• Saturday 23 August 2025

    This morning’s fog has definite Canberra feelings. Last weekend’s weather was different.

  • Long weekend wandering

    Most weekends I head to the local beach for an early morning walk. This weekend, I also visited a glass exhibition at the local botanical gardens. I’m not a twitcher (bird watcher). I do enjoy seeing birds when I walk. Here are a few I saw this weekend. Walking at the beach in the morning…

  • Sunday, 23 June 2024

    Greetings, I hope you have had a good fortnight. I was away in Sydney last weekend. I participated in a conference focussed on military and civilian cooperation in health security. The conference was at the Sydney International Convention Centre (ICC). Most of the work-related conferences I’ve attended in Sydney have been there. The area is…

  • Sunday, 9 June 2024

    Last week was flat-out and fatiguing. Work extended into the evenings on a few days. At the same time, there were some highlights. On Wednesday evening, the Queensland men’s rugby league team defeated the New South Wales team in game one of this year’s State of Origin Series. I got myself ready by eating lamb…

  • First post

    Greetings. This domain isn’t new; however, this blog is. I’ve removed all the posts and media that used to sit in this domain. I’ve transferred the domain to WordPress.com. Managing a self-hosted site was initially fun but became expensive and complicated. My intention with this blog is to record some personal highlights that are safe…