A Coogee Woogey Christmas

Happy 2010 and as everyone looks forward to the year ahead I am being all unconventional and antiestablishment and looking back to 2009 and the first few days of 2010 instead. For me, this was spent in and around the vicinity of Sydney and was an enjoyable jolly along coastlines and cliffs, navigating brunches and lunches and munches, smelling flowers and dodging showers, singing the odd advert song and playing hit the thong. There are many people to thank for lodgings, food, and a sample of the glamorous life of Jacuzzis and yachts., so thank you Jill, Jodie, Jake & Louise, Jane and John and the boat crew, Barb & Rod & Amber, the restaurant owners of the Eastern suburbs, Ricky Ponting for getting out first ball and least of all thank you very much Laurence, tropical cyclone remnants of. Two months of wall to wall sunshine, ended on Christmas day and enduring on and off throughout the holidays. Despite old drippy Larry, there were some clearish gaps and splendid highlights as I take you on a whirlwind tour of the last couple of weeks…