australia

The wind started to blow big - like 80 km/h big. Not doing a lot today - bbq with friends from mid afternoon. Walked to shops to get a fe...

I'm not a person who likes winter, I'm a little like a dog, if I can't go outside I get a little crazy. But I must admit that give me a s...

A late night for markets and Tour de France makes the body not keen to move. Did the investing accounts in the morning. Had my lunch and...

Notes always providing a stylish backdrop she would walk over and over again past the illuminated advertising panels in the hope that so...

A slow start on a blue sky day. Late night watching the Tour de France and being up when US markets open extracts a price. Did get out wa...

Notes Honestly what is the purpose of this barbed wire, it's not like a person was going to climb up with thing, maybe it is actually a ...

DreemPort and Worldmappin have joined forces for a challenge, in honor of WorldMappin's launch (which is a rebranded resurrection of a pa...

Wake late on a blue sky day. My wife "are we going to the funeral?" Inside 30 minutes we were on the road to drive up to the H...

Notes How long do you have to hang out together to seamlessly walk in unison, what childhood secrets do you need to share? how many nigh...

Early start to get back to Sydney for a dinner tonight and a funeral tomorrow. One of the orchids has chosen to open today Red crucifix ...

Dawn (2024) Just before the whole area was blanketed in snow I spent a few days exploring & scouting out areas of Kosciuszko (Austra...

All found on a single walk home on a Friday afternoon through Melbourne All Melbourians know Leunig, but maybe no Minna Leunig. Is thi...

A windy night and a cold morning. Stayed indoors doing the investing write up for last week. Was not very focused writing up last week - ...

https://youtu.be/TsUTxopPjM8?si=pjaiWqkDkw59rqkk What an amazing night last Saturday! So very grateful to all who came and made it so spe...

When I was a teenager, I had a beautiful skewbald pinto pony (14 hands high, and that's brown and white, if you don't know the horsey lin...

Weekends are not a good time to be photographing orchids on the Seven Mile Beach NP tracks - get mowed down by cyclists. Makes for a diff...

It is so grey and dull and cold and boring at the moment. I know by global standards it doesn't get cool here, but after the 6 or 7th we...

Clear blue sky beckons for a day with some differences. It is the Shoalhaven Orchid Society orchid show. Met a bunch of members last mont...

GABS or the Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular is possibly the best craft beer festival in Australia. Starting in Melbourne about 10 years...

I've just arrived home from a few days break in the wheatbelt of Western Australia... the night skies out there are next level! Will do ...

Forecast was for a cold day with rain. Started all cloudy - that kept me indoors - then the cold burned away into mild blue sky day. Got ...

My wife headed out early to finish things needed to get her car registration done. Tasks done gave us a chance to head south for a few da...

Notes So unobstructive that maybe it was never noticed, liked a place you have seen a thousand times before, that one so unremarkable yo...

Early start to the day to drive my wife down to car service centre - a challenge after more Tour de France lateness Early morning light ...

There's exactly no name for this place but was taken while I was at Applecross. It is one of the popular suburb in Perth and you ca...

By Neenah Payne Julian Assange, Australian founder of WikiLeaks, was freed from London’s Belmarsh prison on June 25. He had spent over s...

Late night on Tour de France and US markets duty. Wake to another grey rainy day. Went shopping with my wife - not done that for a while....

Dropping a small pile on the SGS with this, and the next post. The small pile of coins on my dining room table had to go. The wife was g...

This will be an irregular series of posts (very irregular, I mean this template hasn't been used in over a year, but here we are again) -...

Late night watching Tour de France and a grey raining day makes for a slow start. Finished off working up the weekly investing post. Did ...