Super interesting 'call of the wild' now on Radio 3, with Cosmo Sheldrake, music coauthored with whales, and rainforests as legal entities. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y62x

Cold in Broken Hill today. Superman Returns is on the telly. What a shite movie. Weightlifting Jesus.

The teen has a job interview for an apprenticeship in 12 hours. I'm pretty sure he's awake as well. No doubt 3am is a great time for worrying about such things but I'd prefer to sleep.

At Broken Hill airport looking out at the fog. I cannot even see the runway, apparently our scheduled plane is still on the tarmac in Adelaide. It would have been nice if Rex thought to update the status page so I could have stayed in bed. #travelmoan

It really has been a day. It started with a highly acrobatic predawn fall. I was in my undies, in the dark looking for my jacket when, avoiding the cat, I stumbled over a log. Putting my foot out for balance I tripped over a water bottle, falling face first in the dark I put my hands out […]

'Bob Jelly's Business Advice' could be a great title for the airport bookshop Business & Finance section.

Late start at work today. It's raining so like a lazy bum I'm watching the #seachange episode in which the Boatshed gets demolished. I reckon this old TV show could almost now be classified as documentary evidence of the final days of "fair go" #australia. Or perhaps it's just a fever dream of a […]

Must remember to tamp down my inner sweary persona when I've had two beers. Fancy people don't like it.

A rare rainy weekend here in Broken Hill. So we have been binge watching #seachange possibly my favourite TV show from the turn of the century. Great man Bob Jelly. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqhA8xdCe1I&pp=ygUOU2VhY2hhbmdlIDIwMDA%3D

"because literature is about digging. It's not about putting on a show. It's not about giving them the next entertainment or the next surprise." - Édouard Louis #q #writing https://www.thenerve.news/p/edouard-louis-interview-novelist-france-working-class-collapse-end-of-eddy

@daj I've been thinking about Anne Frank as I am slowly reading The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. The world at the moment is an unsettling place and these writings are such a gift. They remind me of the humanity above all the cruelty. https://forkingmad.blog/the-diary-of-a-young-girl/

I was doing my library volunteer thing and a woman came in to the desk holding a book. “I left the book out in the rain and ruined it, so I bought this new copy”. You won’t see a story about it anywhere, but people are good

@katyswain this is the search engine I'm using in my walled garden. A few months in and I'm super impressed. https://docs.searxng.org/user/about.html

At work, getting a bit teary reading Richard Scolyer's open letter. A melanoma researcher and accomplished pathologist who died on the weekend at only 59. A truly inquisitive person who asked "how", not "if". Curiosity is the antidote to judgement. We need more people like this not less. RIP […]

The Criterion, one of the many corner pubs on Pitt St. I wonder how long before it becomes a bookshop?

Good morning #bikenite from Sydney, Australia. I'm just back from a short break in #thailand. Disappointingly and unsurprisingly I noticed even more mopeds and less bicycles than my first visit. In fact the only people I noticed cycling were bike packing tourists.

Good morning* @katyswain how you are? I may have a bit it a wander around your old city today before heading back to the Moon Base. *Back in my home #tzag

First day of the rest of my life. In a coffee shop in mascot... BIOS check complete. Brain loading....

she is the fighter we need https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/zarah-sultana-proudly-declares-she

Not wanting to point fingers but whoever decided that tonight's entertainment could be "My Oxford Year" is wrong. This is not entertaining. This is stupid beyond belief. Made for North American fans of Harry Potter, Christmas movies and Barbie dolls but only if they are the really stupid ones […]

Pulled down the collapsing hardwood tongue-in-groove¹ ceiling which had been in place for probably 100 years and replaced it with plasterboard. Progress? My final job is to pull all the rusty nails out of the salvageable timber for reuse. ¹oi, head out of the gutter you. #diy #renovations […]

@katyswain Sounds a bit beyond my ken, but I like it https://tpl.house/ #lan

How it's going....

No, the kids in Australia do not ride kangaroos to school. #cycling #australia #kangaroo

Nice chat today @katyswain I told Re I'd recommended Brassic to you but she wanted to also add Dept Q - yes... a crime thing but I agree, a good one

This is pretty sad. Poor fellow has been let down by maritime, council, insurance and the Coffs Harbour yacht marina. All those gutless agencies and orgs. His daughter has set up a fundraiser but I don't think it'll even make a dent in his bills […]