Coming out of a gig in the convention centre the other night and noticed this on the escalator,I thought this guy mainly did elevators?
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Making spaceships with Finn
I have been putting aside as many cardboard boxes as I could for the last few weeks for Finn. We had a few options the other day, a train, a castle, a robot suit, but Finn finally decided on a super fast spaceship complete with wings an everything. Today im going to try to mount it on/around his bike so he can cycle it around the place.
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Full Rainbow
Not often you get a chance to see one of these, this is the view out our back door from yesterday afternoon
Saturday, November 05, 2011
Barrel conversion
I had an idea a few months to convert a wine barrel for home theatre and hombrew purposes. Its on three castors and is ideal for outdoor cinema activities. We watched the snapper on it the other night, what a blast from the past. If you fancy doing this a few obstacles are the fact that there is not a single adhesive element in cooperage so be sure to reinforce the entire thing from the inside before cutting. There can be up to 5 litres of wine soaked into the wood so either sand it back (loose structural support) or just seal it with varnish or a paint like I did. Also, make sure your projector is well ventitd as the hot air can split the wood and in extreme circumstances cause the whole thint go up in flames.
Mel-burn-cup
There is an annual horse race, grand national-esque, which is accompanied my many local traditions including the novelty bonnet. This was our departments attempt at school last week, we came second, scoring points for innovation......
Airway congestion....
Some attribute the recent qantas grounding to union issues, truth is the annual graduation of the year 12's here at school, along with its ritual releasing of balloons may have something to do with it......
Monday, October 10, 2011
Fionn....
Since my back has been at me I find sitting in the car for long periods very difficult, so I have a new chauaffeur....
Royal Show with the kids
We took the lads to teh royal show (big agricultural and fun-fair annual activity here in Perth) last week. It was good fun but Atticus was a bit too young to really get what was going on, except for the sheep, he loves sheep. Here he is intruducing his favourite teddy "Lamby", to one of the sheep in the shearing que
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Waterboys Transcription
A brief transcription of the instrumental sections from the Waterboys song "A Man Is In Love", for anyone looking to learn the tune in the middle.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Trampofinn
Finn discovered the trampoline next door last week and pursues any opportunity to visit again. Yesterday he was perfecting his face-planting techique
Atticus Morris
Here is Atticus form yesterday hooning around the back garden on his firetruck, he can really move on that thing
Friday, September 23, 2011
Daniel Larusso aint got nothing on me
So.....got back from a gig, early, was tidying the kitchen and had in my hands a bowl, a soup spoon, an empty wine bottle and some chopsticks when i noticed this fly on the wall. Being an eternal 80's fuelled optimist (teen wolf/karate kid/star wars (the real ones) back to the future etc.) i decided to go all Myaggi on this fly and went for it with the chopsticks......as you can probably guess i missed, then somehow I remembered a skill I never learned before, some sort of inherrant genetic instinct to pinch the chopsticks about 2 cms above the flys locus and would ya believe it, there he was trapped betwixt the sticks of chop!...and I though the day peaked when one of my viola students was invited to play a the 2012 olympics!!!
There is a fly in my soup...
Check out this wee fellah bathing in my pint last night, reminds me of that joke about a guy who drowned in a vat of beer at a brewery, police were surprised to hear he got out five times to go to the loo....
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
I have a new outfit I am playing with called Shillelagh Law, and have set up a blog in order to promote the band etc. Check it out here http://shillelaghlawband.blogspot.com/ comments/suggestions/donations welcome :)
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Off to the tower to rescue fair maidens...
Arrow selection was an arduous process, Finn has very high standards.
Searching for treasure
We wrapped a box of smarties up in tinfoil and then burried it whilst Finn set off on a treasure hunt with his new set of garden tools Tristen got him for his birthday recently.
The scoville report.....
The scoville report.....
The scoville report.....
The scoville report.....
The scoville report.....
..he robs from the rich and gives to the poor...
Check out Finn and his new hobby. We were chopping up a few branches from the mulberry tree the other day and out came the leatherman, a few tactical cuts and some jumbo elastic band wrangling later Finn was taking pot shots all over the garden. William tell watch out!
Saturday, September 10, 2011
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