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 [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 31st, 2010
The protracted interval since my last contribution on here has a good excuse … for once. My parents and sister have recently arrived in Adelaide for their biannual trip. Last time we managed to pack quite a lot of activities and events into a fairly small period. It set the bar high and we have [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 18th, 2010
A slightly more upmarket reference this time. After much form filling, record retrieval and yet another health check, I have finally been able to submit my application for permanent residency here. It hasn’t been easy, but fortunately friends and family have come to the rescue and provided the required validation and sponsorship. However, by comparison [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 14th, 2010
Bislama for “Welcome to Vanuatu” and what was sung to us as we arrived Port Vila last Wednesday. It signified the start to our holiday there for the past 4 days, mostly to attend the wedding of some friends, and partly to get away from Adelaide to an idyllic paradise. The country couldn’t have been [...]
Posted in Rick's Posts on Mar 5th, 2010
I’m sure many of you will remember my many gripes last year about our lack of any social activities. Of course, exam preparation precluded much, but I also found myself working a silly amount of shifts at one point. A nasty combination which meant we had no holidays and missed out on a great many [...]
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