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A few posts ago I mentioned that my wife and I had brought a house, well, last weekend we finally moved it. YAY!!! We manage to move pretty much everything in one day which was a pretty good effort, 3 cars and 2 trailers.

The only problem we had was getting our phone connected. The order for the connected went wrong somewhere, not sure if it was my fault or Telstra’s fault, but I needed a wall socket installed inside the house, but Telstra only activated the phone line. Anyway, I tried to do the socket myself, but could not find the dial tone, so called Telstra and they said there was a fault on the line. The tech installed a new line from my house to the pit outside, and I asked him if he could put on a new socket, and he said ok. So I got it all connected for less then if it was done in the beginning.

Other then that, my wife and I now have the task of unpacking all the boxes and setting this house up. I love owning my own home!!

I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks. I have started volunteering my spare time to my church in helping out with our Food Care ministry which provides very cheap food to low income families. On top of that I have also starting helping out with the IT equipment and other technical problems. As of this week I am now head of IT for the church, and I’m loving it, though this is not a real job, it’s still a voluntary position.

Almost two weeks ago I got my new HOYA Close Up Filter set consisting of +1, +2 and +4 filters. These filters are great and really help out with macro photos that I have been trying to take. Here is a shot of a seaside daisy from my front garden with the +2 and +4 filters attached, oh, and  this flower is approx. 1 inch in diameter.

All I have to say about these filters is that I’m going to have a lot of fun with them. I’m planing on one day soon going to the botanic gardens in Wollongong for a few hours and see what I can do.