*woot* (sic)

no, I don’t really use dreadful expressions such as woot or similar..I’m just being a smart arse and its a private joke. Anyway, the thing of joy – not only have we ordered a couple of Holga medium format toy camera this piece of plastic junk takes the most awesome retro pictures and I’m really looking forward to getting out there and having a…

grammar

It reallllllly pisses me off to read things like Could of should of would of There children etc etc More and more, on forums, newspaper “have your say” columns, even some blogs, I’m reading these very basic spelling and grammatical mistakes. I think some people really do think that “their” is spelled “there” and “could of is actually correct.  Its “could have”, btw, if…

nuts

in this over litigious, mollycoddled and nannyfied world of ours, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this..

rethinking

not so long ago I was approached a number of times by magazines who wanted to use some of my photos for free in their publications.  I was a bit indignant and thought that free was a bad thing, that it meant I was undervalued and free meant that it had no value. well, thats still true. but I’ve been rethinking the context of…

along came a spider

The last thing I normally do is have a puff of my asthma medicine *wheeze* – last night though, when I had puffed – a got something shoot out and into the back of my windpipe. A hack and a splutter later A fooking spider In my puffer Now in my lungs What dumb creature does that?  I mean, its not that easy to…

pay up or you can’t talk to God

Some good friends of ours are practicing Catholics, going almost every week, giving a modest, but for their income, not insignificant weekly donation for, well, whatever roof repairs and work in the community that churches always seem to need funds for. Anyway, they’d had a few weeks away, some family time, so they’d missed a few weeks at church – not a problem, you’d…

weddings

nightmares. I have to say, at this point, apart from my own wedding, I never want to be a part (as in some kind of formal role or partner of aforementioned role) in another wedding as long as live. I was considering doing wedding photography, but I’m not so sure I could stand it.

fire..

big hairy-arsed bushfire this easter weekend 😦 can’t believe how much damage was done to the area – 300+ ha burned.  Luckily noone was hurt and no houses were lost.  It blew embers across the railway and dual carriage way right into people’s gardens, starting lots of small spotfires, including all around the house we rented uptil a month ago.  The firefighters had a…

new design

I got sick of the old black one, too dark and small writing and generally – meh! Anyway – here we are, end of the working week (thank- you Easter) and its still lunchtime.  Well, of a fashion. I have a conference call in a few minutes – the joy of working on large projects with lots of people and multi millions of dollar…

today it will mostly be

30 degrees in Perth a conversion chart for my US viewiers.. Which is nice. I’ve been to Toronto when it was -25 and yes, it was swearingly cold. from here http://xkcd.com/526/