Well, for anyone who reads this, its all good. I’m still alive after my last reported car incident. I could catalogue the events of my life since then but you’d be asleep very shortly, so I’ll resist. A snapshot: today, I disassembled, moved and rebuilt a chook house. Tomorrow, I’m going snowboarding! With some luck [...]
Last night I had a high speed altercation with a motor vehicle on my ride home! ouch! A bit of a shock, to have someone pull out to do a u-turn from a park right in front of you…
Luckily, I’m OK and Rosie the bike seems only minorly damaged. She’s going for a post-trauma checkup [...]
I’m unemployed today! What a great feeling to send Bel off to work and stay home. So, what do I do? work, of course. On long standing side projects, things that need doing, blah blah blah.
My day looks something like a bit of carpentry, some running around town and shopping, getting some photos laminated, and [...]
There’s snow on Mt Wellington!
That means, the season for getting excited about wrenching every last inch of backcountry goodness from Tasmania’s slightly too low and somewhat remote mountains has begun. I’ll be carefully studying remote weather stations from here until spring, awaiting the magical signs of snowfall.
Wish us all luck – in these parts, we [...]
Ahhh… almost a week has passed since I returned from the glorious rock of Mt Arapiles. It was a very good trip, although I really had to wind back my expectations – the price you pay for not climbing much between big missions. Regardless, loads of good climbing was had with some repeats, alternate [...]
This week I’m on a remote area first aid course. There’s so much to learn, and it really is one of those ‘things I should have done years ago’. But it is never too late. So a group of us have been hanging out in a scout camp on top of a hill not far [...]
I’m writing this from home! For the first time in a long time, I’m not using sneaky coffee breaks and lunchtimes to tap words.
Its kinda nice. We bought a wireless broadband unit. Well, its not really broadband – since Tasmania’s network isn’t fully updated yet. However – right now, its great for us. We don’t [...]
A blatant ripoff in both theme and content from a recently released tune by the Herd – but all the same, a great way to start a new post.
Tasmanian politics entered a new era last week with the resignation of the premier, Paul Lennon. To all of us, both new, temporary and old tasmanians who [...]
I watched the excellent SBS program Insight last night, which focussed on the cost of living and wages in Australia.
It was confronting, and in a way appalling. On one hand, there were guests who had a combined household income that would leave most of us wondering how they manage to eat. On the other, [...]
Its nearly the end of April and I have been slack at updating things again. Trying to escape the facebook plague and get back into this little baby of my own. Sheesh.
That, and I’ve been busy working and lacking a home internet connection. So – what’s going on? A bit more marathon mountain biking – [...]