Posted in Rick's Posts on Apr 28th, 2010
… well, 5 actually, if you include the cats. A literary reference this time. After the chaos of flight disruptions, my parents made their return flight and should be back in the UK any time now. Iceland clearly wasn’t content with just contributing to the financial ruin of Europe, as that pyroclastic dust cloud certainly [...]
Posted in Rants on Apr 26th, 2010
Yesterday we chanced the rain to see the ANZAC Day march. After all the veterans, currently serving, and relatives of the fallen had paraded past, we stayed on for the memorial service. On the walk home we talked about the significance of commemorating lost servicemen and the lessons to be learnt. One of the key [...]
Posted in Pictures on Apr 20th, 2010
… and not a bear. But pandas are still called bears. Strange; but then Paddington was also a bear and he was just a work of fiction, so anything is possible. Moving past the cryptic intro, I took the excuse of having the family in town to finally get round to seeing Wang Wang and [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Apr 18th, 2010
… tumbling down. No harm in letting a good reference go to waste. An “Act of God”. That’s what they’re calling it. The pyroclastic ash cloud that is currently loitering over northern Europe has impacted us too. I’m sure God had no part in it, but that hasn’t prevented the insurance companies from using it [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Apr 17th, 2010
Under my feet. Credit to Carole King or Martika depending on which version you like better. Another new experience for me. To start with I thought an unusually heavy freight train was passing on the nearby rail-line. Such an occurrence is not uncommon, and the bigger ones can rattle our windows a little. But this [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Apr 12th, 2010
I got all my sisters with me. Well not any more. Mine flew back to England late last week after spending a couple of weeks with us. She and my parents came out for their biannual visit just before Easter, and we still have them for another week. Hopefully we have been good hosts and [...]
Posted in Pictures, Rick's Posts on Apr 2nd, 2010
At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen? Well, not really. That was, unsurprisingly, just a Simpson reference. And a reference to the Northern Lights Exhibition, part of the Adelaide Festival. The display didn’t feature last year, but did in 2008 when [...]
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