a picture my son drew of a wave on a beach

7,370 ­metres

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tagged with: #running #dog

Yesterday I was feeling sorry for myself. I was knackered after a week at work and had no energy left.

Winnie and I out running on a dirt track outside Broken Hill
I dragged myself out for my first actual run in forever.

I found myself fatly sinking into the couch with a Guinness; some salted peanuts and shite telly on. C …

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Steam ­Tram

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tagged with: #Broken Hill
A black and white photo of a steam tram travelling along rails embedded in a dirt street with a man riding a bicycle in the foreground
An old Broken Hill 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 …

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Red Wine ­Cordial

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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 …

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Demarc

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tagged with: #stravages #walking #ev

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 …

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Cat

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tagged with: #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 …

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Image ­Processing

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tagged with: #meta #pelican

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 …

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9 ­Mile

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tagged with: #dog #bicycle #meta #carousel

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 …

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The <dfn> ­tag

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tagged with: #meta #html #css
When you touch the highlighted word the definition should appear
This is sort of what my attempt at making the <dfn> title appear on mobile looks like

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 …

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Polemic

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tagged with: #straya #polemic
An illustration from HG Wells, The Time Machine, the artist was Virgil Finlay
HG Wells wrote The Time Machine - predicting the future degeneracy of the Murdochs Morlocks. This illustration may be a tad degenerate itself…

I just posted this on the echo chamber that is FB,

Hey Australia, at the very least read the Uluru Statement before the 14th of October.

Before you …

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Write ­thoughts

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tagged with: #writing #meta

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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Showies

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tagged with: #broken hill

We have lived in Broken Hill for over three years and this evening we finally went to the Silver City Show.

a 1989 exhibit in the pavillion inspired the insignia on the ticket to entry
Silver City Pastoral and Agricultural Association keeping a great show on the go

As a kid I used to go to the Spring Festival celebrations in Cornwall with roots …

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