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 …
more...Showies
We have lived in Broken Hill for over three years and this evening we finally went to the Silver City Show.
As a kid I used to go to the Spring Festival celebrations in Cornwall with roots …
more...Another Sunday
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A truly dull Sunday. I have been doing the tax. I do not really feel like it. On the plus side, tomorrow is a local Broken Hill holiday, Picnic Day. Maybe things will pick up.
more...Bilibin
Solvitur Ambulando
Even though it looks like my Mum is about to cheekily poke her tongue out at the photographer it reminds me of Ivan Bilibin’s beautiful illustration which I used on this post and currently on my 404 error page.
Thinking …
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