Safe home

Just in case my sudden silence hadn’t made it obvi­ous, Doug is home from New Zea­l­and with a pro­vi­sional res­id­ent visa firmly lodged in his pass­port. He brought back a cold from the plane and then gave it to me (bad Doug!) but we’re get­ting better...

No borders, no nations

My faith­ful iCal has reminded me that at 2pm today, Sunday 16th of March, the Palm Sunday Peace Rally will take place start­ing from the State Lib­rary in Mel­bourne. A good time to pull out the new “make coffee, not war” T‑shirt from the little coffee shop that...
Hey, a meme I actually like!

Hey, a meme I actually like!

From badgerbag:Everyone has things they blog about. Every­one has things they don’t blog about. Chal­lenge me out of my com­fort zone by telling me some­thing I don’t blog about, but you’d like to hear about, and I’ll write a post about it. Ask for...

Doug update

Doug vis­ited the Aus­tralian embassy in Auck­land today and they placed a peach-col­oured sticker in his pass­port which will be “activ­ated” as a visa when he re-enters the coun­try next Tues­day. Yay!Now that he’s got all the offi­cial stuff out of the...
Hey, a meme I actually like!

Phwoar! Talk nerdy to me!

Via drjon…It’s in response to this, but theresponse is so much hotter I would­n’t bother watch­ing the tragic original.And she speaks Elvish! A few years ago, I would’ve been hunt­ing for her con­tact details pronto.