RAAF Base Amberley Defence Force Air Show 2008

There is an airshow at Amberley RAAF Base on the weekend. Dave has a professional photography shoot planned. Some planned buyer for the photos, not sure who – all I know is that I’m not going!

Standing around on miles of hot tarmac on what is expected to be a very hot day? Not my idea of fun. Admittedly, I’m not a shutterbug, but spending all that time in the heat is not my idea of fun! Probably a boy thing. I expect the boys will have a ball and come home hot, tired and sunburnt with big smiles on there faces.

And thats the point, isn’t it.

Later: and, wow! Yes, it was hot out there and the boys came back a little sunburnt and very worn out, but worth it, very worth it. Have you see this F-111 Dump-n-Burn photo?

Arrr! Talk like a pirate day!

Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day! Arrr!

And here be what David came up with – arr! Talk like a pirate too!
(I agree it was unfair of him not to put an X to mark the spot!)

The ‘talk like a pirate’ meme sweeps across the blogosphere every year – lots of fun!

’cause I’m leaving on a jet plane

♪ Don’t know when I’ll be back again ♪

I wish! Nope, no plane flights for me!

A Seamless Photo

I feel so clever – I suggested to Dave that a photo he took while we were up north would turn into a seamless photo easily. He did the work and I was right! It seamlesses (its a word if I use it as one) beautifully!

He’s published it as a stock photo of seamless rocks, so you can buy a copy if

Blog moved

Well, for technical reasons, I’ve moved the blog to WordPress.

Update those links!

Riverfire 2008

Riverfire is on tonight, but I am home with a sick child

Riverfire is an annual Brisbane festival that culminates with fireworks on the river and (for the last time this year) features a drop and

Bird Photos

We were out geocaching yesterday (mostly as a way to get out of the house on a Sunday afternoon, now that the weather is turning nicer) when our route took us to Tullamore Park in Dayboro, which was a pleasant find – tucked between houses with a path to walk down from the street. We found the cache, no worries (although it didn’t help that Dave had forgotten to translate the clue, so I had to do a ROT-13 in my head!) but the park was just swarming with birdlife. I suppose it is the season – Spring is just about to be sprung, so the bird should be on the wing

Anyway, the point of all this rambling is that we were

New Photos

I am greedy and selfish and I don’t like seeing someone else holding Dave’s photos. They are mine, mine, mine!

(OK, his, his, his, but I am very big on ‘with all my worldly goods I thee endow’! Which makes them mine, no? )

Anyway, the point of this little rant, is that I have backed up Dave’s Flickr collection at a new domain:

Brisbane Photos

Here, you can see all your favourites (ok, my favourites!), like:

Pancakes

A friend of ours lives in Sydney but has this odd fetish of spending his weekends in Brisbane.
We try to encourage him by offering him our spare room whenever he wants to fly up.
I’ve just dropped him at the airport to fly back, and thought I would report on what those wicked photographers got up to this weekend.

Driving along…

I should write more here.

So, my car is in the garage today, getting new tyres (don’t ask about the flat yesterday, which I was fortunate to have a handy photographer with me to change it, as whoever did the tyres last tightened them wih a machine. Grrrr… ), so we are driving down to pick it up. We *just* have time to pick the kids up on the way, if we don’t muck around.