**sheepish grin**

I'm really sorry for the general lack of posts for the last few months. There's no excuse, other then that I've been really lazy... I'm still pretty lazy, but hopefully as the warmer months approach my motivation will pick up - I work much better in the heat compared to the cold. However to tide you over please feel free to have a look through over 400 hundred photos that I took while on holiday in Japan during July. http://photobucket.com/JapanJuly Golden Pavillion - Kyoto, Japan I'll be adding many more photos as I go through them, but in the mean time please enjoy, and don't forget to leave a comment, so I know you're having a lo...

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Posted in: golden pavillion,holiday,holiday pictures,japan,kyoto,photobucket,photography

Cover-More Essense of Travel

OK, here's a sneaky plug/request for help! I entered the below photo in the covermore essense of travel photo competition. If you think it deserves it, please vote for me at this link http://woobox.com/6kx94i/vote/for/28975 Chee...

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Posted in: competition,cover-more,fushimi inari,heat,japan,kyoto,shrine,steps,summer,travel

Japan Here We Come!

With Qantas' sale at the moment we have jumped on flights from Sydney to Tokyo for under $1000 each! Two months from today we'll be on our way over. I have so much planning to do! Not the least of it getting time off work... Really should have organised that first... We're planning on spending just over a week in Tokyo, including a few days at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea, and then a week in either Osaka or Kyoto, we haven't worked out the nitty gritty yet, but that's the basis of our trip. We're very excited!...

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Posted in: cheap flights,flights,holiday,japan,qantas,sale

How do people do it!?!

Just a quick note to apologise for not updating this blog as often as I've like to. I am so flat out with everything at the moment, that I barely have time to stop and breath, let alone post something worth while reading. I really look in amazement at the people who are able to keep their blog fresh with new in depth posts every day. Every day! I don't know where they find the time! Here's hoping I can get back into it sooner rather then late...

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Tamworth Country Music Festival - $30,000 banners

Tamworth residents are up in arms, after being made aware of how much the local council is paying simply to hang Country Music Festival flags on power poles throughout town. Every year during the Tamworth Country Music Festival the Essential Energy power poles located along Peel Street, Kable Avenue, Brisbane Street, and Goonoo Goonoo Road of Tamworth NSW are decorated with banners, which measure approximately 3m x 1m, promoting several high profile Country Music Singers. Usually this practice costs the local council around $10,000 a year. However this year that price will escalate to close to $30,000, which rate payers have been informed they will be paying the bill. The rate hike came about after Essential Energy necessitated that...

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Posted in: $30,$30000,$30000.00,000,banners,country music,essential energy,flags,power poles,rate payers,tamworth,tamworth country music festival,tourism