Back from break.

Just a little about my commute to work...

4:30am Get up, get kids up, (ally was already up!) load car and head off to Sydney airport. (2hr drive)

Check in. Wait... Fly to Brisbane.

Arrive Brisbane, Wait 1 hr for connectiong flight... (buy a beanie) ... Fly to Townsville.

Arrive Townsville, wait almost 2hrs for connecting flight... Fly to Cannington.

Arrive Cannington 5:00pm


How to fill in waiting time at airports when the laptop's battery is in for service???

Get a haircut!! (filled in time at Townsville)

Nice part :)

We all got bored...

The "motley" crew

The end result:


The real reason... I forgot my shampoo!!!

The Conversion to Euro English...

With the implementation of the Eurodollar underway in Europe these last few years, the European Union is trying to find new ways to standardize practices in Europe.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!

Time for a little more "Bush Bashing"....




An oldie but a goody :)

Yesterday's Sunset

I forgot to post these...

Sunset at Lake Percol

I couldn't decide which one I liked better so I includeed them both :)

Just some pics from today's sunrise...

Sunrise at Cannington Mine

Sunrise from the road to Lake Percol

After the rain.


Finally it has dried out enough for us to get some work done. The paddocks are still a bit boggy in some places though and the occasional "I'm not bogged, I just can't go forwards or backwards and I am having trouble getting out of a rut" -Steve Stevens quote can still be heard.

That's Neil, not Steven Squared

The water at "Lake Percol" is mostly still there and we had to move the dogbox outta there a bit.

Tricky bit of driving backing under there in the mud.

This pic was taken last year...




And here is the same tree now. A bit of rain (5 inches I think it was) makes a difference out here.

The place even looks habitable now.