When I said the other day that Martindale's been working almost around the clock since the bushfires broke out in order to get those emergency payments out to those affected by the fire, I wasn't kidding. Almost a week after it started, he's still at it. He left for work this morning at 6:30am; it's now 11:30pm and he's still not home (though he ( Read more... )

Some years ago, my friend Jean and I went on a road trip around her old haunts of country Victoria, visiting her friends who lived there and places she loved. We spent a good part of that time puttering around Gippsland and environs, camping in forests and visiting all sorts of interesting folk, and we passed a few pleasant days with a household of ( Read more... )

Courtesy of elisem, a live deep sea fishcam! Eeee! Real live abyssal fishies swim past as you watch! Very cool, and fascinating!

One of the highlights of the last week or two was a dinner cruise on the One And All, a brigantine that operates out of Port Adelaide. She's mostly used for sail training, but she does regular short cruises as well. Artyem and I went on a "Sunset Cruise", a 4-hour trip (including dinner) that goes out through the Port waterways and pootles around ( Read more... )

I've been doing quite a bit of craftystuff lately. ( Click for details of knitting and tablet-weaving projects, including 5 pics... )

Rather than doing a blow-by-blow catchup of everything that's happened lately, I'll just mention a few highlights and top it off with several photos. I've two more posts planned, one focussing on craftstuff that I've been doing lately, and another on a Tall Ship cruise I went on last week. This one's getting all the bits that are left over ( Read more... )

For the edification of folk in cooler climes (i.e. just about everywhere not-here), I thought I'd share with you some statistics regarding the local weather over the last 24 hours or so ( Read more... )

If anyone happens to be wondering why I haven't been around much online over the last few days... well, I got Fallout 3 for xmas. Nuff said. :-)))

Spotted on icanhascheezburger.com and shared for micheinnz's edification in particular:


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One of the particular joys of my migraines that happens now and then is migraine nightmares. I went to bed last night with a migraine, and spent what felt like the entire night having one nightmare after another. Ugh. The sequence included ( Read more... )