And on to the socialising

So after the visit to the apartment, the rest of the weekend involved hanging around at Sven and Jackie's house and visiting Swarup and Bonny and meeting up with TGA people at Delissio.

Cassie (Sven's daughter) spent a lot of time with N, making a great baby sitter. I met up with Sven at the TGA and he's been great company ever since. I regularly accuse him of taking my only copy of Bone Machine, and only forgive him for it because he's such a great bloke (slides of two Hawaii trips included).

Cassie and N meet for the first time (March 2008) -
Rosstown Hotel

Cassie and N meet for the second time
(December 2008)

Swarup, N, (new teddy bear, still wrapped) and Sanjukta (Bonny)

Swarup and I met up at the TGA, where we started the same day, in the same section. We've got similar cultural backgrounds - he's born in NZ but grew up in WA, son of Bengali migrants. And of course we both married girls from India. We both have a deep despisal of Matthew Hayden. And a love of South Indian food.

I swear the Matthew Hayden thing is true.