Flying high

What a sight to see a kite ...

Soaring through the sky ...

Thin and light, bold and bright ...

A giant sailing by ...

If I was light, just like a kite ...

I'd spread my wings and fly.

Fish food

When my wife worked for AIMS

(Australian Institute of Marine Science)

She took me out there one day to go fishing

What she didn't tell me was that these guys

like to go fishing for humans. Blimey!!

As soon as the bread hit the water, they were

all over it like piranhas on steroids.

Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water!

Give me a sign

We've snapped some exotic signs in our travels.

All kinds of critters in all kinds of places ...

And all kinds of climates.

But I think my favourite sign, apart from this one ...

Is this one, which makes me duck whenever I see it.

Ockeroo

Even the kangaroos are layback in Australia. I can just picture this guy with a beer, watching the footy and scratching his privates. Makes me laugh every time I look at it.

Little Man

We had a little man, who lived in our kitchen. We called him Little Man, but he may have been a Little Woman (very difficult to sex). He would watch us washing the dishes or stand in the bathroom looking up at us adoringly. I guess he thought the mountains moved and made noises like the adults in Charlie Brown (woomph, woomph, woomph).

One day (or early morning, actually) one of us (we each blame the other) got up to pee at 3am and, yes, you guessed it, Little Man was no more.

Perhaps he thought the gods were angry, or that the sky was falling, but either way, it would have been very quick (and heavy). We had a small service in the back yard and buried him in a matchbox (nah, I'm making that bit up).

RIP Little Man 19/06/12 - 21/06/12.

The past is fading fast

Another faded memory from my childhood. Dad bought us a go-kart from a local farmer, but it had an old motorbike engine in it and nearly became airborne when we test drove it, So dad found a tamer lawnmower engine and we spent our spare time (of which we had lots) racing round and round the wheat bins at the bottom of town.

This pic reminded me of how quickly photos fade (it was taken on one of those instamatics, where the picture slides out before your very eyes). If you have a box of old photos stored away somewhere, I would recommend you scan them all now, because they will fade away to nothing in no time (just like my youth).

Rock back the clock

On Rockwiz, they always ask the guests what was the first album they ever bought. Well, here's mine. Blackfeather's 'Boppin the Blues'.

I played the vinyl off it on my portable plastic record player and even made a cardboard top hat to wear.

The hole in my jeans was a designer look, in case you were wondering.