This time will be the right time - I cry. - time to start writing again. (Inwardly at least. Inside of every busy person is a writer screaming to get out. Or at least not to have to do the gardening, dog walking and vacuuming ( Read more... )

A couple of weekends ago, celebrating the fact that I have finally found a job, we went out with a local dive company to spend the weekend diving on the Barrier Reef. Barrier Reef is a slight misnomer as we were in the Palm Island Group - which is technically inner reef rather than the glorious TV special proliferation of life seen in documentaries ( Read more... )

Two unhappy kitties are currently caught up in an outbreak of ringworm in the C household. (It's suspected that the "drop bear" with her pound pedigree that is the pestilent one - but at any rate, both had to be bathed in special medicated shampoo ( Read more... )

I'm finally getting to the end of the chores and paperwork (i.e. quotes for the items that Pickfords dropped!)so soon might be able to get out and see some of the reef and more of the local area. We are pretty close to a place called Charters Towers where you can still go gold panning ( Read more... )

Bit of a gap - one master's degree, a house and a marriage, several cats.... and an exodus (from the UK - not the marriage ( Read more... )

and I truly don't like facebook that much. I hate being restricted to trying to put across views in a couple of sentences... it's blogging in 2D ( Read more... )

You have snow. we don't. What the ??? Surely I am more rural (and deserving!!) out here than you undeserving bastards ( Read more... )

Well, the plan WAS to come up on Thursday night and spend the weekend in London, however I've just been informed that I now have a fieldtrip on Friday morning. It's part of (marked) coursework, so no bunking can be done ( Read more... )

Had promised myself the time to update once I finished my hydrogeology essay and so I can no longer put off the inevitable ( Read more... )

Can't imagine that anyone will find this site randomly and ask to be added, but if you do know me, leave a message.

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