Just got back from a five day trip to Nairobi. I was mainly there to recruit someone for the company I work for and managed to get a few hours in Nairobi National Park. An absolutely massive area full of wild life. Giraffes, zebras, baboons, wilderbeast and half eaten carcases! The highlight was making friends with three cheetahs at the animal orphanage there. A couple of photos uploaded into piccies!

I'm indebted to the lovely Annabel for reminding me how, for a very brief time, I owned a free, lovely watch, made by Cerutti. It was during a visit to Kuwait with some colleagues where I was presented with a beautiful watch by one of the Kuwaiti ministers. However, as I work for the BBC World Service, I could not accept this gift, which had been left on my bed in the hotel room. Annabel, so dutifully collected in all the watches that had been handed out and later presented them to the British Ambassador, who in turn raffled them off at one of his parties to raise funds for local childrens homes. (I think it came from Elizabeth Duke, anyway!)

It was about 1960, I was two years old and my dads tour of duty with the RAF in Adelaide came to an end. I'd planned to go back whenI was 50 but, fortune smiled on me when I was assigned the task of providing technical support for the BBC World Services coverage of the Commonwealth Games in 2006. So, in March, I'm off to Melbourne. I'll do the work then a couple of weeks to explore where I lived for the first two years of my life. Hopefully I'll get to Sydney and Brisbane as well as fitting in the Australian GP. This blog will detail all my journey and as the time allows will start to fill up with pictures and stories. Am I looking forward to it???You bet your life I am!!