Been an interesting few weeks. On September 4, I went in for minor knee surgery – should have been a few days of discomfort and then a few weeks of steady recovery and I’d be back, better than ever… well, that was the idea. Don’t know what went wrong, but it involved lots of swelling …
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this weekend we ate!
Every weekend it seems we end up eating… rather a lot. This weekend was longer than usual and so we’ve eaten rather more than usual! Here’s a few highlights. Sunday breakfast: superb batch of blueberry muffins – buttermilk makes them so moist and soft! Sunday evening: Moussaka – haven’t made it for years, but it …
commbank goes mobile
I don’t know exactly when they released this, but the Commonwealth bank have just gone mobile with both a mobile and an iPhone app. I’ve just had a poke around the site on my nokia 6120 and it’s excellent. Does everything I need smoothly and easily – they deserve a big thumbs up. If there …
a meal to remember
It’s evening now, but I’m still slightly stunned by the lunch I ate today. We received an impromptu invitation to a first brithday ‘celebration’ lunch for Shanghai Ling’s new premises – it was a set menu, but we were told not to expect anything we’d seen on the menu before. Sure enough, there was a …
you meet aldi best people…
‘scuse the awful pun, but the other day, I was alerted (by treadly) to the fact that Aldi had an upcoming sale which included some cycling gear. I am a keen commuter cyclist – that is, I cycle to work – on the weekends, I do occasionally do a bit of urban cruising, but I …
hot, ain’t it?
All of south eastern Australia is bracing for another day of 40°+, it’s not uncommon to have one or two days in a row, but four!?! I always remember the hot weather never started until school went back, but this is a bit over the top! Thankfully, just two years back we installed air conditioning …
Women’s Semi Final, Australian Open 1992
Every January when the Australian Open Tennis is on, I fondly remember back to 1992 when, working for XPress Group, I was lucky enough to be handed a Press Pass and a Nikon F2 camera fitted with a new Kodak DCS-1 back. The camera, in turn, was connected to a ‘luggable’ hard disk with (B+W …
meet dora
Cats at our house have a good time of it. This little scrap – about 8 weeks old – came home from the Lort Smith animal hospital last Monday to join our little family. They say cats always land on their feet… she definitely has. Viv, the incumbent, has been like a saint. He doesn’t …
seams I’ve been let down
Three flat tyres in the last month! You start to curse people who leave broken glass on the road. Since I started spending a bit more on my tyres, the problem has almost vanished – in fact, apart from the most recent three, I think I’ve only had two others in the past year, so …
The feral biker
It’s war out there, you know! This morning, as I rode my trusty treadly to work, I copped a bit of verbal abuse. Nothing terribly unusual about that, when the traffic is bad – bad things happen. This time it was different though, I was copping it from another cyclist. I’ll step back a moment. …
yay for lolcats!
I am soooo web 2 point OH! I have just created my first lolcat using a photo I took of Viv enjoying yesterday’s warm weather. If you’re a member of ichc, you should definitely click on the picture and vote for my pic.
Manly part two
Still banging on about my recent Sydney trip. I took an extra day in my schedule for a bit of tourism. After a bit of deliberation, I decided to head for the Spit Bridge and did the Spit to Manly Scenic Walkway. Beautiful! Unlike anything else I’ve done in Sydney. There were some places which …