Hi everyone. I have been meaning to put up a page where the current progress of Tala and my Wedding plans will be listed. That way anyone who is interested can see where our planning is at rather than us having to tell everyone individually. I was going to make it an actual web page, […]

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Last Friday (23/3/2012) I got home from work and found a message on the answering machine from the department of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Victoria. It was too late then to ring back and being a good solid government agency, of course they weren’t open on the weekend so I gave them a call […]

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I got my first camera when I was about 13. It was an Agfamatic 3000. It was the only agfa matic 110 model with a built in flash as far as I know. The other models needed external flashes added to them (see here for more details about the Agfamatic line of 110 film cartridge […]

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As I mentioned in a previous post (see Donor Children), when I was 21 I was a sperm donor in the Monash IVF program down in Melbourne.  As of January 2008 my donations had been used to make 16 children for 11 different families.  The first birth that resulted from my donations was a daughter […]

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Before Christmas Tala and I were looking into buying a house. The most we could afford to borrow was $420,000. The houses in the area where we are renting now go for ~$560,000 – $650,000, so in order to buy we had to look even further out from the city. It already takes me around […]

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I just got back from Christmas Holidays last Friday (6th Jan, 2012). I was down in Tassie for these holidays and was helping my mum do some work around her 20ac property ready to sell it. I so can’t wait to have a property of my own, there is so much that I would like […]

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I am writing a couple of grants at the moment. For those of you who are not familiar with how scientific research works, scientists need to apply for funding for their experiments and they do this by applying for grants from various funding agencies. The biggest in Australia for medical research is the National Health […]

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It was great weather for a day at the beach last weekend (Sat 19th Nov, 2011). I heard that there was going to be a game of nude beach cricket between the Coast and Valley Naturists (CAVN) and Bare Tracks up at Samurai Beach in Port Stephens on the Saturday so thought I would make […]

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When I was in Hawaii recently I bought an example of every chocolate covere macadamia that was on sale so I could try them all and compare them with each other. One of the brands was Mauna Loa. The milk chocolate covered macadamias they had came in a sealed tin. These chocolate covered macadamias had […]

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When on a trip to Hawaii earlier this year I wanted to make sure I brought home a good supply of Hawaiian Host Macadamia Nut chocolates as I have received them as a present in the past and loved them.  When we got there though I found that there was a massive number of different […]

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