11 October:

Sydney Metro invited staff to a visit ‘Behind the fences’ at the construction site of Castle Hill station. We all came along for a great day out. One of the tunnel bore machines (TBM), Florence, had arrived in the platform box the week before and was getting her overhaul before continuing her journey.

The Weekend of the 4th and 5th of October:
We went out to Hornsby to meet up with Erins parents. We went for a lovely bush walk followed by a lovely lunch on the first day of a lovely long weekend.

On the Sunday we went out to the Northern Beaches, North Narrabeen and went for a lovely swim. The water is very nice.

So, not so good, but time has just rushed away and I have not been updating for half a year now… Now is time to repost. Starting with looking back over this time and creating new posts with significant happenings in the family to keep the records in order.

Looking forward to keeping this up and going from now on.

Since 13 February, I am working as Project Coordinator, for Turner & Townsend, at the North West Rail Link, with Transport NSW.

I work with at team of 50 people who are involved with Operations, Trains and systems on the project which is in the starting phase, and we are looking at taking passengers on the trains  by 2019.

Here is a link to the project:

http://nwrail.transport.nsw.gov.au/

Have a great week,
S

It is already Wednesday, and there is only one more week before school starts. We enrolled Oliver yesterday at school and it seems to be a nice and friendly school.

Job hunting continues with more interviews this week for both Sanna and Niclas.

Today Jessica, Sanna and Oliver met in town and then had a nice lunch in the Rocks before walking across the Harbour Bridge – and stopping in the Pylon to climb the stairs (200 of them) to the top and have a lovely view over the Harbour. After the pylon, we continued out walk to Milsons Point and took the train back. A beautiful day and well worth checking the pylon to read about the construction of the bridge. We will be taking visitors there. This was something I have had planned todo for a long time.

This week Oliver has been to a sailing camp at MHYC. It is a 4-day camp for little people. He has been at the camp with his friend Morgan. The forecast for the week was rain, but it has been OK. Monday was very windy and they stayed near the shore. Tuesday they did some sailing and today they were towed over to a more sheltered part of the harbour and sailed and practiced to capsize.

It has now been 10-days since we arrived and we are getting more and more settled.

Oliver is attending a sailing camp this week and even if it rained all day yesterday, and all night, it did hold up for most of the day – and he had fun.

I have been out walking every morning (apart from Sunday when it poured down) and this morning was beautiful as I walked through the forest, which is full of Eucalyptus trees – the smell post-rain was fantastic.

Det är varmt och skönt här på morgonen när jag skriver. Det var Australia Day igår, väldigt skönt med helg, tog det lugnt och gick till gymmet.

Min PT har sagt att jag ska pröva att inte äta kolhydrater till middag, så jag har det kul just nu med att experimentera med nya middagar – är van med att bygga mat runt potatis, pasta, ris. Nu måste jag tänka mer på sallad och grönsaker och är lite ovan, men det finns ju många roliga recepter på internet.

I lördags åt jag Eggplant Pizza och det var jättegott, och lätt att göra.

Igår kväll prövade vi Cauliflower Chowder – som var menad som ett alternative till potatis-soppa – och medans den var god, tänker jag leta efter en variation på receptet, för det blev väldigt lite jämfört med vad receptet sa.

Den är inte lika vacker fotograferad heller! Sarah och Fredrik prövade, och sa att det hade inte konsistensen av riktig chowder heller – får pröva igen!