@siftinsand@aus.social

siftinsand

@siftinsand@aus.social

Travel, cycling, live music, astronomy, volunteering, growing food, nature
Bunurong country Melbourne
First do no harm.

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siftinsand, to cycling

I lead a club ride today, only 10km
But.

  • It was my first ride as a leader since I broke my arm 6 months ago
  • It was the first ride for another member in 2 years following knee surgery
  • It was the first ride back for another member after surgery for a life altering condition
    So yes it was quite a ride and the sun shone on us
    Cycling is amazing no matter how, where and why you do it ❤️🚲
    #cycling #bike #Melbourne #Naarm
timrichards, to melbourne
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The blue Crumpler building below our apartment reminds me of a big piece of Lego. What do you think?

siftinsand,

@timrichards Officeworks?

stufromoz, to random
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The riders have started today’s stage

siftinsand,

@WhombeX @stufromoz @Sophoife @markrprior
I love that one cycling race has so many races and alliances within it

siftinsand, to melbourne

Today I feel emotionally exhausted. I feel like my life is going to be pre 11 May Aurora and post 11 May. I've been planning for the solar maximum for at least 6 years - would I go to Canada? Finland? spend 6 months in southern New Zealand?
In the end I spent 4 hours on a beach an hour's drive from my home. It was more than I ever dared hope for.
As the beams shot over my head with awesome power I was overwhelmingly grateful to my mother earth, whose magnetic field and atmosphere keep me safe every single second of my life.
Sigh.
I think I need to get a rail replacement bus or something to ground me again.

timrichards, to random
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I'm off to the Secret Post Office [hums the Secret Post Office tune]

siftinsand,

@timrichards Collins St?

siftinsand, to random

Yeah it's time, my linguistic skills would be invaluable in the peloton if only I could bend my legs

siftinsand, to melbourne

Well this came out of nowhere

chestas, to Tasmania
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We were doing a bit of gardening out the front of our house when we heard and saw some Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos in trees across the road. My wife went to check them out and took this photo of one flying away, with our house behind.

siftinsand,

@chestas Such an evocative cry

siftinsand, to Birds

I think this magpie in Yea marks the transition from Melbourne white backed birds to north Victoria black backed birds

siftinsand, to Victoria

from
I like Sofle's concept of painting on all surfaces of a carpark.
My favourite was Melanie Caple's Ned Kelly contemplating

Street art of a bare headed Ned Kelly looking down at his iconic helmet

siftinsand, to melbourne

Just saw "M is for Melbourne" excellent show!
If you haven't seen it Julian said he'll be doing an encore season at the Butterfly Club late May
Tickets on sale soon. Do yourself a favour...

siftinsand, to melbourne

Living peak
I'm on a train full of Collingwood supporters and I'm on my way to a show

siftinsand,

@MrAndrewD Bingo!

perkinsy, to random
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Australia Post will only be delivering letters to the home every second day from Monday instead of every day. This is due to a substantial reduction in mail volume over the years while parcel volume has increased substantially.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-12/auspost-to-halve-letter-delivery-frequency-from-monday/103699458

siftinsand,

@timrichards @perkinsy
I volunteer to do a monthly newsletter for a group. Almost everyone gets an email but 3 members for various accessibility reasons get snail mail

siftinsand, to melbourne

Do I use public transport too much if I know which hand dryer at Flinders St station main toilets is the most powerful?

timrichards, (edited ) to melbourne
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Crisp morning, waiting at the tram stop in Bourke St. I'm off to Benalla today via train, to give some travel writing talks. Been a while since I was up this early for a train.

siftinsand,

@timrichards Hopefully you'll have time to see the latest street art

timrichards, to melbourne
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Catching a tram from the Paris End to Docklands. Lovely morning out. I don’t often use this stop, classy surrounds.

siftinsand,

@timrichards The Collins St trams are a great way to take in all the remarkable buildings. If I walk or drive I'm too distracted to notice

siftinsand, to wildlife

A 25 minutes listen full of hope

How drones are saving wildlife https://abclisten.page.link/NtMzyapJDbqrskjR9

timrichards, to random
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Hmm I can hear the weather gods thinking about turning on that proposed thunderstorm. Was going to step out for lunch; maybe not a good idea?

siftinsand,

@timrichards My neighbour's cats are a bit edgy

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Cats were once worshipped as gods.

They have not forgotten this.

siftinsand,

@dgar Once?

perkinsy, to books
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We have just returned home after a lovely weekend at the festival. This morning I bought a book called 'Desert Anzacs the under-told story'. I cannot attest to the worth of the book but I really like the humility in the title. It is not 'untold' as so many authors claim for whatever they are writing, but 'undertold'.

I suppose that nearly all authors think that their history is undertold - that is the reason they feel compelled to write the book. But it is rare that a history is truly untold and often the 'untold' history book provides a lot of evidence that refutes the claim such as parliamentary debates, letters etc.

My complaint also applies to claims of the 'first', the 'biggest', etc. We suffer from the over-use of superlatives which diminishes the impact of these significant words.

'Amazing' deserves a special mention. Next time you feel tempted to use this word, perhaps stop and think about whether it is truly amazing. If you are using the word every day, that indicates that you may be either experiencing a life that no-one else has ever lived or you are diminishing the meaning of the word.

siftinsand,

@perkinsy I was there on Saturday, chapeau to towns and communities like Clunes who get together and create something like

anathema_device, (edited ) to random
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Brisbane peeps, this rather nice Italian moka coffee pot was left at our holiday house by a guest. We don’t want it, but if you would, please let me know

ETA: A good home has been found for it in the Mastodon herd :)

siftinsand,

@anathema_device
Please could you livestream the beautiful plop plop sssss sound, perhaps for an hour each Sunday morning?

siftinsand, to nz

A memory from Nelson

timrichards, to Birds
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This bird came visiting our picnic at the Royal Botanic Gardens yesterday. What is it?

siftinsand,

@timrichards This bird is an advertisement for walking or riding. If you drive by they're just unremarkable birds, if you get close the beautiful chest colours show up :)

siftinsand, to melbourne

I love the new library opposite Vic Market, including the rooftop garden

Rooftop garden of library looking over real grass to northwest Melbourne
Library carpet with pictures of ants, eagle and indigenous tuber plant

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