tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121144212024-03-18T08:32:54.648+11:00Northern Lights At last! A blog about everythingDavid Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.comBlogger2846125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-37239391810801722732024-03-17T21:18:00.003+11:002024-03-17T21:18:40.594+11:00weekend<p>I just get so tired. I have been extremely exhausted on weekends recently. But it might be because of the heatwaves. </p><p>So, see below. Do you think this is fair? Do you think there is a big difference between 'all the coffee is gone' and 'the coffee is all gone'? I don't. I feel like I translated this perfectly adequately. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnMYoJqpVFGMm2Sjyry65t7LrL3lyN25gZ661CRX-MmzlTmfGnwIwhiBFvDpaGYF6Y7myzevAjPrv_ES-KVfJouHTdxVOPPae2vH_FG9e2oMWrkiMsQYGEbboQq_kdhaE3kD-s4d7RviCff2RMLIOZ-kYxOFvDT6UcGiA-dpIUGK_f8TtIkK51A/s2778/IMG_8917.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2778" data-original-width="1284" height="1051" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnMYoJqpVFGMm2Sjyry65t7LrL3lyN25gZ661CRX-MmzlTmfGnwIwhiBFvDpaGYF6Y7myzevAjPrv_ES-KVfJouHTdxVOPPae2vH_FG9e2oMWrkiMsQYGEbboQq_kdhaE3kD-s4d7RviCff2RMLIOZ-kYxOFvDT6UcGiA-dpIUGK_f8TtIkK51A/w486-h1051/IMG_8917.PNG" width="486" /></a></div>Incidentally, the coffee <i>was</i> almost all gone. Woolworths has a special on 500g packs of the right coffee, ground, but they didn't actually have any on the shelves, I've been thrice now. <p></p><p>This morning just before the sun came up Perry and I walked around Carlton. This is a dark laneway, but lightened by the phone camera. Looks good doesn't it. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTYhfL9qtfr1ooiQ0OVD_WxdyNaVR2pec8QGn6VvBs3T3SYnR8pQBHOLEw9KlBxYIrNd-J6CEmssR5Dtv2Nl7pPemFybsU4y1IUQvHj786gmPKTxuJRKcLHyQS73T8j-Nsgz7dO6QN4fI1d-30_pChEHEPDq6YR26dtbiYy0W2LVgMRhogcx6ysQ/s4032/IMG_8910.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTYhfL9qtfr1ooiQ0OVD_WxdyNaVR2pec8QGn6VvBs3T3SYnR8pQBHOLEw9KlBxYIrNd-J6CEmssR5Dtv2Nl7pPemFybsU4y1IUQvHj786gmPKTxuJRKcLHyQS73T8j-Nsgz7dO6QN4fI1d-30_pChEHEPDq6YR26dtbiYy0W2LVgMRhogcx6ysQ/w640-h480/IMG_8910.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>See ya later! <p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-81549057133172832562024-03-16T19:36:00.006+11:002024-03-17T20:52:32.734+11:00nation 1971<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWpFgdjBgERNWtD94uMUHVuHqXqE39eDBjKlOS8XXQyR3AP0XwZnYZ1G8S5ltzUhwPXpbgqJKtrfYmd5CcQdx366-V1f5-84Nf-lbCgHnvunSGWWtPbcy0URG46wn9ilOCrCRSJCwqvLg3R2DIiuGfWhFIBiaehGb_O-Zu3VXaAwMOFtLNIbdIQ/s3792/IMG_8909.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3792" data-original-width="2630" height="868" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWpFgdjBgERNWtD94uMUHVuHqXqE39eDBjKlOS8XXQyR3AP0XwZnYZ1G8S5ltzUhwPXpbgqJKtrfYmd5CcQdx366-V1f5-84Nf-lbCgHnvunSGWWtPbcy0URG46wn9ilOCrCRSJCwqvLg3R2DIiuGfWhFIBiaehGb_O-Zu3VXaAwMOFtLNIbdIQ/w603-h868/IMG_8909.HEIC" width="603" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I couldn’t help myself. As a staff member I am allowed to borrow volumes of magazines and I was looking for a specific issue of <i>New Society </i>in the wrong place and instead came across what I think is the full run of <i>Nation. </i>You know how some people are addicted to porn or Minecraft? I am addicted to things like this. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">Fucking </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">Nation </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">had everything in the early 70s. Bob Ellis working out his future screenwriting career in television reviews. John Mant on urban planning. Sue Nichterlein on Graham Little. Wendy Bacon on going to prison for eight days. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">Look it’s a little before my time, but it’s full of people who had a big impact on my first few decades, and I find it fascinating. I even find it fascinating that </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">Nation </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">saw it unremarkable to run a regular report from London via one Russell Lansbury with no apologies – whatever happened in England was as Australian as anything else. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">It gets me thoroughly distracted. A small piece by Katie Martin on a very horrible topic sent me down a massive rabbit hole. It is called ‘A ten-dollar look’ and it’s about the towing service which took possession of the car in which Ronald Biggs’ oldest son, Nicholas, died. Biggs had escaped the country by this time but his wife Charmain (who soon after changed her name to Brent) was still in Melbourne (and would remain so until her death just under ten years ago). She crashed her car in Kilsyth. Reporters were charged ten dollars to view the car, I don’t even want to relay what was in it, and it’s 53 years later. I had never really thought about the Biggses living in Melbourne, but they did, for a few years, under the name Cook. They lived at 54 Hibiscus Road Blackburn North (yes, the house is still there and yes, of course I am going to go and look at it). So, rabbit hole for Charmain Brent and fascination about what she studied when she went to university later in life – looks like an arts degree. Fascination also about Katie Martin, who is not the Katie Martin who currently writes for the </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">Financial Review </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">or if she is she’s very well-preserved for a seventy-something-or-older-year-old. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">The letters pages are amazeballs. Clement Semmler in defence of seat belts (he and another correspondent, Bill Purves, reacting to an anti-seatbelt letter from one Roger Page). An ongoing debate – for </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">months – </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">about phonetic spelling, mainly between D. L. Humphries of East Kew and Harry Lindgren of Narrabundah (with a few interjectors such as Daryl Haslam of Mt. Waverley). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">Ellis’ television reviews are extraordinary. In the 6 February issue he writes about four new Australian programs shown in one night on Channel 7: <i>The Group</i>, which sounds like a forerunner to the notorious shambles <i>The Unisexers*</i> and featuring amongst others ‘oh yum Wendy Hughes, bosomy, breathy, ravishingly virginal, the dumb blonde of every man’s dreams’.** It was followed by a show called <i>Catwalk</i> which sounds extraordinary, in Ellis’ description a kind of glam soap opera the Americans claimed as their own 15 years later. ‘The idea that such adult content on Australian television is now a commercial proposition,’ says Ellis, ‘still has me quaking with pleasure.’ He has few good things to say about the next show, </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">The Shockers, </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">so I’ll pass over that, but the final of the four, </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">E-Force One, </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">sounds extraordinary – ‘a small band of dedicated men fighting to save our natural environment.’ Ellis describes it very amusingly and the fact that one of the characters, played apparently by Neva Carr Glyn (though this might be a joke or a mistake, as he also says she plays ‘the landlord’s swinging old mum’ in </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">The Group) </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">is called Elsie Meatsfoot. This is criticism at its finest IMO: ‘Apart from gigantic incompetence, the episode was smug, self-righteous, paranoid and woefully shabby-genteel, behaving as if it had a million-dollar budget in a squalid little studio, and brandishing one of the worst actresses in living memory, and it finally succeeded in doing the impossible, which was giving pollution a good name.’ Two weeks later Ellis is praising Humphries*** and Garland’s </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">to high heaven: ‘If only we are smart enough to try and live up to Barry McKenzie, instead of trying to live him down, crafty enough to absorb him as a part of our national soul, as laudable in his own way as the wild Welshman, the fighting Irishman or the crazy Yank, instead of trying to vomit him out of our national consciousness as if he was some mere incidental dirty dago…’ Gosh. I think we did. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">I’m so sold on this volume of </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">Nation </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">I’m even pleased to see they gave </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">The Female Eunuch </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">to a man to review, I mean, just because it seems so 1971 to do so. What they might not have been expecting (but they ran it over almost 4/5 of a page of the 15 May issue) was Lillian Roxon’s summary of her career including a response to ‘Germain Greer and her double-edged dedication’ (in </span><i><span lang="EN-AU">TFE) </span></i><span lang="EN-AU">which she says ‘changed my life and is she ever proud of herself!’). Roxon was responding to an article by someone called ‘G. J. M.’ in the 17 April edition – ‘Third Floor Only’ – which pondered the state of women in journalism and which, she felt, misrepresented her career. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: inherit;">OK I’m half way through 1971. Mirka Mora is defending G. R. Lansell from John Reed in the letters page (‘Mr. John Reed forgets that Mr. Lansell who is twenty-eight years, eleven months and a few days, came only by change to dwell on art criticism… Mr. John Reed who is 300 years old and a few days…’ and McMahon is prime minister. I’ll come back to this. I may or may not bore you with the details. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">* I actually hate it when people write about cultural phenomena/works of art in withering terms when they haven't actually personally experienced them. That's what I'm doing here and I hate it. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">** Hughes was the main character but only in the pilot, after which she was recast. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">*** I dug up my copy of </span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nation: The </span>Life<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of an </span>Independent<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Journal of </span>Opinion 1958-1972, </i>ed. K. S. Inglis 1989 and it says that the two men more responsible for <i>Nation </i>than anyone, T. M. Fitzgerald and George Munster, were introduced by Humphries at 'Lorenzini's, a wine bar and coffee shop in lower Elizabeth Street', presumably in the mid-to-late 1950s. Humphries said to Fitzgerald, 'I want you to meet a friend of mine who's a genius'. (p. 8). </span></span></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-75645170709629998442024-03-15T18:24:00.004+11:002024-03-15T21:58:47.879+11:00mrs ely - I<p>Thanks again to the remarkable research of the person I <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/search/label/honor%20cecilia%20paget">previously referred to as 'reader Kim',</a> more information has come to light on the person we have come to know as Honore Bowlby-Gledhill or Honore Cecilia Paget if you prefer. Perhaps you prefer a few other of her names, and perhaps you like Mrs. Ely the best, in which case you are roughly as up to speed as Kim and I. </p><p>I said in the post linked above that I had found a vague Australian link - that Honore's grandfather was governor of Queensland. There's a lot more connection than that, I have to tell you. She was here in the late 1930s, and she called herself Mrs. Ely, though what she meant precisely by this I don't know, as it does not seem there was a Mr. Ely (or at least, he wasn't with her, if he existed). </p><p>I will go into greater detail of what I know about her activities as Mrs Ely in due course. In the meantime I just want to mention that I made time today to go to the Public Records Office to investigate the will of Ambrie Martin, a woman who was born in Brunswick in 1913 and died in Prahran in 1997 leaving $120 000 to her one son Peter. What has Ambrie (what an amazingly great name) got to do with anything? Well her husband (another Peter) left her for Mrs Ely in 1938 and while this presumably did not last Ambrie divorced him in 1941 and from what I can tell they did not see each other again, though I can't be sure of that. </p><p>I will go into this more comprehensively soon. Right now I have other things to think about as my electricity has gone off with the dishwasher in mid-cycle so you can imagine how I feel. Not as happy as Ambrie did in 1941 (see below). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdE8grleOFOPFX-ZCuadkXAQ10h6P3dIACToQqYYbm1osnQuwuYBOX1rUcoE3TrO4XSC_iymSuT8Wid-ttGCQ3mPeIGizrccw5-wubxd9YC8M-GhkIsmHXwjPl2S0Rw4jHbn-Y975vjaGk-3L-bzsE73Hko4jSwM0DyHkaYkIsZzYrq2fQ19vvXQ/s778/Screenshot%202024-03-15%20at%2016.30.06.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="512" height="809" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdE8grleOFOPFX-ZCuadkXAQ10h6P3dIACToQqYYbm1osnQuwuYBOX1rUcoE3TrO4XSC_iymSuT8Wid-ttGCQ3mPeIGizrccw5-wubxd9YC8M-GhkIsmHXwjPl2S0Rw4jHbn-Y975vjaGk-3L-bzsE73Hko4jSwM0DyHkaYkIsZzYrq2fQ19vvXQ/w533-h809/Screenshot%202024-03-15%20at%2016.30.06.png" width="533" /></a></div><br /><p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-53761996972486320662024-03-11T18:04:00.005+11:002024-03-11T18:04:53.417+11:00west brunswick this morning <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Perry and I racked our brains to figure out where we could go this morning to have a pre-sunrise walk on a 35-something degree day. We decided to go to Brunswick, actually to Holbrook Reserve, but it was too dark and Perry didn't want to walk down the path. I got that. So we just wandered in the area, where we'd been <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2024/01/walk-in-west-brunswick.html">just over two months ago</a>. <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-mornings-west-brunswalk.html">I went there in 2020 as well</a> but I didn't mention that to Perry, mainly because I don't remember doing it, also, he doesn't understand either English or the Past. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I kind of like these flats, they're nifty. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErwui8doveRkum0Thc1bfC7ASE1nK9lcreY3x20DcaN1IB7fL9C37MdoP1OaQN9rsYxYbGYnyD1VLmiCSrJzac3JQj16Uz733tjIJALl0Bu4CLwCFL7RnsZLwRXt_5D5N5q-BCmqcmSfUEb0HO-pRvgywfEkzXTmLx4wbSWDZBjzgS8PAWExF1A/s4032/IMG_8788.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjErwui8doveRkum0Thc1bfC7ASE1nK9lcreY3x20DcaN1IB7fL9C37MdoP1OaQN9rsYxYbGYnyD1VLmiCSrJzac3JQj16Uz733tjIJALl0Bu4CLwCFL7RnsZLwRXt_5D5N5q-BCmqcmSfUEb0HO-pRvgywfEkzXTmLx4wbSWDZBjzgS8PAWExF1A/w640-h480/IMG_8788.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhACMZyCeVfaAGRSeGsKxC77RNe2jBH-vtjugfi2xnsQ6CMxGY0AEl_AyNMJNIuHtXu_HG6dFTcDDPzPxWyoIrQvI0rMsZEPGFl9hLzpjVigMlClDi68A-e6gFeqw8AewLEAV5ONZw7IlTaGmHrk6zhQWxkGcsOTsYT9iJk0sNEPkZxoz1R2upCQ/s4032/IMG_8789.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhACMZyCeVfaAGRSeGsKxC77RNe2jBH-vtjugfi2xnsQ6CMxGY0AEl_AyNMJNIuHtXu_HG6dFTcDDPzPxWyoIrQvI0rMsZEPGFl9hLzpjVigMlClDi68A-e6gFeqw8AewLEAV5ONZw7IlTaGmHrk6zhQWxkGcsOTsYT9iJk0sNEPkZxoz1R2upCQ/w640-h480/IMG_8789.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircvnntH9yiZDS6xK6C6czUPfCGTzpZ5sBmMXzlLpRK2f8cdTxkrZ0wYIDcz-fvWpvzcWpiF9Y108F7HdbN2cCTUA2ynWmb-qwmzFI0j6BznfTT-MlmGnUI5YBgwXZIjwjoh2mKvPkJnE0lQG-qX6RxGSx9RU0S4s6D8kW3mYNUC_L4ve8lWiu6Q/s4032/IMG_8790.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircvnntH9yiZDS6xK6C6czUPfCGTzpZ5sBmMXzlLpRK2f8cdTxkrZ0wYIDcz-fvWpvzcWpiF9Y108F7HdbN2cCTUA2ynWmb-qwmzFI0j6BznfTT-MlmGnUI5YBgwXZIjwjoh2mKvPkJnE0lQG-qX6RxGSx9RU0S4s6D8kW3mYNUC_L4ve8lWiu6Q/w640-h480/IMG_8790.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>The only people around were cyclists, as I recall. A lot of people had their lights on at home, though, for some inexplicable reason. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4Fvz4-2p48CgoSYAnGY4KyTAuN8v8ca9MwLL8V3TrJBXXRWMEETRaUi5BtdaJv4zWJVDz0BB2fZ0Y0rnxwvPtpx3hiwBqLkvXCXBcHZ68OQGPSheoveOq0N-xICCg8eEF6Pn21HiBKJA6qhoYHVF9I3KYpUZtz65J9GUmp94hdQC0bJKxXIS5g/s4032/IMG_8791.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4Fvz4-2p48CgoSYAnGY4KyTAuN8v8ca9MwLL8V3TrJBXXRWMEETRaUi5BtdaJv4zWJVDz0BB2fZ0Y0rnxwvPtpx3hiwBqLkvXCXBcHZ68OQGPSheoveOq0N-xICCg8eEF6Pn21HiBKJA6qhoYHVF9I3KYpUZtz65J9GUmp94hdQC0bJKxXIS5g/w640-h480/IMG_8791.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Great looking house. It's one of the ones with inexplicable lights. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP3mK5NmTddi-sd4_juiLE2cCiTgCKznWS9aZXRH18ha9Mq-tqJPllPoFWa6v2oZYoGrMgsr98DNDacmKHDRh2C5jc4U15RnnEsqXcXnpQJp9EG-xrCPaEJFRhXbCgcnhWDI7h8YgjV20oFHUoddcLEepRiJxvZ1cutgJR3oTywuPWec8bgd4PGQ/s4032/IMG_8792.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP3mK5NmTddi-sd4_juiLE2cCiTgCKznWS9aZXRH18ha9Mq-tqJPllPoFWa6v2oZYoGrMgsr98DNDacmKHDRh2C5jc4U15RnnEsqXcXnpQJp9EG-xrCPaEJFRhXbCgcnhWDI7h8YgjV20oFHUoddcLEepRiJxvZ1cutgJR3oTywuPWec8bgd4PGQ/w640-h480/IMG_8792.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>This was us... <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDch0V6xbjcELkUBW4RofjlSf4WTwW2s-hUxdM7MMRXXnDQAyWC2YxhboYSThX9zRkVw-k-GxDl6fcVeAMH7iqQMwpBygRyB2307tJesG1DS_x30qJTJ2lbg7ZyZT6dRJDHrFWeVls8ZsR5wzRBN1PY_LbmC_edCDF_lg9WoAAJu-h9e1myDibw/s4032/IMG_8787.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidDch0V6xbjcELkUBW4RofjlSf4WTwW2s-hUxdM7MMRXXnDQAyWC2YxhboYSThX9zRkVw-k-GxDl6fcVeAMH7iqQMwpBygRyB2307tJesG1DS_x30qJTJ2lbg7ZyZT6dRJDHrFWeVls8ZsR5wzRBN1PY_LbmC_edCDF_lg9WoAAJu-h9e1myDibw/w640-h480/IMG_8787.HEIC" width="640" /></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-54201429364360859022024-03-10T12:45:00.003+11:002024-03-11T08:50:53.082+11:00in which I hit a new low on self-obsessed venting <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But only a new low for <i>me, </i>I say in my own defence. Anyway, I don't know why I was in this stupid facebook group (yeah, I'll call it stupid <i>now</i> I've been booted out) but it got up my nose that they made a little post about the Magazine single 'Rhythm of Cruelty' and claimed the song was 'penned' by John McGeoch and Barry Adamson. Well, McGeoch and Adamson wrote the music, but Howard Devoto wrote the words. So I felt the need, for no good reason, to point this out. There then ensued an argument between myself and a fellow member who seemed to think I was debating that to 'pen' meant to write/compose; in fact this was how the original anonymous poster reset the terms - that 'pen' meant to write <i>music. </i>I mean this is demonstrably untrue. Anyway, the last person in this exchange, whose name I have scratched out, then went on to tell me (this is cute) to 'F. O.' because I was wrong about the meaning of 'pen', and that everyone knows to 'pen' is to 'write' something. Some more argy ensued accompanied by some bargy and then, as far as I can tell, I was booted out.* Works for me my dudes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhloTAl2Nhv4XqiKPON0jmb3wKOPt-pY-83anVAk2DVD3icILrozpSJKrLHgEBS2KofjMgrsUT7C0Ws6d6qPwfSGfjZle8uZLgumChXeGsLrW_Lc26TgRhE9zE7UoLPTXM6dSBObRXTUvG7AT9xbNzjaHKTfgNUZvc04nkCtxCcf5EJeREkWPP2CQ/s2778/IMG_8777.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2778" data-original-width="1284" height="1263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhloTAl2Nhv4XqiKPON0jmb3wKOPt-pY-83anVAk2DVD3icILrozpSJKrLHgEBS2KofjMgrsUT7C0Ws6d6qPwfSGfjZle8uZLgumChXeGsLrW_Lc26TgRhE9zE7UoLPTXM6dSBObRXTUvG7AT9xbNzjaHKTfgNUZvc04nkCtxCcf5EJeREkWPP2CQ/w583-h1263/IMG_8777.jpg" width="583" /></a></div><br /> *I realised later that I wasn't booted out, it was just fb being glitchy. There was more rancour. The other party has not conceded defeat as of 11/3. I have to not get involved in these idiotic arguments with nobody. <p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-92034955946520661412024-03-09T12:57:00.002+11:002024-03-09T12:57:54.572+11:00what do things mean<p> There is an article in today's <i>Age </i>about Kew, the suburb, which includes one of those before and after swipe things. You tell me wtf you think this means:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJHgGFWRHfuEuE8VoLN8udPunwxS72ev3Jn8IQYBNlAMns81LnOufN2QqXpsGvO4rJGMEUfadygk5qOI6EtzRhUWwhAyCn1OlL8tNIPPI7coJXZVApEWkWBanG7P6ZzbTl9wUc6eQqscywTM64yNBBm8ed43cXCuUE3EaCLRGLNnrY_x41vxSjeQ/s1282/Screenshot%202024-03-09%20at%2012.49.40.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1282" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJHgGFWRHfuEuE8VoLN8udPunwxS72ev3Jn8IQYBNlAMns81LnOufN2QqXpsGvO4rJGMEUfadygk5qOI6EtzRhUWwhAyCn1OlL8tNIPPI7coJXZVApEWkWBanG7P6ZzbTl9wUc6eQqscywTM64yNBBm8ed43cXCuUE3EaCLRGLNnrY_x41vxSjeQ/w630-h459/Screenshot%202024-03-09%20at%2012.49.40.png" width="630" /></a></div><p>I realise you can't engage with it but you can probably see that the part on the left and the part on the right are of the same two buildings, but on the right they are more in the distance. If they were matched up more closely, I think there would be very little difference, except the person on the left might not be there. The distinction is actually really minor. So what is it meant to indicate? Secondly, what kind of time frame is '1920-1954'? I'll tell you - a meaningless one. Particularly as it pertains to two buildings that have basically barely changed (actually I think that memorial was slightly relocated at some point. If that's what this before&after is supposed to indicate, well, the pictures don't make it clear at all). </p><p>I watched a bit of 2012 <i>Neighbours </i>this morning, it was not that hard to follow. I also watched a bit of 2024 <i>Neighbours </i>and it was really cool to hear all of Paul's crimes over the years - a few of which include actual murder - recounted. I felt the frustration, it seems to me there are a lot of people who just won't listen. About Paul and other things. </p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-61884846340496891682024-03-07T14:52:00.008+11:002024-03-07T14:52:00.134+11:00guy pearce he's<p>In 1991 I was editor and main writer of a terrible magazine called <i>Star. </i>Or perhaps <i>Star! </i>Anyway, this is a layout page with various copy edits, apparently printed out exactly 32 years ago. Sorry no Guy Pearce pics. I think I have posted a version of this so-called interview (what else would you call it?) previously. I hope you're not allergic to exclamation marks. Or obscenely huge and malformed possessive apostrophes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOhMV58fn45UgaGPGxV0YOgWyosxMTWscdqVDoGZ_kjTNhONCrBmeBY4TddO9Uq2LY5SB2mfcrZbw-vHHIBKf9VYukhMMGRt3-iawC3VAy_oVA6el4AasV03QCNP5FLTCaMKWY2b24MTF2-THaPYP6gvOIE6h8yeAMzjwBKpYxgxO0PYnImyLpw/s4032/IMG_2761.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="985" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQOhMV58fn45UgaGPGxV0YOgWyosxMTWscdqVDoGZ_kjTNhONCrBmeBY4TddO9Uq2LY5SB2mfcrZbw-vHHIBKf9VYukhMMGRt3-iawC3VAy_oVA6el4AasV03QCNP5FLTCaMKWY2b24MTF2-THaPYP6gvOIE6h8yeAMzjwBKpYxgxO0PYnImyLpw/w739-h985/IMG_2761.HEIC" width="739" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-Vw6A9ofsGqWPzBBqC598V5NEc6O8Fm6B_XdwZ-ZOjA4YQDk-k39GkAdcNvVR9uMC-ykB2wWdnoGAaIfbVzjVdixIs1Ck0AXQLiIkFSbTIv1sCun94MIJCQ7nDZ9aeg6u40e7q1LRsxQqAIfxGsIdTrVCO4O2qMsM8F2tG7fGz4S4HAoF4CKdw/s4032/IMG_2762.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="947" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-Vw6A9ofsGqWPzBBqC598V5NEc6O8Fm6B_XdwZ-ZOjA4YQDk-k39GkAdcNvVR9uMC-ykB2wWdnoGAaIfbVzjVdixIs1Ck0AXQLiIkFSbTIv1sCun94MIJCQ7nDZ9aeg6u40e7q1LRsxQqAIfxGsIdTrVCO4O2qMsM8F2tG7fGz4S4HAoF4CKdw/w710-h947/IMG_2762.HEIC" width="710" /></a></div>This was on the back of that. David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-73775699838587781362024-03-06T10:22:00.001+11:002024-03-06T10:22:42.584+11:00simpsons season 26 ep 5 'opposites a-frack'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I always like to watch a little something with my breakfast and this morning SBS was playing of all things <i>The China Syndrome. </i>I saw this film when it came out, at Hoyts Cinema Centre in late 1979, I was 14. As it happens this was the first time I went to the movies by myself and it was a spontaneous decision made from boredom. There was a little consternation about this at home when I came back from the city but, you know, no-one had asked me when I would be back and no-one had ever told me not to see a film by myself (these are the trials of the eldest child). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Seeing a little bit of <i>The China Syndrome </i>on TV is not in itself noteworthy but amazingly I then had some morning tea and returned to the TV and watched the second half of 'Opposites A-Frack', which I had almost given up on as uninspiring, if not depressing. I am so glad I didn't. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Spoiling the ending: </b>Something I failed to notice until today about these season 20something <i>Simpsons </i>is that even though I don't hate them and think the harsh criticisms of them are misjudged - i.e. it's still a pretty good show - I don't laugh at them, either. Well, I kind of hate <i>myself </i>for finding this so funny and believe me, this is <i>not </i>a reflection of my life, honestly, but the final scene (continued over the credits!) of Mr. Burns sitting up in bed with Maxine Lombard, the 'liberal' 'assemblywoman' (that's a word?!) who challenges his every view. The big point of most of the story is that they are opposed on everything but they are instantly sexually attracted to each other and celebrate in many ways their intense passion. However, the end just has them looking at emails, ads on their tablets and making half-aware conversation with each other. I'm sorry but it's very, very funny.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMulWe9-ICwJ9YYfCnoZhXRr1J0A3ZwwnogFb_x-vsb2RPeo3j8_zU1pP66GLsnrplnvVy1LakmHadVQAflAc9eEhRGt0zL1ynQU32_92KZoc73SycZMykNatVmh0VIc3Eps80lIBYkam4Wls6elQq4xpF6A8R993EjqO6Co5BaUvXl5fFYvLPOw/s3875/IMG_8660.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2196" data-original-width="3875" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMulWe9-ICwJ9YYfCnoZhXRr1J0A3ZwwnogFb_x-vsb2RPeo3j8_zU1pP66GLsnrplnvVy1LakmHadVQAflAc9eEhRGt0zL1ynQU32_92KZoc73SycZMykNatVmh0VIc3Eps80lIBYkam4Wls6elQq4xpF6A8R993EjqO6Co5BaUvXl5fFYvLPOw/w640-h362/IMG_8660.heic" width="640" /></a></div>I think this is 'there's a sale at the garden furniture store' (yep, that first word means 'in a garden furniture store'. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZ-Qs_7LFBokYQpX0l638F6UvJYipHvpfmKiaQQW6xUi5FPi0LI_BfoyUV2rtefVsbUb30Qyhqwiz-stqJfDzuwil9wBRSmgREKt4DYavjsR7MpUYIA-aJVc5y1_3b4ocpRkOXG_49rkx4w3J35g5ge8BP_IfIuzttPr43i1ecB6KYJnaWU5PDQ/s4030/IMG_8661%202.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="4030" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZ-Qs_7LFBokYQpX0l638F6UvJYipHvpfmKiaQQW6xUi5FPi0LI_BfoyUV2rtefVsbUb30Qyhqwiz-stqJfDzuwil9wBRSmgREKt4DYavjsR7MpUYIA-aJVc5y1_3b4ocpRkOXG_49rkx4w3J35g5ge8BP_IfIuzttPr43i1ecB6KYJnaWU5PDQ/w640-h352/IMG_8661%202.heic" width="640" /></a></div>Here Mr Burns is complaining about how most cars these days are black or grey and that it's rare to see a red one. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKODpnBr3cv6yLEAIbhaOVZCduVjoLjsx-j4LRGW3xmAE6r3eWzOgvs327vZP836i3bNxJurccIio1wawovei0aG73tfn9fsx6_LOBcmJ2mftXkQmyxW01odc-T9yZxHZPGpVAEoxeUWGtQVJSNbKucZikYs-RkxTvnb2_BuXoRhyphenhyphenibtfzfaogg/s4031/IMG_8662%202.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2239" data-original-width="4031" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKODpnBr3cv6yLEAIbhaOVZCduVjoLjsx-j4LRGW3xmAE6r3eWzOgvs327vZP836i3bNxJurccIio1wawovei0aG73tfn9fsx6_LOBcmJ2mftXkQmyxW01odc-T9yZxHZPGpVAEoxeUWGtQVJSNbKucZikYs-RkxTvnb2_BuXoRhyphenhyphenibtfzfaogg/w640-h356/IMG_8662%202.heic" width="640" /></a></div><p>Seriously, I laughed and laughed, and I don't do that much at anything really (usually it's at something Laura says certainly never on my own at the television). </p><p>Anyway. the other amazing thing was this: Maxine Lombard is played by Jane Fonda!!!</p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-83936902862868969282024-03-04T09:20:00.006+11:002024-03-04T09:20:49.155+11:00pinecone<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimd93cyzCNJATWVRDTZTaoWicHXgWTn21CEaNnANDYG3z4P2iwTFWJC3Y_LzuKygWcvxcv7F1hC5dP_YuxwBJLz-Nvf5PiHeQibY5pQvQnNs7WUrIef7uPbXowZ7rH0hb9fcOwl2yWN0KgJIIjiS64WPPqDQB7u0NrOjE76fl_C7qUADAfmIK35A/s4032/IMG_8596.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimd93cyzCNJATWVRDTZTaoWicHXgWTn21CEaNnANDYG3z4P2iwTFWJC3Y_LzuKygWcvxcv7F1hC5dP_YuxwBJLz-Nvf5PiHeQibY5pQvQnNs7WUrIef7uPbXowZ7rH0hb9fcOwl2yWN0KgJIIjiS64WPPqDQB7u0NrOjE76fl_C7qUADAfmIK35A/w640-h480/IMG_8596.HEIC" width="640" /></a><br />That old joke/cliche about you buy your kids an expensive present and they play with the box. Well, Perry has a hankering for pinecones which I guess makes sense for a creature who is not that food motivated but still compelled to do the things puppies/young dogs/dogs generally do, which is destroy something they can easily manipulate. It's all about texture I guess. </p><p>Yesterday we went to Eaglemont and Preston, I might treat you to some pictures from that trip later, although really it was fieldwork for work so there was a lot less quirk. As you can imagine, less quirk than the usually fairly quirkless pictures series I typically post is pretty nonquirk. I will say this: Perry was very well behaved. There's light at the end of the tunnel. He certainly deserves to decimate this pinecone, which he picked up in Eaglemont yesterday. </p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-71708483476375631082024-03-02T19:30:00.003+11:002024-03-02T19:30:36.859+11:00travancore walk<p>Today I was completely exhausted, it has been a big week - one of those weeks where you don't even really realise how big it's been until you get through it and you're like wow. So anyway Perry and I took a shortish walk through Travancore this evening. </p><p>The Travancore estate came into being in the mid-1920s as a 'model garden subdivision' (usual nonsense from real estate agents) which means that much of it was built at roughly the same time and many of the houses are pretty spesh. I'm starting here with a couple of oddities though that I can't quite get a handle on vis-a-vis their integrity:<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyBBiNgVAr4cAn7KMjAsh5yM_fSOHgM4vysYNRAvQtQ-2SXxPw8e0pLjmyf5E1HfrZCxaO-oilus9G57qVnp2VbfcT6gtWByfcgv77R_wFkdPNLK2I2WYFZ60uqmP_TGnr4ZqgFeaKsuZFOT2vUIgqjKJD7fGx8d2H09p_hEVP2ONIMxYqzVEgwQ/s4032/IMG_8508%202.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyBBiNgVAr4cAn7KMjAsh5yM_fSOHgM4vysYNRAvQtQ-2SXxPw8e0pLjmyf5E1HfrZCxaO-oilus9G57qVnp2VbfcT6gtWByfcgv77R_wFkdPNLK2I2WYFZ60uqmP_TGnr4ZqgFeaKsuZFOT2vUIgqjKJD7fGx8d2H09p_hEVP2ONIMxYqzVEgwQ/w640-h480/IMG_8508%202.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>This impressive window above, look I'd have to say that if I was on a game show with Eddie McGuire prompting me to answer whether this huge window was original or installed in 1978, I'd probably ultimately say it's original although it's also quite possible that it's an old window from somewhere else that has been stuck on the front of this house. The overall effect is really pleasing though. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVIpzMpE_0iGTPQ_wdiymslUZqehldHABuVm-0ixJttFRnNIMHAcvPXxLFcVVhPo9deRcSYzzFbwjFzkz97hUfiPobHDAXVk0P3KGyprMj4Cf87MTO2yXhvMVhf2Tvp_tj9nqcJ309rRRMaPxEhCK5eTWoAa81gL5W51WxnhabiNDyTzFuQD7Mw/s4032/IMG_8500.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVIpzMpE_0iGTPQ_wdiymslUZqehldHABuVm-0ixJttFRnNIMHAcvPXxLFcVVhPo9deRcSYzzFbwjFzkz97hUfiPobHDAXVk0P3KGyprMj4Cf87MTO2yXhvMVhf2Tvp_tj9nqcJ309rRRMaPxEhCK5eTWoAa81gL5W51WxnhabiNDyTzFuQD7Mw/w640-h480/IMG_8500.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Then there's this one. Geez. I think it's probably original. But It might also have been constructed in 1981. The glass bricks really confuse. Ok onto some just inarguably nice things...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFeWhSroCT-ulP65qkS_s4nhlWjwY7rz_xKMZpjvq0vQZ8wfNUTDxto6EGyBnOxYwc9PAJf4ZQRIsCL0ZGUr0yWA0Q0OivV0kG1pZTeIynDrKv1stwyAYCEbBdslN2TO1uWvOsovnQ5t4E-LDkRNPoJ0vCbKPP4GaI4OmF4EX9e9uD9Z-5mJyZYg/s4032/IMG_8499.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFeWhSroCT-ulP65qkS_s4nhlWjwY7rz_xKMZpjvq0vQZ8wfNUTDxto6EGyBnOxYwc9PAJf4ZQRIsCL0ZGUr0yWA0Q0OivV0kG1pZTeIynDrKv1stwyAYCEbBdslN2TO1uWvOsovnQ5t4E-LDkRNPoJ0vCbKPP4GaI4OmF4EX9e9uD9Z-5mJyZYg/w640-h480/IMG_8499.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Really nice porch. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPFmSI6XGDpvI00irzh0dJug2KBvCNtDLavwCNPCYi04U1LcwG_C0tRft299nhfL0A6V0aIiOQJKwfEtIdKA1L6CLUsWtJWlhFQDQRwmEVxDKr4C9HfclmYX6NAWW_L2r9tVxxnzHw7gqGMZxDoX4-ZqyoIhUlzjbmajyYnUVew0aYG54JtdJFg/s4032/IMG_8498.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPFmSI6XGDpvI00irzh0dJug2KBvCNtDLavwCNPCYi04U1LcwG_C0tRft299nhfL0A6V0aIiOQJKwfEtIdKA1L6CLUsWtJWlhFQDQRwmEVxDKr4C9HfclmYX6NAWW_L2r9tVxxnzHw7gqGMZxDoX4-ZqyoIhUlzjbmajyYnUVew0aYG54JtdJFg/w640-h480/IMG_8498.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Fab <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4l0amyU4ZpLZ1x6ne7-R7tllbq3Eq0Wf6yoiIoSJiwsYmtfWitUdjgZnDyf8E2Q_jBZCOezTsnY4x6d4Zo3KbJG5WbqzOglRatR9G9rghiBixlJWip3JwrnH2sH_D0A6EQS9ql5VfTyAts3QjkwEtjfmZwURMYteFFOz2hsHq9QFeawXDeZqcQ/s4032/IMG_8497.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC4l0amyU4ZpLZ1x6ne7-R7tllbq3Eq0Wf6yoiIoSJiwsYmtfWitUdjgZnDyf8E2Q_jBZCOezTsnY4x6d4Zo3KbJG5WbqzOglRatR9G9rghiBixlJWip3JwrnH2sH_D0A6EQS9ql5VfTyAts3QjkwEtjfmZwURMYteFFOz2hsHq9QFeawXDeZqcQ/w640-h480/IMG_8497.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>How could you not. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6W470efHrPMNwZVIU81mdcftrSaRNzmXFYsQKE9GufiX3FqS6lLfdnVFH1dLBCpIz54iNNnWbS98fkg5kd8HcGY7FjmH6N1CgkRmd9KJi8-oMdx6GiVKd6gZEax11gKq9EWeC4hU43bUCX-53Qr9Md2NBNPN87Fg1zsCddBNbJjmpuuRAPsu0g/s4032/IMG_8496.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin6W470efHrPMNwZVIU81mdcftrSaRNzmXFYsQKE9GufiX3FqS6lLfdnVFH1dLBCpIz54iNNnWbS98fkg5kd8HcGY7FjmH6N1CgkRmd9KJi8-oMdx6GiVKd6gZEax11gKq9EWeC4hU43bUCX-53Qr9Md2NBNPN87Fg1zsCddBNbJjmpuuRAPsu0g/w640-h480/IMG_8496.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>I totally admire this, to the point that I want to come back one morning when the sun is shining on its face rather than behind it, so I can really, you know, really <i>see </i>it. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5or6mtV0GHlbNDuJMUkBZPLzlLdB-K_p4yivnvbVP0mb017Z1pGJJkSxNOEj5Yhnf2X3QnEJTMVf4Bp7VhJKrxOk1BBgf4yM7CG-fs7FNC1Wt5oTh-2Wv81yzx77V09euue8M4C-v6ilkS_0-c_VFTmI4oEf40XzwU_FMlpvvcjwhzAJJrkSHQ/s4032/IMG_8495.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5or6mtV0GHlbNDuJMUkBZPLzlLdB-K_p4yivnvbVP0mb017Z1pGJJkSxNOEj5Yhnf2X3QnEJTMVf4Bp7VhJKrxOk1BBgf4yM7CG-fs7FNC1Wt5oTh-2Wv81yzx77V09euue8M4C-v6ilkS_0-c_VFTmI4oEf40XzwU_FMlpvvcjwhzAJJrkSHQ/w640-h480/IMG_8495.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>This is sumptuous. This made me think that rather than get Lachlan to make a deck in my courtyard, I should just grow every freakin' plant I can. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0fM7B70z19XPkgcXsMaEBONmKfpnPhFrEFK5EfGxScVYetMB5Hnnq_5_t8OVkshCsaIatsIEKt5ofPOLMVDg_1E4gjz-R_s5m10Lg8YGhqIvJb2HcEDHPqnZ6APhwW4gtAVV7DVaMzKZ4XX0OYaFBB4HIsYqLPh2N6TSfev3ozf9VZ4Vpyo4SA/s4032/IMG_8494.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0fM7B70z19XPkgcXsMaEBONmKfpnPhFrEFK5EfGxScVYetMB5Hnnq_5_t8OVkshCsaIatsIEKt5ofPOLMVDg_1E4gjz-R_s5m10Lg8YGhqIvJb2HcEDHPqnZ6APhwW4gtAVV7DVaMzKZ4XX0OYaFBB4HIsYqLPh2N6TSfev3ozf9VZ4Vpyo4SA/w640-h480/IMG_8494.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>I mean sure, it's possible someone died in there 14 years ago. But it's still marvellous out here. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5oeSaVZdJcdK7Dzz3n02Vkb7wad0MEck5FpFN37ehd2ktKLSqkI9H2atDgGHM0zHT36aPiIuYSUmOmlQPRZ0S3VXA9MsK8i-Rpb2dhPYxH0f_zgbCvNJheYpHuYGWJZFt5NAjqK6FYaAhxeUux0oPWjX0lF89kqJME-XzXC0clC2tXcHv4_zng/s4032/IMG_8493.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5oeSaVZdJcdK7Dzz3n02Vkb7wad0MEck5FpFN37ehd2ktKLSqkI9H2atDgGHM0zHT36aPiIuYSUmOmlQPRZ0S3VXA9MsK8i-Rpb2dhPYxH0f_zgbCvNJheYpHuYGWJZFt5NAjqK6FYaAhxeUux0oPWjX0lF89kqJME-XzXC0clC2tXcHv4_zng/w640-h480/IMG_8493.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCtG27So514KAcQ6DD-Z7DxZr1dfparT1LJlCUCMg-pIStqc6izzBACrOAnS5GgRn0gBRlKXv6AXRfe_jXKz9I4B9iqZhziOMRxXtJSpwsJOp804g7Rdxa52FBYG3GtnP6ud4i6mSlg-RJ5MmS2RjiysydR6Q-Ue_6ZOMZtPRwDBwfNDixd7PnA/s4032/IMG_8492.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCtG27So514KAcQ6DD-Z7DxZr1dfparT1LJlCUCMg-pIStqc6izzBACrOAnS5GgRn0gBRlKXv6AXRfe_jXKz9I4B9iqZhziOMRxXtJSpwsJOp804g7Rdxa52FBYG3GtnP6ud4i6mSlg-RJ5MmS2RjiysydR6Q-Ue_6ZOMZtPRwDBwfNDixd7PnA/w640-h480/IMG_8492.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZFaxMNc9V6hhSSR1mBJXq85_6FefMjD8d22R-o74nPR9crn-5yayKq1aBcWwEMcxS9gt42b7-I8eCUKJTcvgJBmYDP3g6O4etVlWMy_4y4GcpvmEUsp2_mdk6g3c0fSR6jivaO4ih4Wkn52sqEhzEST9DY6uOB11Zmw2CXSbEb7cLj8iQRC19g/s4032/IMG_8491.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZFaxMNc9V6hhSSR1mBJXq85_6FefMjD8d22R-o74nPR9crn-5yayKq1aBcWwEMcxS9gt42b7-I8eCUKJTcvgJBmYDP3g6O4etVlWMy_4y4GcpvmEUsp2_mdk6g3c0fSR6jivaO4ih4Wkn52sqEhzEST9DY6uOB11Zmw2CXSbEb7cLj8iQRC19g/w640-h480/IMG_8491.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Great looking block of flats (obviously not from 1925). The upstairs would have quite a view, the downstairs a view of a wooden fence and a driveway to a carpark. That's what the tenant in the middle picture is enjoying observing. <p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-40015635625757538502024-03-02T08:27:00.000+11:002024-03-02T08:27:00.195+11:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQdhCdRjrgS-HTszy-MMeto6Jync6s8W8zjG24qjK_LRVJSgQgvt-Bv7QDhbtFpqvWfYn1T6Fcz35Jl1PF0FaVx4rH2ipP0huau8WvrYKqsVfdqiD_fnwdGSBmOWUrofLyn8NL6UWAela6NTjz-ONiSa1JUU_t3MX27A-JuLhFbyqgxBQsNMAng/s1309/IMG_8420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1309" data-original-width="1283" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQdhCdRjrgS-HTszy-MMeto6Jync6s8W8zjG24qjK_LRVJSgQgvt-Bv7QDhbtFpqvWfYn1T6Fcz35Jl1PF0FaVx4rH2ipP0huau8WvrYKqsVfdqiD_fnwdGSBmOWUrofLyn8NL6UWAela6NTjz-ONiSa1JUU_t3MX27A-JuLhFbyqgxBQsNMAng/s320/IMG_8420.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="1284" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIvTRsHihtE9tlm4Nbkog0Fpu-zjihLGQfAP2CjIR9kB7wxxIJjobI59kcqsq7HdWLKxvbA3w-K1VLLPy1iwxzqqya9HjaYHmdyPtim-lI9F9OjCctppUA_4W3O8Dt_cx5-UeS_6xCxWCvS0lBkt2MYCz8tyCtNh2suA6naem1JAcyMwdd7UZOA/s320/IMG_8425.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Wouldn't it be funnier if she said 'I gotta go shoe shopping... I mean <i>shoes </i>shopping.'? <p></p><p>I mean she's Michelle Wolf and I am just a fan so what do I know. I just thought that might be funnier. </p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-23418357832017155232024-03-01T13:01:00.002+11:002024-03-01T13:01:36.321+11:00the avenue, west sunshine<p>This morning Perry and I set out to go west and find some examples of the country in the city for a lecture I have to write about escaping the city. We had our eyes set on Derrimut Grasslands, which is an area controlled and operated by Parks Victoria as, yes, a park. </p><p>To get there we drove through Sunshine and West Sunshine and went the length of the Avenue, which struck me as a pretty extraordinary looking street so I thought, I definitely need to get some shots of this whatever happens. Then, whatever did happen - passing two sides of Derrimut Grasslands it quickly became clear that firstly, it is a big open stretch of grasslands without much else of interest i.e. it is a nature reserve not a park and secondly, you can't get in. </p><p>So we turned around, parked in a street off The Avenue and walked the Avenue. It has some amazing houses and other amazing things in it, wait till we get to No. 15! But first... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHx6f7tFnK5Hgw8KwCj8ETB76iVR3o5pEdXLV2FEZbzyhXeDREhyY33bxThNSvJnRglKCGU5nQvZx3AbnSiacfE5qvbtA5DKbXlBr0xbqYPtD-cKCmbPMyKsfZGnBQpO15uMc56JRitYR2c3PzUCj_BRkeSgnacsU7L4EERWDYIbYuL2D2p2FcA/s4032/IMG_8455.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHx6f7tFnK5Hgw8KwCj8ETB76iVR3o5pEdXLV2FEZbzyhXeDREhyY33bxThNSvJnRglKCGU5nQvZx3AbnSiacfE5qvbtA5DKbXlBr0xbqYPtD-cKCmbPMyKsfZGnBQpO15uMc56JRitYR2c3PzUCj_BRkeSgnacsU7L4EERWDYIbYuL2D2p2FcA/w640-h480/IMG_8455.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Very imaginative topiary. At least, I've never seen it like this before. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJjipLM3PBhltNltU8JIwgbj2FHmFAXJrRlmwaaP99uJ_5-HDrAFLgYtpAWI0MqTgrQHgY3YfcWVCY22CHeGyHPlZjikclyxRbyqRqoEy92ITILMSioi27vUdI8Eu8CX99UerjRGADjknWuT-s4Py2RKQ5GqVtYW4miCijXk0UdFrbLanRE3AGdQ/s4032/IMG_8454.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJjipLM3PBhltNltU8JIwgbj2FHmFAXJrRlmwaaP99uJ_5-HDrAFLgYtpAWI0MqTgrQHgY3YfcWVCY22CHeGyHPlZjikclyxRbyqRqoEy92ITILMSioi27vUdI8Eu8CX99UerjRGADjknWuT-s4Py2RKQ5GqVtYW4miCijXk0UdFrbLanRE3AGdQ/w640-h480/IMG_8454.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>House and boat combo<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqSwn72wHOJzFcu2CWH4wphqQmm4hj0rYVbD_5KyWwQvFfguFIZNWI0aWqtx14eiH9WjOkCMonH2p06wr8jD31xaY9tYDD_izRje8xrInLU9pRdVlfqGbhWELwoyYaLFyKYB8vp2UJBNaVpJDh96GwrAIbNaQs7CqvbO5aUJcKigxF4gb6d9Hhg/s4032/IMG_8453.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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By the way, that person on the bench behind the bear is a manikin. I got a shock for a second (Perry got shocked by the bear lol). <p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-89721381864253883292024-03-01T00:30:00.065+11:002024-03-01T00:30:00.126+11:00flook march 1954<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xOvQe_jECdcaUkrbA2ihOyxv1si0XvOUzQo5ngnl5woH6pnMteYFyqFqn3SIB65l4L2V-FprMJLY1F6rG4UXDIZCtce8TspAYjcw71gYlfhFv8xfFBZLPzN8xk3wdk25Z18_tcjp4m-WUlTyBD5nfZVpbo-PaJaUnOp9AUCYzNdCf_2VgvDK1Q/s4739/The_Province_Mon__Mar_1__1954_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="4739" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xOvQe_jECdcaUkrbA2ihOyxv1si0XvOUzQo5ngnl5woH6pnMteYFyqFqn3SIB65l4L2V-FprMJLY1F6rG4UXDIZCtce8TspAYjcw71gYlfhFv8xfFBZLPzN8xk3wdk25Z18_tcjp4m-WUlTyBD5nfZVpbo-PaJaUnOp9AUCYzNdCf_2VgvDK1Q/w640-h250/The_Province_Mon__Mar_1__1954_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I thought I'd taken a few pictures but apparently nah there were none, aside from the one above, which is from the extent of our walk, at the end of the bridge over the Maribyrnong looking into what used to be a holding paddock for the hapless animals and is now a nature reserve of sorts, but it (and Kensington Banks or whatever it's called these days) will always have a sinister, if not tragic, vibe for me. Well, that's what we did and we were back by 9:30 so all good. <p></p><p>Over the last couple of days when normal work has overwrought me I have set about fixing one of the worst wikipedia crimes of all time, the ridiculous treatment accorded the <i>Daryl and Ossie Show </i>broadcast on Channel 0 in September-October 1978. The wikipedia entry for Daryl Somers completely ignored the fact that there was no <i>Hey Hey It's Saturday </i>at all in 1978, and that instead Daryl and Ernie Carroll made one night-time show for Channel 9 and then, I'm guessing because 9 only wanted them to continue doing the show for kids in the mornings, they left 9 for 0. They made forty episodes of <i>The Daryl and Ossie Show </i>at 0, a half-hour daily program (apparently never broadcast in any other city), and then although there was talk about restructures etc the ratings were bad and they went back to 9 in 1979, now cohosting with Jacki McDonald and I'm not entirely sure when John Blackman came on board but I'm guessing around then. </p><p>I'm pretty pleased with my work on those pages. As I mentioned, the Daryl Somers wikipedia page ignored the 1978 hiccup altogether, instead assuming a seamless continuation between 1971-1999 with the biggest change being the move to evenings in 1984. There was also, however, a <i>Daryl and Ossie Show </i>wikipedia page acknowledging the show, but framing it as though going to Channel 0 was a bit of a holiday for Daryl and Ossie and then they went home (to 9). Silly. Television doesn't work like that. I think I got it sorted out - at least, as much as I could from the <i>Age </i>and the <i>Sydney Morning Herald. </i></p><p>I mean, I have possibly never done more pointless research, but it was pretty satisfying. I see there are nine eps of <i>The Daryl and Ossie Show </i>in the NFSA, I don't know how excruciating they are, but my pain threshold might be too low. <br /></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-51334396340772096142024-02-24T23:59:00.002+11:002024-02-25T18:17:42.984+11:00hot west footscray<p>Perry and I went for a walk in West Footscray this afternoon, it went for a long time and was very interesting. It was only supposed to be 22 degrees but it was quite hot. I was looking for the legacy of Anders Hansen (1880-1953) and found a lot of examples of it but these are just a few pictures of other places and houses we saw. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4l-RF6Jou5yxJatqIGiwNVBedVGR7avIvMAUp10h81LTOMG_QQh3Lg45nbpkEkPOSW8jGdFrJwHbVYfdJm_mYodteoXkDiHUfya5K7HfuzBcMRFHdSOmYVayNfcZFBW0G_tBKdz2M0_0Bo9Xq15FWN-5nlR0Kif6BtSV90qFIcao2jutZ9xtuA/s4032/IMG_8356.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4l-RF6Jou5yxJatqIGiwNVBedVGR7avIvMAUp10h81LTOMG_QQh3Lg45nbpkEkPOSW8jGdFrJwHbVYfdJm_mYodteoXkDiHUfya5K7HfuzBcMRFHdSOmYVayNfcZFBW0G_tBKdz2M0_0Bo9Xq15FWN-5nlR0Kif6BtSV90qFIcao2jutZ9xtuA/w640-h480/IMG_8356.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Well, he got through it. A few known classics; he said there'd be some 'deep cuts' but I didn't get the deep cuts <i>I </i>wanted to hear, which is fine, I have them on a record. Anyway, a great night. I'm not going to write a review or anything that's for the pros. <p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-86401887003699385922024-02-20T21:09:00.000+11:002024-02-20T21:09:07.536+11:00the future will be captioned automatically, hopefully then interpreted by AI<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gEjnythCV9Z-v7T_rJTIE4UTeUidElSHKlDJ-JkQH9ej5lgxtKQ8HpxLVXMQjTdT59SiIs1_TYosu1FAXp1U2KHJVFtvnUEdee_vi5w9CrTUZyOkYLX8Wl6Ge0IW032j5k1CMmmEu1AC3YqvMv8seExyldpYCNy-jXRF3onuP4ZSzK6HKmg6MA/s2778/IMG_8205.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2778" data-original-width="1284" height="1419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gEjnythCV9Z-v7T_rJTIE4UTeUidElSHKlDJ-JkQH9ej5lgxtKQ8HpxLVXMQjTdT59SiIs1_TYosu1FAXp1U2KHJVFtvnUEdee_vi5w9CrTUZyOkYLX8Wl6Ge0IW032j5k1CMmmEu1AC3YqvMv8seExyldpYCNy-jXRF3onuP4ZSzK6HKmg6MA/w656-h1419/IMG_8205.PNG" width="656" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Obviously I am going to have to track this book down and get to the bottom of this side of Honore's (I'll call her that from now on as her last names are a revolving list of strip-in strip-out married names and reversions to maiden names that just confuses me) biography. Kim says:</p><p><i>Apparently, when she left for South America, (with two detectives on her trail), she ended up in Brazil. There, after enjoying herself immensely, she was charged with prostitution and drug use. After the justice system found no evidence to support the charges, and dismissed them, the women of the area (the driving force of the witch hunt) turned instead to the church for help in removing her from the company of their men (she was drinking and gambling with the men at the clubs - maybe had an affair or two). This action resulted in her being ousted from South America and back to England. </i></p><p>Kim also tells me/us that Honore died in Thailand on 19 March 1970. I'm obviously going to have to look into that further too. Thanks Kim for your help with adding more to the story. </p><p>Meanwhile I found an interesting (?) Australian angle, I suppose a slightly tenuous one. Honore's parents met in Newfoundland. Her father, Admiral Alfred Paget (b. 1852) was not much younger than his wife, Viti McGregor's father, William McGregor (b.1846), who was the governor of Newfoundland then. Alfred and Viti married in 1906, and three years later William McGregor was the Governor of Queensland and also the first Chancellor of the University of Queensland (he'd previously been Administrator of British New Guinea). So he had a formative role late in his life in Australia. </p><p>Viti, who appears to have spent much of her time after giving birth to Honore in continental Europe engaged in war work, was also quite a personality. She 'established a name for doing things that are eccentric' according to the Akron <i>Beacon Journa</i>l for 10 August 1911 (p. 6). This was a report of a party she held 'at which her man-milliner was the guest of honor. When she was criticised for introducing a tradesman into society, she replied that he was not a tradesman, but a great artist.’</p><p>You will recall (or not) from earlier posts that Honore was orphaned at a young age (11) when both her parents died within a few months of each other. I suppose Alfred was not exactly a young man in 1918 - 66 I think - but Viti was surely quite young but there doesn't seem to be an official record of when she was born. Apparently she had worked unceasingly during the war, but I am yet to establish what she died from. </p><p>More soon! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyPD0Kh6ATE5wfmNTTlw_tCq9-s7ALDu5-UlrIldR2yCPT1wSyBO7cHBQBxPl0buaMy5Nt5TRZuqSbd_nImglp43u8ZALODX5Wsfa7Y1RYzMK2RMKy0ZvAmiU5Q4MZzKtVFtm9jj-BfgRKxYr0cxn-pTRbRaIf_smGgNCzuMfJoMn40ulf29b0A/s996/Screenshot%202024-02-19%20at%2011.32.00.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="498" height="1243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyPD0Kh6ATE5wfmNTTlw_tCq9-s7ALDu5-UlrIldR2yCPT1wSyBO7cHBQBxPl0buaMy5Nt5TRZuqSbd_nImglp43u8ZALODX5Wsfa7Y1RYzMK2RMKy0ZvAmiU5Q4MZzKtVFtm9jj-BfgRKxYr0cxn-pTRbRaIf_smGgNCzuMfJoMn40ulf29b0A/w622-h1243/Screenshot%202024-02-19%20at%2011.32.00.png" width="622" /></a></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">From the Sydney <i>World's News </i>28 May 1910 p. 12. Even with the deterioration through printing and then digitisation from microfilm, I can't imagine anyone thinking this is a good way to be photographed, can you? </span><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n10IzkZPeMwVleg4EErawieP9jhnbaX-7uFDjVSBT9GtMdoXNpSEd5PMHSOsvxHekC4VhJ6No5xIHMODfbpoanlCz6hradu9ZFlhgdeZjg3CoxJm7zxB0Xw-isLSVT_Yfnf2O9rB-SaBscH3fL6LTqoadUZ_-4oK_4LH0zocn6tPQ7emJyhS7w/s7400/The_Sandusky_Star_Journal_Wed__Aug_9__1911_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7400" data-original-width="3120" height="1316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n10IzkZPeMwVleg4EErawieP9jhnbaX-7uFDjVSBT9GtMdoXNpSEd5PMHSOsvxHekC4VhJ6No5xIHMODfbpoanlCz6hradu9ZFlhgdeZjg3CoxJm7zxB0Xw-isLSVT_Yfnf2O9rB-SaBscH3fL6LTqoadUZ_-4oK_4LH0zocn6tPQ7emJyhS7w/w555-h1316/The_Sandusky_Star_Journal_Wed__Aug_9__1911_.jpg" width="555" /></a></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is from the Sandusky <i>Star-Journal </i>for 9 August 1911 p. 5 and it's a bit better</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46DgN4WOVz30QUSfBfWn1_TEVvlDDa7j3jlsKfTXZb6r63kIP6QM14EudnnSknPdzEMWmlL9zl2JqFtoPJGdddme1s2HWEcuMkhWVfde5obK61zqkhUUw5xzwKO2rfb6vT86g0VHYYX2xJw4RVHgczGgax7k5Qn1gXlO8ZkF51xO_QWqH1HRgyg/s8857/The_Western_Times_Sat__May_27__1916_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8857" data-original-width="4764" height="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46DgN4WOVz30QUSfBfWn1_TEVvlDDa7j3jlsKfTXZb6r63kIP6QM14EudnnSknPdzEMWmlL9zl2JqFtoPJGdddme1s2HWEcuMkhWVfde5obK61zqkhUUw5xzwKO2rfb6vT86g0VHYYX2xJw4RVHgczGgax7k5Qn1gXlO8ZkF51xO_QWqH1HRgyg/w571-h1062/The_Western_Times_Sat__May_27__1916_.jpg" width="571" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Exeter <i>Western Times </i>27 May 1916 p. 4</span><p></p></div>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-20579718459985636852024-02-19T13:19:00.006+11:002024-02-19T13:19:35.894+11:00two journeys<p>On the weekend, there were two journeys made. One was Saturday when Laura, Perry and me to the very fringes of Gippsland. Essentially the trip had two stops: Tynong and Blind Bight (and some disappointing op shops made more disappointing by how freakin' promising they were). We went to Blind Bight first but for some reason the pictures have uploaded backwards so to speak but who cares, let's just whip through them...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxx3ooYItyzHSdp-tCDmFD1wLWEXh9SAnE3O22c25Cvhbj-fvzQy0aYNVMPyRbZZ454m6JDwsEF_i8TEr1uJ0ea3aoacTrOPvk9jPCT2C4hbt7foGxEpiRJ__liw47mB6YB08nQBVQR3maOTJKk178JYO6NQcpXjoi8k1dsv4pm02mekQ1JfthwA/s4032/IMG_8153.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxx3ooYItyzHSdp-tCDmFD1wLWEXh9SAnE3O22c25Cvhbj-fvzQy0aYNVMPyRbZZ454m6JDwsEF_i8TEr1uJ0ea3aoacTrOPvk9jPCT2C4hbt7foGxEpiRJ__liw47mB6YB08nQBVQR3maOTJKk178JYO6NQcpXjoi8k1dsv4pm02mekQ1JfthwA/w640-h480/IMG_8153.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Does the perspective on that bottle make you nauseous? Or just the thought of them mixing the syrups in the water and carbonating them.*<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZ8Y-5bd590xAEmuEzzVy_AOLwZjgD36C8fjuXz1LKsV6uBcO-XAL9OsSgQVHDxL6c2WX1TpuMgOl0XMPibprqMT_Ct1EYl7zvQkD1b1VITc997vlymeSL410h8ZZV1dNRcs6a8jl-079x6d3dAjdI6kC2_ZoS0o_sEsGHJdXYt6Z8-qwhjxp9A/s4032/IMG_8152.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZ8Y-5bd590xAEmuEzzVy_AOLwZjgD36C8fjuXz1LKsV6uBcO-XAL9OsSgQVHDxL6c2WX1TpuMgOl0XMPibprqMT_Ct1EYl7zvQkD1b1VITc997vlymeSL410h8ZZV1dNRcs6a8jl-079x6d3dAjdI6kC2_ZoS0o_sEsGHJdXYt6Z8-qwhjxp9A/w640-h480/IMG_8152.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>So these two signs, above, are nothing. They are attached to a corrugated iron depot that looks like the front of a building that still has a lived-in house behind it. In Tynong. There would have been some great pictures of excellent dogs at the Granite Cafe, most notably a little dog called Douglas, but he kept getting behind something whenever I wanted to photograph him. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCAaBi4ouXE4XDFoSXUrs2Zp6RWw1Cs3Clvi5Q3b8npFtRCRIdhdQixzI40-SeZpA7LlaZlt7awp5Dk_C4IYNbr5TilsqMzZvSpXKUJwSH8a1tPQKS9yXZeXQx6NngRwxTUAN46kI3y44E-28-ppjnM9rMD7kU3SkPVMxVPl7UHqILpofVuKkeg/s4032/IMG_8149.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCAaBi4ouXE4XDFoSXUrs2Zp6RWw1Cs3Clvi5Q3b8npFtRCRIdhdQixzI40-SeZpA7LlaZlt7awp5Dk_C4IYNbr5TilsqMzZvSpXKUJwSH8a1tPQKS9yXZeXQx6NngRwxTUAN46kI3y44E-28-ppjnM9rMD7kU3SkPVMxVPl7UHqILpofVuKkeg/w640-h480/IMG_8149.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Above, is this even worth recording, in Koo Wee Rup a closed business with really shitty punctuation. That's all. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TWAT13gzRnC1UBmswFMK3WbrWyVjYxIA9ThIKXKeQbdSNp96tSWCgKjnXIZyKmaU6QeG9tEBSeh6uAbkWlRkkd9KjM426wzlxwzBZbfpxLpS2QXLO8uuV8AljkLrE6Tpy3_B28U1pc1te3GUnWQfWD3I1NKvUi3-6eqD2dZ-y_jFFNWNRFpznA/s4032/IMG_8147.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TWAT13gzRnC1UBmswFMK3WbrWyVjYxIA9ThIKXKeQbdSNp96tSWCgKjnXIZyKmaU6QeG9tEBSeh6uAbkWlRkkd9KjM426wzlxwzBZbfpxLpS2QXLO8uuV8AljkLrE6Tpy3_B28U1pc1te3GUnWQfWD3I1NKvUi3-6eqD2dZ-y_jFFNWNRFpznA/w640-h480/IMG_8147.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Above Blind Bight at low tide, or the lowest tide we saw it at, when we got there there were some loud men, irritatingly loud, loading a boat, a fishing boat probably, onto a trailer from the water, and they apparently did it more or less just in time, because soon it was this, with billions of tiny crab holes in it and the sound of crabs, like a Slade's fizzy drink (Kola, Pyne, you name it) going flat. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBq5oYDWBKO31rgYWwWnojbLA722Y0p4Z6zeFGockAo1WTCZvvSH0PsVfwo8PT95oARZhzFnAFvti3TQF8HOJVixZaMZC1uCCE0jpIr4crAUZfcWotpAxe9nN5vq2Sv_v43q1-Oi34D9m3ZchuocR4igQDK33Q3TcS_1atFxHFsgNWzRi4eT3-Hg/s4032/IMG_8143.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBq5oYDWBKO31rgYWwWnojbLA722Y0p4Z6zeFGockAo1WTCZvvSH0PsVfwo8PT95oARZhzFnAFvti3TQF8HOJVixZaMZC1uCCE0jpIr4crAUZfcWotpAxe9nN5vq2Sv_v43q1-Oi34D9m3ZchuocR4igQDK33Q3TcS_1atFxHFsgNWzRi4eT3-Hg/w640-h480/IMG_8143.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixonEK1PhbuHTrNSTIB6Nv9Aief-k6F9JLFcIG4iypMKLaAr1GHT-1Fb68nuCt7WzoznkZtaAvi0uUTkMAuh3x2YgrsNuG6M7GpjbQYVh4YUCzGk0gY0FzZCGqVAyY6715BjzcSKTVm44f0seNBgEdkA-28eW2Uz93Fh5redqYAacLrLmg0fxVQ/s4032/IMG_8141.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiixonEK1PhbuHTrNSTIB6Nv9Aief-k6F9JLFcIG4iypMKLaAr1GHT-1Fb68nuCt7WzoznkZtaAvi0uUTkMAuh3x2YgrsNuG6M7GpjbQYVh4YUCzGk0gY0FzZCGqVAyY6715BjzcSKTVm44f0seNBgEdkA-28eW2Uz93Fh5redqYAacLrLmg0fxVQ/w640-h480/IMG_8141.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>There are some ponds before you get to the nature which had these black swans in them, pretending to be I don't know what, something other than swans. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZ8hKvAvuECy7LJQhCm82SZq58EOXSvxhD_INGlAwlk_70bP0zdWAJtCxl4w5xRj9nUUb4kyc81eQ_73yGSWErirk6kKt8fYxq7m93DQ4zqw8iXj3_3NGz2VZ6KieBS34L0Vdy5axObpDbVkmPwdfaI-EvbOU6jJpr4299g2sd6GjsbPLvi6C5Q/s4032/IMG_8140%202.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZ8hKvAvuECy7LJQhCm82SZq58EOXSvxhD_INGlAwlk_70bP0zdWAJtCxl4w5xRj9nUUb4kyc81eQ_73yGSWErirk6kKt8fYxq7m93DQ4zqw8iXj3_3NGz2VZ6KieBS34L0Vdy5axObpDbVkmPwdfaI-EvbOU6jJpr4299g2sd6GjsbPLvi6C5Q/w640-h480/IMG_8140%202.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>The nature. There are 17 million ants in this picture. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgId4bt-WH8B8GXIj8pfEBl43nLBZzx7j3NG06pz7C_Xq0HkaiuhfLwiKcBAh4r5C017frz5sF9sfr7Kl9SsoWJrrkLtTa8_mP48MqimGrNU8AHRFhgQZaeglm9IQlDvpyVqYsxh8Up1C-d92cQy7nEBj6Qw0zmODr9ZIfom7IMqbMKSAK4chh24w/s4032/IMG_8139.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgId4bt-WH8B8GXIj8pfEBl43nLBZzx7j3NG06pz7C_Xq0HkaiuhfLwiKcBAh4r5C017frz5sF9sfr7Kl9SsoWJrrkLtTa8_mP48MqimGrNU8AHRFhgQZaeglm9IQlDvpyVqYsxh8Up1C-d92cQy7nEBj6Qw0zmODr9ZIfom7IMqbMKSAK4chh24w/w640-h480/IMG_8139.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>What more could anyone want but to be recognised by a bench? <p></p><p>OK journey two - not Saturday but Sunday. This was a much, much less interesting journey, so adjust your expectations accordingly. </p><p>Perry and I needed to go <i>somewhere </i>so we went west. This below is the radio broadcasting building supposedly in the spanish mission style I mentioned <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2024/01/braybrook-and-maribyrnong.html">here</a> and <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2024/01/radio-street.html">here.</a> At least, it's as much of it as I could see from the gate. Big deal I hear you say, but you seem to have forgotten I told you to adjust your expectations. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WXUn9c_M_7-4AEOwoAjYyBu20d53hYPb3TzSljuk9ctSx5HL4hyy5TXtIuY5U9VDItqmk1qJJB8qp6jfPspsc_8eMC7UJWK37FlFQpkQK9HkSe8HHHgXtgT1sQfI9hN-kR-YwnvKUdADIo-zwu9uNlU_V5FT5XsZTjUOuSORccSVqIGcxK9qOw/s4032/IMG_8178.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WXUn9c_M_7-4AEOwoAjYyBu20d53hYPb3TzSljuk9ctSx5HL4hyy5TXtIuY5U9VDItqmk1qJJB8qp6jfPspsc_8eMC7UJWK37FlFQpkQK9HkSe8HHHgXtgT1sQfI9hN-kR-YwnvKUdADIo-zwu9uNlU_V5FT5XsZTjUOuSORccSVqIGcxK9qOw/w640-h480/IMG_8178.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>After this we kind of meandered in the car trying to find something that wasn't impossibly boring. Did we do it? 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I had a student a few years ago who did a really good masters thesis about it as a heritage 'problem' (hope that's not a misrepresentation) and I had long been interested in it. The surrounding high-rise is pretty interesting too. </p><p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">* I didn't notice when I took this picture but the word 'favourites' has almost completely faded out on that Slades sign. I didn't read it properly when I photographed it anyway but I guess I sort of thought it was a strange way of saying, 'the Slades family' (of flavours), but no, family favourites. </span></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-88376302498185961722024-02-18T21:30:00.002+11:002024-02-18T22:14:47.283+11:00the simpsons episode 21 season 24, 'the saga of carl'<p>Not just, but mainly, because of their Australia episode, I hate it when the Simpsons go to other countries. In this case, it was only Homer (and Lenny and Moe) who went to Iceland in pursuit of Carl, who stole $200 000 they jointly won in the Springfield Lottery. These images are primarily the fight they had when they found him. </p><p>Yes, I am still watching it with Finnish subtitles. Makes me feel like I'm being educated. </p><p>Below the caption reads 'Start talking, or you'll get a mouthful of shark fermented in urine'. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYitZ5BwYZlVz5AhAUcdQoGHgZydDzjEiKyAI-YerGCjOz6IKr_KRLYqAniK5hyphenhyphenhvbODSm5UnC7r48YXamGqtXORFhEz37GwLUBHIDV6nuxw8y96pFAFJ8Zb1h6gATxyZY5FF3PfF3DGtCCvo8mZJ-7iYUm81_U2D8-of06jROxQ5Y4K_z8gXcgA/s3859/IMG_8159%202.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2828" data-original-width="3859" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYitZ5BwYZlVz5AhAUcdQoGHgZydDzjEiKyAI-YerGCjOz6IKr_KRLYqAniK5hyphenhyphenhvbODSm5UnC7r48YXamGqtXORFhEz37GwLUBHIDV6nuxw8y96pFAFJ8Zb1h6gATxyZY5FF3PfF3DGtCCvo8mZJ-7iYUm81_U2D8-of06jROxQ5Y4K_z8gXcgA/w640-h470/IMG_8159%202.HEIC" width="640" /></a></p>I like this one below in particular. Lol. Jokes like 'Yukki's Grossfud' are... obvious though (apparently 'food' in Icelandic is 'mat', anyway). <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBrR8WtxWUZlxTwuxkLZ_KVr6QBOa2O7ysq6vNAeMYQRSZKYK5tijxh4e0nmALG199URAq2CL8C0BrezB_SP08_vCnVRQFgrLzB-aH8X-pl4s19rwH030EJugpVdFtHNIXYKqFvBnZayPB7bGAp0k7V-IY6-ZgBjVGeIuhWgd5EqdrYMBAU5ctjA/s4032/IMG_8160.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBrR8WtxWUZlxTwuxkLZ_KVr6QBOa2O7ysq6vNAeMYQRSZKYK5tijxh4e0nmALG199URAq2CL8C0BrezB_SP08_vCnVRQFgrLzB-aH8X-pl4s19rwH030EJugpVdFtHNIXYKqFvBnZayPB7bGAp0k7V-IY6-ZgBjVGeIuhWgd5EqdrYMBAU5ctjA/w640-h480/IMG_8160.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZx7FKfjTjfkAs2qqiClWG-V8zMXaJFMAAlQtLFL7GwCiGhbFvw9E_FGB1y1diqvkYLfQ1Prrgt0G69kKfh4oCwMIij_Rog6T9rQPrRE6e8wDgdOqZiKcUjwzBF5zc3oi63K37YRaXF-fUevWKRdGz8sJ-2QQbD00M5dgvdOYemdeT9J-MoNg5aA/s4032/IMG_8161.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZx7FKfjTjfkAs2qqiClWG-V8zMXaJFMAAlQtLFL7GwCiGhbFvw9E_FGB1y1diqvkYLfQ1Prrgt0G69kKfh4oCwMIij_Rog6T9rQPrRE6e8wDgdOqZiKcUjwzBF5zc3oi63K37YRaXF-fUevWKRdGz8sJ-2QQbD00M5dgvdOYemdeT9J-MoNg5aA/w640-h480/IMG_8161.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Something like 'my eyes!' <i>'my </i>eyes!'<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC820_DmTOhYb7_g_NrpNi3QtJOM8T9Y7W4RMCOjnpmclJvy2M_oStMHD2ZE15i7h35ZLmIaMfDfOar4ZRgswvun5gHdPZ4cz-uSyF-E4JCPyUVHh8-EDaLXRcMiJZi_MHivMJVvvjhNEyzOb-6Xwv0_u-yBkHqIvLblpRCReyWDkC5jYSqb8mIA/s4031/IMG_8162.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2776" data-original-width="4031" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC820_DmTOhYb7_g_NrpNi3QtJOM8T9Y7W4RMCOjnpmclJvy2M_oStMHD2ZE15i7h35ZLmIaMfDfOar4ZRgswvun5gHdPZ4cz-uSyF-E4JCPyUVHh8-EDaLXRcMiJZi_MHivMJVvvjhNEyzOb-6Xwv0_u-yBkHqIvLblpRCReyWDkC5jYSqb8mIA/w640-h440/IMG_8162.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>'Let it go, Lenny. We've got the money'. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0h2j_7w1q6n_jDoNXRPygrBri9hH5BsrdgjDZw_eDrT24Aifbi91xM6KFCLJQnnCPSAmtVMUv4MCP1iOfS7PEKX4mGnbY-Xh3Nfm06NhZWl4WJswQNvlEINdJheFvI4kMYRo4kOeqiiqb0t3vr3wjVv1FEDOMrqX-VPPTfciCO0aEeLWScPOiuw/s4031/IMG_8163.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2872" data-original-width="4031" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0h2j_7w1q6n_jDoNXRPygrBri9hH5BsrdgjDZw_eDrT24Aifbi91xM6KFCLJQnnCPSAmtVMUv4MCP1iOfS7PEKX4mGnbY-Xh3Nfm06NhZWl4WJswQNvlEINdJheFvI4kMYRo4kOeqiiqb0t3vr3wjVv1FEDOMrqX-VPPTfciCO0aEeLWScPOiuw/w640-h456/IMG_8163.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>'The last page of the saga. I used the winnings on [i.e. to buy] it'. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYTEYghLsIu6xzMIJclPU1gC2oq5J6wkyV-gTbtbH31n4yt47qQfSHTjPnkmrqHpaDVMHNO-j4aYuBp_n6gDHyuegdTrQrjw40q8La4DFobfG01rhsEuhArg95gDuzP60Sr_sqnDjr5117aAfzezd0_5gxZD77w4uhLlkZNC-M3qm2_-UIwXHXpw/s4031/IMG_8164.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2572" data-original-width="4031" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYTEYghLsIu6xzMIJclPU1gC2oq5J6wkyV-gTbtbH31n4yt47qQfSHTjPnkmrqHpaDVMHNO-j4aYuBp_n6gDHyuegdTrQrjw40q8La4DFobfG01rhsEuhArg95gDuzP60Sr_sqnDjr5117aAfzezd0_5gxZD77w4uhLlkZNC-M3qm2_-UIwXHXpw/w640-h408/IMG_8164.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><p>So yes this part of story is that Carl's (adopted) family has been reviled in Reykjavik for a thousand years because they betrayed the rest of Iceland to invaders and enjoyed themselves doing so. He spent the $200 000 on buying the last page of the saga that detailed their crimes in the hope that the missing page would exonerate his (adopted) ancestors and make things better for his parents, who are living on the edge of town in a kind of exile. Well, the final page actually just digs deeper on the family's bad behaviour, but then Moe, Lenny and Homer explain that Carl himself is a good man and so the people of Iceland forgive him, and all the Carlssons, on that basis. </p><p>I've never been to Iceland (would I love to go? Fuck, obviously I would). The episode, which is from I think 2011, looks really good - you can see just from the above, it's colourful and well-designed. But on the whole, the whole <i>Simpsons </i>deal of 'other places are funny because they do things different' is so ridiculously provincial. It doesn't matter that they <i>know</i> it's provincial - they can't get away with it by saying they're making a commentary/satire of provincialness because that's clearly not true, they can't do anything else because their American audience is <i>so</i> provincial and ignorant it will only accept <i>Simpsons </i>stories taking place in other parts of the world if those places are represented as perversely weird and to a certain extent disgusting. </p><p>So you know I see people on social media remarking that <i>the Simpsons</i> jumped the fermented urine-soaked shark in (say) season 10 or 11, that is, close to 25 years ago, and my instant reaction is no I just watched a not-terrible episode, and then I start to describe one to you as per above and then I'm oh yeah actually, in many ways pretty terrible, but to be fair, the things I really object to are things that have always been a problem with <i>the</i> <i>Simpsons </i>and the idea of Carl saving his Icelandic family's reputation by dint of buying the last page of a saga or recommendations from his Springfield friends is not the worst storyline ever. </p><p>By the way though, when Moe etc get ahold of the last page of the saga, which is worth close to $200 000 apparently, Moe's impulse is to destroy it, which Marge I think talks him out of, but no-one says anything like, well, now we've got the result Carl wanted, let's sell the last page of the saga again and we'll all have the money we originally had (less what it cost to fly to Iceland). I know that's not exactly how sitcoms work, but fuck it, it's so fucking obvious that the money need not be lost, and what's Carl left with? A useless final page of a saga? Except it's not useless, it's really valuable. At least donate it to the nation. Why was it ripped out of the, er, saga book in the first place? Tbf that might have been explained and I wasn't paying attention, but to also bf, this aspect of the program is so messy it's not surprising I don't necessarily expect there to be a good reason. </p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-74225389826682531952024-02-16T16:49:00.001+11:002024-02-16T16:49:14.898+11:00jacana reserve walk<p>So just for the heck of it, quick deets on a Jacana Reserve walk this morning. This is Barry these days, he is too old to walk a long way, but he still has a good life, I am told. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uQ2bnj7uoijAUr3c-ZdgAxXSlQMTtMGtvb7Ti2Uf-DQtGK3xta2GdnTZCAAsJrSrUi_jcwnwvyT71duZhjcYSd0jNNw3NBQ1W0UkM5Z4elUmVDJ73gl9hyphenhyphen0jyep3OrS2pHE1sp-Si9vstJ9oJsUGrQFE08jRgn8uQJrCpkrl9BdMQTrRkO8ifA/s4032/IMG_8129.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="729" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uQ2bnj7uoijAUr3c-ZdgAxXSlQMTtMGtvb7Ti2Uf-DQtGK3xta2GdnTZCAAsJrSrUi_jcwnwvyT71duZhjcYSd0jNNw3NBQ1W0UkM5Z4elUmVDJ73gl9hyphenhyphen0jyep3OrS2pHE1sp-Si9vstJ9oJsUGrQFE08jRgn8uQJrCpkrl9BdMQTrRkO8ifA/w547-h729/IMG_8129.HEIC" width="547" /></a></div>Ibises in the park. There were tons of them, a huge flock, but these were a little further north just a small gathering and closer to the path. I have no idea what they were all eating, but they <i>were </i>all eating. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSUhfzFS6pPXHCN-KOuU89wPJMQ8OgnaYLR6BpouZdDhszR6Lt561SDobXbmLCISr6imhuAuJEmyUxjFm-pVsM3WdWlgHiU4F2Kch4QWdiNSCl7cZLeLyLdDx173q822AwjWipTviHTtqO9Pk-60irj6wYsE0P8x5clxfdsPy2gt2TA9a2qxWrw/s4032/IMG_8127.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSUhfzFS6pPXHCN-KOuU89wPJMQ8OgnaYLR6BpouZdDhszR6Lt561SDobXbmLCISr6imhuAuJEmyUxjFm-pVsM3WdWlgHiU4F2Kch4QWdiNSCl7cZLeLyLdDx173q822AwjWipTviHTtqO9Pk-60irj6wYsE0P8x5clxfdsPy2gt2TA9a2qxWrw/w551-h413/IMG_8127.HEIC" width="551" /></a></div>I just couldn't figure out what this was. Can you tell? <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4DOYH_BEUTrWw21EaoaBEE3KV9F0_RHzUE1MbLuwsWYEzxW-Vr1eozvR_RqWnoW5WcpiwH0E6AyDMUV787Fl_6ekgAi-5OqLF89v1Lsvh4XCxACD5y7gfNkKef5SG9yjoe3e83dHtCU1h8fBFvJczvRgMECEPIhl0IAAzpAq0ANTnGWZs7lYl2w/s4032/IMG_8123.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4DOYH_BEUTrWw21EaoaBEE3KV9F0_RHzUE1MbLuwsWYEzxW-Vr1eozvR_RqWnoW5WcpiwH0E6AyDMUV787Fl_6ekgAi-5OqLF89v1Lsvh4XCxACD5y7gfNkKef5SG9yjoe3e83dHtCU1h8fBFvJczvRgMECEPIhl0IAAzpAq0ANTnGWZs7lYl2w/w640-h480/IMG_8123.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>I am kind of into this weed island, looks like Perry and Ferdie were too. The shopping trolley reminded me of how once (15+ years ago) I called the supermarket in high dudgeon and told them they had to get the shopping trolleys out of the reserve. The idiot who answered the phone said of course they would because they were worth $1000 each. I'm sure. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKz-CDPnnLzSj5pYNkpo6lhDPT-mZMHZo5hc-KJYRTG7zSok0l3b0BIqk39NAl_7Rkyb8e8bZoicImCBdXU9GCcktiIo1QJeaxlQUoFr_G1CmlwhqvrH-x2X_QHxS7Y-1HIy5m9axdRsmaABt15RuQA45xDgwjoXeX3jUygBfITh5O2TC6DXnpGw/s4032/IMG_8120.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKz-CDPnnLzSj5pYNkpo6lhDPT-mZMHZo5hc-KJYRTG7zSok0l3b0BIqk39NAl_7Rkyb8e8bZoicImCBdXU9GCcktiIo1QJeaxlQUoFr_G1CmlwhqvrH-x2X_QHxS7Y-1HIy5m9axdRsmaABt15RuQA45xDgwjoXeX3jUygBfITh5O2TC6DXnpGw/w640-h480/IMG_8120.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Can you say fox on the isthmus six times quickly? <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAUlG9DKEQCSHZTxwZz9r3d2QsC3ySdXmHGaKuObdOhJ50a4TgMEQkWnit0bd4F98BAvW4OYG9pvqoTKlrr8t6bX_M6XAZLxLo9QDpwdQXX9en5lRxUnMNeTNZFu-_xQ5CygQbLZCtcBf4nVwAPLwCDO-vw1gGbDK2MDaslH6ri4eURVFtdeHPA/s4032/IMG_8118.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="790" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAUlG9DKEQCSHZTxwZz9r3d2QsC3ySdXmHGaKuObdOhJ50a4TgMEQkWnit0bd4F98BAvW4OYG9pvqoTKlrr8t6bX_M6XAZLxLo9QDpwdQXX9en5lRxUnMNeTNZFu-_xQ5CygQbLZCtcBf4nVwAPLwCDO-vw1gGbDK2MDaslH6ri4eURVFtdeHPA/w592-h790/IMG_8118.HEIC" width="592" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DVUCK_z7xQTsuOoSWlJ96Fbq90qUIRYj3-0msai3E_oKYKbgX9X4DzJDkVyOo7eJI6UmVROTjdGnVgZWUXVKiz5M6NvAtxg_vdwWaxG0gSNY-CAE8UjmTzLNTkkTuByiR7mmqcieYUovjvVq8C8hklEURzUlK92i0ZFQ8nlc_qBYoCcI3-TjPg/s4032/IMG_8117.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="809" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DVUCK_z7xQTsuOoSWlJ96Fbq90qUIRYj3-0msai3E_oKYKbgX9X4DzJDkVyOo7eJI6UmVROTjdGnVgZWUXVKiz5M6NvAtxg_vdwWaxG0gSNY-CAE8UjmTzLNTkkTuByiR7mmqcieYUovjvVq8C8hklEURzUlK92i0ZFQ8nlc_qBYoCcI3-TjPg/w607-h809/IMG_8117.HEIC" width="607" /></a></div>fox on the isthmus six times quickly fox on the isthmus six times quickly fox on the isthmus six times quickly fox on the isthmus six times quickly fox on the isthmus six times quickly fox on the isthmus six times quickly gosh you're sly<p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-56844214509939781142024-02-11T18:14:00.003+11:002024-02-11T18:14:15.768+11:00altercation<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukqJ5sl4gKkDhu4RKJxDr2NKm9tRl_lE2Q0vA2aGOooOZyLmZqS13phyARv3AB3wTI5adje95Z60eL_AdNnsWGgoJHOdvoyjK8jJNvaHRHl4UHToI1bWeaQrpv34DQ_cvZxTAoPCmz3sOuTEJ2EXX-lFMVVfdUsf_TZzt9qGyjBEG0uFBSC7f_g/s4032/IMG_8026.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukqJ5sl4gKkDhu4RKJxDr2NKm9tRl_lE2Q0vA2aGOooOZyLmZqS13phyARv3AB3wTI5adje95Z60eL_AdNnsWGgoJHOdvoyjK8jJNvaHRHl4UHToI1bWeaQrpv34DQ_cvZxTAoPCmz3sOuTEJ2EXX-lFMVVfdUsf_TZzt9qGyjBEG0uFBSC7f_g/w640-h480/IMG_8026.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>So yesterday Perry had his first real full-on fight, with a dog bigger than him and of a breed I'm not entirely clear on, whose owner seemed entirely unable to control him, I think his name was Trigger.<p></p><p>Could be that this was a certain kind of irony, because the day before (Friday) Perry and I had a long consult with an obedience trainer who was adamant that Perry was in a power struggle with me to be dominant which was why he was so uncontrollable with other dogs - though mainly verbal. We had been on a chain-and-lead arrangement when outdoors for 24 hours by this time and Perry seemed content to take it as indicating that I was in charge and he had to stay to my left side and not deviate. That said, when we encountered this woman and her large dog in Westgate Park on a Saturday afternoon, Perry did do a bit of whining, but no barking - which is unusually good behaviour for him. But perhaps the other dog took this to mean Perry was a pushover? He certainly did push him over, and had him on his back within seconds, while the owner seemed entirely unable to do anything. She had asked me whether Perry was desexed and how old he was, which seems to me now to suggest there were a few triggers for Trigger but I felt that Perry had passed the test i.e. there wasn't going to be any kind of pissing contest here. Yet there was something somewhat worse. That said, Perry doesn't seem to be hurt and indeed nor does he seem to have decided that after this no dog can ever be trusted to refrain from pinning him down. </p><p>The picture above is Perry taking some water therapy.</p><p>The trainer was good, I thought. Sometimes you just need someone to give you a clarifying structure to what you already suspect is true (eg that dog park 'socialising' can be negative, and that positive reinforcement alone is an untextured encouragement to the dog to do whatever s/he wants). I think we are on a better path now, at least, I certainly hope so.</p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-70965941810686696342024-02-10T09:20:00.002+11:002024-02-10T09:20:38.202+11:00update<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_QhOO9sK3vUSuqwVIAiEH86M-M3-2OTj3gxwpJNJrc6yDnZ5PSUDkZkFxSihS_x7MoMqlG9wyVW25D_pH-Mce7SZE0pJMMJF2puYFmBzNZeFX3R5Rkp99HZ4AV_VlEOzECb2hUvsXlj55KHB3sxZwWnRNQnD4UpYS8iMddCHbbUE37EIooAhVA/s512/8-5q9MHWnGlRdVCqk.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_QhOO9sK3vUSuqwVIAiEH86M-M3-2OTj3gxwpJNJrc6yDnZ5PSUDkZkFxSihS_x7MoMqlG9wyVW25D_pH-Mce7SZE0pJMMJF2puYFmBzNZeFX3R5Rkp99HZ4AV_VlEOzECb2hUvsXlj55KHB3sxZwWnRNQnD4UpYS8iMddCHbbUE37EIooAhVA/w606-h606/8-5q9MHWnGlRdVCqk.png" width="606" /></a>*</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Thought it was time to revisit <a href="https://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2008/10/me-earlier-today.html" target="_blank">this</a>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, I started this what we used to call 'meme' on the 9/2 and finished it on the 10/2, so sadly you are going to get some slightly confusing results. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Do you think you’re mature?</b> Yes. <b>Have you kissed somebody in the last 2 weeks?</b> Sure. <b>Who was the last person's house you went to besides your own? </b>Laura’s <b>Miss someone?</b> Aside from dead people, no. <b>What’s on your mind?</b> Public Records Office. <b>Anything annoying you right now? </b>I’m tired, I think the earthquake woke me up early in the morning. <b>What did you do last night? </b>Watched episode 2 of <i>Nemesis</i>. It was hott. <b>Who did you ride in a car with last besides your family?</b> Huh? You mean including Perry as 'family'? Well, it's too long ago to remember, I think. <b>What did you do Sunday?</b> <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2024/02/mr-and-mrs-smith-etc.html" target="_blank">I blogged it…</a> <b>Do you have any bruises?</b> No <b>What were you doing at noon yesterday?</b>I was at the Faculty All Staff Meeting at the Arts Centre. I am not entirely sure what I was doing but I was doing it there. <b>How long does it take you to get ready? </b>Depends. Between 15 and 45 minutes. <b>Have you been outside today?</b> In the courtyard, yes. <b>Last movie you watched? </b><i>Anatomy of a Fall</i> <b>What do you miss? </b>People and pets who have died, if that can be a 'what'. <b>Last person you hugged? </b>Well that's not a mystery but also too personal. <b>The last place you went to? </b>PROV <b>Who/What made you upset today? </b>SCOTUS I suppose, if anything, oh and that the <i>Guardian </i>is once again pretending I am not a subscriber. <b>Do you sing in the shower?</b> No. <b>Has anyone ever sang or played music for you personally? </b>I guess so. <b>If you could fix things with anyone who would it be and why? </b>I don't feel a strong need in this regard. <b>Do you get along with your parents? </b>Well enough. <b>Ever been stuck in an elevator? </b>Yes in 1976 at what would become my high school the following year. <b>Wallpaper on your cell phone? </b>Sounds ridiculous. <b>Where was your default picture taken? </b>I don't remember what these were/are, only that they don't exist anymore. <b>What is your current mood? </b>Meh. <b>Ever had a near death experience? </b>We all have, right? I mean it's always there and most of the time if you're lucky (?) you don't know about it. <b>What are you listening to? </b>I was listening to Neil Young and now, just ambient quiet. <b>Do you get along with girls? </b>I think so. <b>Last movie you saw in theaters? </b>As mentioned, <i>Anatomy of a Fall.</i> <b>Last thing you ate? </b>Tempeh and silverbeet. <b>Are you happy right now? </b>Sure - fine. <b>What's the last thing someone said to you? </b>Something like, 'see you later'.<b> What were you doing at midnight last night? </b>Probably sleeping. <b>What about at eleven? </b>Not sure but may have been reading. <b>What's the last thing you thought about? </b>The question of what I was doing at 11. <b>How do you feel about your hair right now? </b>No feelings. <b>What is one thing you question a lot? </b>Really, I don't think there is one thing I <i>question.</i><b> Are you married? </b>Not any more. <b>Is there anyone who doesn't like you? </b>Of course. <b>Are you mad at someone right now? </b>Not really, there are some people I really hate, personally, but they aren't people I deal with regularly or indeed have had interaction with for a long time. <b>Do you have any tattoos or piercings? </b>No. <b>When was the last time you threw up? </b>I really don't remember, but I am confident it's been years, like, more than five years at least. <b>Do you curse a lot? </b>What does that even mean any more. I use the words but not as much as you'd think. <b>Do you have a lot on your mind right now? </b>Yes and no. <b>Have you lost friends in the past year? </b>Not officially, though I do feel like the friendship group is contracting a bit, but you know what? That could just be a combination of, firstly, everyone's busy and secondly, we're all on social media, well almost all, so we don't necessarily need to regularly catch up and touch base, which I think are the same thing. Certainly I have not lost friends in a 'fuck you' 'well fuck you' way. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That was pretty unsatisfying, sorry. I was wasting time. I hope you didn't read it because then you wasted time, too. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;">*this image is an AI-generated response to 'updating a meme in 2024'. Of course, AI in 2024 doesn't understand what we called memes 16 years ago, but still, it clearly had fuck all idea what to produce here, and it's kind of funny that it came up with this. I asked for it again 'with kittens and snails' and got this:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmfjAaJKAUT0eHFhE8d9JrcOsEqX8xxQw4vpdN6lNUFXBAEtdPPxmrDVUTLrkL3X1besPonjSsoS_F1XMFY8XaCv48RXc2v2GTPVlJZ9uQ3XshrDkEPkcRvFBVjDWCf_6ooek7P8byiBdrHXb2N37nXGcNZOI0cDFrRkoDxq49KtVl_UsMo_VJNw/s512/8-rTzVkv144wBCTO5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmfjAaJKAUT0eHFhE8d9JrcOsEqX8xxQw4vpdN6lNUFXBAEtdPPxmrDVUTLrkL3X1besPonjSsoS_F1XMFY8XaCv48RXc2v2GTPVlJZ9uQ3XshrDkEPkcRvFBVjDWCf_6ooek7P8byiBdrHXb2N37nXGcNZOI0cDFrRkoDxq49KtVl_UsMo_VJNw/w600-h600/8-rTzVkv144wBCTO5.png" width="600" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><p></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-78801704888250038632024-02-06T09:40:00.004+11:002024-02-06T09:48:31.709+11:00do you like the bleeding obvious<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKGVch7_5HU_YdN7JrFwkW4_4Z8f8eWIVB01ccxlTh5uu_lwKhS68T6eh9zd6wWr9Cl24u2St5QobZhroHTq74NYsYmk_Kp-Xpomj2_-vcmpcc6So_ECZWE-aXiQ_kQNCCoiFYtbnhwSzCp-SToizBfQXKLlNQP3M4bZnN5DAudI-_xq-g1gla4w/s512/8-g0RxMfxRU6wWpdM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKGVch7_5HU_YdN7JrFwkW4_4Z8f8eWIVB01ccxlTh5uu_lwKhS68T6eh9zd6wWr9Cl24u2St5QobZhroHTq74NYsYmk_Kp-Xpomj2_-vcmpcc6So_ECZWE-aXiQ_kQNCCoiFYtbnhwSzCp-SToizBfQXKLlNQP3M4bZnN5DAudI-_xq-g1gla4w/w640-h640/8-g0RxMfxRU6wWpdM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />I was randomly looking through old posts and thought of <a href="http://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2005/06/nearly-there.html" target="_blank">this one</a>, christ those people are now approaching forty (they're probably 37ish). I assume this is about Deakin students but I was trying, I suppose, to deidentify them so I wasn't specific about the subject, even the campus. But in any case that's the reality - they would have been 18 or so, and it's 18 and a half years ago. I don't really know why this is even worth mentioning, that people who were born in (say) 1987 are going to be 37 this year, except I suppose when I distill it I realise I have been blogging a long time. Yeah, that's probably the crux of my engagement with that stupid, irrelevant, idiotic short post. <p></p><p>I also have precisely no recollection of any of the students from that time. Sorry if you were one of them, but I am guessing you probably weren't. I do know that those kids never said anything about hoping to read my blog in 2024. </p><p>I reckon I only started being interested in teaching around 2005. Certainly, when it was suggested to me that I could get some tutoring work at Deakin, where I was doing my PhD, it had never occurred to me that I could, would or even should do that kind of job (I know people say things like that and you go, 'sure', but honestly, I remember the conversation with my supervisor - we were driving along Glenferrie Road Malvern, I have no idea why - and it was a novel concept to me). </p><p>By the way the above picture is AI's idea of 'the bleeding obvious 2005' without cows, people or blood (it gave me two bloody images so I had to specify no blood). Thanks AI I think you nailed it</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzxJlMPHKJc1dqH-L860k0IFBG49TefkrYX9mcqXSHqr3_dK9hbY1jH6sb1N3KrBuZJEoLsdS8Pu42aRS0oXp_SOVEPJY4pQrVVWAY7bWGe-ga3cGENnnjO_3xf9ZRTjjs_pedLMC8R51jZdP_dWheSTZHmdXlbwoeywPK05Lcff88ClKw5Ddsg/s948/Screenshot%202024-02-06%20at%2009.34.08.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="758" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzxJlMPHKJc1dqH-L860k0IFBG49TefkrYX9mcqXSHqr3_dK9hbY1jH6sb1N3KrBuZJEoLsdS8Pu42aRS0oXp_SOVEPJY4pQrVVWAY7bWGe-ga3cGENnnjO_3xf9ZRTjjs_pedLMC8R51jZdP_dWheSTZHmdXlbwoeywPK05Lcff88ClKw5Ddsg/s320/Screenshot%202024-02-06%20at%2009.34.08.png" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12114421.post-30821387449830672792024-02-04T23:59:00.000+11:002024-02-04T23:59:00.142+11:00mr and mrs smith etc<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH2wiU1d3I6aI4O4K-dxXhlLroY43ys51jA5XqQ3ZieMQZWA_biGtFvVszfmntILPsiXey1exBRr4KHB0oGRb0vz63xLO7uM12I5PDkLMaoyumL22pOEGrXcq8lNCM456XNDU8MxGMHwVByVcAHK4IIx0gLE21YFqdQGKN2pR1805kYNdl84WjlQ/s256/uTtgaibPQz6S1-bbAqfD8A.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="256" height="738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH2wiU1d3I6aI4O4K-dxXhlLroY43ys51jA5XqQ3ZieMQZWA_biGtFvVszfmntILPsiXey1exBRr4KHB0oGRb0vz63xLO7uM12I5PDkLMaoyumL22pOEGrXcq8lNCM456XNDU8MxGMHwVByVcAHK4IIx0gLE21YFqdQGKN2pR1805kYNdl84WjlQ/w738-h738/uTtgaibPQz6S1-bbAqfD8A.webp" width="738" /></a></div>I am not unenjoying this show <i>Mr and Mrs Smith. </i>I was attracted to it because I like Donald Glover but now I also really like Maya Erskine. This is a snazzily clever show, well, I'm three eps in and I'd say that their relationship probably got too deep unrealistically fast considering they are such a couple of prickly, sardonic, tough people but I am ultimately going to let that pass because overall it's a good time. <div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlcvsjfvQzaFqxQxOGjnKjr4rNBZGb3zq0ONoz96VR6V-nNj2Y8t7lx4dVnjisPnpeF31sIxyDhBG0PH_4NSeSXwUZU86T_-hI1ozDhwvsi2Y6qPKh1OX_AXILfQx-exp2NYv-rL9xdLw9pQuyqsaBh085NyYw1No8D9itW7W8uiqYb_nDfMgog/s4027/IMG_7876.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2750" data-original-width="4027" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdlcvsjfvQzaFqxQxOGjnKjr4rNBZGb3zq0ONoz96VR6V-nNj2Y8t7lx4dVnjisPnpeF31sIxyDhBG0PH_4NSeSXwUZU86T_-hI1ozDhwvsi2Y6qPKh1OX_AXILfQx-exp2NYv-rL9xdLw9pQuyqsaBh085NyYw1No8D9itW7W8uiqYb_nDfMgog/w640-h438/IMG_7876.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div>Particularly episode 3 when they go to a ski resort, couldn't be a better thing to watch on the hottest day of this summer. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflamPP49rgef5FIoAUiqZAFL_OEqRB42vCUcx2NTwZE7r8mzWJYbmXN-tQ8_W0HQ_kkhyphenhyphenoYNaZLCnO0CgwelOeZkXTKrDEzS93GyU5BMiWkSfM0U3we8SpH1M3QjouBhAqnWlKfaushbJNXkbD9ciMwhnNO6aE7H0nyvfd5WSsmY_9Q1S8u1xHA/s4027/IMG_7877.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2767" data-original-width="4027" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflamPP49rgef5FIoAUiqZAFL_OEqRB42vCUcx2NTwZE7r8mzWJYbmXN-tQ8_W0HQ_kkhyphenhyphenoYNaZLCnO0CgwelOeZkXTKrDEzS93GyU5BMiWkSfM0U3we8SpH1M3QjouBhAqnWlKfaushbJNXkbD9ciMwhnNO6aE7H0nyvfd5WSsmY_9Q1S8u1xHA/w640-h440/IMG_7877.HEIC" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMstaHvL_qS2SUFNOdgq2joHhMoAWHT7ukAwqClL6IjRuHjf-zDVd8RxLaFsFehFcsfHl0mMsM1c01q3K4eWL1DtH2tOD0A81rWC1YgAwmoPqNLYLRgv6PmdAbwTJ6wrhyAXRj3flPHbk4q2DlZbCqKCvdHPiw_wFoRubh-PcJ8dAjMiFtOlhFQ/s4027/IMG_7878.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2839" data-original-width="4027" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMstaHvL_qS2SUFNOdgq2joHhMoAWHT7ukAwqClL6IjRuHjf-zDVd8RxLaFsFehFcsfHl0mMsM1c01q3K4eWL1DtH2tOD0A81rWC1YgAwmoPqNLYLRgv6PmdAbwTJ6wrhyAXRj3flPHbk4q2DlZbCqKCvdHPiw_wFoRubh-PcJ8dAjMiFtOlhFQ/w640-h452/IMG_7878.heic" width="640" /></a></div><div><p>Yes, I am using AI to get images for my posts (not the shots off the screen above but the top picture and the one below). The one above is passable, barely, but the one below shows that AI doesn't know who Maya Erskine is, at all, but it figures this was kind of woman who would hang out with Donald Glover. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTXYkbCQEZ_dOp8vkdH2-jlGLc3s9hgUknGjHw_pdywwm3CDgXpuVnBo-VcC8qn56eJ3nf5WI7KxZf8tvxYBXo7zLxiSCQ-hC1F7sg8ZNkOBj6YR_kBY5YFj_MpRahyphenhyphenRpWp0aorz5GBMhXHFzjOzJ0k9y2hyphenhyphenoLirmUqHyGhOPcWPEfHYa9lZ7kA/s1024/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTXYkbCQEZ_dOp8vkdH2-jlGLc3s9hgUknGjHw_pdywwm3CDgXpuVnBo-VcC8qn56eJ3nf5WI7KxZf8tvxYBXo7zLxiSCQ-hC1F7sg8ZNkOBj6YR_kBY5YFj_MpRahyphenhyphenRpWp0aorz5GBMhXHFzjOzJ0k9y2hyphenhyphenoLirmUqHyGhOPcWPEfHYa9lZ7kA/w662-h662/Unknown.jpeg" width="662" /></a></p><p>Anyway so Perry and I have been stuck indoors most of the day aside from a quickish walk in Fairfield this morning around 6. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHaWcEuKvhPeaqqZgjncSymrNF5r6tRejZQ3GcLc0ctHwpoaP2rVoKZEJbIcKn6edoitgMZ5oeCXIfPx_DgS9o0kp46S_fNuc2ir2FGp3gONZttHQLU-bHOk72ZknB-LlPmn-F44gfiJlUTEUD81IRJbqp06iDvnmbyRf4vQYMJVSJB8OZD5aPg/s4032/IMG_7864.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="897" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHaWcEuKvhPeaqqZgjncSymrNF5r6tRejZQ3GcLc0ctHwpoaP2rVoKZEJbIcKn6edoitgMZ5oeCXIfPx_DgS9o0kp46S_fNuc2ir2FGp3gONZttHQLU-bHOk72ZknB-LlPmn-F44gfiJlUTEUD81IRJbqp06iDvnmbyRf4vQYMJVSJB8OZD5aPg/w673-h897/IMG_7864.HEIC" width="673" /></a></div>He has been pretty good, sleeping largely though we have played a few games. we've listened to a few albums, Bushwalking, one of the <i>Finnhits </i>compilations, the 5th Dimension, can't remember what else. I have tidied up and thrown out a bunch of stuff... I found an old history essay I wrote thirty years ago about Erskineville, which I will probably post here at some point. It only got 73% but it's not much worse than most of my work really. </div>David Nicholshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13306950287048502105noreply@blogger.com0