Went for a walk to kill off the kilojoules in an Easter Egg. Ended up at the Scratch with an Easter themed Double Chocolate Stout, #craftbeer from Bacchus Brewing.

That doesn't count does it?

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Here's hoping everyone is having a happy and safe Easter

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And so it comes to this, summer drifting to a close.

Easter is upon us so today is the last day for wearing my summer work uniform of shorts, short sleeve cotton shirts, and comfortable leather shoes.

As of Tuesday the winter uniform of jeans is dragged from the closet and out until the start of summer, this year somewhat late at November 21, 2013. (  I blame +Cricket Australia for the 2013 winter lasting so long! )

Perhaps I could keep the short sleeve shirts out for another week or so? Or is that just the madness talking?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-22/ashes-dates-announced-for-2013-14-series/4386432

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While I was walking this morning I came across a traffic cone which someone had neatly place over a footpath light in the South Bank arbour.

I immediately looked around for +Jodie van de Wetering 🙂

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One of the best thiings about the days getting shorter is you get to walk and the cooler parts of the day, and consequently get to see more sunrises.

This taken from Kurilpa Bridge, looking down river as I passed over this morning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurilpa_Bridge

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For the last 20 odd years I've always gone to a hairdresser to get my hair cut, but since moving closer to the city have been looking for a new hair cutter.

I'd been past this place a few times and decided to give it a go and have been pleasantly surprised. Not really the old fashioned barbers of my youth, but complete with hot towels and proper barber chairs and a very comfortable atmosphere.

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Coming down from Petrie Terrace through the Roma Street Parklands yesterday, I came across these large beds of Allamanda (Allamanda cathartica ) flowering next to the footpath.

I can never see these flowers without thinking of my Aunt Meg. 

As a kid growing up in North Queensland I was a frequent visitor to her place in Atherton. Auntie Meg was what I think of as a 'big gardener'. Not big herself as she was positively tiny, but her attitude to gardening was that you have a few big things in the yard, and apart from vegetables no small garden beds.

As a result she had an enormous mulberry tree in the back yard which must have been 40 years old – a veritable haven for young kids like miself, and the perfect climbing tree.

But back to the alamandra – along one side of the house she had built with the help of some old telephone poles, a trellis that stretched the length of the house and to the roof. Standing a couple of metres away from the house she had then trained a magnificent alamadra, a massive plant which must have been 12 metres long and 3 metres high and a couple of metres wide.

Through summer mornings it kept the tin sides of that old house perfectly cool.

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Heard that colleague Mark Colvin ( https://twitter.com/Colvinius ) has finally had his kidney transplant. Thought it about time I checked my registration and made sure mine was up to date. The card I carry in my wallet is some years old and distinctly on the tatty side, but looking up my details on the Medicare site I see I am current.

Off course I'm getting to the stage where I feel most of these organs would be only good for research purposes anyway 🙂

If you are not an organ donor, nor have you had the conversation with your family about organ donation, its well worth while.

http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/provider/patients/aodr/index.jsp

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Friday night, quiet little drink with +Brad Barber at Archive Bar before he returns to the west.

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Early morning walking on Thursday. Part of the riverside pathway is being upgraded for better bicycle access so there is a detour through the Cultural Centre Tunnel under Victoria Bridge

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