Or at least the ones bought there do. In my travels to Canberra I've now bought two compact travel umbrellas and lost *both* of them within a week of purchase. Seems like an umbrella bought in Canberra really wants to stay in Canberra -- the last one lost was liberated by someone who sought to … Continue reading Umbrellas like Canberra
Category: Life
It doesn't take much to see just how rubbish I am at this blogging thing. The last few months have been full of interesting happenings, and the blog has been silent. I'm not going to embarrass myself by saying "I'll do more frequent updates, really I will" because I know it won't happen. Oh well, … Continue reading Slack blogger
I've read a few "this was my year" blog posts in the last day or so; no doubt I'll read a few more in coming days. I honestly can't remember much of positive significance happening this year, compared to last year (which was huge). For a few reasons though, I am glad that this year … Continue reading Another year over…
I was using a fitness ball (swiss ball, exercise ball, gym ball, etc) to sit on in the study in lieu of a normal chair. I have to be honest and say that the experiment wasn't working for me (it was supposed to get me disciplined to keep straight posture while seated) and I was considering … Continue reading Another big bang
We returned from holiday a little while ago -- we spent a week in Melbourne to visit family and friends. While it wasn't Nicholas' first time on a plane, it was the first he was able to get involved in (being a couple of years older than his previous plane rides).He took to the plane amazingly … Continue reading Holiday
LIVE from Dicky Beach, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, it's the Crossed Wires Holiday Show! Jokes aside (particularly at the name of the venue, which is actually named after a shipwreck... oh dear, not getting much better is it) we're on our "summer" holiday. Caravanning on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Beautiful... well, after the heat in the van's canvas annexe... … Continue reading Holiday time
Having paid for the veejoe.net domain some time ago (got a fully sic deal as well, 5 years for the price of two, or something) I decided to finally do something about it. So, it's now the new (official) home of Crossed Wires. I'm hardly going to submit it to Google or anything like that, but … Continue reading New home for Crossed Wires
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