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My island home

Got a walk to blog this week but will leave it for when I come back (24th October) in favour of looking at why Australia had two wee tiny earth tremors while Sumatra is a crumbling ruin and half...

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Green Point

(Green Point walkies #1)Back. Somewhat refreshed from my holiday but shit continues to go down in my offline life so not really all that thrilled to be home.Anyways. Green Point. Just before I went on...

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Green Point 1789

(Green Point walkies #2)Marking a landing point of the exploration by Governor Arthur Phillip of the Port Jackson (now Sydney) colony.Through the gap in the trees there you can see the footbridge and...

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Along the water

(Green Point walkies #3)Starting point. Rocky Point in fact. Bottom of Orana Road.To get to this park, come down Avoca Drive from The Entrance Road and turn right into Bayside Drive at the lights or...

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We tease to please

(Green Point walkies #4)Nice old weatherboard house on Asca Drive. Looks about 1900 to 1920s. But don't quote me on that. Can't find the book to check.It had both brick piers (stumps) and stone ones...

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Green Point 1839

(Green Point walkies #5)Always charge yer bloody camera before going walkies. I bloody well forgot and the bastard died on me one photo in. Nothing worked. No amount resting it, no amount of swearing...

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Drive-by

Wagstaffe Wharf Mulhall Street WagstaffeThis is a drive-by posting. Been out all day and about to go out again. I am a wee bit drunk.Anyways, there was another bloody dust-storm today. My throat's as...

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Up and down

(Random Woy Woy walkies)Here we're looking north-east or east-north-east across The Bays (Correa Bay, Horsfield Bay, Phegans Bay & Woy Woy Bay) to Brisbane Water proper and the low part of...

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Filthy dirty filking

(Random hung-over, Christmas-party fueled whingeing& filking*)O Christmas bush O Christmas bushO Cerapetalum apetalumIn New South Wales at Christmas timeYou come out in December heatO Christmas...

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Snakes and snoozing

Back at last. There was computer issues and some other offline crapulence which was really boring so we won't go into it. How was yer Chrissy?Discarded snake skin. Found it under the holiday house....

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Grab Bag

Quick snippet. Normally I don't blog in Feb. It's my annual blogging holiday.Winter wonderlandFrom the safe distance of an Australian summer, this snowstorm business in Pommyland and Europe and America...

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Putty Beach

Back again. How was yer February? Hot (Straylyans)? Snowy (Mericans)? Hello, Melbourne, that big hail all melted now?New computer's buggerising around, by the way, so this won't be a very talky...

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Bullimah Beach & the Great Manly Debate

(Bouddi/Killcare walkies #6? 7? Technically it's #2 of the Killcare walkies but Hardys Bay and Killcare look like one small suburb when yer walking them and they're both on the Bouddi so let's go ahead...

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Hairy maps of Tassie

RamblingThis is actually a sick note but I thought I'd enliven it with a title from a visitor to the Ducktionary. When you get a stats thingy on yer blog, you can go in and have a gander at how people...

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Poo tubes

(Where the fuck have I been all this time?)See that red circle at the left edge of map? Just along that road a bit are the sewerage farm and the tip (garbage dumping place). I woulda put them into the...

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In with the cool kids

Straylya is now officially one of the cool kids. We now have a girl Prime Minister.Went to bed last night with K-Rudd stating rather tensely that he was PM and PM he was bloody well going to stay, and...

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The wattles are coming

(Random walkies in Woy Woy) It's clouding over, blast it. It was a sunny winter's morning here in Woy Woy. Froze my bloody nuts off yesterday with the icy wind, and that was only a short scuttle from...

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Winter weather watch

(Random winter walkies)Last week in Woy Woy. Saratoga from Blackwall Point. Go down Blackwall Road from the railway station. When you get to the mountain, go left and left again at the carpark...

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Tribute to Vaughn Bode

(Random Woy Woy walkies)This is Cheech Wizard. He was the best-known charater of Vaughn Bode. He's on a Bode tribute wall in a lane off Alma Avenue in Woy Woy.(Locals, Alma Ave is the wee street of...

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Winter in the Paperbark Forest

(Random walkies in Woy Woy)(The camera battery carked it, hence the low res mobile phone snaps.)The Paperbark Forest is a wee sliver of bushland sandwiched between a suburban street and the golf...

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Sick Note #243

Argh!Lovely winter's day in Woy Woy. Sun's been out all day. Could be outside running round enjoying myself. Instead, I've been groaning in bed clutching the guts since yesterday. My stupid poo tubes...

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Still bloody crook

(Sick note #244)Boring shitStill bloody crook. Laying in a sunny window resting after all that writhing in pain last week. This being crook shit is fucking boring.Weird shitEverything works when I log...

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Fucking flu

(Live from the sofa)Jesus H. Christ.No sooner had I left off writhing about in pain and an unseemly fashion than I was struck down by the Dreaded Lurgy. A proper Lurgy not the ManLurgy! Thought I'd...

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Fuckwittery

Muslims are welcome on this site. Koran-burning fuckwits are not. Burning holy books, whoever they belong to, is not on.Just wanna make that perfectly clear. Whatever this Koran-burner does, no matter...

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Sick Note #244

Jesus H. Christ.Bloody got sick again. Another bloody round of the bloody flu. No fair.Been laying on the sofa for days with a rug over me, a jar of Vicks to sniff and 4 seasons of Supernatural to keep...

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