The Spyders Web

Yeah, I should have updated this ages ago. No real excuses. This was more a pet project than a true blog. But I will try to keep it up to date a little more often. Axl is fine. His tail has healed well, no stitches required, just some salt-water baths (more of an annoyance to [...]

Axl, my cat, is hurt. He’s okay, but he’s definitely not well at the moment. He didn’t come home last night for dinner, which in itself is not unusual. Often he’ll stay out late, and just come home when he is damn good and ready. So I thought nothing of it. Until tonight, when he [...]

Been having some really tough days at work. Somehow stumbled across this, and it just made me smile. Just what I needed to end a rough week.

I went to a friends wedding on Saturday. Nothing out of the ordinary there, except it was 3 hours drive outside of Sydney. Got up at 4:30am Saturday morning, headed to the airport at 5am, for there at 6am, flight at 7am. Time to hit the Qantas Club lounge for some breakfast and desperately needed [...]

Bloody hell, what is going on with this place. Just had another tremor. This time I’m at work on the second floor of a 3 story building, and the floor and desks felt like they were bouncing. Been felt by heaps of people around town according to this. Not sure how strong it was, more [...]

We just had an earth tremor! I was sitting at the computer just before 9pm, when suddenly things started to shake. The desk wobbled, as well as the bookcase. Felt really weird! Only lasted for a few seconds, but it was a real WTF moment. My housemates suddenly appeared, and we all looked at each [...]

The fires are still burning around the state, even 2 weeks after “Black Saturday”. Even yesterday we spotted a fire from our office up in the hills. Started off a small smoke column, then we watched it get bigger and bigger. Elvis, the water bomber went screaming overhead to fight it (first time I’ve seen [...]

How hot was it on Saturday? Normally koalas will run if you come near them, of if you get too close they’ll scratch and bite the crap out of you. After the fires on Saturday, this little bloke just couldn’t care less. So long as there was water on offer…

Yesterday. It was the definition of hell in Victoria. Melbourne hit 46.4degrees C. Hottest day in recorded history. And it felt every bit like it. The wind just sucked out any moisture you might have. I did some washing, hung it out on the line. By the time I had finished hanging it, the first [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know. I promised an update for the new car, and I never followed up.  So let me run through what has gone on (in no particular order). Weather – thank FUCK last week is over and done with. 3 days straight of astoundingly hot weather. 43 degrees, followed by 44 the next [...]