OLD...

Myself and the evil twin galloped a little closer towards forty this year, celebrating a joined 76 years on this watery sphere... We celebrated at their new Paddington apartment with family and friends, where some gruelling pong battles were won and lost, before heading to the nearby Allianz stadium to watch the Socceroos trounce Jordan 5-1! Getting old ain't so bad... ; )

 Pa's pong domination!

 Handsome spectators...

 Paxton!

 What's up there?!

Family fun for all...

emily and dave...

These two! Sydney really is a little less special without them in it... : (

At the moment, Em is covering the Olympics in Rio, while Dave is traipsing through the Americas in an RV... I'm a little green with adventure envy!

Here's a couple o portraits and a rad group o friends from their going away bash a while ago...

Love yas!

freelance united... champions!

I managed to snap a few frames of my team's nail biting grand final win on the weekend... (Sadly I was injured for finals time for the second year running!) We'd been pretty dominant as a group throughout the year, but with injuries and holiday departures,  our squad had been left a little decimated at the critical point in the season! 

Thankfully, through sheer force of will, they managed to get over the line for the win, the first for Freelance United since the league began more than ten years ago! Huge congrats to a rad group of peeps! FU! FU! FU! Looking forward to more celebrations soon...

stralya day...

What could be more Australian than spending an afternoon amongst the masses at Bondi Beach?!

A few friends, a couple o brews and splashing about it the Pacific as the sun goes down... This was how we spent our 'Stralya Day on the 26th of January earlier this year... 

 Beach babes and sandy sleepers...

 Small shacks...

 Hola guapa!

 Luce!

 Em!

 Chrissy B!

 Breeza!

 Matty D!

 Handsome!

 Naw!

 Kat!

 TEAM!

The old man and the sea... ; )

future home dreaming...

I've been delving into the world of portable, sustainable architecture of late, inspired partly by outrageous property prices in Sydney, partly by trying to work out how to make a difference in a more sustainable future for the planet... My good friend Richard Stewart is a few years ahead of me in this department having started out with the refurbished railway carriage pictured below, moving on to a building a full eco house, a life on the road in a refitted old van and now scouring boatyards for forgotten hulls to turn into maritime masterpieces... 

strikers on tour...

So last year, I played my first full season of 11 a side football with the Collaroy Cromer Strikers. Well, almost a full season... Sadly, I tore my MCL in my right knee, in the week before the grand final... Which we won, along with the minor premiership... Sigh...

Anyway, to celebrate an awesome season with a bunch of awesome peeps, we ventured north to Forresters Beach and enjoyed a lads weekend of drinking, FIFA on Xbox, drinking, playing beach football and... more drinking... Super stoked to have ended up on a team full of such ace peeps! CC!

 To the beach/pitch!

 Game on!

 For a hard earned thirst...

 Male models...

 Football fwends...

 The long walk home...

 Party crashers...

 Let the games begin...

 Captain's discussions...

Lights out!