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It’s A Strange Weather World

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Global weather patterns are still frustratingly bizarre. While we here in Melbourne (and the rest of the country) continue to battle drought, with dam levels down below 30%, I found out today that Ottawa in Canada has had its wettest July ever, at the same time as they are fighting bushfires and heat waves over [...]

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Homelessness – Two Minds

Posted in Opinion, tagged , , on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The back page of the latest The Big Issue has an advertisement for a photo competition, sponsored by the City of Sydney. Nothing remarkable about that you might think. Except that, one of the categories for the competition is people who are homeless – photographers are being encouraged to take photos of the homeless for [...]

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Australian Spin Coaches Not Supporting Chucking

Posted in Cricket, Sport on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve blogged previously on Muthiah Muralitharan and how the world cricketing authorities have changed the rules to support the way he delivers the ball (I won’t say “bowl”, because he doesn’t). Hence, I was delighted to read this in today’s The Age: “Writing in the Adelaide Review, off-spinning great Ashley Mallett said: ‘‘There was unanimous agreement that [...]

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Emergency Services Volunteers – We Need You

Posted in Emergency Management, Red Cross, tagged , , , on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was super-impressed to hear that a colleague has recently joined up with the SES. He has a full day training session today. Nice work. We need all the emergency services volunteers we can get. Whether it’s working with our great volunteers at Red Cross, or with other teffific groups like CFA or SES, we [...]

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Gina & Alex – Birthday Lunch

Posted in Family, tagged , , on July 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Today was Gina & Alex’s 26th birthday. They, Carol, Tom, Diem, Olly and I headed off to a great Italian restaurant, Mamma Vittoria’s (http://www.mammavittoria.com.au), for lunch. It was a great time – here’s the pick of the photos. The photo of the five of us is the first I can remember of us all together [...]

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Steamrail Trip To Seymour

Posted in Photography, Trains, Travel, tagged , on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Alright, I admit it. I’m a train nut as well. About 12 months ago, Carol and I did a Steamrail Victoria trip to Seymour, with visits to three local wineries before the return trip. This was an absolutely fantastic day – Steamrail Victoria (http://www.steamrail.com.au) does a great job and deserves your support. Here’s some of [...]

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Melbourne Zoo

Posted in Animals, Photography, Travel, tagged on July 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I love a zoo. Most importantly, I love going to zoos on my own. Why? Because it means I can spend as much time as I like looking at my favourite animals and getting the perfect photo. I can spend a good half to three quarters of an hour tinkering with settings on the camera [...]

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Saints Training

Posted in AFL, Sport, tagged on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »

For someone who’s so fanatical about the St Kilda footy club, I guess it’s surprising I haven’t done any blogging about it, particularly as it’s been such a great season so far. Last Sunday’s game was just brilliant – so much hype beforehand and a standard of game that certainly lived up to the hype. [...]

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Sporting Legends

Posted in AFL, Opinion, tagged , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some of our sportsmen deserve, by the way they play their respective games, the way they carry themselves in public life, and what they do for their sports after they’ve finished playing, to be given legend status. Two of those people have hit the news this week, for entirely different reasons. Ron Barassi has been [...]

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Muthiah Muralitharan

Posted in Cricket, Opinion, tagged , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Age is reporting this morning that Muthiah Muralitharan will be turning out for Victoria to play Twenty20 cricket next season. This is cause for frustration on a number of fronts. Whatever happened to the honour of representing one’s state or country? I would have dearly loved to have had the honour to represent my [...]

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