Friday, June 22, 2007restlessLast night I was feeling restless and found myself wandering through my usual travel websites: looking at how much it would cost to go to Venice or Cairo or Cuzco or how much it would cost to hire a four wheel drive and go across the Savanah Way (across the top of Australia from Cairns on the east... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, June 15, 2007winter viewingSaturday morning is proving to be grey and relentlessly windy which means DVD season is bound to continue, accompanied with nostalgic meals of beef and bacon casserole followed by hot vanilla custard for dessert (damn I forgot to buy bananas!). For the sake of those southern hemisphere readers who,... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, June 12, 2007nice surprise at the end of the dayIt's too late to write a post. I get up at 5:30 am I'll have you know. Anyway what is there to say except it was another day at work but, good fortune, at the end of the day I found a dvd on Ansel Adams had arrived. I've raved about Ric Burns documentaries before and this is also beautiful.... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, June 10, 2007go you mighty MongoliansAnd so a stay-at-home-because-the-weather's-been-slightly-apocalyptic-long-weekend comes to an end. At least the skies were clear enough today to put on the runners and head for the coastal path. Afterwards I wandered round the fancy shopping centre a couple of suburbs from here but felt out of... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, June 8, 2007wetStormy days, the ocean smashing the coastline, ships washed ashore, trees down, roads undermined by flood waters, busted umbrellas by the roadside, a brief window of opportunity to get in supplies, long weekend ahead, a couple of rented dvds, a history book, a televised Hawthorn game, tinned soup,... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, June 5, 2007fortySoon I'll be turning forty, well in a little less than two months, and my main reassurance is that other people who I encounter who have either just turned forty or are about to turn forty look old and hagard in comparison to me. I was going to turn things around this year in career terms but... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, June 2, 2007Sydney Writers' FestivalYesterday I joined the usual suspects at the Sydney Writers' Festival down on the waterfront of Walsh Bay. As always there were old matrons sampling radical ideas in their retirement years; emaciated old men, in French berets, staring forelornly at the passing parade; intense young women with... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, May 31, 2007the evening aheadClassic italian pizza, garlic bread and a rental copy of All The President's Men. Actually I've been rewatching the Ken Burn's documentary New York. The combination of old film footage, the method of panning over old photos to give a sense of an unfolding panorama, great observations from writers of... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, May 29, 2007converting photos onto canvasI recently had one of my photos printed onto canvas. Looks great and I mention it for anyone who might like to have a larger and more permanent version of a much loved photo. I want to print a big version of a photo looking up the length of a tree. There's a quality of invitation in the photo... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, May 25, 2007this is not an american bashing postSitting on the bus this morning and, apart from the driver, the only other people there were two american girls, early twenties, saying a lot of "you-know-like-whatever-and he said-and I'm like-and well-well I think-yeah i guess-I know-maybe-but-no-yeah well" this can be compared with another... Sign in to see full entry. |
