Ced ‘n Avril’s

13/8/10

Sunny And Sensible

Cloudy And Stupid

Hey there dudes and dudettes.

Well I’m currently in Queenstown in New Zealand with a mate of mine, Darren… and normally I’d be sending a travel blog out about how awesome a snowboarding trip I’m having since there have been a couple of major snow dumps over the week I’ve been here…

…and i’d probably be bragging that I’ve managed to snowboard my first powder runs with amazingly good weather over here…

…however…

This time I’ll let the attached photos speak for themselves… You Have Been Warned! What has been seen CANNOT be unseen! Proceed to the other photos with caution! Read the rest of this entry »

30/5/2010

Hey there dudes and dudettes

Well it’s been a while since we’ve done a travel blog, and it’s rare that we do a travel blog about a short trip especially at home in Australia… but HOLY COW we’ve just been swimming with whale sharks in Western Australia… and we wanted to blog about it because… it was TOTALLY FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

A few days ago we rented a campervan and drove the 1300km north from Perth to the Ningaloo Reef where the whale sharks come to feed from April to July.

Now we’d heard about this some years ago from Axel, a German backpacker friend, who like all backpackers, has seen and knows much more about Australia than we will ever know… and since he had worked as a cameraman for the same company that we went with, we managed to watch some video that he had done… and it looked really REALLY easy to go snorkelling with these bigarsed whale sharks.

The whale sharks, which by the way are the biggest fish in the world growing up to 13m in length, just seem to glide slowly and effortlessly just under the surface of the water, so you can simply just snorkel with them… and after seeing the footage, we thought to ourselves …gee… that looks piss easy!

Well, we were wrong!

Holy Cow it was mother friggin HARD!!!!

Man… those darn bigarsed whale sharks are fast motherfeckers!!! Read the rest of this entry »

2/4/10

If you want to read the above cartoon, then just click on the image

Hey there movers and groovers

Happy Easter!!!!

Well it’s been 2 years since our last xmas cartoon, and it’s ridiculously late… but here it is! Our new xmas 2009 cartoon! YAY!!!

It pretty much sums up our life over the last year, so I’ll let the cartoon speak for itself, but here are some links to other stuff in our lives right now.

As you all probably know, Avril’s been going great guns with her beading and is now doing jewelery design.

Her website is at www.avrilbowie.com

And her flickr site with her bead pics is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/heartofglassbeads/

And if you are interested in any beads or jewelery, her etsy shop is at http://avrilbowie.etsy.com but you can also contact her directly.

Avril is also on facebook if anyone isn’t already friended there http://www.facebook.com/avril.bowie

Ced on the otherhand is more old school and refuses to ever join facebook, buy an iphone, or own an ipod so all his artwork is on www.cedavril.com

Ced also did a really cool 7 day trek on the famous Overland Track in Tasmania at the start of 2009, so if you’re bored, the link to the pics are here.

Also, we’ve been really slack at sorting our photos this year, so if we went to a party or a function with anyone and promised you a copy of the pics, but never delivered… here they are.

2009 pics
2010 pics

I’ve tried to sort through to weed out all the nude, crude, and rude photos, but as most of our friends are drunken exhibitionists, please let me know if you find an incriminating pics of yourself and want them taken down.

Anyways, hope everyone has an awesome Easter. We were pretty slack at keeping in touch last year, and can pretty much promise, we’ll be exactly the same again this year… but we would still love to hear from you all!

Lots gooshyness and smooshyness

Ced
Avril

18 August 2009

Hey there dudes and dudettes

Well it’s been a long time since we have done a travel blog so I wish I had a better story to write about, but I’m currently sitting in a freezing cold crummy motel in Invercargill which is a town at the absolute arse-end bottom of New Zealand just across the water from Antarctica.

Invercargill is apparently famous for a dude who set the land speed record in the 60’s of which there was a recent Anthony Hopkins movie about it called “The World’s Fastest Indian”…

However, I’m here because poor Avril has fractured her upper arm into about 4 pieces in a nasty snowboarding accident and Invercargill has the only orthopaedic ward in the area, so she’s currently in theatre and we are waiting to hear whether she will get a metal plate put in!

Oh man… we only flew to New Zealand 3 days ago to go snowboarding with our friends Andrew, Dom and Dee in Queenstown… and so far absolutely friggin EVERYTHING has gone wrong!!! Read the rest of this entry »

20/5/09

Hey guys

Today Brisbane had the worst storms in 100 years and the worst flooding since 1974.

Anyway, I bragged last year about our place being spared by a flood but we’ve just gone underwater so I jinxed myself.

I got home at 3.30pm after a street near work got flooded. By 5pm we were underwater.

Avril had just built a new glass studio downstairs so it is especially heartbreaking since we had just finished it.

Thanks to Andrew Goode and Dom who brought a heap of guys from her work, we were able to get most valuables upstairs. Thanks heaps guys… we owe you. You guys ROCK!!!!

However there is more flooding expected in the next 48 hours so we are going to have a nervous nights sleep tonight since high tide is at 6am tomorrow.

Power and internet are back on so we have uploaded some photos at this link which go in chronological order.

Cheers
Ced & Avril

PS Wish us luck

22/11/08

Hey there dudes and dudettes

So a few years ago when we were doing renovations, we decided to build some retaining walls and raise up our land, which I remember at the time was VERY expensive and we had ummmed and ahhhhed about whether it was worth it or not…

Well… HOLY CRAP and FRIGGIN HELL… thank friggin god we did, since this whole last week Brisbane has been hit by the worst storms on record since 1974!!!

Man… Basically, one entire suburb was destroyed and there has been a lot of flooding around the city… And of course since we have parkland and a creek out the back of our place, we’ve been very nervous about flooding since our place last flooded in 1993.

Anyhows check out these photos of the flooding at our house.

http://www.cedavril.com/photos/#album=brisbane-storms-2008

The first 2 photos are what our back yard normally looks like, and the rest are from the flood.

You’ll see that basically our little island is surrounded by flood waters and ALL of our neighbours got flooded except us.

Man… higher topography ROCKS!!!

Anyways, for those of you who haven’t seen this clip, this youtube link has been going around the web and is a great bit of footage from inside the storm showing how severe it was. The real bit of storm happens about half way into the clip.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=skrnDGl1LxQ

Anyhows, there are more storms due tonight so we’re off to batten down the hatches. Hopefully we haven’t jinxed ourselves by sending out this blog… but we’ll let you know if we do get flooded tonight.

Floody Hell
Ced & Avril