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I’ve been a kindle devotee for something like four months now. What’s interesting is how it’s changed my reading habits. Pre-kindle I would mostly read ‘serious’ books around my interests in classical and recent east asian history, not to mention … Continue reading →

Following on from my New Year’s resolution to get fit, I’ve been sticking pretty well to my exercise regime, except obviously for our week down in Yanakie, but even then we got  a couple of reasonable bushwalks in  Wilson’s Prom … Continue reading →

Anyone interested in my slightly cyncial $0.02 on the discovery of Richard III’s remains should head on over to http://knowledgegeek.tumblr.com/post/42300155337/richard-iii …

get your hotmail now, a photo by moncur_d on Flickr. Last week we withdrew from social media. Involuntarily. We spent last week in a cottage at Yanakie near Wilson’s Prom in Victoria. We’d been there before in 2007, but then … Continue reading →

I recently posted on the suggestion that the Romans sometimes used bits of pottery to clean themselves after they’ve been to the loo. Other cultures are known to use stones as an alteranive to more flexible solutions, so the use … Continue reading →

The archaeological world is mildly agog today over the suggestion that the Romans used bits of pottery to clean their bottoms. Now we know about the infamous sponge sticks and we have remains from the cesspit at Bearsden fort that … Continue reading →

This week’s hot weather and bushfire alerts have not done us any favours in the fruit and veg department with the hot dry winds scorching off the raspberries and the zuchinis not to mention that possums stripped the fig tree … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had a serious bushfire alert, but despite a searingly hot day  with winds between 50 and 70km/h  and the smell of smoke in the air from grass fires to the west of the city, we’re still here. Yesterday … Continue reading →

Everyone makes them, everyone fails at them. Mine this year is to get fitter and lose some weight. This isn’t really a new resolution, I tried starting running again back in 2009 and found that really didn’t work for me … Continue reading →