I am publishing to my static site via my phone. To do so I am using a script which I run in Termux. I'm editing the markdown file using an app called rather unimaginativly, Markdown. I am having difficulties detecting file changes on my phone. So files like this one do not get uploaded.... para 3 ... Permalink

I am publishing to my static site via my phone. To do so I am using a script which I run in Termux. I'm editing the markdown file using an app called rather unimaginativly, Markdown. Let's post this and see how it goes. UPDATE obvs. it works but a bit of a fiddly process. the Markdown app tends to muck around with...

The meeting place in West-End, Brisbane I flew down from Bundaberg and picked up my ute from the Brisbane airport. It still worked although the spare tyre was flat. I got it fixed by a nice bloke in Buranda. I had time for a couple of quick visits to old friends and Zoe again before setting off out along the...

A long exposure night photo taken from the deck of Muscat 7 off the coast of Bundaberg I flew out of Brisbane to Vanuatu where Dan met his nephew, Ethan and I at the airport. Within a couple of hours we were pulling up the anchor and setting off for a week of sailing. We crossed quicker than I expected which gave me...

When the world comes to an end there will be a fire sale. I was going to write up on my recent journey from Broken Hill to Vanuatu and back. Maybe I will later. It was quite exciting for me. However, after a couple of weeks of constant travelling I got home last night to a power outage. As you may already know I...

long dusty days and days of driving The 40 hours of driving from Broken Hill to the east coast and back felt more adventurous and enjoyable than my sailing trip over the Pacific. On the way out I turned down the Tilpa road which turned out to be a very remote dirt track. I only saw emu's, roo's, lizards, snakes and...

A tin 'copter in Bulloo Country I don't think she flies. ... Permalink

I'm too old for this shit - it took Salman Rushdie 13 years to finally write his first book, Midnight's Children To take what is in my brain and send it down to my fingers seems to get harder the more I try. Why is that? So many things get in the way of just splurging those thoughts across the screen. Maybe that's...

A few years after writing the letter Gaylord achieved his dream and became a Tram driver on the Broken Hill Steam Tram This is a letter H recently submitted as homework. Hopefully posting it here won't set off stupid Turnitin before the teacher marks it (it didn't - he passed!). It is from the time of the Broken...

Organising my thoughts is a skill I may never acquire. It gets worse as I get older. Thankfully the world is populated by wonderful beings who share their discoveries. Thank you @Rek for sharing your work . This Spellbook of Terminal Commands is something I wish I had started 40 years ago. Ah well. I will be...

this is the song of mehitabel of mehitabel the alley cat - Don Marquis A few weeks ago I noticed Graham Cox had listed his boat Mehitabel * tentatively for sale . In the advertisement he wrote, having decided I want to go cruising again, I am debating whether to develop Mehitabel into a cruising yacht, or buy one...

Day off today, I serviced the extractor fan in the bathroom. Um... that was about it. I was about to start cooking up a storm in the kitchen. I had a leg of lamb, a fistful of rosemary and was ready to go. Then Re got home end reminded me we had a work function which would have 'nibblies'. Now, there is a word I...