February Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: Uncle Budge was the finest gentleman budgie ever to live… never one to lose his cool. 📷
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: Like many iOS nerds, I’m always trying to optimise my Home screen. I’m back to a minimalistic layout with Cradle Mountain, which I’m really enjoying. That folder that you see down the bottom is a container for what I call ‘The Rest’. 📷📱
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: On this day ten years ago, I was in Japan and spotted these signs. Even if it’s unintentional, the Japanese achieve a perfect balance of helpful instruction and good humour. 📷
The rainbow lorikeets returned for a quick snack! ❤️🌳
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: These mushrooms actually seem to enjoy the warmth of sunshine, rather than hide from it. 📷
Making friends as an adult is harder than making friends as a kid. In Unexpected Friendship, I reflect on making a new friend beyond school/work. 🎙
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: I’ve never been a huge breakfast eater (soggy cereal, etc.) but having full fruit bowls with juicy options helps me to rise each morning.
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: tenuous attachment
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: When we painted our plain, white walls, my father-in-law commented that visiting us felt like being in an asylum.
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: These extreme weather conditions—swinging between super-dry and then stormy—must be a sign of things to come.
I had a great time chatting with Greg Morris on his podcast And You Are? about Australia, blogging and technology. 🎙😀
Every so often, we all occasionally say too many numerous additional extra words sometimes. Check out Rumination 64: Tautological Torture on Lounge Ruminator.
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: Waiting for the lull in this relentless post-bushfire-season rain (with night mode)… 📷 🌧
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: Although the contrast between me in 1997 and me today is quite profound, I still have an oversized head that fails to fit into most hats. 📷 😂
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: While walking up our driveway, I heard a strange noise from above my head… it was a rainbow lorikeet!
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 6: Depressing, fake office plant 📷
Double digits! WOOO! In episode 10 of the Lounge Ruminator podcast, Brand Nationalism, I reflect on how brand fandom and nationalistic tendencies can share quite a bit in common. 🎙
Restoring a Magical Piece of Glass on Lounge Ruminator
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 5: As I followed this magpie around to take a photo, its piercing eyes seemed to say to me, ‘You have the hide to encroach on my territory?’. 📷
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 4: My favourite spot to stop and listen to podcasts while walking at lunchtime… 📷☀️
How do you ‘adult’? Read more in Rumination 63: Sole of an Adult on Lounge Ruminator. 🤔👞
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 3: Reflect 📷🎾
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: Rooster Sight
In the first episode for 2020, Penka describes life in Prilep with two young kids: her son Toni and daughter Tatjana (nicknamed ‘Ane’ but now mainly referred to as ‘Tanya’ in Australia… just to complicate things!).
February Photoblogging Challenge Day 1: What is a city without open public spaces? 📷
