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Stu and the steamers 2003

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SBC Online

Stue Butterfield & Co. Online

Welcome to SBC Online. The website for Stue Butterfield's family and friends. Here I'll be sharing all my news, photos and travel stories, as well as plenty of jokes, brainteasers and puzzles to keep you amused. I'd love to share with you some songwriting, maybe play a tune and have a chat. So log on, drop in and make yourself at home at the SBC Online community.

April 2009

Dear Family & Friends,

Gemma and I would like to share with you our wonderful news of being engaged. I proposed finally after 5 years of going out when we were on Bora Bora in Tahiti a few weeks back this march and we are both very excited.

With Gemma's family in the uk and mine here in Australia we have decided to have two celebrations. The first will be a wedding/engagement party this November 1st/2nd here in Cooma to which we would like to extend an open invitation for family and friends to join us. In the afternoon of Saturday 1st we will have a small garden ceremony and celebration in Norris Park (Opposite the Pool and across from Centenial Park) in downtown Cooma around 5pm. We will then have an open invitation celebration at our house (please bring a plate of food instead of gifts) which is in Cooma north about 25 minutes walk or 5 mins drive away. Address 3 Moorong Place Cooma NSW 2630. Later on those still up for it can kick on to the wee hours in any of Cooma's finest hospitality establishments (see Dodds Hotel, Cooma Hotel, Alpine Hotel and Australian Hotel). On Sunday 2nd November we will be hosting family on the Cooma Light Railway at 10am and then onto Tuross Falls for a picnic lunch at 12:30pm (weather permitting). For accommodation options Cooma is blessed with a number of Pubs, Motels and Caravan Parks and for my recommendations try either the Royal Hotel (www.royalhotelcooma.com.au), Alkira Motel (www.alkiramotel.com), Nebula Motel (www.nebulacooma.com) or the Marlborough Motel (www.marlborough.bestwestern.com.au). Others (www.cml.net.au, www.kinrossinn.com.au, www.pubboy.com.au/page/the_alpine_hotel.cooma.html )

For all those interested or available to attend we would also like to extend an invitation to our wedding next year in the UK on Saturday 2nd May. The ceremony will take place at 2pm St Peters Church, Humberstone (www.stpetershumberston.co.uk) and the reception at 6pm at the Brackenborough Hotel (www.brackenborough.co.uk ), near Louth both in North East Lincolnshire. For accomodation options, further details or for a formal invitation please contact us here in Cooma on ph: Aus(0061) (0)2 6452 7460.

Many thanks to all those who have offered their best wishes. We are looking forward to catching up with all those we haven't seen for a while and also hosting Gemma's parents,brother and sister who are coming to Australia over Christmas and New Year. Hope this news finds you all well and we look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes

Stuart and Gemma

August 2006

Stu on Tour!

This page will contain info, stories and updates on my world travels over the last few years. Also check out the Stu on Tour photo album in Pictures...

Update 31/8/06

Family and Friends just a quick email just to apologise profusely for the lack of email contact over the last few months, years and to give you all my new contact details. Well there actually similar to my old contact details before travelling again as on my return to Australia I've moved back into my house in the Snowy Mountains again with my girlfriend Gemma.

We spent the last year or so living and working in France which was a fantastic experience. We're both working with an Outdoor Education Group just south of Canberra and spending our spare time playing sport and enjoying the Mountians skiing and walking. Although we don't have any immediate travel plans, with Gemma's family in the UK I imagine we will be in the northern hemisphere again sometime sooner rather than later to catch up with you all. To those living in Australia we hope to catch up with you all very shortly and of course your more than welcome to visit and stay with us in the Snowy Mountains anytime. For those of you technologically minded we are also now contactable over the internet with Skype (Voice Over Internet), see below for details.
Best wishes to you all.
Regards

Stuart Butterfield / Gemma Wood Skype usernames: gemstu1 or stugem1 (Cooma, Australia)

May 2003

Travel Stories 14/5/03

Apologies again for the slackness but I will make up for it now...This is my 2nd attempt at this email so here's hoping this one saves. Well I'm writing to you from the Shrewsbury Library where I'm on a day off from instructing at Summer Camp some 12miles away in between England and Wales. I spend my days teaching kiddies Archery, Fencing, Abseiling, Rock Climbing, Quad biking and Ropes/ Challenge courses. All good fun. Next month I'll be teaching rafting, kayaking and canoeing so that should be good. I'm enjoying the teaching and getting a buzz from the kids but it is tiring work 6 days a week for zero money but its all a good crack. Its a good bunch of staff (200 of them) and instructors from all over the globe especially down under but at 27 I'm just about the veteren of the bunch. Before getting here a month ago I spent the winter months Jan-March in Scotland at my favourite spot Aviemore working as the lifts and tows supervisor skiing and boarding my days away from tow to tow (weather permitting). The people and friends I have made in Scotland I will cherish forever and I hope to repay their kindness and hospitality one day soon. I rounded off my time there with a 10 day car hire trip around Scotland (photos to come) which was great fun catching up with people and going to places I'd wanted to do for ages. Lots of castles and camping in the scottish spring sunshine. I spent 2 months around Christmas catching up with Mum and Dad and the Butterfield clan in the unbearable Queensland heat so some would say I've literally had the best of both worlds over the last 6 months. I'm looking forward to coming back to Oz now as not a day goes by when I don't think of moving into my house in the snowy mountains so maybe the time is right to come home soon. But not too soon as I want to go to Scandanavia, Russia, Poland and the Chech Republic before then and when I get home New Zealand, the south pacific and asia awaits. And for those wondering what next I'm already planning my next big trip to the Americas and a return trip to Europe in the near future so plenty of travels and stories to come. But for now sayanara from Shrewsbury Library and hope alls well with everyone in their neck of the woods and hope to see you all soon in 2003.

Siesta Stue

September 2002

Travel Stories 24/9/02

Well my sincerest apologies about the 4 month absence from updating this but I'll make it up to you with a story of adventure, action, romance and suspense. Well not really but I'll do my best. So I'm still here...Can't believe it myself but still here in Aviemore, Scotland my adopted home away from home and I must say I am still enjoying my time here. I am actually just now getting ready to leave to go back to Oz for 2months via London but will be back fingers crossed around Xmas/New Year or Hogmanny as they call it up here. I would love to be back to go to the hogmanny celebrations in Edinburgh but we'll see how I get on. Well I've been working and playing all uk summer allthough it hasn't been much of a summer weatherwise. My big news is that I've just returned from a week in Mallorca,Spain staying with some friends in a wee town called Port de Pollence. I had a great time and enjoyed the Spainish siesta lifestyle of sun,sand and swimming (I would say surf but there wasn't any) with my friends and hosts Lyndsey,Tania and Eilih? I've also been travelling about lately getting to Glasgow, Fort William, Nevis Range and Inverness now and again. I can also say that I've been swimming in the north sea twice. Once at a beautiful spot up the coast from Inverness called Findhorn and the other was on a camping trip to the north west tip of Scotland at Sandwood Bay. Sandwood bay was awesome the most amazing scenery imaginable with tremendous undulating hills mixed with crystal clear (cold) lochs and bays. A friend and I hiked in (1&1/2hours each way) and camped overnight, guitar, camp fire, waterfall shower and all in all had a great time. Very good Crack as they say over here. Photo's on website soon. The last two weeks I've also played Rugby for the local team. A good bunch of guys who like to drink more than play rugby but since we won 115-nil the other day I don't think anyone's complaining. I was in the local paper as "the exciting aussie out on the wing, from the land of aussie rules" however the name butterstone did me no favours. Fortunately I'm the only aussie in town stupid enough to put my body through a game of rugby so everyone knew who it was. Thats about it though newswise. Work has been ok not as good a crack as winter but still quite enjoyable to see how a ski resort can also become an all seasons resort. Well that just about covers the Adventure, Action parts. Romance well except to say that my heart still rings true for the red and blue (great season dees) I am still searching for my bonnie lassie but who's to say I haven't met her already?? And suspense well if that last lines not enough then lets just wait and see what will come of 2003....

Hope to see you all soon

Siesta Stue

May 2002

Travel Stories 8/5/02

Howdy from Haggisland everyone. Yes apologies for being out of touch for a while but I've been quite busy working and seeing Scotland. Good to hear your all still well and everyone is keeping out of trouble. I'm at work right now 15mins before the shop opens so I'd better be quick. Still working up at Cairngorm and we are now in full summer mode so lots of oldies or coffin dodgers as we call them wandering around wanting to buy postcards. The pay is not great and its tempting to go back to London and get some proper work but I've got a good place where I live and Aviemore is quite a beautiful spot with lots of things to do. Also I can save what little pounds I am earning as we get free food (just about) and free transport (lifts or hitching ) so my expenses are minimal. Well I can say I've been out and about the last few weekends I get off. Firstly I went over to the Isle of Skye for a camping weekend which was quite good. Amazing scenery on the way over there but the island itself wasn't everything I thought it would be. Then last weekend I borrowed a friends car and went and stayed in a castle up at a place called culrain about an hour north of inverness. It was a beautiful castle that was donated to the youth hostel association in 1945 and I had a great time exploring and watching out for ghosts as I was supposedly staying in the most haunted room. I then followed the tourist trail north and then back down south to meet up with some friends down near loch ness. No sightings I'm afraid! For those of you that know Kelly I caught up with her at her workplace at Glengarry Castle where we sat in the library and had high tea. I'm hoping to get the photo posted onto my website when I can figure out how to scan so you can all have a wee looksee. After that I stayed the night with another friend up at a little village called Cannich near drumnadrochit. Tim this place very much reminded me of that place in Tassie where Robs sisters restaurant is! We then got a flat tyre on the way home the next morning from Inverness in the pouring rain which was a load of fun. What is it with Scotland and flat tyres hey dad! Anyway no problems apart from finding the tyre on the French Citroen car! Under the car go figure! I was hoping to get down to Edinburgh sometime soon as there is a Star Wars exhibition on and I'd like to see it when the new movie comes out next week over hear. Maybe next weekend or maybe go to Ireland as there's return fares from Edinburgh with Easyjet for 짙8. Well thats about it from me, it'd be great to see anyone coming up to
Scotland (Si and Jack, thats you) I've got plenty of room to stay. All the
best.
Stue
PS. Go the demons....