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Slow Food

Urban Graze Slow Food Cruise on Sydney Harbour 20 February, 2010

2010 02 21 away Comments (0)

Useful keyboard shortcuts for the Kindle 2

I’ve been compiling a list of useful keyboard shortcuts and tips specific to the Kindle 2.  Here’s what I’ve found so far (thanks to numerous web sources). It is not comprehensive, as I’ve left out the possibly dangerous or overly technical. I don’t have web browser access on the Kindle, so if there are shortcuts […]

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2010 01 03 Kindle Comments (1)

Save Bidjigal Reserve

Save Bidjigal Reserve from Go Ape and any other development!

2009 09 17 Uncategorized Comments (0)

On top of the world

20 August 2009

2009 08 24 away Comments (0)

One day …

… I’m going to do more work on my family tree.

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2009 03 18 family Comments (0)

Christmas 2008

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2008 12 26 family Comments (1)

The plastic poncho as fashion statement

A good 90% of those at the Andre Rieu concert were wearing plastic ponchos. Very classy, Judi. Mind you, those without ponchos were experiencing poncho envy. At one stage the guy sitting in front of me put up his umbrella, totally blocking my view. My tap on his shoulder was very polite, though he could […]

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2008 11 30 concerts
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Nitty-gritty

How to break a hydrant for beginners The hydrant is the bit that, in suburban settings, is usually underground, like this: The round bit in the middle of the hydrant is a spring valve. ‘Shipping the standpipe’ is the term for fitting the standpipe into the hydrant. To ship the standpipe, you fit the lugs […]

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2008 11 12 CFU Comments (0)

Burning, not frying

The problem with living in a hilly area is that you have to go up and down the hills. That’s fine if you’re in a car, but running up and down is a different matter. I did a lot of that, conveying messages from the site of the pile burn up to the hydrant on […]

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2008 11 09 CFU Comments (2)

Frying bacon

Some of the band, Hangover Black, were here last night for the very last recording session in the house. James had a cable running all the way from his room at the far end of the house into the kitchen so he could record … 6 minutes of frying bacon. I’m sure it’s an integral […]

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2008 11 08 home
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