We are now live in Townsville Australia, we arrived in February 2009, we are learning to speak Ozzie, its a slow long road, but we are loving the journey.

Helen is working Incitec Pivot as an admin in the Despatcher roll and Richard is working for Schindler Lifts as a Service Manager.

to the Sands web site, the home page of Helen and Richard; we hope you enjoy your time browsing through it all. Be warned, it is getting bigger and bigger all the time, so be prepared to waste a lot of time.

Our web building project began in the late 1990's as a form of sharing our goings on with family and friends, also to serve as a useful tool in web designing.

Helen and I are keen Harley-Davidson enthusiasts.  Richard rides his 4th Harley a 2004 model FXSTS (purchased from New), and Helen sold her 2007 model Softail Custom to finance our move abroad, we are saving hard to replace it, we hope to have a 1200C very soon. We enjoy nothing more than getting out on the road on a fine warm day, and getting out and enjoying the experience, the whole Harley package - which doesn't end at owning the bike. You have to love and appreciate the 105+ years of workmanship that have gone into what we see on the road today.

We both enjoy our footy (Rugby) - we are mad keen on Waikato Rugby, being avid fans of the Mighty Mooloo's and Chiefs, lets hope we can continue the adventure in Ozzi land

In May 2006 we took up the gym as a form of detoxing.  This has become more of an obsession than a pastime, with Helen being selected out of the crowd to become a Les Mills pump instructor, early 2009 Helen took the Les Mills Combat instructors course, she teaches Pump and Combat at JCU and at the Zoo.

We have a new addition to our Family a minature foxy X, her name is London