Monday, May 05, 2008

Dormant but not dead...

A serial collector of accounts and websites, that's wot I is. Leaping from place to place, gotta stay up with the joneses, or that's what it seems like at times as your friends' migrate from mailing lists to livejournal, to blogger, to myspace and to facebook. What's the next step along the way? Maybe I should cut down, delete a few, but as with all addictions I can't quite bring myself to. There's always what I've got at http://ajft.org/

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Olives in the garden


Olives in the garden
Originally uploaded by ajft.
For the first two years that we lived here the olive tree ignored us, I think it overheard the conversation where we discussing whether to chop it down and decided that it had better grow some fruit.

There are only a few of them, and I've got no idea how to prepare them or even to recognise when they're ripe! Might have to ask the old Greek lady over the back fence for some olive assistance.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Bugger, bugger, bugger; an expensive speed hump

Met a speed hump on the 5th of January, the Edge fell off, the bracket is cracked. Posted it off to be repaired, under warranty I hope, and hoped for the best...

Three weeks and not a word, today I called to find it can't be repaired (sad) but they are waiting on a replacement unit (happy).

Thursday, December 21, 2006

A well-earned VB after Christmas shopping

Not much to say really. Walked over to Chadstone to avoid the mayhem that is the Christmas carpark, made a precision raid on the shops, acquired what was required, then left, post haste.

Here's the celebratory beer.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Melburn-Roobaix

Damn that was fun!

Major thanks to organisers and participants, I'm not sure what I expected but damn it was good!













Slept exceptionally well on Saturday night, disturbed only by bad dreams of pavé and col d'ugly!

Anyone with GoogleEarth can follow the route of the big blue bike by clicking on the track, but please no comments about the obvious navigational difficulties -- our route may be sub-optimal but it seemed to work at the time -- that was all part of the fun!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Indian summer day at Lorne



















Friday, May 05, 2006

Night ride to Richmond

Enjoyable evening ride in to Richmond by the light of the three-quarter moon and a flashing bike light. Bike paths by night are nearly lethal!



Map of Monash to Richmond by night