August 6, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Random Stuff, Travel with
When she was little, we were regular visitors to Ten Ichi Restaurant at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. She always insisted we carry in a Big Mac in a brown paper bag – just for her… 25 years later, and she’s still a fussy eater! I worked it out – the price differential (between Ten Ichi and El Bulli) is about 3:1! Still hungry? David’s photos are here…
July 16, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Travel with
In her Father’s footsteps… pulling a pint in the Duke William, Ickham, last night. P is looking over her shoulder. More here…
June 24, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Queensland AUS, Random Stuff with
A special night for Queenslanders – four years in a row! You guys over there – talk amongst yourselves…
June 19, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Random Stuff, The Old Blue Truck with
My first fishing trip… “You’d be proud of me today. With a few other chums from Ickham, we went fishing in the Channel out of Dover. I caught a couple of cod, a couple of whiting, and some (more…)
May 25, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Triathlon with
Last weekend I saw one of the gutsiest efforts I’ve ever seen in sport. I got so caught up in the action (more…)
May 10, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Travel, Triathlon with
Valve extenders? Obviously not needed for the after party…
May 5, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Travel, Triathlon with
They started the day well… he had a good swim leg – then punctured on the first bike lap and did not finish… muttered something about a valve extender. Vicky (on the other hand) ran 4th! (more…)
May 2, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Travel, Triathlon with
He’s racing in Noumea tomorrow – and I’m stuck here… Go buddy!
April 17, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Photography, Random Stuff with
I’m starting to take my photography a little more seriously here… Let me know what you think.
March 1, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Triathlon with
He won the Junior event in 2007 and 2008 – but this time he was up against the big kids… Detail? The 1500 metre swim is never his best leg - can be pretty much a free-for-all. He came out of the water in 42nd place – 1min 50secs down. Swim time: 19min 38 secs. (more…)
February 24, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Photography, Triathlon with
Road testing a new lens… and discovering that large white Canon ones also gain access to far better vantage points! Focusing, with an attempted shallow depth of field, is still an issue – but results (so far) are so so… The race? Oh yeah – he won it.
February 21, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Photography with
I’ve been cleaning out my photo archives lately – throwing out the crap, and putting the better ones into our old Flickr site. Seems this one has ‘taken off’… 18,000 photos – and I get one good one!
February 4, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Photography with
This was the Orchard yesterday! All gone today!
January 26, 2009 in
Family Stuff with
She just completed her first open ocean swim (2.7km)… from Bondi.
January 23, 2009 in
Family Stuff, Random Stuff with
This morning’s Sydney Telegraph – Uhm. Well. That’s one way of putting it…
