The crazed ravings of Splinter (Tony Castley)
Stories from my home city!
Ok well things that have been on simmer for a while have come to the boil.
I have been offered and accepted a new role and promotion down in Canberra. This means that in the next 2 – 4 weeks I am going to have to pack up the whole family and move them.
So if I am a little slack on the web site, photos, email, phone calls and the like please understand.
Ok now this is not about my relationship with my wife (that’s actually going very well, thank you very much), I am getting frustrated with the lack of response from parts of the company I work for.
I can’t go into details (don’t want to have to write one of those “I’ve been fired” posts), but it is enough to say I have been waiting for a decision from one management group for over 3 weeks now. This isn’t a little decision this is one that will shape the future of my career and the future plans for my whole family.
I will let you know more when I can say more.
Ok here is the first (real) picture out of the new camera. Very nice sunset for the first day with my new camera.
Well, its Saturday night and the neighbours are having a party.
Nothing unusual you say … and normally I would agree with you. This street is a great street …. a combination of young families with babies, a large extended arabic immigrant family, a couple of christian asians, some guy with a horse trailer we never see, an extremely weathly buddist family and normal old us. On the whole a quiet and peacful bunch. However the arabic family next door are prone to some very loud and well populated celebrations.
And tonight … they are having an engagement party. So along with the incredible volume of people talking and singing, you have this fabulous modern middle eastern music …. accompanied by the occassional arabic yodelling (what on earth is that actually called?). And thankfully tonite the dog has decided it does not mean the world is ending, so I don’t have to lock him in.
I hate to say it but compared with your average Aussie BBQ, full of the sounds of dunk the stubbie, drunken fights and late night renditions of “Kaysan” …. its a lovely background noise.
We found this guy on our back secruity screen, where the dog was pestering him.
So we decided he had to be taken out the front and into the garden. Check out the other images at fliker.com
It has been great over the last few days. Rain and storms keeping the place very cool. I am now just wishing it would travel west and give some relief to our farmers as they have had drought conditions for several years now.
I bought a new lens for my old Pentax K1000 SLR. I then proceeded to take 40 odd photos in and around Brisbane.
Here is one of my favourites.
A little while back I realised that I liked photography and was not doing enough. While I was in Canberra I took many photos and have posted quite a lot here.
Well it is time I started showing off my home city of Brisbane.
These beautiful Morten Bay Fig trees are just accross the road from my office builing in the centre of the city.
Well after the last three months providing the lowest rainfall on record, bushfires and drought, it is raining and has been most of the day!!!
10mm and counting, by the sounds of it will be raining all night.
Ok today it got to 36o degrees celsius today and wind gusts up to 66Km/hr. Since this is the 3rd or 4th day in a row of high temperatures and winds several fires have broken out around the city.
These have mostly been grass and bush fires, however due to the layout of Brisbane and the large areas of bush within the city limits many houses and business’s have been threatened. Out in the western suburbs several cars have been destroyed while they were parked at the local train station.
With fires this early in the season it looks like a long, hot summer.
