Having been reminded that it had been a while since I took a camera down to the beach just as sunlight was starting to creep over the hills in the east, I wandered oceanwards in the pale first rays. Of course, being an Australian summer, the swimmers, joggers, kayakers, boaters, strollers, and exercisers had already been out in force for a few ( Read more... )

Discovery ( Read more... )

A quick call to the new lender established that even though the person supposed to be on the case is (once again) on leave, the handover ("settlement") is scheduled for Wednesday ( Read more... )

For reasons of Health and excess energy, I wandered out of the house and turned towards the ocean as the sun drifted below the horizon and eight o'clock rolled languidly over the suburbs ( Read more... )

I must say, this whole psuedo-employment thing certainly has its benefits ( Read more... )

Friday and Saturday nights were concert nights. The old Port Cinema in Fremantle has opened its doors after nine (ten? fifteen?) years, but instead of the silver screen, we were presented with silver tongues and incredible live performances from bands Jim Fisher had pulled together to save the building from being knocked down ( Read more... )

It's been raining now on and off for a couple of hours. Mainly on. It's not a deluge by any measure, but it's determinedly not merely a drizzle ( Read more... )

Well, I spoke to R and there was basically nothing there, so as of today I'm not going to care about my employer any more, or the hole they're going to keep digging themselves into ( Read more... )

Today has been a day of relative calm. In practically all things, we're doing well, or at least well enough - there are no major crises on the horizon, and with yesterday being a national public holiday, today felt like a Sunday but with all the shops open ( Read more... )

We hit Chutney Mary's in Subiaco for dinner last night, and I have to say that either the food should have been a damn sight better than vaguely-edible, or the bill should have been a damn sight less than eighty bucks. ( Read more... )