Posted in Pictures, Rick's Posts on Mar 7th, 2011
February and March are very busy months for Adelaide. It almost seems like every organisation wants to celebrate their chosen facet of life at the same time. There are advantages to this scheme. It draws a large and diverse tranche of visitors to the city, who get to experience all of the gifts on offer. [...]
South Australia has recently benefited from unusually sustained and heavy rainfall over the past few months. Now that summer is almost on us, the recent warmth has stimulated the local flora to burst into flower. For the time-being everything is thriving and the countryside in the Adelaide Hills especially has never looked better. It may [...]
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 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 Pictures, Retrievals on Feb 20th, 2009
Apologies in advance as this posting is going to be a tad saccharine and sentimental. In this world there is a great deal of ugliness both in terms of what humans do to this planet and each other. From time to time there are rays of light in the gloom. The important thing is to [...]
Posted in Pictures on Dec 13th, 2008
Credit to Fred Astaire for this one. To continue with classics and introduce the theme for today, recently Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head and I’ve been Singing in the Rain. By now I’m sure the penny will have dropped – the rain doing likewise in Adelaide. We’ve been enjoying what will probably be the [...]
Posted in Pictures on Nov 24th, 2008
Rather than bore you with yet more news about another Retrieval mission or witter on about some tedious facet of life I find interesting, I thought I’d show you some photos of Adelaide taken on a recent trip up to the helideck on the roof of the RAH. It provides some of the best views [...]
Posted in Pictures on Dec 21st, 2006
Here are a few pictures from our BodyPump class last Saturday as promised. 40 48 42 You can find the rest by clicking here. Find out more about BodyPump.
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