MNC Revisited
I am nearing the end of a brief trip in which I revisited the Mid-North Coast.
Here are a bunch of snaps I took when driving through my old home. I sent them to my pal MJD to share in my bitter-sweet memories and cynicism.
7,370 metres
Yesterday I was feeling sorry for myself. I was knackered after a week at work and had no energy left.
I found myself fatly sinking into the couch with a Guinness; some salted peanuts and shite telly on. C …
more...Steam Tram
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This photo is interesting to me. I am writing this post in a house that is in the the picture. It is at the bottom of Billy Goat Hill, the junction of Garnet and Argent Streets. The Steam Tram looks …
more...Red Wine Cordial
I barely slept last night. I just lay in bed, bored - for what seemed like hours. Trying not to roll around or moan and groan too much to avoid waking Re. Eventually I got up and tip-toed around the house.
A drink of water, a pee, a warm blanket and …
more...Demarc
In my ongoing quest to collect the pointless lint of my life here is another layer of words like dust.
I gave this post the title of Demarc and initially tagged it with #Stravages
My oldest son sent this picture of some young soldiers walking on a muddy track in …
more...Cat
Some colleagues at work are downsizing their household cat population and kindly offered us one. Re and Harly were both overly keen to expand our little family…
so, I adopted a cat. His name I was told is James Bartholomew. When I took him home he ran straight up the …
Image Processing
As part of my usual life displacement activity I am again tinkering with the configuration of this blog. I tag all these posts #meta as a way to help avoid/find them later.
My intention has been to use the HTML attribute srcset to serve Responsive Images. I had hoped …
more...9 Mile
I just took Winnie for a run down 9 mile single track. It is actually only about 8km but leads to 9 mile road. Winnie managed 6.47km before collapsing (I hung my Garmin off her collar). I put her in the ute and took her home for a dunk …
more...The <dfn> tag
In a previous post (pictured above) I wrote how I would like to enable mobile users to read the ‘title’ text in the <dfn> tags and also with the <abbr> tag.
Anyhoo… This …
more...Polemic
I just posted this on the echo chamber that is FB,
more...Hey Australia, at the very least read the Uluru Statement before the 14th of October.
Before you …
Write thoughts
Like pretty much all the posts on this blog this one represents another unfinished thought. I am prompted to write this because I re-read my previous post, Showies. In it I began with my usual nostalgic claptrap before wending my way into my experience of the Silver City Show. I …
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