Number of days until the next Here Is My meme entry: 2. (The plan is to post one every Sunday). Have your cameras ready! Number of people I’ve seen on the train this week reading The Da Vinci Code: 4 5 — including two in the same carriage. Number of TV shows I endeavour to ... [More]
Apparently this year’s Salvation Army Red Shield appeal fell short by around $2 million, with apartment block security doors and an increasingly cashless society cited as two major reasons. I think most would agree the Salvos do a good job, so if you had planned to give but couldn’t, now might be a good time ... [More]
The car has been making its funny noise again. So I took it back into the service place on Thursday to get them to look at it. The service dude rang me that afternoon, saying that one of the flange-gespacho defribulators seemed to be loose, thatlast time round the engine guys who had done the ... [More]
My mobile phone has rung so much in the last few days that I’m starting to imagine I’m hearing it. Not particularly helped by the following: As I stepped into the toilet this morning, I must have been momentarily distracted, and as I turned around to close the door, my forehead and the high shelf ... [More]
My sister says she was sitting at home in West London on Friday when she saw three Concorde fly past. That would be a sight to see. Warning: gardening in progress Okay, to business. Apart from ENJOYING myself this weekend, I also need to do the following: mow the front garden and nature strip (in ... [More]
Well I didn’t get invited to Howard & Bush’s barbie, so I went to work today instead. (Still, it doesn’t sound like a real Australian barbecue – no mention of snags fried to a blackened crisp). Funny weather. Initially out this morning, it was drizzly. Then stopped back past home, just cloudy. Left for work, ... [More]
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM DATE: 18/10/2003 FROM: Daniel Bowen TO: Daniel Bowen SUBJECT: Door to door When allowing house to bask in warm weather on a gloriously sunny Saturday morning, keep security door locked as defence against door to door sellers. Note poor visibility through security door for those looking in, reasonable visibility when looking out. Use ... [More]
The sun setting behind Melbourne Central last night. Click for the full size image. (Yes, that is the reflection of my hand you can see).
Yesterday I used my car horn in anger. I was merrily driving down the road. The sun was shining, the road was almost clear of traffic; it could have been a car commercial, apart from the fact that my car is 10 years old and has started making that noise again – insert rant about ... [More]
Now I wouldn’t normally mix business with pleasure like this, but I can imagine a lot of Melbourne people will be affected by this. Melbourne Central, in their wisdom, have decided that people getting off trains and going about their business do so far too easily, and they’d like to send them on a merry ... [More]
I promise, I tried to get to bed early last night. It had been a long day. I tried. Didn’t quite make it, but I’ve had later bedtimes on work nights, so there you go. Anyway I was happily snoozing, until I suddenly woke. Outside it was light. I lay there for a minute or ... [More]
Sweating today at work. Damn the air-conditioning for breaking down on a warm day. But it was a good excuse to go out for a walk in the glorious sunshine and get some fresh (well apart from the traffic fumes and the occasional passing smoker, cough, cough) air. If it’s like this tomorrow maybe I’ll ... [More]