Monthly Archives: January 2005

holidaze

January 16, 2005 – 9:59 am

Norman Bay, Wilson’s Prom We got back from Wilson’s Prom on Friday and still haven’t accepted the fact that the holiday is over. It was blissful! For people who don’t know Wilson’s Promontory, it is the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland, so isn’t necessarily the first place you think of for a beach holiday, [...]

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I don’t want a pickle…

January 2, 2005 – 7:32 pm

…just wanna ride on my motor sickle – at least that’s how the Arlo Guthrie song went. Yes, my big new year’s present to myself is a motorbike. Not a great big prestige mid-life crisis motorbike, but a small, slightly gutless and not very exciting ‘commuter’ bike, (a Honda CB250). Still, it’s exactly what I [...]

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there were fireworks

January 1, 2005 – 7:34 pm

we don’t usually do the ‘stay up to see the new year in’ thing, but this year some good food, good wine and good company kept us going along easily… and it was worth the wait. Melbourne is pretty flat, but our friends have a second storey balcony and their house is perched on the [...]

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