Recent Posts Tagged With 'perth'

• The modern church

  Posted on Tuesday May 26th, 2009 at 07:49 in renovation, Church, modern, western australia, perth, cathedral, archetecture, wa, st marys, cellobella, redsultana

  So what do you think? This is St Mary’s Cathedral in the centre of Perth undergoing extensive renovations and extensions. As you can see the new look includes a very modern semicircular section around the front.  Long windows and curved pillar...

• First winter storm in Perth

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 02:13 in youtube, winter, random, storm, perth

  This is the view from my office window at about 12.15pm when the storm front came through. An hour later it is still. Is that it?...

• The sharks at Blackwell Reach

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 01:05 in western australia, extracurricular, dolphin, picnic, perth, shark, wa, swan river, mosman park, blackwell reach, chidley point

  A lot of people go diving off Blackwell Reach - or at least they used to - it’s very deep. There are rumours of large river sharks that live down there. I imagine the visibility is a little “confronting”, but maybe that just means i...

• Yes day

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 22:59 in current affairs, vote, beliefs, perth, daylight saving

  Today West Australians go to the polls to vote for or against daylight saving. It’s a beautiful morning. The sky is blue, there’s no wind. It’s tee-shirt weather. You don’t get mornings like this in summer. Or at least you ...

• A taxi rant - it’s all about service people!

  Posted on Saturday October 18th, 2008 at 06:34 in Rant, etiquette, service, anger, taxi, perth, cab, silver service

  This is her problem not mine and yet… and yet… Let me tell you the story.  I flew into Perth today from Geraldton where I’ve been the last couple of days - stories coming soon - I met so many interesting people - but anyway… ...

• Flashback to the Polly Pipe opening

  Posted on Saturday September 13th, 2008 at 19:51 in dad, introspection, western australia, perth, wa, polly pipe, stirling bridge

  Growing up with an civil engineer for a dad meant that we went to a lot of openings of big infrastructure projects. This is me and my brother at the opening of the Stirling Bridge in Fremantle. There is a better photo somewhere but I can’t fin...

• What’s on your Saturday to-do list?

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 20:48 in fitness, random, introspection, perth, to do, jacob's ladder, white trees

  Here’s mine: Get up and join group for Jacob’s Ladder experience - do JL 4 times and run up and down Mount St Hill twice.  Completed. Stand in pool for 20 minutes to help my aching legs (apparently it’s what you do).  Done. Eat b...

• Sunset train journey

  Posted on Friday July 11th, 2008 at 07:04 in station, train, sunset, perth, wa, claisebrook

  I was running late for the train but had to stop and catch this sunset. Of course the camera I was carrying didn’t have a memory card in it - I was running late - it was never going to be easy. So I got out my little Flip video camera and snap...