Our Life Down Under

I was hoping to start a new job when I got back from Ireland. I’d been put in touch with the SFX coordinator for a new film being made at Fox Studios and was hopefully going to work in the Special Effects Department. The film turned out to be The Justice League Movie. Bit of a dream job really, as you can imagine, and only 10 minutes up the road for me (better than the hour I currently drive to work).

All seemed to be going well, except the writers strike in America was delaying the start of Production. I was asked to call back next week and they would let me know what was happening. The next week came and the guy I’d been speaking to (seems like a very nice guy) said the powers-that-be would be making a decision this week.

Well, he called me back today and told me the whole film has been canned. Due to the writers strike in America.

So there goes my big entrance into the film industry. The silver lining is though, that he has my details and said he will call as soon as the next project/film comes along.

Here is an excerpt from the Reuters news website…

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The superheroes of “Justice League of America” will have to hang up their costumes, because the Hollywood writers strike prevents Warner Bros. from sorting out problems with the movie’s script.

The feature, starring DC Comics staples such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in live-action flesh, was to have been a special-effects extravaganza for the studio. George Miller (“Happy Feet”) was attached as director.

Word leaked in the fall that the script, by the husband-and-wife team of Kieran and Michele Mulroney, was good but that subsequent rewrites, including the latest by Miller, had pacing issues and took the project in the wrong direction. With the 11-week writers strike in full swing, the studio decided it was best to wait to iron out the problems. more

For those of you that don’t know, Val’s family suffered a huge tragedy on December the 9th. Noreen, Val’s sister was killed in a car crash in Galway.

I won’t say too much about it here, now, but thought some people might wonder why the website hasn’t been updated for a while.

I’m now back from Ireland, while Val and Ella will stay for a few more weeks.

We’ll get back to weekly updates of the website soon.

Edit this appeared in The Mayo News

Here we are in the Hunter Valley. We have come away for 2 nights with Mum and Lynn.

The Hunter Valley is famous for its Vineyards and here we are having our first glasses.

I’m sending this from my mobile phone as I think I’ve finally worked out how to get it from my phone to the website.
Ella’s Christening was yesterday so stand-by for some pictures. It was a great day and we all had an excellent time, even Ella.

This picture was taken at Bronte Beach on the 21st Oct. You can just about make out Ella and Val in between all the mums and bubs from their play group. They organised a bbq/picnic as all the bubs were around 6 months and they wanted to mark the occasion. It was a great day and the weather was fab.

Well it’s been 3 weeks since the last post. A record I think.

Lots of things happening. Started my new job, still with fosters but a different position now. It’s going well so far.

Ash, Caroline and Aaron have just been with us for the last 5 days, and left this morning. They are heading back up to Queensland for a few days before they go back to England. We all had a great time while they were here, you can see some of the photos from their visit at our Flickr page here.

This little video speaks for itself, hope you enjoy it. I still have a back-log of videos to edit and get onto the site. Including our trip to Port Stephens 3 weeks ago. I’ve not had much time since I started the new job, but things are settling down a bit now so I may get round to it this week.