch of backpacker mates searching for those things we've put off for a rainy day. For me it meant taking up the guitar, with two isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1074991368518056652004-01-25T10:42:00.000+10:002004-01-28T10:42:45.356+10:00I had lost track of time, I just wasn't paying attention, someone mentioned yesterday that it was the 24th of Jan and I realised I've been away from home for over a year now and my return ticket and travel insurance has expired (almost 2 weeks ago). I knew this was going to happen at some stage but didn't expect it to happen so suddenly. It looks as if I've burnt my bridges, but who needs isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1074653438059473092004-01-21T12:50:00.000+10:002004-01-21T12:52:37.920+10:00Another lovely day in paradise
I have settled into the most enviable lifestyle here in Cairns, it's easy to see how a person can opt out of the rat race and loose themselves in the parallel universe of the reef. I come back for the reef every day with the biggest smile on my face after exploring the coral and meeting up with all the different sea life such as sting rays, sharks, turtles and isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1073958067916363252004-01-13T11:41:00.000+10:002004-01-13T11:41:28.686+10:00Diving the Great Barrier Reef.......everyday!
Well I started my new job yesterday and it is the best dream job ever. I sit around catching the sun on the catamaran chatting away to people all morning. When we reach the Reef I take a few people out for a snorkle pointing out the different types of coral and sea life. I went for my first dive yesterday, it was amazing, we dived shark alley, I isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1073693351872161112004-01-10T10:09:00.000+10:002004-01-10T10:09:32.310+10:00Cairns
Well I survived my first christmas on the beach, it was very strange to be in the sunshine and to be away from my family but I had a great day with Maura, Claire and Liz anyway. Hash an Janette even arrived back to Sydney on time for christmas dinks and we all spent New Years eve together overlooking the city fireworks from Balmaine. The fireworks were the greatest I've ever seen and isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1072073524044050582003-12-22T16:12:00.000+10:002003-12-22T16:41:00.836+10:00Only 3 days till christmas and the sun is splitting the stones! It's as unlike christmas as you can imagine, which is probably a good thing for fending off the home-sickness. It's total beach weather all the time here in Sydney, and as I finish work on Christmas eve, thats where I'll be until new year, then I'll be off away on my travels again and hopefully the blog will start to become isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1070348621575030252003-12-02T17:03:00.000+10:002003-12-02T17:03:51.903+10:00Well it’s been a while again since I’ve updated, There seems to be a fear creeping in that post are becoming more sparse and life has become as dull as a cool grey pantone, alas this is happily not the case.
I’ve started a new job as a Flash Developer (sound familiar anyone?), back in the old E-learning game again. I’m still in the downtown area, it’s not the 27th floor but it has it’s isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1069041265553879942003-11-17T13:54:00.000+10:002003-11-17T13:54:31.203+10:00Tomorrow I enter back into the ranks of the unemployed again and resume the life of the backpacker. Hopefully it won't be long before I get another job, in the meantime I'll spend some time on the beach.
The Rugby semi finals sent the whole city into party atmosphere for the duration of the weekend and the shortage of taxis meant that everyone was 'forced' to stay in town till all hours of the isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1068425350625533162003-11-10T10:49:00.000+10:002003-11-10T10:49:14.740+10:00The day the French painted the Irish blue and I painted the springboks green
Well it looks like Rugby fever is finally coming to an end for the Irish at least but not without one big last night on the town. If it was up to the supporters yesterday Ireland would have won instead of the steam rollering they received from 'les bleus'. We all came to the pub in full force armed with a tub of greenisobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1067821344453396222003-11-03T11:02:00.000+10:002003-11-03T11:17:11.743+10:00On the first aniversary of this blog (and the 26th aniversary of my birth) I am happy to bring to you the first installments from the new camera.
Sydney part one
Sydney part two
As usual there will also be a permanent link from my photo page
Thanks to everyone for all the birthday txts and I'm sure those who didn't txt just don't have my number. I havn't checked my mail yet so you can isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1067219753169903862003-10-27T11:55:00.000+10:002003-10-27T11:55:53.406+10:00Jazz in the vines, Hunter Valley
Just spent a great weekend in the Hunter valley at the 'Jazz in the vines' festival. My first Oz road trip was with Liz, Sarah and John. John got a present of a pale blue 1979 toyota corona with a working sterio and a couple of fold out chairs in the boot. The machine chugged it's way to the Hunter valley on Friday evening blaring out the choonz from a mixed isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1066800805173701292003-10-22T15:33:00.000+10:002003-10-22T15:33:24.880+10:00Well I'm now sitting in my new office, situated high above the hustle and bustle of the Sydney CBD (central business district) with a great view of the harbour bridge and the opera house. The 27th floor is the place to be, the toilets are camoflaged into the twilight zone hallways and the the lift has 'liftvision' sort of like television or dartvision, pretty funky stuff to watch as your head isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1066376751165126292003-10-17T17:45:00.000+10:002003-10-17T17:45:50.733+10:00Well it's been a while and there's a bit to catch up on, the hunt for employment has finally come to an end, I've been doing a data entry job with Chris the past few days. Ironically the first agency to give me a spelling test (which I obviously failed) had a job for me to start the next day. According to Gary's mail "
this makes me feel better about my bad spelling...
aoccdrnig to a isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1065502183185451832003-10-07T14:49:00.000+10:002003-10-07T14:55:54.400+10:00As predicted, last weeks strange sales job was short lived. My career in selling children ended on wednesday after approacing about 200 people about sponsering a child and recieving 2 completed forms. As the job only paid if we managed to actually sell the children I figured that it wasn't my calling anyway. So it's back to trapsing the streets going from agency to agency, knocking on doors isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1064550986242222082003-09-26T07:23:00.000+10:002003-09-26T14:37:17.410+10:00The search for a home, a job and a life continue here in Sydney. At least the sun is shining, it's hot as... here, sunshine makes people better looking, it's great! So I've been bumping into random punters from back home all over the city, yesterday I met Julie, an old veteran of the IT house back in the 'skeagh an we went for obligatory pints. We were joined by a drunken kiwi bloke claiming isobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847993.post-1064279438129101952003-09-23T11:10:00.000+10:002003-09-23T11:19:07.653+10:00Welcome to Australia!
I've been here just two days now and the big search begins for a job and a place to live, I've started this new blog because I thought the the name Ozobel would be sooooooooo funny, ha ha! Well Sydney seems nice, sunny friendly and full of Irish people, not that I really mind, I've been travelling for 9 months already, been to as many different countrys and it's come to theisobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832296296021079720noreply@blogger.com0