Monthly Archives: January 2009

hot, ain’t it?

January 28, 2009 – 7:43 pm

All of south eastern Australia is bracing for another day of 40°+, it’s not uncommon to have one or two days in a row, but four!?! I always remember the hot weather never started until school went back, but this is a bit over the top! Thankfully, just two years back we installed air conditioning [...]

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Women’s Semi Final, Australian Open 1992

January 24, 2009 – 12:42 pm

Every January when the Australian Open Tennis is on, I fondly remember back to 1992 when, working for XPress Group, I was lucky enough to be handed a Press Pass and a Nikon F2 camera fitted with a new Kodak DCS-1 back. The camera, in turn, was connected to a ‘luggable’ hard disk with (B+W [...]

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meet dora

January 21, 2009 – 7:20 pm

Cats at our house have a good time of it. This little scrap – about 8 weeks old – came home from the Lort Smith animal hospital last Monday to join our little family. They say cats always land on their feet… she definitely has. Viv, the incumbent, has been like a saint. He doesn’t [...]

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