A bit of self publicity!! I was asked to do this recently for the Historic House’s Trust Foundation Board – I think it might be my first post rugby piece!
Al
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Dinner at the Boss’s House
Over the weekend was my first ever visit to the NSW Government House. The function was the Historic Houses Trust Foundation Governor’s black tie dinner to thank our governors (major sponsors).
Having never been to Government House I was very excited about my first visit. For those who don’t know Sydney well, Government House is on the eastern edge of the CBD directly behind (to the south) of the Sydney Opera House. It is set amongst magnificent gardens leading down to just above the harbour and into the Sydney Botanic Gardens.
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Sydney Alleyways
Some great street art in Sydney just around the corner from my office – part the 2011 ArtAbout Sydney Exhibition.
I actually did a real life double-take when I saw this – such an effective trick.
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The End of the Season
It’s the end of the Waratahs season and unfortunately the end of my Waratah career.
A month earlier, after 13 seasons, 130 Waratah games and 69 Teast, I decided that it was time to finish up at the end of the season. I still love playing
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The Waratahs in South Africa
Here are a few images of our trip to South Africa this year with the Waratahs where we spent most of our time in Durban.
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Back in Business
The month of March was not a good one for electronics in my household.
All in the space of about 3 weeks I managed to kill my laptop, my iPhone, my printer and my e-tag in my car (and while we’re at it somebody also managed to run into my car whilst it was parked in the street!). Well I now have a new iPhone, printer and e-tag and have also fully made the move over to Apple with a new MacBook Pro laptop – which means now I’m back in business to continue blogging.
We (the Waratahs) arrived into Auckland today to get ready to play the Auckland Blues tomorrow night so I thought I’d post a few images of the new grandstand at Eden Park. This ground will serve as the main stadium for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in September and in all honesty it’s not overly impressive for a ground that will be holding the final of the Rugby World Cup.
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A Sustainable Vision for Greater Western Sydney.
Shortly before Christmas, Tatafu Polota-Nau and myself were invited to talk to WSROC (the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils which represents the 10 local councils in Western Sydney) about a sustainable vision for their regional group of local council areas more commonly called Greater Western Sydney (GWS).
This came about because as I have mentioned in an earlier blog, during 2010, I became part of a sustainability consultancy group (Sustainable Forward Consultancy Group) with Waratah and Wallaby hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau and a chemical engineer and ex-investment banker turned strategic sustainability consultant Chris Andrew.
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Toyo Ito in Taiwan
I came across this brilliant stadium when in at work (Cox Richardson) the other day. I was looking into a project we are doing in Kaohsiung (an exhibition and convention centre by the waterfront) and found some images for the main stadium for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung, Taiwan designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
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It’s Friday night and I’m shattered.
It’s Friday night and my body is not happy – tight calves, hammies and glutes. It’s only 7.00pm and all I want to do is to hop into bed. One thing that I am very happy about though is I have tomorrow off! Only the guys who have fallen behind with strength or fitness have to train tomorrow – all others, which includes myself, have Saturday off.
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