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We’ll be leaving Australia in late November

May 24, 2008 in Bruce, Careers, Exciting Stuff, Future Plans, News, Travel, Update | by smange | Leave a comment

Plans to move to Finland are rapidly progressing, with our departure date now moved to late November/early December. This is because Bruce has been asked to take on the European Regional Manager role for Sentek (the place he’s currently working for) and we will need to get established in Europe a little earlier so he can get started with the job. It’s not set in stone yet, but we need to be ready just in case.

So, it looks like as of about January 2009 we’ll be happy to take in visitors if you want to travel to Finland.

Baby Photos

March 21, 2008 in Exciting Stuff, Family & Friends, Kids, Photos | by smange | Leave a comment

Photos of our niece and nephew, Alyssa Firth and James Hall, are building up in our online baby photo collection.

Wedding Photos

March 21, 2008 in Achievements, Ange, Bruce, Exciting Stuff, Family & Friends, Hobbies, Party, Photos, Video | by smange | Leave a comment

All our photos are available in our online wedding photo collection.

Also, take a gawk at the madness that is morris dancing at a wedding..

Then we went on honeymoon in McLaren Vale and had a most awesome time. Mostly, we sat around in a spa (we had a choice of two spas in our cabin) drinking wine and eating gourmet food or lounging about reading, rehearsing or watching sci-fi. We love our geekiness. It was only a couple of days, but it was brilliant. Feel free to check out our collection of honeymoon pics.

Plans to Move to Finland

March 21, 2008 in Exciting Stuff, Future Plans, Holidays, House, News, Travel | by smange | Leave a comment

Bruce and I are going to move to Åland, Finland in about March 2009. The main language there is Swedish, not Finnish.. so we need to learn Swedish before we go.

Åland is really cool. They seem to have lots of cycling, canoeing, kayaking and festivals. The festival I’m most interested in is Rockoff which actually headlined with Lordi in 2006. How cool would it be to run a festival with Eurovision winners headlining?!? *drools*

If you look at the map below, Åland is the island in the south west. Well, I say “island” when what I really mean is “about a million little islands”.

We’ve been doing virtual tours of Finland and finding out about hiking trails through bear country, scooter safaris, week long bike tours and horse riding tours. It’s just so cool!!

Oh. And they have a Moominworld. That rocks.

Wow. We just found a flickr group for Åland and did a bit of a flickr slideshow tour. This place is gorgeous.

Gorgeous stuff:

We also found some funny stuff:

We have also learned that Mariehamn seems to be a pretty popular port for big tourist ocean liners. Why that wasn’t mentioned in any of the tourist info I read I have no idea.

Whee! Vikings!

I’m searching Flickr for pictures of Åland so I know more about the place Bruce and I are planning to live. Oh, and maybe I’m trying to convince you guys to come visit us. *is sneaky*

Bloody gorgeous! I am really looking forward to this.

So, here it is..

March 10, 2008 in Update | by smange | Leave a comment

I’ve started a blog for the both of us. I’m thinking this will have the big family and friends updates on it.. and all the usual geeky stuff will stay on the other blogs

Address and phone

I don't really want to put our address and phone number online but, if you require them for some reason, shoot us an email (randall.angela @ gmail.com) and we'll get it to you.

If you're friends with Ange on Facebook you should be able to see the address and phone number here.

We have an Adelaide VOIP number (Yup, +61 8) which you can call for whatever your call rates are to Adelaide. It's connected to real phone which has a real ringtone, so please be kind when calling.

Don't forget, in Adelaide summer time France is 9.5 hours behind Adelaide. In Adelaide winter time, France is 7.5 hours behind. If you're in the Eastern states it could get up to about 10.5 hours different.

Rule of thumb, call after about 7pm in Australia and you probably won't wake us up.

If you're using Firefox, try the Foxclocks extension to keep track.

Combined Alcorn Lifestream

If we've been slack in updating this (who, us?) and you REALLY need to know what we're up to, then there's always a way.

Both of us tend to lurk online a lot and frequently comment or share something interesting on some site or other. We know it's hard to keep track, so we made a site especially to drag all the important stuff in JUST FOR YOU GUYS!

So, take a look. It may or may not quell your urge to complain that we haven't posted a proper blog update in forever. :) http://alcorn.soup.io/planet

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