Okay, so the year is already one fortnight on (which means it is almost 4% over already!), but the past month has been quite busy, and this is really the first chance I’ve had to get back on Horus Kol and post for a while.

Christmas was great – although I ended up working all the way up to Christmas Eve (and then ended up back a week earlier than I should have been) thanks to one of those projects.

I spent most of my time over at my parents, even the week I was working, and in between all of that I had my Nan and cousin visiting and staying up at there, too. Also, we moved Samantha, Dan and Alyssa to a new home in the south of the city (on New Year’s Eve), and then there was Lachie and Megan’s wedding (which was great, and good to see them married, too).

Amongst all this, I have probably shot about 400 pictures on the Sony, which will take me some time to process, filter, and then post on the website. Thank goodness for digital, at any event, so I don’t have to develop all of them before I decide what’s good and what’s not.

So, I’ll be getting more photos up on the site soon enough – along with a bunch more posts and things about life and stuff. I’m planning on getting out and using my camera as many weekends as possible this year – including some travelling out of Adelaide, and even inter-state (I’m also planning to get a car sometime) – so Horus Kol ought to be a busy site, if I can ever find time to post.

Again, Happy New Year! to all – and I hope that when you get to 2010, you can look back on 2009 as another great year.

This is likely to be my last post of the year – certainly the last post before Christmas – so to all – A Very Merry Christmas!

It’s my second Christmas down under, and I still find myself unable to reconcile the fact that I am in a summer of blue skies and dry, warm weather, and that Christmas is fast approaching.

I mean, Christmas… that time of white snow, and cold, long nights. Of fir trees and rosy cheeks. Instead, I’m seeing dry grass, warm long, days, palm trees, and tans.

But Christmas it is – and while we are in vastly different country to the United Kingdom, we are still influenced by the idea of Christmas developed by Dickens and built on in the public zeitgeist over years of reinforcement.

We still have a fat, jolly ol’ Saint Nick – although, this caused concern when he suffered a heatstroke on a parade a couple of years ago. We still think of “white Christmases”, and baubles on fir trees, and roaring log fires.

So, yeah, it’s a bad odd being here for Christmas – but I wouldn’t miss spending it with my family for the world. And that’s what Christmas is really about, after all.

For my friends and family who I can’t be with – Merry Christmas! And if I don’t get a chance before – have a Happy New Year.

I-Nex on the Temptation

It’s the last week before Christmas, and Mark (my boss) very kindly setup a trip for the company and friends out on the Temptation. This catamaran sails out of Glenelg, and runs up the coast and back for a distance offering chances to see dolphins and other sealife that you might not normally see from being on the beach.

As it was – we saw only the one dolphin as it was feeding at the harbour-mouth, but it was nice to be out of the office and with friends on a calm and sunny day.

Of course, the camera went with me, and you can see the pictures here.