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Posted on December 1, 2012
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 way home. Read More
Just riding around the beaches
Posted on November 30, 2012
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 be honest, the coast looks very similar around here no matter where you go – all the beaches are sandy with nice turquoise ocean. I know, its torture having such a beautiful coastline! :-p Read More
what a difference a day makes
Posted on November 29, 2012
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! Read More
Stormy
Posted on November 28, 2012
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. Today we have violent storms with howling gales and torrential rain Read More
Peaches
Posted on November 23, 2012
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, which is only a stone’s throw from suburbia where I live. Read More
Riding around
Posted on November 22, 2012
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 Arkansas Traveller – Jeffrey, who takes pictures and blogs about rural Arkansas as he cycles about. I totally love that – it’s just about getting out there. Go find him here
It was a really hot day – into the 30’s before lunch, but there was a storm front coming down from the north, bringing cloud and interesting skies.
So around 5pm I jumped on the bike, put the trusty little LX5 in my pocket and headed out to take some shots from the coast. Areas I have plenty of pictures of already – mostly way better ones than I could hope to get with just the pocket camera, but I don’t care – it was just nice to get out and get some air. Plus I got to ride the bike, which still makes me feel like a spitfire pilot. Read More
Red Wine Wednesday – Tatty Road Shiraz 2012
Posted on November 21, 2012
So, wine lovers, it’s Wednesday already and have I got an interesting wine for you this week!
It’s a long story, bear with me!
My bank has a points based loyalty thing with my credit card that accumulates a point for every $ spent on MasterCard and 2 points for every $ on American Express. It’s the same account for both cards, so it doesn’t matter which one I use – anyway – normally these reward schemes are pretty crap, but not this one.
I get loads of free stuff for my points – and they do wine!!
Bits and pieces
Posted on November 19, 2012
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 of bits and pieces shots from the phone and also shots from the garden, birthdays and jaunts out to the beach.
Spring is one of my favourite times of year – it’s invariably lovely, weather wise, there’s loads of pretty flowers and stuff, particularly the jacaranda trees in the city and days are longer which means there’s more time after work to enjoy the outdoors. Read More
redundancy
Posted on November 16, 2012
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 hard a port, struck the iceberg of economic uncertainty fair and square. Yes, the mining industry, with all it’s ‘locked in investment pipeline’ is busy unlocking and re-assigning cash from Australia as fast as it can, and unfortunately, my job went with it.
I saw it coming – well, not perfectly, kinda like the Titanic in James Cameron’s epic film – it was a glancing blow, but ultimately whatever action I was taking was already too slow.
So I find myself on the dole, unemployed, redundant, retrenched.
toys glorious toys!
Posted on November 12, 2012
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 father), I have lots of shiny cameras, love playing my guitar like a legend and would totally play with lego all day if I could get away with it.
Yes, I’m a 41 year old boy.
So, what better way to celebrate that than buying a big (ok, actually, not that big) shiny red motorbike.
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