Family

One year on since the accident

Today marks the one year anniversary since I got in to a tangle with a car on my Vespa. The gory details are well documented, but how am I doing now? Mostly good. For a start, I can walk, which I suspect is not something I may have been able to do maybe 30 years [...]

Ella rocks on

Recently my almost one year old neice Ella has started rocking to music. When she hears something she likes she starts rocking back and forward and if she really likes it she shakes her head like Paul and George. Noticing that she has a tendency towards big bass music I made her a compilation to [...]

Camera practise on Ella

So I’ve been playing with my new camera for a couple of weeks and have done some really really bad photos. Some were overexposed, some were underexposed and a lot were blurry. I keep trying to run before I can crawl but when I got my first night photo without blur I was pleased as [...]

My life in pictures

Mum wanted to make a collage of photos for my 30th, but that idea got nixed when she broke her arm while holidaying at Great Keppel. Instead she selected 25 photos, gave them to Kelly to scan who sent them to me to do with as I wished. The original idea was to make some [...]

Gerry and Lucy get old

Saturday was an important day for a couple of avid amyo is a geek readers as they celebrated the anniversary of their birth and more importantly – the day when they first met their cousin. As a present I have decided to make them simultaneously internet famous and embarassed by posting some photos I took [...]

How I spent easter

It’s turning out to be an annual event. I get 5 days holiday, the air turns crisp and I decide to get out in to the garden. Do I get off my arse at this time of the year for the sole purpose of scoffing lots of eggs or is there something deeper and more [...]

Kelly turns 21

In an effort I’m certain is purely designed to make me feel old, my sister Kelly has decided to turn 21 today. Tomorrow we party, but for now I’d like to share how she has changed since she was 5. As you can see, not very much. This photo is part of a series we [...]

A special christmas present

Christmas is, among other things, a time for giving and receiving. In my case, it was being given kisses from numerous relatives and receiving a cold sore. Nothing makes you feel more attractive than a dose of herpes simplex on your lips. Pauline reckons she can’t see the big yellow crusty pustules on my face [...]

The first meeting of my niece

Mater Mothers Hospital is a 40 year old building that still has the 80s telecom (telstra) logo on cupboard doors and the signature institutional look of 60s government buildings. The structure is soon to be demolished to make way for one of those new mega-modern hospitals that appear to be rising phoenix like around Brisbane. It seems [...]

Elouisa

I wrote a really long post about Katie having a baby and just as I was about to publish it the program crashed and I lost it all. I’m too pissed off to write about it now so I’ll embelish this post later. I should know better than to not press save. Here is a [...]