The view from my "office"

[JessicaTam]

The view from today's first office, LHR-CDG. Fairly quiet at LHR. Pretty busy at CDG, the AF lounge is rammed.

Much nicer weather in Paris, though.
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Bienvenue!
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Every time I arrive in CDG, I feel like I am on the set of Mon Oncle.

 

[Flashback]

My 2nd office for the day. Strange looking amenity kit, fabric offcuts I think

 

[drron]

Well the only thing good about the shoebox office I have moved to is the Launceston sunset..
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[Flashback]

The 3rd airport I passed through today was a little bit sandy......... NKC. There was sand as far as the eye could see for miles and miles around it.




This was a site more commonly seen at airports due to COVID and the aircraft being stored, but I'd say this is to protect the engines from the sand. It almost looked like we were in a sandstorm.

 

[chelzmalee]

Sadly not MY office, because I'm stuck in my actual one. But, the Parents office today is the 3801 steam train - Orange to Dubbo service. I believe they'll get the XPT back this afternoon



I did get the joy of hearing it leaving town while getting ready for work. The chooch chooch of a steam train is definitely something

 

[Flashback]

The view from my hotel quarantine office in Conakry, Guinea. Balcony and ocean views.. can't really ask for much more.


It is not the Four Seasons

 

[Guvner]

Is that the ONOMO?

 

[kookaburra75]

Relaxing after the coughtail Class, watching the world go by at Palm Cove Qld

 

[Flashback]

Is that the ONOMO?

It is indeed. Mandatory for arrivals from the UK and SA until a -ve PCR result comes in.

 

[Myrna]

The view from my hotel quarantine office in Conakry, Guinea. Balcony and ocean views.. can't really ask for much more.
It is not the Four Seasons

Making me feeling very depressed what a Sydney hotel room quarantine is like? - no balcony, no fresh air, and certainly no ocean views!

 

[Flashback]

Making me feeling very depressed what a Sydney hotel room quarantine is like? - no balcony, no fresh air, and certainly no ocean views!

Hopefully that doesn't turn out to be the case!

 

[chelzmalee]

Good day to work from home. My office got a dumping of snow last night - I think about 5-7cm at my place, 10-15cm other areas in town. Orange, NSW.

 

[kookaburra75]

Taking a morning stroll, in search of coffee, along the river in Brisbane

 

[JohnM]

Long weekend in WA last weekend. On Sunday I headed to Augusta to join my younger son and grandy who were camping there.

The Hardy Inlet is an expansive, protected area of water that's great for kids.



At the boat harbour on the coast just SW of town is an abalone farming business. It's not conventional aquaculture as such, as no caging is used.

Pinched from Wikipedia:

After trials in 2012,[29] a commercial "sea ranch" was set up in Flinders Bay, Western Australia to raise abalone. The ranch is based on an artificial reef made up of 5000 (As of April 2016) separate concrete units called abitats (abalone habitats). The 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) habitats can host 400 abalone each. The reef is seeded with young abalone from an onshore hatchery.

The abalone feed on seaweed that has grown naturally on the habitats; with the ecosystem enrichment of the bay also resulting in growing numbers of dhufish, pink snapper, wrasse, Samson fish among other species.

Brad Adams, from the company, has emphasised the similarity to wild abalone and the difference from shore-based aquaculture. "We're not aquaculture, we're ranching, because once they're in the water they look after themselves.

And: Ocean Grown Abalone



They currently have 10,000 of these 'abitats' on the 'ranch', which is in water about 15m deep in Flinders Bay. The bay abalone (sprats?) are grown in the onshore facility, then transferred into the mesh cage fixed inside the 'abitat'. They crawl out and settle on the surface of the 'abitat' to grow.



Price: $299/kg. Most product is snap-frozen, but I bought a single 90g chilled vacuum packed specimen that will be dinner tonight. $26.91.

 

[JohnM]

PJM and I visited the WA Maritime Museum at Fremantle on a cold, blustery, wet day yesterday. Highly recommended.

There are two maritime museums in Fremantle. This one, situated in the main harbour, covers the modern era of fishing, pearling, whaling, trade, immigration, sport, recreation, military. The other, situated near the fishing boat harbour, covers the deeper historical exploration and East Indies traders’ shipwrecks of the WA coast (see: Not shipwrecked or mutinying, waving - from the Abrolhos Islands).







And, where some of you were likely conceived – or conceived your sprogs.

 

[Daver6]

PJM and I visited the WA Maritime Museum at Fremantle on a cold, blustery, wet day yesterday. Highly recommended.

There are two maritime museums in Fremantle. This one, situated in the main harbour, covers the modern era of fishing, pearling, whaling, trade, immigration, sport, recreation, military. The other, situated near the fishing boat harbour, covers the deeper historical exploration and East Indies traders’ shipwrecks of the WA coast (see: Not shipwrecked or mutinying, waving - from the Abrolhos Islands).

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And, where some of you were likely conceived – or conceived your sprogs.

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So the fishing boat harbour one covers the period from your youth then?

 

[JohnM]

And a little more.

The resting place of Australia II.





The legendary Jon Sanders.



The Ovens is normally open for visiting – but not since Covid struck, given the confined space and many touch points.

 

[JohnM]

So the fishing boat harbour one covers the period from your youth then?

Get back to work...

 

[OZDUCK]

PJM and I visited the WA Maritime Museum at Fremantle on a cold, blustery, wet day yesterday. Highly recommended.

There are two maritime museums in Fremantle. This one, situated in the main harbour, covers the modern era of fishing, pearling, whaling, trade, immigration, sport, recreation, military. The other, situated near the fishing boat harbour, covers the deeper historical exploration and East Indies traders’ shipwrecks of the WA coast (see: Not shipwrecked or mutinying, waving - from the Abrolhos Islands).

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My wife and her families names are on one of those "Welcome Wall" plaques (People who arrived as migrants via Fremantle) outside the Maritime Museum.

 

[JohnM]

Price: $299/kg. Most product is snap-frozen, but I bought a single 90g chilled vacuum packed specimen that will be dinner tonight. $26.91.

Update.

The abalone folks had a classy little recipe book that I grabbed:




I went for essentially this recipe:



It worked.

The abalone was not at all tough or chewy.

FLounge S&P squid move over...