Blog page name expained...

First, for those who know us well - you can skip this bit. For those who don't, I thought I would explain our blog page title. When Scott and I were 'dating', we went on the first of our road trips down to Scotty's home town of Ballarat for his 30th Bday where I met his family (lovely) and friends (a bunch of rascals) and then continued on down and did the great ocean road (spectacular). Along the way, we played our first game of monopoly (now only played rarely due to the extreme competitive nature of both of us resulting in tantrums and sulking while playing against the other, but as a new couple, how were we to know...) and i exclaimed that his marker for around the board HAD to be the scottydog as that was his namesake while I was the shoe as Imelda has been thrown at me from time to time (not now of course, as for the trip i have whittled down my collection to 8 pairs! Before anyone raises their eyebrow, i am proud of this fact, so there!) but i digress....So for the rest of that trip, i referred to him as Scottydog and it stuck and morphed into just plain dog, while i became leashydog which also morphed into dog and now we are both called 'the dogs' or as Soph and Lin and Sel call us 'the doggetts'. A little lame perhaps but that's us. It's funny when we yell for each other in a public place... 'DOG' and one of us comes running, I do wonder if people think its weird but anyway, that is how I named our blog page - 2 dogs around oz!!

What I will miss about West End

Where do you start, these are going to be in no particluar order but here goes.......

1. The food and variety of what you can get to eat for all different tastes and prices. First is Quan Than and the beef rice vermicilli salad for $9.50. I have lost count of how many I have eaten over the years but I have never had a bad one and each one has been exactly the same as the rest, I doubt whether I will find an equal to it anywhere (big call I know but it is great!!). Next will be the chicken yiros at Lefkas, so big it is a struggle to finish. What about Mondo's crispy potato square's, hmm yum
2. Orleigh park and walking along the river and how everyone you pass says hello or good morning or acknowledges you in someway, that doesn't happen everywhere
3. Jumping on the 199 Buz and heading into town or to the valley, you head down hardgrave rd, turn right into vulture st, left into boundary and then travel along melbourne st until you reach the city, there are always characters on the bus that make you laugh to yourself
4. The markets at Davies park on Saturdays.....cheap fresh produce and people everywhere
5. The view from the top of Dornoch terrace where you can look out over the city skyline, the XXXX brewery, Suncorp and the TV towers at Mt Cootha, an awesome place to watch fireworks from or a storm as it rolls in from the south east
6. The view from our front sun room at night
7. Happy hour at the Pavalion on Sunday afternoons where you can sit and people watch for hours and then walk home, stopping off for dinner on the way.

There are lots more things I will miss but I will always remember

Moving House

It is 3 days to go before we move out of west end. We have been here for 5 years now and we will miss hanging out here. We have just finished up the last of our 3 garage sales on the weekend and our house is nearly empty. We had to make some tough choices over past few weeks, and we had to break things down into 3 categories: 1. it comes on the trip with us, 2. it goes into storage or 3. it gets sold.

What we now have left in the house is what we are taking with us on the trip in the van.

We took a trip on the weekend down to Austonville to drop off about a dozen boxes at leashy's grandma's place.

Here is some of the thing we sold; our fridge (i bought it when I moved into a place in Carnegie with Ad, he bought the washing machine), our bed (thanks Bunya for letting us keep it until the last weekend), our kitchen stuff (thanks again Bunya!!), our couches (thanks Sarah & Garry - we will be back to sit on them one day soon), coffee table (thanks Al), our TV and stand (thanks Soph and Lin - we bought them off them when they went travelling and now they have bought them back, funny!!). I lost count of how many of Leashy's bag she sold at the garage sale as well!!!

I still haven't found a buyer for the peoples champion, Octagonal!!!, maybe I will keep it for the pool room.

So now the house is nearly empty it is time for the cleaning to begin, god I hate it, but anyway sh*t happens.........