Category: Diary
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East of Eden – Day 5 – Culture and Copter
A day of rest, mostly. I tried to encourage thoughts of Things We Can Only Do In Sydney but it was like pushing blancmange. And fair enough – we have done much, and we needed a break from our holiday. Raf’s thoughts, in any event, are in a very tight orbit around the naked singularity…
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East of Eden – Day 4 – Highs and Lows
With his son he’d run and play And giggle, breathe and sing And even sleep as long as they Were in a bed sized king. Oh, what a difference a metre makes. A good night’s sleep and a good thing, too, for Sylvano is live tweeting his crossing of the Harbour Bridge while I am…
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East of Eden – Day 3 – Spectacles and Warships
First job of the day: pack to leave hotel. First crisis of the day: cockroach in Raf’s bag. First entomological question of the day: did we bring it with us or do we have the hotel to thank? Close inspection suggested Cocky held New South Welsh citizenship – we breed ’em bigger and tougher in…
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East of Eden – Day 2 – Social Climbing
A busy day and late to bed should presage a good night’s sleep. Alas for the unfamiliar sounds of a hotel air conditioning system in need of maintenance and the familiar sensations of repeated knees and elbows to the soft parts delivered by a six-year-old who, like a flower tracking the sun, seems to rotate…
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East of Eden – Day 1 – Three Men and a Vote
Under 7 football (a win), a federal election (result pending), arancini and a flight to Sydney for me and the boys. A fullish day. It certainly started well. The conditions were classic football, Australian version. There had been rain to clean the air and the world, and so the game was played in those fine,…
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Kittens
Alright, alright, we haven’t really been the focus of a demonic incursion from the dungeon dimensions. We’ve just got kittens. Kittens of positively kittenish levels of cuteness, and things just don’t get any cuter than that. Don’t take my word for it, ask the internet. And now, these kittens can be yours! If you read…
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Satanic Spirits
A terrified Willunga family is living in fear following the invasion of their home by a quartet of unearthly creatures with apparently demonic powers. The hideous monsters have appeared in a wardrobe in the house, frighteningly near to the bedrooms occupied by the family’s two small children. Their arrival in the house was accompanied by…
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Surgical success
On the weekend one of my boys hurt his knee. I looked at his leg and could not even see a puncture wound, so thought little of it. Twenty-four hours later his knee was swollen and sore and an x-ray revealed that he had something metal stuck deep inside – penetrating the bone. Surgery on…