Last Wednesday was Australia Day and instead of heading into London and going to a Walkabout like I did last year I thought I’d bring the festivities to Woking, Surrey.

Even though it was a balmy zero degrees on the walk to work I proudly wore my green and golds in the form of an Australian beach Cricket shirt my younger brother William gave me and my tacky green Australian $100 note board shorts, all topped off with my Aussie flag thongs.

I brought in a couple of other tops for the team and was pleasantly surprised to see a few had brought in their own.

I hooked up the office ghetto blaster and cranked out my Australian classic playlist reminding the English of Aussie greats such as AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Australian Crawl and even a little Regurgitator.

For lunch I’d organised a BBQ outside, Stuart brought in a couple of disposable BBQ’s, Neil some sausages and bread so I ducked down to the local Co-Op (Bottle-O) for a case of… Fosters!
Given the mercury had only lifted a single degree we installed the assistance of Mr Geogre Foreman to help pre-cook our sangaas.

That said we only lasted outside for about 25mins before it become clear that the BBQ’s weren’t going to light and everything seemed to be getting colder than then cooking. We took Mr Foreman back inside and finished off cooking in our office kitchen with a combination of microwave, toastie machine, and George Foreman.

Everyone appeared to enjoy the food and hopefully had an enjoyable first Australia Day.

Between my recent projects at work, staying up all night working, a really bad flu that lasted for weeks and being too tired to care about other things I haven’t blogged.

I’ve really enjoyed my time here and I guess having my Visa declined once and the entire process really drawn out has given me more time with my friends and family that I wouldn’t have got, which ultimately makes me feel better about heading back to the UK again.

Below are some photos of camping trips and drinking nights out with some  friends. I’m going to miss everyone and will hold you all to the promises of visits to London in the next couple of years.

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A big mud crab I caught with my Dad

Stubbie Coolers

Sunset on the river

Leyton & Blacky at the Vic

Cheese

Murder? What Murder?

The Big Pineapple!