February 2019 Part Two -

Oxford lads visit Oz, Paulie and Nick return to Oz, Olivia works hard, Stephen takes a new contract in the UK

 

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February continues to be a busy month. Paulie heads back to Brisbane and saw off the lovely tenants, the Eberls, as they completed their sabbaticals and headed back to Berlin. She started work, re-connected with family, worked through a mega chore list, and got some sun! Olivia was settled into her challenging work at the Mater Hospital doing stuff they never taught at Uni and loving her pad in Rosalie.Nick and Keno made it to Brisbane after leaving Keno's Mum in hospital (she was OK) and having stayed on longer in Frankfurt. Paulie was there in time to see them and see them off on their flight back to Oxford. On return Keno was interviewed for a Junior Research Fellowship at St Johns College.He aced it! James was offered a home based role at Lush whilst still being the Oxford manager - charity coordination. Perfect fit. Nick stayed some weeks in St Antonin with a few lovely visits from Elena then returned to Brisbane to initially stay with Grandpa and Grandpa Powell. Stephen took on a new contract and started his monthly commute between France and Britain. As I said... busy month.

IMG 3713 18th Feb and Paulie is straight into family catch ups : Olivia Turnbull, Keno IMG 9108 A meet up at Olivia's pad IMG 8117 19th - In France Elena comes up from Barcelona. Stephen takes the guys up the mountain IMG 8118 Into the cave Paulie and Stephen found some months prior
IMG 8124 To explore 8a4f9c94-ec85-423a-a894-af1ccb5f34de . IMG 8135 . IMG 8134 And out the other side
IMG 8137 . IMG 8138 To go down another way. New territory for Guide Stephen IMG 8141 A new cave. IMG 8144 With it's own bathing pool - might be useful in Summer
IMG 8155 Nick spelunks away and crosses the pool IMG 8162 . IMG 8164 Further down the mountain, another find IMG 8165 Cave 3
IMG 8170 with a stream ff215c70-6b8d-4a77-85f2-29180436b033 Lunch time IMG 8196 The next day is chore time at La Cachette 57235892999 DAFC9B70-A3B7-40AD-A966-8B0011C3217A .
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IMG 9141 21st - meanwhile in Brisbane, Paulie settles into home after the tenants return to Berlin IMG 9147 And nothing like bubbles and family to settle in! Screen Shot 2019-02-21 at 12.14.21 pm Stephen has a quick catch up from France IMG 8232 Then it's back to chores
57251004828 250D5268-2F84-4127-9D3D-93A6264A0A55 . IMG 8239 22nd - a sad day for our trusty Tinkerbell. She slips off the road and has to be euthanased :-( IMG 9153 Meanwhile the Aussie home gets family support IMG 9162 When Jan and Jim drop in
IMG 9161 Looking good! Paulie's raking skills shine IMG 9164 23rd- Off to catch up with other family. The Annerley Dunlops : Claudia Blanch IMG 8245 Spring is nearly there in France. But Stehen expects a cold snap, so no planting yet IMG 9169 24th - The lads wind up their visit to Oz with a picnic (half bro Julian, Venetia and Paulie join them)
IMG 9176 And it's farewell time as they head from Elizabeth's to the airport IMG 9175 Time to get back to Oxford for a St Johns College Fellow interview for Keno. And a new role at Lush for James IMG 8255 25th - At Blagnac airport it's time for Nick to get back to Australia to sort ot some issues IMG 8261 And then the next day for Stephen to fly to England and jump on the 11:00 pm train to Guildford
IMG 8263 On the 30 minute walk to the train to his client's offices at Liphook he passes potential clients IMG 8264 He notices some interesting stuff he missed on the midnight walk to Jude and Phil's place two nights ago IMG 8270 28th - the month ends and another adventure- and day- begins.