Il Residente!

I've so far used this youthful blog as a simple journal of interesting links, for me and others, but a more personal event occured week that cannot go unrecorded: I've been granted Australian residency!

I've been living in Sydney for the past three years, arriving at the end of a long meander through various parts of Asia (more of which here). Completely skint and on the verge of returning to England, I scored a job and a temporary working visa. A couple of years of beachfront living has convinced me that I'd at least like the option of staying long term, so the convoluted process began. After many months of gathering paperwork from different corners of the world, I have a new orange sticker in my passport with that most important word: "indefinitely".

I'm more than a little chuffed.