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- December 21st, 2009
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Fabulous Weekend
I had a great weekend. Asha’s 21 was awesome and enjoyed by all. It was fun to be surrounded by my family and closest friends and to celebrate her. The night went better than I could have imagi…
- December 19th, 2009
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North Coast Birds
Top: 4th December 2009, Boat Harbour Beach Middle: Stanley Bottom: The Nut Stanley is an interesting place. It reminds me of Wyndham on the Kimberly coast which is squeezed between the Bastion range…
- December 18th, 2009
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- December 14th, 2009
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School finished for 2009
Today we had our breakup for school. We had breakfast together, a liturgy and then a lunch. At last! This school year is over. My office is empty at the junior campus. I think I’ve got everythin…
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Holiday Vistas
5th December 2009, Boat Harbour For Tasmania, the days probably don’t get much better than this. Although I still haven’t seen anyone swim without a wetsuit.
- December 12th, 2009
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Spoilt
Friday I had a bit of a meltdown and felt overwhelmed with what seemed like too many different emotions to even be able to say what was wrong. I went home. Darin listened patiently as I spewed out all…
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Sought after Territory
5th December 2009, Boat Harbour This fellow lives in Boat Harbour. We saw him about often, doing the rounds. He was happy to spend time with any of the beach patrons for a while, then wander off to s…
- December 11th, 2009
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Boat Harbour Birds
3rd December 2009, Boat Harbour I’ve often tried to take photos of birds in flight. At full zoom (400mm at 35mm slr equivalent) it is hard to even track a bird if it is flying and reasonably cl…
- December 10th, 2009
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Biker Babes
Sunday 6th December 2009, Wynyard This was taken at the Wynyard foreshore market. Mum and Jo both frequent markets and op shops and thought this was a great market. Mum found a pair of colourful felt…
- December 9th, 2009
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Last Teaching Day at Junior Campus
The year 9s finished today and it went well enough. I start tomorrow working with the admin team at the new campus so I won’t be farewelling the rest of the school. It happened so quickly in th…
- December 7th, 2009
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Weekly Blogging
On the weekend I attended briefly (well for a 3rd of the prescribed time) our 25th ‘10 till 10′. This annual event has been going on since we left school. The committed have reunited at a…
- December 5th, 2009
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Freycinet
Tue 1st December 2009, Freycinet Peninsula I’m sitting on a beach somewhere on the Freycinet peninsula eating breakfast with a spork No, it isn’t a porky stork sitting next to me. ItR…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Where the rain falls up
21st November 2009, Hobart This picture has nothing to do with the following blurb. It was taken on Davey Street as we were leaving the Salamanca market. Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November 2009,…
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Full Moon in Gemini - Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Yep a full moon on my birthday, what a gorgeous gift from the cosmos! As I walked home tonight from dinner in it’s glow I felt very blessed. I felt enourmous gratitude for all the wonderful and…
- November 26th, 2009
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Counting Down
Yep, it’s less than a week until my birthday. I have revived my childhood habit of counting down the days. Well I’ve been doing it most of my life to be honest but I’ve just not been…
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Competition
19th November 2009, Sullivans Cove In the world of seagulls there is usually competition for food from other seagulls. In Salamanca square Wiebke laughed when she saw a harassed seagull doing circuit…
- November 24th, 2009
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Nouveau Cave Clan
19th November 2009, Hobart Some shots of the Hobart Rivulet under Hobart. Yep, that’s the rivulet, that little bit of water running down the middle (see below). But, it does flood, and sometime…
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Passengers under care
21st November 2009, Sullivan’s Cove (above) and North Hobart (below) These seemed like similar photos, both the dog and the child being driven around by their responsible adults. And both looki…
- November 22nd, 2009
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Underground Art
19th November 2009, Hobart. Ever since hearing about the Hobart rivulet, and how it flows beneath Hobart, I wanted to explore it. I didn’t know where to get in. The Pandani Bushwalking Club org…
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Discerning customers
19th November, Sullivan’s Cove. These Seagulls were contemplating eating at Muirs - like me, they didn’t. If you know seagulls, you’ve just read a restaurant critique. It’s a…
- November 21st, 2009
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G1 - first impressions
21st November 2009, Murray St crossing (between the malls). I am a hypocrite! I bought a panasonic G1 twin lens kit. This is after I complained buckets loads about how they have made it so that you c…
- November 20th, 2009
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Next Year
I am going to the senior campus of our school next year. I have known about it for a little while now and have been thinking about it. I am nervous for sure. I have reassured countless year 9s over th…
- November 19th, 2009
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Warm Weather
I love it. I enjoy waking up and not feeling like I can’t face the outside of my bed because it is too cold. I love the brightness of a clear blue sky. I love swimming in cool water on a warm da…
- November 16th, 2009
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New Moon in Scorpio - Tuesday 17th November 2009
The moon is new in the early am of tomorrow. Lynda Hill’s Sabian Symbols: An X-Ray Diagnosis  explains all the things going on in the skies and the energy surrounding it. I’m hoping for…
- November 13th, 2009
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Happy Days
My son came home for the weekend last night. He just gave me a hug and said “I love waking up here”. I can’t express how good that feels to me. I miss him so much that I can’t…
- November 11th, 2009
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Struggle
I’ve been sick for a couple of days. Friday night I had a heavy chest and it had degenerated until Sunday night I was out of breath. It’s been hot and I love the warm weather. I have not b…
- November 8th, 2009
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Guy in pink
18th October 2009, between Adamsons and Creekton falls. This is the only time and place that I’ve seen pink mushrooms. There was one more within 100 metres of this one.
- November 7th, 2009
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Saturday and Coco Chanel
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ” Coco Chanel I watched a DVD about Coco Chanel yesterday. It was beautiful. She was really a feminist in…
- November 6th, 2009
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Jail Bird
23rd October 2009, Glenorchy Another hapless fowl sentenced to the Hobart Show for the duration I have a bump on my noggin and a sore hip from ice skating. If I go again I’m wearing a helme…
- November 4th, 2009
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Pomegranate and Mosaic
I had a browse through my wordpress stats the other day. I was surprised to find the most common search terms people used to find my blog were ‘pomegranate’ and ‘mosaic’. I use…
- November 2nd, 2009
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Full Moon in Taurus - Tuesday 3rd November
It’s full early tomorrow morning, yet looking close enough to be full as I type tonight. I have celebrated this with food today having a delicious chinese meal tonight. I have also soaked in t…
- October 31st, 2009
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Beach is Back
IÂ dipped in the sea yesterday. We went to Inverloch with the kids. The water was cold, but I couldn’t resist. The carpark at the surf beach was full so we went to the beach near the town. The g…
- October 30th, 2009
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Slap…Mosquito
Mosquitos have invaded my world. They are everywhere. Today was muggy and hot and amongst all the activity of that last day before the four day break, there were many minor irritations. Tonight when…
- October 29th, 2009
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- October 28th, 2009
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Sentenced to three days at the Hobart Show
23rd October 2009, Glenorchy You can see Woody a few cells down poking her head out. She might be claustrophobic? Or just wants to get out and shovel around for snails and play in the mud
- October 27th, 2009
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Afternoon Walk
After school today we went for a walk down the street. I love afternoons like this. The rain we’ve had has made the creek alive and the grass green and the afternoon lights it up. We came across…
- October 26th, 2009
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Monday
When I was on camp last week I changed my alarm from 6.00 to 7.30. I didn’t want to wake the kids up that early! Thursday and Friday mornings I woke up by myself before the alarm was needed, so…
- October 25th, 2009
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Old tracks
25th October 2009, Adamsons Falls This photo only shows the bottom third of the falls - they look to be about 150m (3 olympic size swimming pools). I’ve crossed the foot of these falls a few ti…
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Teachers and Social Networking
In QLD teachers have been banned from contacting students on social networking sites. This bothers me. There are so many things I see as wrong about this stance. Students can run into trouble onli…
- October 24th, 2009
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Woody wants out!
23rd October, Glenorchy Another picture from the Hobart show. This Duck was making a racket, and poking her head out when there was no one around. I felt a kindred spirit. I took this at full zoom (2…
- October 23rd, 2009
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Test Ride & the Hobart Show
23rd October 2009, Glenorchy This morning I had a test ride on a Can Am Spyder - see below. It is a three wheeler 990cc rotax engined flappy paddle type auto gearbox. Two wheels at the front. I booke…
- October 22nd, 2009
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Touch Footy
I’d love to say I played touch footy last night, but truthfully I had a little dazed run around the grass, for very short periods. Darin and I have joined the ’social’ touch footy co…
- October 21st, 2009
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Home Again
It was beautiful weather at Tamboritha. The creeks were full and flowing with the melted snow. We walked to Thomastown on the first day. The water was freezing, not that I wet more than my feet. It wa…
- October 20th, 2009
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The Drop
18th October 2009, near Adamsons falls. This was on the way in to Adamsons falls. I have been exploring this area and wasn’t expecting much of a track, if any. It was a veritable highway compar…
- October 17th, 2009
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The Shy Ones
10th May 2009, Near Geeveston These things are tiny, just a few millimetres across. I’ve only seen them on the lower half of horizontal (fallen) trees. They reach out to get some light, alt…
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New Moon in Libra - Sunday 18th October 2009
Make a wish on the New Moon in Libra to do with partnerships. Yasmin Boland has this great article about how to make new moon wishes. Mars moved into Leo today, and will stay for an extended length o…
- October 16th, 2009
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The Evil Eye
11th October 2009, on the way to Dora Falls. This was taken on a Pandani Bushwalking Club walk. The evil eye of Telstra has found me Please forgive the reference to Lord of the rings. No contact yet,…
- October 15th, 2009
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May Telstra go to Hell
4th October 2009, near Duck Hole Lake. A harsh sentiment, but they have easily earned it. I am only speaking from my experience. I pay bills. Most of them are good; I see what I owe for something that…
- October 13th, 2009
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These Days…
We have laptops in many classes now. There is so much to teach about using the Internet. This week we had a learning experience about Twitter. Some students were using it as though it were a private c…
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Up the creek
4th October 2009, near Duckhole Lake This is an amazing walk. The track is old and not used that much; a challenge to follow. Lots of fallen trees, mud and water, the constant sound of rushing water,…
