Holidays, part 1 – Perth to Lancelin

The drive to Shark Bay is, in theory, too far to do in a day, plus there are lots of interesting things to see along the way.  Ok, so not lots, there are vaaaaaaast stretches of nothing much at all, but there are some worthwhile places to see, so we planned to break it down into 3 stops. The first being Lancelin. We packed…

Three go on an adventure

A little tale from the motherland.. Towards the end of the time in England with the kids, they were nagging that it was sunny out and dinner wasn’t for an hour or so and can they have an adventure. So, we hopped into the car and I took them to Knole Park – a Medieval deer park that survives pretty much intact – to…

Piccies from a foreign land

I got my films from my trip to the UK back yesterday and they are awesome! I love my Hasselblad, it produces amazing images – so clear and full of glorious colour and definition in a way that digital images somehow aren’t.  The trouble is, scanning these amazing prints and showing them on here doesn’t show them how they are at all 😦 I…

update

Well, whats been happening in the world of me? My trip to England went well – the flight over was actually pretty painless, despite being sat next to a borderline Neanderthal on the plane from Perth to Singapore – he was laughing out loud to stuff on the entertainment system.  I mean really out loud.  Not good.  When I asked him something, he spoke…

slackest blogger award goes to..

er, me.  bugger so, whats new in my world? 1.  Its got cold. A feet numbing kind of cold.  Infact it’s almost record breakingly cold in Perth.  We’ve had a couple of frosts this week and night time temps have generally been around 1 or 2 degrees all week.  I know, I know, its not exactly cold compared to Europe or the US this…

shark attack

We live on the most beautiful coast – the west coast of Australia 40km south or Perth.  The beaches are clean, unspoiled (once you get past all the shipyards and such just south of Perth), the water is warm, crystal clear and turquoise blue and the weather, for the most part, fine and warm. Trouble is, we’re not the only ones to love this…

so slack!

One post in a week – thats pretty piss poor.  Ah well. So, whats been happening? My Birthday.  Apart from that fact that I was working from 8am till 11pm and couldn’t celebrate at all – I had a wonderful day.  Jay bought me a guitar fx thingumy which means I can sound like Dave Gilmore or Kurt Cobain, even if I can’t actually…

facebook

Online security and privacy for children is not exactly a new thing.  There have been plenty of cases of so called ‘grooming’ by some very nasty people where kids have been lured to their untimely deaths.   All parents should know about this kind of thing, as I said, its not new. Close to home, there have been a couple of murders in Oz where…

When I were young..

I found some pics of me from when I was a nipper, thought I’d share and make you all giggle.. I had blonde hair when I was small – now its very dark brown – how did that happen? I think I may have needed a wee in this pic 😀 And one from the hole in the tree as per my earlier post…

God Bless America

Lets get this absolutely clear. I love America. Many wonderful and amazing things come from there. The world invents something, often Japan, the plucky Brits, the odd Frenchman – and America runs with it and turns it into something amazing. Take the modern internet (but h/t to top Brit Tim Berners-Lee for actually inventing it) for example – there’s no doubt that the US…