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Sysadmin, developer, web dude in a science research organisation. WordPress, Japan, planes, trains, Arduino, Raspberry Pi/Pico, puns, dad jokes, etc

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  • Floggings and fruit

    For us Tasmania is all about the food. It’s so fresh, so tasty here. First thing this morning we headed off to Battery Point to eat breakfast at Jackman and McRoss. Sure their bread is described as artisan and we don’t have ironic tatts and beards, and yes, B orders something with avocado that’s not…

  • Abt time: Catching the West Coast Wilderness Railway

    There are no commercial passenger train services running in Tasmania and haven’t been for forty years. The only way to ride the rails is on heritage services scattered over the island. The most popular of these is the West Coast Wilderness Railway (WCWR), an isolated 1067 mm service running between Queenstown and Strahan on the…

  • From crackpots to cradles and queens

    Breakfast! You can’t start a big day without some food in the stomach. Well, I can and have, but it doesn’t make for a happy family experience. So off we set down the streets of Central Launceston to Bryher. Outside another patron’s huge St Bernard cheerfully greets every curious passer by. Inside the small cafe…

  • A 747 flight to Tasmania

    A 747 flight to Tasmania? And not even to Hobart, but the regional airport of Launceston. And with Jetstar? What??? Okay, I’m being deceptive. The flight number of our Jetstar Airbus A320 from Sydney to Launceston in Tasmania’s north was JQ747. A bit like the old QF787 flights to Canberra. We’d bought the tickets months ago…

  • Travel in 2017

    Looking back across 2017 I’m surprised by how much travel I actually did. January: Singapore and Japan If I was to single out one word for my trips this year it would be snow. Though I’ve been to the snow before, this trip was the first time I’d really experienced snow. We started with a week…

  • Driving it home

    Made it home and home to stay. I left the office at one in the afternoon, passed three police cars on the Hume Highway, then suffered my only delay at the exit of the M5 to Fairford Road. I was pretty tired after the ride, but no rest as I had to take Alex to…

  • A quick Canberra escape

    Our team held its end of year meeting and get together in Canberra this year. To save a bit of money and to ensure that I could make it back in time for Alex’s tennis lesson back in Sydney I drove down. This was the first time I’ve driven such a long distance alone. On…

  • Escape!

    After a day of team meetings it was time to let our hair down. Dividing into two teams each group took on one of the Expedition Escape Rooms. My group tried to solve the puzzles in the Da Vinci room. We failed, but I think we did pretty well, considering that it was the first…

  • Driving alone

    The problem with driving a car is that you can’t take photos. And driving alone means nobody else can take them for you. It was such a beautiful sunset this evening. Swirls of icy contrails in the sky, their parent planes long gone. Low cloud, grey, indistinct against the salmon, orange and gold glow of…

  • The Compass Points of the Japanese Railway Network

    Over the past fourteen years of travelling to Japan I have visited all four of the home islands and passed through all but two of the forty-seven prefectures. Yet it is never enough. I am somebody who likes to travel all the way to the end of the line, to explore as far as I…