Of planets, comets and motorbikes

No, I haven’t been riding to the stars, taking mind altering hallucinogenic drugs or doing the Sunday crossword! My week (or rather slightly more than a week, I’m cheating slightly here, I needed to save a few pics from a couple of weeks back to make this work…) has been pretty full of cool things. But most especially its been full of planets, comets…

All work and no play

As the saying goes – all work and no play makes Charlie a dull boy. I have been doing some fun stuff, but: a. Its been too hot (no really – 40C+ – ugh) b. I’ve been too lazy (see a) c. I’ve been busy with other not so interesting stuff. Anyway, if I have anyone left still reading this blog – here’s some…

Greetings from the other side

Happy New Year, dear internet. Yes, I know I’m about a month late, I’ve been busy, ok! :p So, what has been going on in my world that’s meant a 6 week hiatus?  One word Work.

Christmas Eve ride

Hello and Happy Christmas! It never feels like Christmas;  As someone who grew up in northern hemisphere, Christmas should be cold and snowy.  Ok, we are talking England – grey and rainy.   So when it’s wall to wall sunshine and the temperatures are in the mid to high 30’s C – it just doesn’t feel Christmasy.    It is, however, perfect weather for chilling out…

Sunday blast

My friend Pete had been planning a Sunday ride out on the bike with his Dad and I was invited along.  The plan was to ride up to the hills through Serpentine and Jarrahdale and then into Pinjarra and onto Mandurah for a late breakfast. The sun was shining, it was already warm out, Jay was still in bed and little ‘un was fast…

More from Kwinana and Rockingham

The other day I had to go out to choose a new front door from a supplier that has a warehouse in a pretty rough looking industrial zone. The place was amazing and I got what I was looking for pretty quickly, which left me a little bit of time to take a couple of pictures and take the long way home

Fremantle

I had to go to see an accountant in Claremont (a nice posh suburb of Perth) to discuss options to set up a company for me start a sole trader consultant business.   Even though it was still pretty windy and there was a threat of rain, I took the bike (any excuse). I had a poke around the port area of Fremantle on the…

Peaches

This isn’t really about peaches, but more about a drive in to the country, which is kinda reminded me of a line from a song by rock band Presidents of the USA called ‘Peaches’ ‘A move into the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches…’ Well, I didn’t even see a single peach, but I did take a load of photos of rural Australia,…

redundancy

2012 never was a year to just stand idly by and play nice. It’s been an utter shit to a load of people I know.  I thought I’d made it through unscathed, I mean, only 6 or 7 weeks to go before 2013, I’d be fine, right? Well, for the last 3 months, I saw trouble ahead, but the good ship Charlie, despite steering…

toys glorious toys!

So, if you hadn’t already guessed, I’m a big kid who loves his toys I like goofing about, I used to ride mountain bikes very fast down hills (until my poor old bones couldn’t take it any more), I love playing with Nerf guns, I love pranks (but rarely get to play them – so hard trying to be a responsible career orientated father/step…