You can tell it has been a dry winter when I’m blogging OMG it’s raining posts. OMG it’s raining! No really. It is. It is sooooo nice to see the rainwashed pavements, to see the thundercloud gloom spread through the big picture windows of the office. Yes I have raised the blind to let in [...]
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So every Saturday – except for next Saturday – you’ll find me at the Claremont Town Hall in my combat shorts and singlet and special not very grippy sandshoes, shaking my wild thing to the Latin grooves of Zumba. I just don’t like those black legging things… Zumba is a cross between a dance class and an [...]
I love the Council House lightshow and when showing visitors around I will always point it out – if I’m near the city. The other day for instance I drove my eastern states colleague back to his hotel and driving past Kings Park I thought a little detour was in order. He made the [...]
Expect delays the sign said over the Kwinana Freeway. Well duh. By the time I saw this sign – about 150 metres on the Perth side of the Mt Henry Bridge – I’d already been sitting in standstill traffic for twenty minutes. I’m quite fond of the Mt Henry Bridge – my dad was the [...]
If you were new to Perth you might think that these fantastic towering gums are supposed to look like this. You know, with those spots of bark against the white. They kind of look like the remnants of bark that has fallen off. But no. What you are looking at is hail damage. Yes from [...]
Yes that would be us. You would have seen us swilling Sav blanc… or was it Voigner… whatever – it was wet, white and in a glass and it went down easily with the best of the Western Suburbs at this year’s Opening Night party for Art in Bloom at the Art Gallery of Western [...]
It’s been a bit cold and wet in Perth over the last few days and truth be told it does feel like winter. In East Perth autumn leaves pile in drifts and then wilt flat against the pavement. Today there are blue skies and if you hadn’t been outside you might even think it was [...]
I quite often drive by Karrakatta Cemetary and every time I do recently I feel sad for the pine trees, completely stripped of their foliage in that big March hailstorm. The graves below were covered for weeks with thick mulch. I am guessing it will be a while before they regrow. This is what they [...]
Or at least it was when I was trying to walk home… What better way to follow a post about sex than by talking about the weather? I watched the line of showers all afternoon at work knowing that in all liklihood it would be raining when I got home. And even though I could [...]
On Sunday, the sky was the deepest blue: Then yesterday Perth had the worst storm certainly since 1994 – a storm which knocked over our back fence and uprooted our tree – and probably since 1978′s Cyclone Alby. The storm was intense where I was and I was nowhere near the centre. In the city [...]
