I have a little black book in my undy drawer.

It is a travel diary, when I take it traveling and it is a shed/home-brew diary, when I stay home. Here is a brief summary of the shed entries [amended] :

Monday 28th December 2009

Putting a brew on

• Morgans Blue Mountain Lager + yeast
• Dextrose/Corn Syrup/dried malt
• Morgans finishing hops (Hersbucker)

Good flavour, especially after I had left it for the full month! Hops were maybe a little harsh, try adding some lactose next time to sweeten it.

Previous brew from July 2009

• Black Rock Miners Stout

Came out OK flavour not always quite right probably from brewing temp being too high or perhaps not rinsing off all the meta-bisulphate also a little too much sugar at bottling so too fizzy.

Brigalow Ginger Beer

• tastes shit, explodes well.

Saturday 30th January 2010

• Building rudder

ran out of Norseal Epoxy Wood Preserver 50:50 500ml

Wednesday 10th March

Putting two brews on

• Bishops English Bitter [Morgans] – made in Queensland :)
• Smelt good, hoppy.
• Brewcraft English Bitter [Muntons of Stowcraft] – made in UK
• Lager Brew, Dextrose/Malt mix

Not sure if Cheri will approve of the barrels of beer in the front room for the next couple of weeks, fingers crossed that they don't ferment too excitedly – could get messy.

Brigid Veale the press officer here at SCU (not the other one) just sent me this pic of me taken down Coffs Beach before I had my weekend swim.
Results just in:
position: 189 / time: 41:43

Cameron kindly assembled the montage of everyone's favourite characters Ponch and Jon. I am looking forward to buying Cameron a choc-top in 2011

oh, and another pic from Sarah as well...

My Pa's mate, Martin, dropped by last week. Em was away so he stayed the night in his room. When Em got home in the morning he was a bit cranky to find a strange english man in his room. Which is why it was tricky to get a photo of them together. However with the magic of pixels I have glued together two rather crap photos just to prove they were in the house at roughly the same time.

Ocean swim tomorrow. Feeling meh. I blame daylight saving. For everything.

In fact I am going to happily set my clock back an hour on the first Sunday this April and never change it again. I will damn well be early for any organisation that decides to muck about with their clocks.

Emrys woke up very sleepily this morning.

The weekend festival of Emrys had reached it's final day - his eighth birthday.

Now our house is littered with lego and lego boxes... sigh

Found on a dictaphone:

A seven year old marine biologist takes some audio notes.

Check out this guy, he is amazing

Today was my first day as a househusband. I cleaned the loo and swept the floor. You'd all have been proud of me.

I also went out and bought doughnuts with Em. We dropped the sailing dinghy's rudder off with Cameron of 'Camesco Aluminium Fabricators'. He is going to weld a tiller handle onto it, hopefully before the weekend.

At home I tinkered with my websites a while, then put a couple of Red Morwongs (fish) in the oven. Whilst they roasted the boys and I headed off for a quick snorkel/surf down by the island.

Check out the video Em and I made...

Sliced my finger yesterday, did not mention that in my Coffs Sailing post.
Ev reached 15 and lives.
It is nearly 11pm and I am going to bed.

night.

Who'd a thunk it. From baby bam-bam to awkward teen, Ev has avoided institutionalisation - until today. Here is a pic of him with his 'school' bag as he sets off to enrol in his Visual Arts Course at TAFE.

Lets hear it for autonomy!