#Cook 🇦🇺 in the middle of no… err, in the middle of the #Nullarbor Plain. A fresh-air stop, as remote as it can get: #Adelaide and #Perth are each more than 1,000 kms away. And: it’s THE opportunity for everyone to take pictures of the #IndianPacific, its 27 cars and the loco.
The first full day on the #IndianPacific 🇦🇺 with an afternoon arrival into #Adelaide. Nice views from the cabin window throughout. On some occasions, when the train is going through a curve, one can see the two engines at the front of the train‘s long consist.
Home. First cuppa tea consumed. It's raining here! Sorry, #Adelaide, I really tried to do my best with the rain! Hoping the sore throat is #allergies and #stress and not the spicy cough, because parents refuse to wear masks. Wonderdog sang me the welcome song of her people ("Aroooooo! AROOO roo roo!") which is reserved for special occasions, and I think I'm going to bed, and partner snoozing too. Thank you, MastoFam, for your love and support, you lot are brilliant. #CaityTrip
The video games club at Adelaide Uni has been victim to the incompetency of the UofA's facility team AGAIN. For the second time, they've attempted to dispose of the club's CRT TVs, and we've just learned that they succeeded this time.
The club is looking to rebuild their fleet of CRTs. If you know anyone in the #Adelaide region with a TV that deserves a second lease of life, please get in touch.
New in the gallery, a photographic piece 'Veale Heron Silhouette at Sunrise'. "Hera" is a white-faced heron who visits #VealeGardens in #Adelaide each day, usually staying for a few months, flying off for a few months, then returning for a few months, and has done this for the last eight years or so :)
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Morning, Toots. I’m continuing to sort through snaps I took of #FamilyHistory photos today, and here’s one for the #Adelaide folks: North Terrace, possibly early 1950s (I’m guessing from the shape of the cars.) #Histodons
KI-Angebote setzen sich zwar immer mehr durch, machen aber auch Fehler. Ein #CDU-#Politiker macht ChatGPT für eine #Naziparole in einem #Facebook-Post verantwortlich. ...
Gauge aside, this was the way it used to be in the old Adelaide railway station in the 80s and earlier. Platforms 10-13 (now a carpark) used to be country (bluebirds railcars) and interstate travel.
I need a new mattress. Trying to get a grip on current prices. So many mattress vendors don't put their prices online, which is a bit hostile. Others seem to charge over $8000, which is exactly what I'm not going to pay.
If anyone knows of a good mattress shop run by sane people in #Adelaide I'd appreciate the info. I'm hoping to avoid dealing with Hardly Normal if I can but they at least put their prices online.
Online-only vendors are of no use to me, for fucked back reasons. I need to poke and prod and sprawl on the thing before I commit.
Mattress search update: It looks like I have three sound options to investigate next week.
While I was living in Canberra some clown had the bright idea of sweeping a lot of Adelaide's furniture/homewares shops into a few clusters that are hard to get to by public transport. I'm going to try to avoid those places, dominated as they are by a well-known evil company run by an utter bastard.
I'll still be spending a lot of time on buses though.
This morning's walk in #VealeGardens#Adelaide :)
Nice sunny morning with a tiny bit of chill in the air, just perfect!
Took the time to wander and take some shots of the little things, some tiny flowers along the route.
