Hi everyone  – it has been a while. No idea why my feed program decided to re-spit out a post from January last week. Sorry about that – but it did remind me that I’ve been a little slack on the writing front – so here I am..

I’ve now been back in AU for 8 months now – frightening really.  My new job has been quite full on – since January I have visited Hong Kong,  Singapore, India (Delhi), Korea (Seoul), China (Shenzhen) and Taiwan (Taipei) for work. Some great experiences there – business is conducted very differently in Asia-Pacific relative to Europe.  Understatement of the year, I know.. The learning curve has been very steep but am enjoying the challenge.

I miss Europe – of course I do – who wouldn’t? (Big hello to any EUMEA people reading this) But there’s a lot of exciting stuff going on here in Melbourne which has made the homecoming really enjoyable. It has been great to see a lot more of friends and family than I had over the previous 3.5 years  – although I do feel quite behind on catching up with a large number of people.

Whenever I review what I’ve been listening to on my ipod I’m constantly amazed at what turns up on the list of most listened tracks.  The list below is reflective of the last 8-9 months. As always I’m surprised by the artists that DO NOT appear on the list..  many of my so-called favorites are simply not getting much of a listen these days.

That’s all for now.

Olivia has made a surprise (brief) visit back to Australia for our niece’s christening, suitably freaking out her family in the process. I can’t help but be a little jealous but am very happy that Olivia can be there for this family event.  She’s spending most of her trip up in Bendigo, not leaving a lot of time to spend in Melbourne… We’ll both be coming over in February as planned, so that will be her/our big chance to catch up with people.

So here I am, home alone. Having a pleasantly quiet weekend, watching all manner of B-grade movies and new episodes of South Park – there’s some crackers in there. This one in particular had me laughing out loud.

Work is getting busier than I care to mention. I welcomed my new role so I can’t complain. I never imagined it was possible to have so many emails streaming into my inbox every day.

Olivia and I went to see Harry Connick Jr last weekend. Man, what a show. We had seats in the third row and would have been no more than 5m from the great man, it was a real buzz. HCJ and his 15 (or so) piece big band were in stunning form and really wowed the appreciative audience. Although all instruments were (obviously) miked up, with the exception of a hammond organ used in a couple of songs, there were no electric instruments used – very refreshing to see (and hear).  If the Oh My Nola tour comes your way, it’s well worth it – a brilliant show.