The local paper has been keeping us up to date with exciting news about national TV doing a story in the City by the Sea. One of those real estate programs, where the host shows prospective buyers three houses they might like. The focus of this series was luxury houses in regional Australia. We had an article when it was being filmed and another ( Read more... )

My car has barely been driven since March, and that's only been a handful of trips to the supermarket or the office, so I ended 2020 with a road trip round the bay to Port Fairy. Lunch on the red volcanic rocks at Southcombe beach, watching surfers bob up and down in the turquoise swell; a swing around the Tower Hill nature reserve on the way home ( Read more... )

I've spent a lot of time this year reading mid-century (as in last century) mystery novels. This week: yet another instance of a detective describing a criminal as "groovy", as in "having a consistent MO". That's the second time I've seen that, so I gather that was a perfectly cromulent usage. Also, in a book from 1949: the idea that a young woman ( Read more... )

A day later than planned, but here are the notes of last week ( Read more... )

Honestly, that was the next question on the World War I US army literacy test. I make no comment as to its relevance today.

This week: signs of spring. The sweet peas are out, electric pink and scented. Tulips and daffodils out the kitchen window. Colours other than winter green and brown.


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I've realised the reason I haven't been writing much recently, and that's because now I'm back at work I'm not out doing interesting things. I'm buried in month-end work at the moment, slaving over a hot spreadsheet, and that doesn't make for an interesting entry.* So let's ease over a dull day with a five question meme about cheese.

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This week:1. I worked my last day on Monday, so I am unemployed again. Having two months back in the office has really given me food for thought about what went wrong last year, so that's been useful. The last thing I had to do was a handover meeting with Passive-Aggressive Lady. It was all very polite, but she clearly wasn't going to like a lot of ( Read more... )

Two headlines I read on the cover of That's Life magazine while in the supermarket queue this morning:
1. Help! I'm afraid of CRUMPETS
2. Mum's shock: Doing the laundry PUT ME IN A COMA

One question from a meme I saw on my f-list (the rest were too boring to bother with):
1. When was the last time you saw a duck in person?Yesterday. I saw two ( Read more... )

Time to do something I've been thinking about for a while. Last year - last year! - there was a meme going around discussing five fictional characters and heliopausa gave me the letter N.

1. Nova

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