With less than 48 hours to go, the endless list making is starting to make sense. I’m travelling as light as I can, so one check through and one larg-eish handbag, big enough for travel docs, phone, iPad + other must haves on board – priorities here! I’m still not brave enough to go with
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Holiday time coming up … overseas again for the first time since last January. This time it’s off to the US and Canada with daughter in tow for the first two weeks. Sadly, she has to return to wage-slave duties while I continue solo on my merry road trip. It’s time again to consider making
Continue reading ...Ah, yes … some things never change, though I see this ‘Ordinary Voting Officer’ is using a fountain pen. Voting in Brisbane, 1937 Originally uploaded by State Library of Queensland, Australia
Continue reading ...The theatre tribe in my neck of the woods uses Facebook … a lot. They’re gradually coming round to Twitter. Blogs are not as popular … no surprises there. Social networking is being used, as you might expect, as a community support mechanism providing news, keeping in touch, promoting shows, providing links to items of
Continue reading ...Like many who use social networking software to engage in conversation, I’d characterise myself as a heavy Twitter-user. And the more I use Twitter, the more followers I get; it’s the nature of viral communication. I’m now followed by 1400 + people – small beans compared with some. Now, I follow some who don’t follow
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia We’ve been together now a bit over a couple of weeks, my iPad and I – since delivery on Australia release day, 28 May. We’ve done a few meetings, an interstate flight, home duties, gone to bed together and, I must say, it’s been a pleasure! It garners squeals of envy and
Continue reading ...Yesterday the new solar panels on my roof started generating energy for the first time, joining the smaller hot-water solar system I’ve been using for a couple of years now. I was fascinated to see the wheel on the old meter spinning backwards for the first time; the energy company will put in a new
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Dad served in the Australian Army in WWII. He was one of what playwright Sumner Locke-Elliott was later to call the Rusty Bugles, in his play of that name. 090296 WILSON. C.S. served in the ranks as a mechanic, working on Army vehicles that were building the highways through the Australian outback,
Continue reading ...Yesterday was hardly typical, and it was memorable for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I had three freelance jobs that took me cross-town a couple of times through pouring rain and crazy traffic; Brisbane doesn’t respond well to the wet. The second was a confirmation (if I needed it) at day’s end that the business
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