Last weekend was a "puente" or long weekend, thanks to September 8 being a holiday (I'm still not sure what for). Marion and I decided to visit Salamanca. It's a city of a similar size to Oviedo, about 225,000. It's about 200km from Madrid and 313km from Oviedo. It's famous for being a "university town" and having two cathedrals ( Read more... )

Well not all that much has changed since my one month update. The weather finally kicked into proper autumn mode (RIP, veroño). By the 6th November there was some snow on just a couple of the surrounding mountains. The first week was rough but now the central heating has kicked in it's more than bearable. My housemate situation seems to have a ( Read more... )

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In late August or early September (I forget! and can't find any of the messages used to organise it!), I went for a day walk with Susan, Jen and Jen's friend Pam around Puffing Billy territory. Here are some birds checking me out, as I check them out.

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Far out. I barely blink in January and the year is 1/12 over.

I spent 1-11 January in WA - a few days in Busselton, then a week in Perth for my 7th (wow) LCA.

Photos - totally can't find the flickr slideshow embed codes now, grr

Busselton is the home of a famous Ironman triathlon, and also Southbound music festival which I went to. Southbound is ( Read more... )

Here are some things I have done since my last chronicling of entertainment and related activities (about 6 weeks ago).

* Went to a free meditation session as part of Mindful in May. Had an interesting discussion and thoughts afterwards about the difference between "mindfulness" and what might be called "attention" (I can't remember if our guru ( Read more... )