This morning Ellie went thru her toy room and chose some of her toys and books she could give to the kids who didn’t have any.
She has been following the Tsunami story with us and is obviously wanting to help. A little bag of toys and a rug sits by the door waiting to go [...]
The beast is back on the road… Will the repair work? Only time will tell! Here’s hoping…
Ok, after much discussion and tooing and froing I was convinced by several reputable parties that I ought to at least have a go at a self fix on the crankshaft of the beast. One of those reputable parties was my wife who suggested $200.00 was a much better fix than $2000.00.
It is a bit [...]
Yesterday I stripped the bits of my car to get to the crankshaft pulley.
It is well and trulyu cactus with a large split thru it. The question though is whether the crankshaft is able to hold a new ‘key’ and work the pulley that I will get at the wreckers tomorrow.
So far I have one [...]
After 30 years of surfing I have learnt a healthy respect for the ocean.
Today Mark and I went fishing and when we left it was still and glassy, almost perfect conditions. We sat out on the third reef for almost an hour and then in an instant a northerly wind started to blow.
It [...]
I have just started reading Tim Winton’s latest book – The Turning. As soon as you enter its pages its like stepping into a west aussie coastal town with all the familiar faces and characters.
I love reading Winton because I feel like I know the people he writes about (I probably do!), the boys from [...]
I’m not a big fan of Christmas – this pic pretty much says it all. Found courtesy of Jonny.
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Anyway… enjoy the day…
I might be back some time in the next two weeks, or I might go blow up another one of our cars…
Yesterday we returned from a week in Margaret river with my good mate Stuart Wesley and his family. I have known Stuart since high school so you could certainly call us old friends and in those 25 years we have become very good friends.
So… how was it?…
I guess that all depends on what you [...]
Tomorrow we head off on holidays for 3 weeks. We will be in Margaret River for the next week, back in town for Christmas and then for the two weeks after that we’ll be making it up as we go.
I might be on here occasionally as this is a passtime I enjoy. Then again it [...]
I used to be able to
make a year 7 boy cry at 50 paces with a glare. I used to be able to approach
them and feel the ground move as they trembled” see the fear in their eyes” see
that fear forming a small puddle on the ground at their feet”
Those days have gone”
and the world [...]