Cosy Nook

The last couple of years have been a blur - particularly for me personally. Early in 2007 I was struggling to make headway in my work at The University of Western Australia but by the end of that year I was working in a different section of the University on fundamentally the same aspect of its business but with real impetus for change.  In 2007 the Website Office I supervised was down to three staff struggling to keep things running. I'm ending 2008 managing a team of 19 with a long list of accomplishments behind us. I definitely fall into the work to live rather than live to work category, so it's been great looking back over 2008 and realising there was a lot of fun had along the way.

Christmas 2007 marked the first occasion when we have held Christmas dinner at our house. It also marked the first time that we've ever cooked a turkey. For added difficulty we opted to cook the turkey on the BBQ. Christmas Day proved to be a scorcher around 44 degrees Celsius so cooking the turky on the BBQ entailed little more than sticking the bird in a tray under the BBQ hood at about 9am and leaving the lot in the sun to cook slowly.