Blogging holiday

I took a blogging holiday - sorry. The last six weeks have been spent filling in forms and sitting across tables from bureaucrats and talking through those windows where there is a mike on one side but not the other. At the end of it all, we have Australian driver's licences, a car registered and insured in the state of Victoria, Medicare cards, children's immunization certificates, car parking permits, bank accounts, credit cards and all the sundry items necessary to live in the world's most livable city (oh, alright, second after Vancouver).