I'm just this guy... y'know? :)
A neighbour arrived just after dinner tonight. She was carrying a petition she wanted us to sign asking that planning permission be denied for a residential property backing on to them to be converted into a dentist’s surgery. When we bought this piece of land. the developers put all sorts of covenants on the sale … More What price a dentist?
Yet again it’s raining over Sydney… and on top of it… and around it. In fact it seems the entire area has become waterlogged by the continuous downpours of recent weeks. As said before this isn’t really a complaint as such. We still desperately need the rain up on the catchment area to fill the … More Rain over Sydney
What’s new on the mouse saga you ask? Well last night the cat caught the mouse once more. Unfortunately… for us if not the mouse… the visitors seeing the cay once again batting the mouse around, decided to intervene and during the ensuing melee… the mouse again made its escape. I was *so* pleased when … More More on the mouse!
A couple of posts ago I was talking about the size of the webs we’ve been getting in the garden. The wife suggested I wet the webs to make them stand out more… so I tried it. It wasn’t a raging success because the others were either invisible against their backgrounds or were so indistinct … More The fat lady sings… almost.
Finally got voice and pictures organised with the UK… I can finally talk to the oldies and see pictures at the same time. We’ve been trying to use MS-Messenger… (Windows Live version) for a while but we just couldn’t get both voice and picture working. However my father and I have both installed Skype which … More The Masters Voice
As part of her English course the eldest daughter is required to read a little Shakespeare, specifically “A Midsummer Night Dream”. Over the past few nights the wife and she have been reading through the play acting out the various parts to give the daughter some sense of what the play is about before she … More The Culture Vulture
I was up early this morning, around 6:00 a.m., to take the youngest to her ice skating lesson. Whilst waiting for her to dress I sat quietly by the computer as is my way, reading the online news and trying to stay awake. I was sitting in a reverie when the cat began meowing outside … More Of mice and men… and cats.
Recall a couple of posts ago that I was concerned about the possibility of a poltergeist taking over the house because of ‘sneezing’ noises we were hearing? Well the mystery (such as it was) is solved. A week or two ago I decided the house ponged a little… ok a lot… in fact it stunk!! … More Who's a silly boy then?
Off at sparrows to get the wife to the train because of the bad weather. We took the main road to avoid the causeway which would probably have been flooded and arrived at the station in plenty of time with no problems… except that the trains had been cancelled! A Railcorp person came out from … More Weather around Blacktown.
For the past couple of days there have been odd noises coming from the tv area of our lounge. It isn’t just me that can hear them… the eldest daughter hears them too so I’m not going mad… quite. It sounds very much like a cat sneezing and happens fairly regularly and for a while … More Strange noises in the dark
