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Hand of fur

Alex — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:26:47 +0000

Today I combed the cat:

Waking up

Alex — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:26:08 +0000

When I got up this morning I found this picture of peaceful coexistence on the couch:

Wildness in the garden

Alex — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:38:38 +0000

Of two very different kinds. Insectoidal:

To add to the samsaric tragedy of it all, having watched green more or less kill black and taken this picture, I accidentally brushed the table with the camera strap, and black fell to the ground, not to be found again.

Wild mammalian games probably appeal to most of us, as mammals, more:

She has no teeth, but you still need to treat the claws with respect!

Les Wilson 13.2.1932-12.10.2009

Alex — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:26:58 +0000

Sarah’s father, my father-in-law, died just over two weeks ago.

Rest in peace, or best wishes for a good rebirth? Whichever, we will miss him, awkward as he was quite capable of being.

Whistle jar

Alex — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:36:14 +0000

Table centrepiece:

Dog bites controller

Alex — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:12:03 +0000

It was just a couple of minutes distraction:

Clean clear sky

Alex — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:08:10 +0000

So here is a very similar shot to the one from Wednesday morning taken at a very similar time on a normal day. Different, huh?

Red desert dust sky

Alex — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:37:29 +0000

6.05 am – I ask myself why the light that filters in is red. I get up and see that the sky is red. I have the presence of mind to take a picture:

6:05 am

By 7.40 there is more light, but very yellow:

7:40

At 8.00 am the back lane still looks like this:

8:00

For comparison, here is the yard in more normal light:

A while ago

According to the paper, “If it were possible to scrape the film of dust coating outdoor surfaces across Sydney together into a heap, it would probably weigh something like 1000 tonnes”. The SMH has some fascinating pictures.

No other comment – it’s just strange.

Drainwork

Alex — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:34:35 +0000

Well wasn’t it interesting seeing colour TV pictures from up the inside of the sewer!

Anyway, the job is done now.

Who am I?

Alex — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:51:24 +0000

This is the college matriculation photo from 1967, recently made available by the website people there. All of the freshers (1st years) at the House (Christ Church), lined up in Peck on the morning of matriculation, which is a kind of “induction” into membership of Oxford University. I am there, along with friends Bob Shatwell and Martin Jones (I recognize them) and doubtless others I can’t recognize – which one is Andrew James, for instance? Oh yes, acquaintance “Budgie” Jodhpur, relatively easy to spot. But where are Herbert Gray and Whatsisname Harris?

Submit your guesses in comments! (Oh, I had to change the setting for comments so that I have to approve them before they appear, as I was getting anything from a handful to a score of spam comments every day, but I will of course approve anything that is even 1/4-way reasonable.) You might need to click-to-enlarge to get the necessary detail.

I asked the same question about a different picture on Dang Zang, but that one is relatively easy.