The view from my "office"

[Buzzard]

Short Point, Merimbula.
Cool, raining but still nice.

 

[VPS]

When you're working in NZ and someone brings in the Oscar their husband won (and I bet no one guesses what film it was but she talks about Peter as being as a nice guy and all the trips to the Oscars and the after parties)



I can't believe they're so heavy

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Lord of the Rings?

 

[VPS]

Lord of the Rings?

Correct

 

[JohnK]

Is the view better up the front?
Pretty good view though all the same.

Wing doesn't get in the way?

 

[RooFlyer]

Same office as a day or so ago, just a bit later

 

[TheRealTMA]

Same office as a day or so ago, just a bit later

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Ah! No one can see you going swimming!

 

[RooFlyer]

Only via the red bathing cap

I think this is Mars rising

 

[JessicaTam]

Only via the red bathing cap

I think this is Mars rising

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It is a bit faint. Which might be due to the full moon, of course.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Only via the red bathing cap

I think this is Mars rising

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YMSTBICNPC!

 

[Matt_01]

A day late but Wednesday Morning 27/6in Melb

 

[blackcat20]

A day late but Wednesday Morning 27/6in Melb

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Yes it was a tad foggy yesterday

 

[jxv]

Beautiful Canberra. Walking the dogs as the frost starts to clear.

Before we moved to Geelong we used to live here and walk the dogs in the forests, but after the fires of 15 years ago they have been replaced by suburbs. Progress?

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I was thinking my neighbours were building a new housing estate. I now know it's actually a Seventh Day Adventist youth camp, on for the next week or thereabouts. So now I have a tent city over my back fence with an estimated 3000 kids from all over the PNG highlands. They even have F-Troop style towers, complete with massive loudspeakers! I think I'm in for some religious education and lots of gospel music over the next week! I hope they have a really enjoyable camp.

 

[UpInTheAir:)]

Good morning from St Kilda.. Using my Accor night at the Novatel

 

[jxv]

By the time I went to walk the dogs today the Canberra weather turned unpleasant, cold, windy and clouds rolling in.

We drove up Mount Stromlo to the Observatory. Here, where now the Outreach Telescopes stand, once stood the building housing Electronics Engineering and the Mechanical Workshop, all destroyed in the January 2003 bushfires. From 1983 to 2001 my office was on this corner of the building, just behind the dogs. The view from my office was amazing, but I had to stand up to see it, because the windows were rather high up.

Although I had an office on the other side of the mountain at the time of the fire, in a building that escaped damage, a lot of my stuff was still in the old building and was lost. That included old diaries and as a result I have no details of roughly 100 to 150 trips I made to Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran. Most were direct to COJ with Lloyd Air, a Canberra charter company, others with Hazelton Airlines via Cudal (CUG) to Dubbo and some via Sydney on the SYD-COJ F100 service, which has long ceased. All this is missing from my otherwise quite accurate lifetime flight map.

Ah, the memories...

 

[UpInTheAir:)]

Beautiful Canberra. Walking the dogs as the frost starts to clear.

Before we moved to Geelong we used to live here and walk the dogs in the forests, but after the fires of 15 years ago they have been replaced by suburbs. Progress?

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You need to add a curly coated retriever to your gundog collection

 

[jxv]

You need to add a curly coated retriever to your gundog collection

Heaven forbid! Do you know how much it costs to kennel dogs when we go away?

Actually, at the moment only Tasha (the golden retriever) is our dog. Elwood, the Hungarian vizsla, is our daughter's. There was a time when we had three dogs: a golden, a vizsla and a pharaoh hound.

 

[Guvner]

Good morning from St Kilda.. Using my Accor night at the Novatel View attachment 130339

Was just sold off I think. To be replaced with "luxury apartments".

 

[VPS]

Glorious day in Wellington yesterday. Today grey and persisting down all day