Last night I enjoyed my sisters Xmas present to her family, which was tickets to Moonshadow, a Cat Stevens tribute show fronted by Darren Coggan. It was all very 70's retro, and a good thing the temperature wasn't like the night before.

But it was another late night, after a late Tuesday night due to the heat (it got to 41C/106F during the day and ( Read more... )

Its time to start putting up photo's from my trip.
First stop was in the Moselle valley, we were staying in Wittlich, near the lovely town of Trier.
( Trier region )

How to spend a weekend of Total Fire Ban.
Since Saturday was going to reach 37 (99F to you Americans) I spent the morning going Op Shopping to get out and about before the day got too hot.

Going down into Ferntree Gully was slightly worrying, as the smoke from the fires was even thicker down the bottom of the hill.

( View across Valley )

The start of images from Germany

( Just a few photos of me so far )

Tonight is Australia Night,
I wonder how many of my fellow Australian's will celebrate, or even remember that tonight is Australia Night, when the rest of the colonists (and the rum) disembarked from the Frst Fleet, and a very vigorous orgy ensured.
Because when the first settlers landed in Australia, after the men built the camp, the women ( Read more... )

Last Sunday was great, I got to spend it with sootysmudge (and a certain 4 y/o) and Carl, driving around the Strzelecki hills of Mirboo North. Travelled through the forest along the Grand Ridge Road to Mirboo North, which I had wanted to drive for a while, as the other end of the Grand Ridge Road up at Balook formed part of the boundary for the mapping ( Read more... )

So much for New Years Eve plans, its stinking hot outside, its supposed to be 42C (108) and it feel like it, definatly hotter than yesterday which got to 39C (102 for any Americans out there), and on a afternoon like this, plans to go to parties just melt away (unless they had a pool, and I dont know of any with a pool ( Read more... )

I havent posted for a while, busy at work and all of that (Have had many interesting adventures since the last post, but thats life when your busy). Also making sure Im home by 6 in the evening to read to Magnus (books like 'Thats not my Cow', etc, although he had a birthday recently and received a whole lot of new Thomas, Slinky Malinki and Dr ( Read more... )

On Friday night it was off to Cabaret Nocturn for vampmasochist's birthday. Took sootysmudge with me (and she should be having dinner tonight with me).
Played pool with mystique_maiden against some friends of ours, and we almost got them to the pants off stage ( Read more... )

Haven't updated for a while, start of semister (its now week 3) is always a bit of a nightmare, but thats life when you work at a Uni.
spent most of last night shivering under multiple doonas as I seem to have caught the virus that is going around *bleh*