Month: March 2011

Here is this week’s post for frogpondsrock’s Sunday Selections project. Since so many people said they liked the sunflowers photos, here are some more. Most of these were taken in 2008, with a couple more recent ones. This is the vege garden with lots of sunflowers.  Look how tall...

Our local community radio station organised a World’s Greatest Shave event today. Slabs is a board member of the radio station, as well as being a presenter. For anyone not familiar with this event, it is a national fundraiser organised by the Leukaemia Foundation to raise funds for supporting...

Today I got an exciting package in the mail. This is what it was: This is my camera for the Art House Cooperative’s A Million Little Photos: Photomobile project, which I signed up to a few weeks ago. Basically you sign up to the project, choose one of the themes...

School dropoffs are still a little traumatic. Juniordwarf is quite insistent that he doesn’t like school, he doesn’t want to go and he wants to go home – or to work with me. He isn’t convinced that my work is pretty boring and he’d have a much better time...

Several months ago, I signed Juniordrawf up to the Yates Junior Landcare Sunflower Challenge. The idea was for the kids to plant some sunflower seeds, that were provided free (yay), grow and maintain their sunflowers and, once the plants were fully grown, submit photos of their tallest sunflower and largest flower...

I thought all the number 8s lining up on the 8th of March looked really cool. This is my Instagram profile. It’s a phone app that lets you transform your photos with filters. There are heaps of other apps that do similar things, which I must check out someday,...

When we were kids, Lil Sis was recognised as the artist and I was the writer. I don’t know if this was a deliberate thing on the part of our parents, or if it just turned out that way. It seemed like her artworks were always on display in...

Here are some photos that I’ve taken of the Richmond Bridge from various visits to Richmond. These are for frogpondsrock‘s Sunday Selections – feel free to wander over and check out what other people are posting 🙂 To quote directly from the Richmond website: Originally named Bigge’s Bridge, Richmond...

Today we completed our tour of wineries we hadn’t been to by visiting Kinvarra Estate Wines just outside the small town of Plenty, in the Derwent Valley. The homestead was built in 1827. The vineyard has a great view up the Valley. Someone forgot their polarising filter. Again. The...

Disclaimer: I am not a wine reviewer and wouldn’t have a clue how to write about wine. I like some wines and not others, but can’t really explain why, unless they are fruity white goon from a cask, in which case it’s quite easy to explain. This weekend is...