I know that up near Seymour, kangaroos are considered pests. But to a City Boy like me, it’s still nice to see them hopping about in the wild. PS. Monday 7am. When you’re walking around in bare feet, have to watch out for the roo poo.
I was engrossed in my book. The train stopped, and I opened the doors and hopped out. I walked along the platform. This looks different… where did the glass doors from the entrance go? This is not my station. My station’s the next one. The train doors were still open, so I hopped back on, ... [More]
“Classic” Doctor Who repeats finish tonight on the ABC, after running almost every episode still in existence over the past 2 1/2 years. It’s funny to think they started just before the new series was announced. It was also a few months after I had introduced my kids to the show (with DVDs and old ... [More]
Café culture — or should I say Coffee culture is well-established in Melbourne. These days coffee lovers have a reasonable expectation that they can get a decent coffee at most places. Anything inferior is quite likely to result in a backlash and loss of patronage. As I’ve remarked previously, the standard of tea hasn’t come ... [More]
Bloglines users: the problem preventing you reading from Bloglines has been fixed. (Mea culpa, it was my fault.) For those who asked how I did the desk animation, here’s an explanation.
I’ve done a lot of TV interviews on location, but never in a studio, until today. Community TV station Channel 31 did an interview for tonight’s “C News Focus” story on public transport. The interviewer guy asked a couple of curly questions, so hopefully I acquitted myself well. It airs at 10:15pm. A few observations: ... [More]
The old desk, to my utter surprise, reached $137.50 on eBay. It was bought by a guy from a few suburbs away for his daughter to use for studying. She seemed happy, he seemed happy, and I certainly was. Win-win. That’s why I like eBay. He came to pick it up on Australia Day. I ... [More]
If you want to see the Margaret Preston exhibit at the Ian Potter Centre/National Gallery of Victoria, you’ve got until Sunday. Marita and I went on Australia Day — a good escape from the heat. Good stuff, a reminder that Preston didn’t just do floral illustrations (though they were certainly prominent) but also dabbled in ... [More]
Dear sir and madam, Welcome to our city. I could make a remark about thumbs that are sore, but that probably wouldn’t be polite. Please enjoy your stay.
Happy Australia Day.
Outrage in the office. A note at the scene of the crime, the fridge: Further investigation revealed that in fact two victims had had their yoghurt go missing. It seems there is a serial yoghurt thief among us.
Dream from the other night: I woke up with huge hair, sticking straight out for about 30cm in every direction from my head. I looked in the mirror and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. “How can this be?” I thought “I only had a haircut last week…”
The gas people finished their upgrade on Friday, and I found a note in the letterbox telling me I had a nice shiny new gas meter, and that it was turned off, and how to turn everything back on. Following the instructions, I started with the stove… after much spluttering it seemed okay. Hot water ... [More]
It’s days like these that you begin to appreciate why some people go and spend thousands installing and running home airconditioning. Yikes. I suppose we should be grateful it didn’t quite reach the forecast 43°, but stopped short on a mere 42.4°C (108.3°F) instead. I spent some time today listening to the bushfire updates on ... [More]
On my nature strip this morning is a little bulldozer. Unfortunately it’s not a late Christmas present. Some guys from the gas company have been digging up various bits of the street all week, including parts of my driveway around the gas meter. This has meant the gas has been disconnected between 8am and 5pm ... [More]
My old bank sent me a Visa bill the other day. I wonder how many more bills they’ll send before they remember that I cancelled the card several months ago, and one of their staff cut the card up as I watched? (I can’t believe I didn’t blog about that, as they tried to charge ... [More]