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It’s no secret I like crime novels. In fact one of my favourite forms of relaxation at the end of the day is to read some decent well written crime fiction for half an hour or so before dropping off … Continue reading →

It was the end of Autumn, and one of these weekends where the garden turns from a golden symphony of reds and yellows to a mess of sodden rain soaked leaves and bare branches. When we had gone to Apollo … Continue reading →

A long time ago I went down an internet rabbit hole while researching the use of Linux in education in Latin America, and instead came up with something else entirely – a story of the legacy of Anglo Irish migration … Continue reading →

This morning, when I was scrolling through my RSS feeds, I came across an article on the ABC website, about how John Harvey, one of the founders of Salisbury in South Australia had African heritage, yet had been born in … Continue reading →

While I was down the Charles Babbage and the Crimean War rabbit hole, I came across a couple of coding cribs designed to allow people using postcards to encode the message written on the cards. You see, when postcards were … Continue reading →

Today’s been wet. Too wet for a walk or gardening, and of course a bike ride is out of the question for a day or two until a replacement tyre arrives in the mail. So, I’ve been off down an … Continue reading →

While we were down in Apollo Bay last week, I didn’t bother taking any of my film cameras, instead taking my old Fuji digitsl SLR and my little Canon iXus – the Fuji is bit heavy to carry around all … Continue reading →

Almost a year ago I blogged about how I was going to go play with my old film cameras. Well, like the grand old duke of York, I marched them up to the top of the hill, then marched them … Continue reading →

Down at Dow’s, quite often I come across things to do with photography. Not just film packets, which you’d expect, but items such as contact print frames, developing trays, and even some very old photographic developing powders I’ve even found … Continue reading →

A few days ago I was idly browsing instagram (my instagram feed is full of posts from various archive services) when I came across the item above. It had been misclassified as a packet loose tea – when it in … Continue reading →