Interesting discussion on 891 this morning with Matt & Dave discussing a local politician’s appearance and speech at a Midwinter dinner at a Masonic lodge.
While not outwardly mocking the dinner or the timing thereof to coincide with the pagan celebration, I did detect a hint of Matt & Dave’s slightly superior smugness regarding the goings-on [...]
We interrupt this near-abandoned blog to flog my camera.
I have the following for sale:
Canon EOS 20D
EF 28-80 f/3.5-5.6 lens
EF 70-300 f/3.5-5.6 lens
1GB memory card (holds 100+ RAW or 200+ large JPG)
Battery & charger
USB cable
Strap
All in a Lowepro kit bag, below.
$600 the lot
Send me an electronic mail, at idrewthis<at>gmail<dot>com or ask any questions in [...]
Soup commercials.
Annoying.
It’s been the same tinned recipe for ever.
Someone presents soup for consumption, passed off as home made, done from scratch.
Oh, this soup is so good. Where did you get the recipe? What? No! This can’t possibly be from a tin!
Rinse. Repeat.
I will now outline the bait and switch concept of a soup commercial taken [...]
I was teaching Little Miss L the joy of Roman Numerals the other night. She’s 7 now, so after explaining the concept, she picked it up pretty well.
Once she got the hang of how they worked, she insisted that I give her a quiz on them. So I drew up a page with two columns [...]
They’re everywhere and they’ll always find something they don’t like. And if the thing they don’t like gets better, then they’ll complain about the fact that it’s not what it used to be.
Case in point:
I work for a government institution. Everyone that works here has either a government email address or an institution email address. [...]
My sister has a new “shack” on the south coast. I use inverted commas because it’s not a shack at all: it’s a brand spanking new house. But because it’s their house away from home by the coast, they use the vernacular and call it a shack. (All the more ironic when you consider their [...]
I’m in Port Vincent for New Year’s. It’s a great place to be. On New Year’s Day there is a Gala Day, with street markets, lots of really shitty but tasty food, a big bouncy castle for the kidlets and really really bad entertainment played over an ancient PA.
It’s brilliant.
We’re staying with friends who live [...]
Firstly, mind the look of the place. This blog is like most people’s spare room at the moment. Nobody comes in here much, it’s a bit of a mess but there’s definitely a plan to fix the place up a bit. That said, Christmas is coming and with all the weekends pretty much booked out [...]
And no, I’m not about to launch into some kind of self-indulgent teenage song lyrics (is there any other kind of teenage song lyrics?). My heart isn’t broken, and thank you, I’m over all the nasty stuff that happened in high school. None of it was actually nasty, I was just there with a bunch [...]
This week marked my auspicious return to the volleyball court. I had forgotten which year it was that I last slipped on the knee pads but due to the magic of putting a lot of work into writing a blog since 2003, I can simply go back in time and see that my operation was [...]
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