teddlesruss' photostream

I've begun adding to this as I think of stuff, so the stuff closest to the top is the newest additions.

---Added 15 May 05---
Still catching up to the present. Ummm... Went and worked in Papua New Guinea from mid to late 70's, that was an experience for a teen kid going it alone lemme tell you.

When I came back to Australia I worked in the Northwest in mining communications, got my first computer, and finally moved south to Perth where I've stuck ever since. Which is surprising because I sat down a few years ago and realised that I've moved house more than I'd had birthdays at that time, which might have somethign to do with a lot of Romany blood in both my parents, dunno... hehehe...

Have just finished having a room added to the house, had to get builders as I have emphysema and can't do heavy work as I run out of breath real easily. It's annoying and it will kill me but that's what smoking will do for ya.

I've always been a reasonable cook and manage to get along with European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian cooking pretty well, so meals at my place are never boring.

And I also enjoy going out to dinners where I don't have to cook or wash the dishes, so you'll find a fair few restaurant pictures in my collection.

---Original Entry---
Born in Vienna Austria, we moved to Bahrain Island in the Persian Gulf in the early 60's and I loved it there. Then we moved to Australia and I loved that too. After high school I went to Papua New Guinea for five years and loved that as well. Now I am back in Western Australia and I love that too. But I keep getting wanderlust and wanting to up stakes and visit someplace new.

Unfortunately my finances don't always let me just do that, so I'm sinking some money into a house hoping it will finance some travel before I slow down to old age... hehehe

Just been looking at photos from the middle east, it's so scary - when I was a little boy, we lived on Bahrain Is and I played with Ibrahim (whose father Sheikh Isa my dad was working for) and there was Manama which seemed so wonderfully modern to me as a kid back then...

Now I look with older eyes and I'm always amazed at how the natural beauty of the land and modern designs and materials have been woven together, and I vow to come back for a visit one day, see how much it's all changed.