Colin Hewitt.com - About Me

I was born in a third world country that I really wish I wasn't born in, because the stigma has plagued me all my life.
My father was in the British Army at the time and that is where he was posted.
When I was 3 months old, we moved to England.

We eventually settled in Melbourne and I got my first job when I was 17 years old as an apprentice moulder at an aircraft factory making aircraft parts.

I worked for the Scottish Youth Hostels Association in Edinburgh for almost 12 months, first as a kitchen hand then as an Assistant Warden

I returned to Australia in December 1983 and eventually found work with the Youth Hostels Association.

I stayed there for about 18 months. First as a Relief Manager for country Victoria and then as a Manager at one of the North Melbourne Hostels

The hours I worked were not particularly good for the relationship I was having with my then girlfriend. In order to maintain the relationship, I left and was out of work for approximately 2 to 3 months

I eventually got a job with BP Oil after several months of temp work with an employment agency

I worked in the card services section for about 7 years or so. I quite liked my job there, but I decided to pursue a dream to live in tropical Darwin

In 1992 I quit my job at BP and hit the road and moved to Darwin in the Northern Territory

I had no job, so I borrowed a rake, borrowed a shovel, borrowed a lawn mower and started a business mowing lawns

The driving reason to sell up was because my father had terminal cancer and had only a few months left to live.
As it happened, he died 7 months later.

When I came back to Melbourne I got a job at a mushroom farm making spawn in the spawn lab and have been there for almost 10 years now.

I continued living with my mum because I didn't want to see her living on her own Too many people these days see old ladies living on their own as easy targets

I made a wedding website when we were married. It has some of our wedding pictures and ceremony details etc.
I have also made a downloadable .exe file of our wedding. Try it. I am sure you will enjoy it

Since 2003 we have been playing Santa and Mrs Claus at family Christmas gatherings

In 2005, Darlene came to Australia to live and we moved into a 2 bedroom unit in Broadford that I had bought as an investment property a few years earlier.

Darlene left for the USA in March 2007 to try to resolve some ongoing family legal issues and while she has been there she found and bought an acre of land which she is getting developed so one day we can then buy a house to put onto it for when we are old and grey.

In 2006 we had a 3 month holiday in the USA. We went to South Carolina and spent the bulk of our time there. Darlene is a Southern girl who loves her beloved South. We also went to Montana for about a week, visiting Glacier National Park. We also went to a Pow Wow in North Carolina and spent some time in Tennessee, visiting the Jack Daniel Distillery, Nashville, and Elvis Presleys Graceland Mansion.

At first we were using the el-cheapo santa suits, but we figured if we were going to be doing this on a regular basis, we may as well look the business

So then I decided to spend a few dollars doing some work to it to make it look somewhat better than it was, and in 1997 I entered all 5 shows and won each one for the catogory I entered.

While I was there in Darwin, I entered my bike (a 1979 Triumph Bonneville) in 3 of the bike shows. At first I had no luck at all. The following year I did manage a win - Best Triumph

I started to get into webpage making and have since made a few websites. I do it more for the sake of just doing it than anything else. I guess because when I was at BP I tried to get into the I.T. department and they said that I knew nothing about computers. I suppose this is my little way of saying "Yeah? Well now look!"