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Banning bottled water
I was listening to Triple J on the way home and Hack was doing a piece on the town of Bundanoon, which is just up on the highlands from us, and their plan to ban bottled water. And now it looks like the NSW Premier is following suite and phasing out the use of bottled water in NSW government departments and is planning a public campaign to ( Read more... ) -
Reasons why I love this place at times
To commerate an icon among the campus community, the University has commissioned a sculpture to honour the memory of the evil duck of the duckpond lawn:
http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW061363.html
This duck had struck fear into the hearts of many until it was sadly killed by an off leash dog. It has quite a cult following and I love that this place ( Read more... ) -
Books and lillies
Today started with a lovely lazy morning. The CPD disappeared early-ish to go help the guys at Futureworld with a pergola (long story). So I slept in, had lazy breakfast. I was intending to go and check out a local organic food store I've just found out about, but a quick check of their website showed they weren't open on the weekend. So I pottered ( Read more... ) -
You know you're getting old and boring when...
...your TV dies and you go and buy a Scrabble set to replace it while your Dad "has a look at it" (Dad's an ex-electrical engineer, so there is actually half a chance he's got the necessary spare widget that we've blown in the garage at home somewhere).
Seriously, we're at home with no TV and the best at home entertainment we come up with is ( Read more... ) -
Jacuzzi!
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New blog - Greening our life
Since both the CPD and I are diving into the sustainable living thing and we both like writing about it, we've set up a new blog to cover our sustainable living escapades here:
http://greeningourlife.blogspot.com/
And a corresponding flickr site here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeningourlife/
I'm in the process of moving the gardening and ( Read more... ) -
A picture speaks a thousand words?
I have a whole stack of garden stuff I was going to blog, but my wrists are giving me grief, so instead, here's a funny, slightly rude looking carrot from our vegie patch :)
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You know you're a garden nut when...
...your radar becomes tuned to spotting potentially abandoned polystyrene boxes that you can nab for planting vegies in. This morning while I was getting my coffee, I noticed an empty box next to the bin so I asked the guys if they were keeping it or chucking it. They were chucking it, so I went "score!" and took it back to the office with me. Will ( Read more... ) -
The ranty-ness, it went away
About an hour ago, I was walking out of work, after a long, stressful day fraught with crises caused by sheer failure of people to engage brains. I has a full flight rant just waiting to be unleased about how I was ready to quit my job and become a self sufficient hippy in the Tassie wilderness ( Read more... ) -
A place in the country
A couple of weeks ago, the CPD sends me an email from Tassie saying "What do you think about buying a block of land in Waratah? They've got a bunch of blocks that people have defaulted on that are up for auction soon, should go pretty cheap. I was thinking of building a log cabin" I say "Sure, why not?".
Well today we became the proud co-onwers of a ( Read more... )
