photos, fly fishing, food, maps & cycling
today was warm, so we headed down the coast to Point Lonsdale – our current favourite destination. It has a combination of good snorkelling, some rockpools to ramble around and a couple of reasonable coffee shops. Anyway, the snorkelling was great – there were plenty of fish, one good stingray and a Leafy Sea Dragon, which was a bonus.
Afterwards, we headed back up to the Blueberry farm near Portarlington and picked a couple of kilos of fruit. Mmm, Blueberry Muffins tomorrow morning!
Yoiks, it’s hot all of a sudden! 8:40pm and the WeatherPixie says it’s still 35°c. There is a storm building on the radar, but it’s about 200km. away so it’ll be three hours before it gets here, even if it doesn’t miss us. Today was my last day at work, I’m not going back until the 17th of January which is sweet! However, out of nowhere I’ve got a sore throat and a headache, which is a bummer. It’s shaping up to be a big Christmas for eating – Yum Cha tomorrow for lunch, bbq for dinner – then on the big day we get down to some serious eating! We’ve got family staying for a few days which is always good fun. Anyway, if I know you and haven’t sent a card, I’m sorry, but have a great Christmas and a safe New Year!
Just to get you into the Christmas spirit, check out this wonderful charity effort from a few selfless celebrity musicians.
B3ta regular chthonic (corrected spelling – sorry!) has built a brilliant online version of name that tune. There are only two problems: one is that it uses windoze media player which sucks, the other is that it hilights what sad musical tastes I have. I got 10 out of 10 for Steely Dan and Jethro Tull!
OK, here are a couple of pages which made me laugh: the worst album covers of all time and a car recovery that didn’t go to plan.
Here’s another little site I’ve just completed. This time for friends with an exceptional chinese restaurant: Shanghai Ling.
The food at ShanghaiLing is unlike anything you’ll get at your more familiar ‘Cantonese’ restaurants – there’s a spicy freshness that keeps us coming back again and again. Also, they do the best tofu I’ve ever had anywhere!
This is only a very small job, but it was quite fun to do. An excuse to go back to the old days of repeating background images.
The site is for a fella who runs a ‘Tree Consulting Service’, that is: he doesn’t consult trees, he consults with the people responsible for dealing with trees… councils, homeowners, lawyers, builders etc.
All compliant and accessible of course! Arbor Report
In Chinatown the other day, crossing the road when I spotted this one. I really don’t know that there’s anything more to say.