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  • Venman

    We went walking today at Venman Bushland National Park, intending to do the long circuit walk around the park. We did that successfully, but then we tried to do a small additional circuit while in the depths of the park and got lost for a little while. Not so lost that we weren’t on a…

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  • In the trenches

    Last weekend we spent our time digging a trench to extend our phone line. A rather difficult task, through the impacted earth over the driveway, although we eventually made quite a neat tunnel and layed down some pipe we’d welded together (using the word ‘we’ in a rather broad sense with respect to the welding).…

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  • The last words

    I am reaching the last few discs of Possession, which is a sad realisation. I don’t want this story to end. I read in the same way that Randolph does – he writes in a letter to Christabel: “I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial…

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  • Before the ceremony

    I took this photo as she was waiting in the doorway for everyone to get into the cars and head to the church, looking down at all the fuss and confusion. I photographed this wedding for some friends last weekend, which I actually found quite difficult – poor lighting reveals the limitations of my equipment…

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  • Watching, reading

    I am watching The Incredible Hulk, without a great deal of attention – partly because it’s not a very good movie, and partly because I much preferred Eric Bana as Hulk. I know most people thought that movie was far too long and faux-arty, but I liked it. I like the origin story more than…

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  • Movie Log – Da Vinci Code

    These were some of the fireworks I saw on the insanity that is Territory Day in Darwin (which means the ability for the general public to let off fireworks wherever they choose). Wandering around the video store (which despite the absence of videos I cannot seem to start calling the DVD store) with instructions to…

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  • Cooinda, NT

    Excerpt from my travel diary – 29 June 2009, Kakadu We boarded the boat in the morning dimness, surrounded by hoardes of mozzies, and headed out onto the water to watch the sun rising in a blaze of colour across the horizon, lighting the still water. Wild horses grazed near the water’s edge, covered in…

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  • In the dark midwinter

    The coldest week we’ve had this month was probably the worst possible time for our hot water heater to stop working. Thankfully, due to our granny flat we have a separate hot water heater. Unthankfully, this means we have to dash over to the other building in the freezing dark every morning to shower. And…

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  • Primadonna

    Could Horace’s life be more exhausting? Constantly expected to loll around, having his picture taken, his ears scratched, his every mew attended to – a cat can only put up with so much. Now that winter is here (particularly with the last week of particularly chilly temperatures), the cats have been bulking up fur-wise, and…

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  • Trip to Stanthorpe

    We drove to Stanthorpe for the Queen’s Birthday long weekend recently, staying in a tiny cabin in a camping ground, with a river running along the back of the property. Why can I never get horizons straight? Apparently I stand on angles when taking landscape shots. We climbed up a big rock (the Pyramid walk…

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