My Pa sent me these clippings from a local paper. It is from my Great Granny Jackson's 100th birthday party. Us kids all loved her she had a real twinkle in her eye. I remember her chain smoking until she gave up for her health at 96. She had a cuckoo clock that used to fascinate us. I must have been around 12-ish...

It was trivial to lookup the areas that Gurdjieff's wrote about in, "Travels With Remarkable Men". I used an ai to convert the locations to gpx files and plot out a series of arbitrary journeys to those areas that used to fascinate me as a young bloke. document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { var...

The astonishing temperatures over January came to an end a in a few moments after the arrival of this cloud of dust. Fat ice cold rain drops followed as the clouds flickered and rumbled. We had about 40 minutes of sparse cooling rain with a delightfully cool wind rushing around the houses. A cold front is always...

As I already posted, I bought a camera . I enjoy the process of consciously composing pictures and my NEX-5R is lots of fun. I recently discovered that there is a market for lens converters . I bought a Canon 50mm lens from a lovely chap in Japan and, later a weird old Tamron lens from a charity shop in Coffs...

The sky was getting ready to storm as I took this. The tide rushing out, sand swirling in the deep-blue fast-running water. We are taking a Christmas break in my old home, Sawtell. I went for a walk along Boambee creek to Trapdoors, what the local surfers call the break off the headland. The surf was muddy and...

Lily, Cosmo and Davo. Perhaps they could form a band?. I read somewhere that Lily Allen had released a new album. I remembered liking her trashy pop back in Thailand when I was doing the Muay Thai with Ev. I went poking around the internet looking for it. I signed off streaming subscriptions yonks ago and the last...

I took the doorbell camera off to recharge in revenge it took this extremely unflattering picture of my man boobs, I blurred out my face in sheer embarrassment. From this picture alone you will be able to see that I am a man who likes cake. Three months ago I did a DEXA scan which confirmed what I already knew that...

Sony NEX-5R A few months ago I bought myself a 12 year old camera. The Sony NEX-5R was surprisingly cheap until I realised the menus were locked into Japanese only. A compact camera with a large-sensor. One of the early Sony E-Mount cameras enabling an interchangeable-lens. It came with a wide-angle Sony SEL16F28...

A magical moment as the Straddie ferry leaves the mist behind and heads into the sunrise A trip to Straddie The only space left on the morning ferry was the 6am run. Zaida and JB were game. A storm the night before had left pre-dawn Brisbane wrapped in a thick mist. We made our way out to Cleveland through the...

At the Vulture/Boundary st crossing in West End in Brisbane This morning while JB was writing cards to his kids, I walked over to Bent Books. The sign read, "Open 10ish to 4ish". It was 10ish and raining so obviously they were closed. I took a photo of the crossing while I waited for the budda-budda's. The community...

A flower erupts out of one of the cacti we saved from Alan's yard. In the middle of winter last year our poor neighbour Alan was killed when his house burnt down . We still think of Alan and that awful night. During the height of our desert summer a demolition team raized his burnt house and yard. With permission we...

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