Thread: G'day from Brisbane, the sunny state, although it rained last night

G'day All

My name is Tim Temple-Watts, I'm 19 years old and live in the western suburbs of Brisbane. I was born in Toowoomba in 1991 and grew up for the first 5 years on our family property in Goondiwindi. Our family lived in England for 18 months, the Philippines for 2 years and had small stints in Malaysia and Singapore. We returned to Australia in 1999/2000 and picked up schooling again in Indooroopilly, Brisbane.

Two years after coming back we moved to Kenmore and over the last 6 years we have been renovating the house and by we, I really mean my Dad with some help from the family. He was a jack of all trades, plumber, brick layer, builder, electrician, mechanic, farmer, concreter, oil rig worker etc etc etc. From him I learnt many things and picked up my love for fishing and boating from a very early age, as well as a love for building things.

In highschool I studied Technology Studies, which was a cross between design and building & construction into one, so we had to write reports and then design a product to fit some niche or just a big project and then go build it. Dad supported me from the word go with many of these projects, for which I am very grateful of.
We had often talked of building a boat, but this never eventuated. Dad passed away on the 28 July 09.

I am currently studying Parks and Wildlife Management at the Uni of QLD, Gatton Campus and after this course want to head down to Victoria to study a Diploma of Outdoor Education and Recreation.

I think thats enough for now, bit about my background, what I'm into and what I'm doing.

Cheers & Thanks for reading,

Tim