Went for a walk

When the kids go their father’s house every other weekend, Saturday is the ritual lazy morning day. Jay and I chill on the sofa, have a late breakfast and catch up with each other’s lives.  Well, it’s hard when we’re busy during the week to get a solid block of time to not have to think about other stuff. Today we decided to go…

films

I finally got around to developing some film – its been sat in my cameras for ages, a few from the Trip 35 and three from the Hassleblad. I’m going to try to take a few more photos this week as I’m up in the city every day – I just need to take an hour after work to point and shoot at a…

tripski – final part

We had some other nice days, went out for lunch – actually, there’s a story there all by itself Never go to Pizza Express in Sevenoaks – they were terrible, forgot our order, lied to cover it up and told us it was ‘just in the oven’ but 1/2 hour later it still hadn’t arrived, stuffed up with the deserts and eventually, after nearly…

Tripski – part 3

We went to see some of my close friends mid week. They live not too far from where I used to live in England.  Not too far away from where Ella and Henry were born and grew up. Ella remembers the place, her old friends, her school and snippets of the old house.  She’s sometimes a bit sad about it – I kinda feel…

Tripski – part 2

So, one of the first things we did (apart from go shopping for food and get very wet in the rain) was go see my youngest sister and her two kids. You’ve probably seen them on here before. We have a lot of fun with them, normally outside in the park where they can run around, but in this case, the rain prevented any…

Tripski, part 1

So, as you know, I went to England to see my beautiful kids.  England, land of the village pub, the Darling Buds of May, long summer evenings, rambling footpaths and history going back millenia. Well, it wasn’t like that.  The sun didn’t shine.  It rained all the time.  It was freezing.  The cloudbase was 3 feet above the ground – so much so it…

stormy weather

We’ve been on cyclone watch for the last few days as tropical cyclone Bianca has been making its way down the Indian Ocean from the tropics and is forecast to swing inland right over Perth today. Well I think its petered out and although the wind is increasing and the sky is looking very dark all of a sudden, apparently its not scheduled to…

work rest and play

It’s been a busy week after the pee-test drama. I’ve had lots of work to to for a really hard proposal, some interviews and generally me feeling like I need a weekend really badly.  Didn’t really get an Australia Day at all cos I was too busy with trying to create project plans and statements of work out of thin air. Anyway, blah blah….

A.T.G.A.N.I

All The Gear and No Idea. Its a common problem.  A newbie rocks up with many thousands of dollars of shiny new kit and has not a clue what to do with it. You can find examples of this everywhere and in sports and hobbies of all kinds.  Its an issue where people have lots of disposable income and somebody tells them (or maybe…

Lull

Well, dear readers, I trust you all had a wonderful Christmas 🙂 Its that little lull in the proceedings, that odd time of the year now between Christmas and New Year when nothing much happens.  Some people are at work, a lot of shops are shut on the Public Holidays that are in lieu of the Christmas weekend, but most people are kinda just…