Good News and Bad News from Oz (depending on your perspective...)

I woke up this morning to an answerphone message on my mobile from a woman called Carole from Oz. She had called to try and arrange a telephone interview with me for a job near Sydney in Australia. I had applied for this post over the net a few weeks back. It was only after applying that I measured the distance from the town where the job is based to the ocean. I had assumed that as Sydney is on the coast that all their posts would be close to the sea. However, that's not the case and their health service covers quite a large geographical area it seems and quite a lot of it inland. The job was in a place called Junee, and its too far- about 4 hours from the sea (Google Earth it if you want a look). Craig won't consider living so far from the sea, so I guess I need to contact her and say its a no go. Disappointing, but I'm glad in a way that it means my application must have been strong enough for her to have considered it. Having just started this course I can't go now anyway. What I need is a job to come up close to the sea, that I can do, around June next year.....

We have decided that we're not coming home for Christmas this year (sorry). We can't afford it for one (now that Craig's hours have been reduced) and we've been up 3 times this year already with weddings and what not (Craig has been up 4 because he went to his friend's mum's funeral in Peterhead). So we're planning to just spend some holiday time at home. I could probably benefit from spending some time studying as well. Everyone is more than welcome to come and visit at any time over the festive period. We may well need the extra weight to hold the house down in the wind. Gary will be of little use of course. Unless we feed him up on mince pies in preparation.