The Winter Olympics are Olympicing, and it’s quite nice to see Australia compete in something we are so effortlessly terrible at. Australia is not generally a snowy place, except in the mountains and then only in the wintertime – not for us the year round snow of some places, or the slushy streets of others. [...]
Archive > February 2010
Downhill, very fast.
One of my greatest memories of childhood is the great Billy Cart race. For you American people reading this, a billy cart is a soapbox racer. I think. You people don’t speak English proper.
Anyway, the house here is at the top of a hill, with a long driveway. A very hard left turn at the [...]
Vet’nry
At no time is the difference in the personalities of my dogs more apparent than at the vet. Mama and I took the noble hound and the pudgy collie in today for their check ups and injections.
First, Stitch loves car rides. Loves them. So exciting. Could be going anywhere, get to see so much stuff [...]
Notes from your friendly Huntard.
I’ve played Hunters in World of Warcraft from the outset, with some side dabbling in Shamen and the occasional druid. Hunters remain my favourite, despite the fact that in WoW, hunters are considered “easy mode” and are referred to as Huntards. Once you get to level 10, you can start to choose talents depending on [...]
Seventh
I don’t tend to look at the photos I took last year on Black Saturday. They pop up when I scroll picasa, or check my flickr feed. I’m going to share one with you now.
The photo there doesn’t begin to describe the feeling of watching Kinglake burn. The clenched gut knowing that people we love [...]