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PreStart (a few days late)

Have you ever watched Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory? (Early version with Gene Wilder).Well if you have ( and surely you can’t not have..)you may remember some scenes in the film of Grandpa Joe and all the other Grandmas and the other Grandpa tucked up in bed together. Well that was us at the [...]

4/30 L’Ile aux Goelands / 5/30 Demolition Update

L’ile Aux Goelands
 
No excuses, I’m behind schedule. But hey - if you had the choice between being the first to set foot on a local picture-perfect island just re-opening after being closed for 4 months for birds to nest, OR take up the opportunity (on a boiling hot humid day that is yelling loudly in [...]

3/30 The Recycled Chair

I’m addicted to this chair.
I found it in the Townsville tip some 10 years ago and it has wandered around continents with me since. Most of the colour has come off on my bottom and it has been retied to stop collapsing at inopportune moments. A most characterful chair.
Have you got one?

2/30 Nautilus

These are beautiful deep sea creatures that live in New Caledonian waters. Some species such as this one, Nautilus macromphalus are endemic to New Caledonia. 
They make staggering works of art and if you are lucky you can find a nautilus shell washed up on the beach. If you ever make it to New Caledonia they have [...]

Thirty Days of Everything 1 - Polished Concrete

I was checking out a friend of mine’s blog and liked what she did with this idea. Thirty Days of Everything involves a 30 day period of  documenting photographically things that you do/see on a regular basis.
My Thirty Days of Everything is going to be a little different. It will be a photographic journal of [...]

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