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…

Just riding around the beaches

The other afternoon I went for another little ride out, just for the hell of it. It’s amazing how much more you see if you’re on a bike.  It’s way easier to just stop, park up and take a photo than it is from a car too.  I stopped in at a couple of places I haven’t been before, just because I could. To…

what a difference a day makes

Its been blowing a gale since I did the last blog post – last night was pretty uncomfortable with the house making all kinds of creaking noises in the storm force winds. I woke up early as a particularly nasty squall came in and I thought we were going to lose the windows!

Stormy

Well, it seems that winter isn’t quite done with us here in the Southern Hemisphere!  Normally the low pressure troughs have fully moved south by now and stable warm summery weather is here to stay until March. But not this year. It’s been a spring of fits and starts, warm days and squalls. It’s like a misfiring car. The weekend was warm and dry. …

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,…

Riding around

I decided to take the bike out on a gratuitous run around yesterday.  It’s been ages since I’ve just walked or driven about with the camera on my own for the sake of it.  In fact, the last time might have been when I went to Brisbane with work.  Crap, huh? So this post is kinda dedicated to a fellow blogger – a veritable…

Bits and pieces

Its been a funny couple of weeks – I’ve been focussed on passing my bike test and, if you’ve read the last post, been made a bit redundant – both of which have taken up a lot of my time. I haven’t been totally idle on the photo front though (although I think ‘mostly idle’ would actually cover it) – I have a load…

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…

Holidays – part 6

It was the last day and everyone was tired and wanted a lie-in.  I, of course, woke up at 5am to the dawn light. Meh – no lie-in for me. Ah well. I decided to go out with the tripod and take some more ‘professional’ (read – taking a long time messing about with different settings that would not be possible with a family…