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Woo!
I received a phone call late this afternoon telling me that at 5:18pm Melbourne time I became an uncle again. I wonder when people will start asking me when my turn is ( Read more... ) -
Going to Melbourne
Oh yeah, Linda and I (along with most of my immediate family) are going to Melbourne for my brother's wedding. We'll be there from the 5th to the 13th.
Does anyone have any suggestions for things to do/see during the 8 days that we're there? Already definites are Scienceworks, Federation Square and ACMI. We also intend to wander random alleys. We ( Read more... ) -
Photopost
Well, it seems that Linda has posted twice in two days, and seeing as I'd been telling myself I'd do a photo-related posted anyway, here I am.
( Some of you may have noticed my enthusiasm for taking photos. ) -
Good, bad, and ugly.
Good ( Read more... ) -
If muesli bar wrappers were designed by computer programmers...
...you'd see something like this:
INGREDIENTS ( Read more... ) -
Prematrimonial
Those of you that know me (which is hopefully most of you) will probably want to look here. Of course, if you don't know me you can look too ( Read more... ) -
Teething
Those that have been following our house saga may be interested to know that we picked up keys on Thursday, though a number of the items found during the Practical Completion inspection nearly three weeks earlier (eg. flumed exhausts lacking flumes (ie. vented into the roof cavity instead of outside like we paid for), a couple of cases of appalling ( Read more... ) -
Walls!
For those that haven't been closely following my gallery closely, we now have walls. Actually, we've had a complete set of walls since the Wednesday after Easter, but I've been too busy/slack to upload photos and document it here. Construction of brickwork started on March 24th and completed on April 6th (and when I get around to it, photos I'd ( Read more... ) -
Bricks
Finally! Some progress on the house.
A few weeks after agreeing to cough up $600 for switching from the default lime silica bricks (which due to a broken down kiln (I think they actually meant autoclave - lime silica brick are manufactured using a different process to normal bricks) looked like resulting in considerably extra delay) to clay, ( Read more... )
