Content tagged: simon-elvery

Hi from London

Probably the final London instalment from Laura: Hello again! I was sitting at work today, talking about Indian saris, and my boss Phil mentioned a sari he'd seen that was the colour electric blue. Of course, being an Australian child of the 80s, I started singing Electric Blues. Suddenly my colleagues were strangers; they did not know the words. They did not know the song. And they certainly didn't have a clue who Icehouse was. A thought came into my head: it's time to go home. So this afternoon, Simon and I paid for our flights back to Australia. Although ... more

Another installment from Laura

Hello everyone! We hope you're all well. Many thanks for keeping us up to date on your comings and goings. Happy birthday to all the many April babes. Well, mum and dad left two Mondays ago and I’ve been missing them ever since! Before they came over I had been missing Jiselle and the bub the most because I had mum and dad’s trip to look forward to. But Simon and I had such a fantastic time with them that’s probably made it difficult to return to normal life. Our friend Susan is a brilliant friend, not least for the ... more

The Wedding Plans Six Months Out

Today is exactly six months until our wedding. Laura is the kind of person to remember any and every, even slightly significant date. She often says things like "Guess what, it's our five year and four month anniversary today. Here, I got you a card." or "One year ago today we were leaving for a holiday." More often than not, this really shits me. I mean, who cares? It's hardly worth remembering the date on which we left for holidays in 2004. What a waste of brain space; luckily, she's a really smart girl and has brain space to spare. ... more

Incremental Improvements

Over the past couple of days I've been making incremental improvements to sw'as. If you're really observant you might notice the "Most Played" and "4000 Fresh Words" sections in the sidebar. The most played images are my most played albums (as recorded by Audioscrobbler) and the 4000 fresh words are the latest images I've uploaded to Flickr. 1000 Words After a bunch of attempts to write my own gallery plugin and then (once I discovered the Flickr API) a Flickr plugin, I finally found one I like. The F-Gallery plugin1 is now managing the 1000 Words section and sourcing all ... more

Scooter Limbo

There has been a post brewing for a while about our activities on Australia Day, namely the Second Annual Scooter Limbo Championships1. I realise I'm almost a month late, but the post still isn't done, so I've prepared this quick teaser. That's not to forget the pie eating contest, barbecue and the slip'n'slide. [↩]