Month: February 2009
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First choir practice
Tonight was the inaugural practice session of the St Michael’s church male choir and it was a resounding success.
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Travelling North
Last night Linda and I went to see the David Williamson play “Travelling North” at the Riverside Theatre, Parramatta.
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Ants: uneasy truce
You can often tell it’s about to rain when ants invade your home. We’ve had a week of almost continuous rain here, and within the first few hours the ants had discovered the sugar bowl. Now in times past I would have reached straight for the ant poison, but I’m now a new-age greenie, so…
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Roberta Flack at the Sydney Opera House
One of the many lovely presents we received last Christmas were tickets to see Roberta Flack at the Sydney Opera House. We hadn’t realized at the time that the performance was on Valentine’s Day, so it was a good excuse for a romantic night out for us, as if we needed an excuse.
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Killer bushfires hit Victoria during heatwave
While the north of Australia is recovering from massive flooding, fierce firestorms have killed more that 173 people, destroyed nearly 800 homes and burnt out 350,000 hectares in the southern state of Victoria.
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New carport
At last we have a new carport to protect the cars from the heat and hail. Photos show it going up over a period of about seven hours.
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Gabriela’s first day at big school
Today Gaby started kindergarten at Baulkham Hills North Public School. Sabine has been going to this school for the past year and Gaby has often been there to drop her off or pick her up, so it was familiar ground. In fact Gaby had been looking forward to starting and in every way was more…
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Happy birthday Carlo
Carlo decided that for his 32nd birthday (02 Feb 2009) he would get all his friends together for a jam session. And what a jam session it was,