Half a lifetime ago, we were at home on Sunday afternoon at Ross Street and while I was doing something inside, Dim was doing some weeding outside. I heard her take a call, and it didn’t take too long to work out that it wasn’t necessarily good news. She came…

It has been forever since I did a non-holiday blog, so this is long overdue. This long period of stasis is coming to an end, finally. I find myself emerging from it in a strangely similar position to this time last year. After a fair period of discontent in my…

This time around I have something different for the few readers that occasionally remember to check on how long it has been since I posted something. Dim herself has written an entry, after previously mocking me for taking weeks to write a single post. This is the tale of a…

As it has been a while, details on this blog may be a bit hazy [note — it has been about three months since I wrote the first half of this, and two months since I wrote most of the second half]. I’ll start with the genesis. In an effort…

For the past few months much of my spare time has been dominated by cricket, and for the first time this has been due to actually playing the sport, as well as just watching it on TV and bemoaning England’s most recent loss to whoever would listen. I actually got…

Midway through November the Victorian Government announced that the ‘ring of steel’ around Melbourne would be lifted as lockdown had worked so well that the state was seeing days with zero cases. …

It’s been a busy few weeks. My last post was more of a placeholder to mark the year anniversary while everything was going on. I’m going to skip a few weeks in terms of outings — they were mostly just bike ride ones. …

What is it to move home? I have moved to a different continent. Ihave known several homes, moving between them has never been an issue before. I said some time ago that the build up to this move felt like dying. That is not to say that moving here is…