Wednesday night heading home from dinner with the crew, passing under the Goodwill Bridge on the Otter.
Author: Rae
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It’s not intentional but I find myself taking what are mainly monochromatic images at the moment, but…
It's not intentional but I find myself taking what are mainly monochromatic images at the moment, but with a splash of colour.
This shot on Tuesday morning in Melbourne while out getting my steps in, walking through an artificial tunnel beside a construction site, and in the distance a worker in a high visibility shirt.
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I went to Etihad Stadium looking for the NAB Cup, but it’s already left for Brisbane with the +Brisbane…
I went to Etihad Stadium looking for the NAB Cup, but it's already left for Brisbane with the +Brisbane Lions 🙂
( a special sledge for +Brad Barber while I'm in Melbourne )
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I could have gone for the green theme for St Paddy’s but decided that Guinness was more me. #wp #365project…
I could have gone for the green theme for St Paddy's but decided that Guinness was more me.
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Haven’t noticed this traffic signal box before, but I do emphasize with the spirit. As a boy from the…
Haven't noticed this traffic signal box before, but I do emphasize with the spirit.
As a boy from the country studying at UQ, I remember going to see Fleetwood Mac at Festival Hall in 1977.
These days it is more apartment building than entertainment complex but it's memories live on.
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Hard to believe summer is almost over. The days are still warm but evenings are beginning to cool off…
Hard to believe summer is almost over. The days are still warm but evenings are beginning to cool off. Forecast today is an almost perfect 18-29C.
Looking at the calendar there is only 18 days until Easter Monday so by my calculations, less than three weeks of a Queensland summer left.
Soon it will be out of the shorts and the cotton short sleeved shirts, and back in the jeans, long sleeved shirts and jumpers for another year.
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When we downsized and moved into an apartment I was sure I was going to miss my barbecue. Fortunately…
When we downsized and moved into an apartment I was sure I was going to miss my barbecue.
Fortunately as a Christmas present we ended up with one that is smaller, but with the flat cover that slides away and the fold down glass side shelves, fits neatly away on our balcony.
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Walking home today and detouring through QUT’s Gardens Point campus I snapped this shot of Old Government…
Walking home today and detouring through QUT's Gardens Point campus I snapped this shot of Old Government House.
The green lawn in the foreground and the pop of red in the persons coat was just a happy coincidence.
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Story Bridge lifeline
My walks take my up and over the Story bridge at least once a week and so pass a couple of brightly coloured phone booths, one at each end of the bridge.
I know it has long been a contentious issue and there have been calls for high transparent barriers to be placed on the bridge edges.
I hate to think of the bridge being used as a tool for suicide but the stats would suggest it will happen from time to time. Perhaps these signs and easy access to counselling might help.
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Regatta Hotel
I stopped for lunch and a drink at the Regatta Hotel today, on the way back from Queensland university so it was just like the old days!
The hotel is probably most well known as the place where Rosalie Bognor and Merle Thornton (Sigrid's mum), chained themselves to the bar to protest the men' only restrictions the licensing laws of the day had for public bars.
As a student I remember sitting on the corner during the Joh era street marches, and rowing in the college eight to two-hour Sunday sessions – 11am to 1pm and 4pm to 6pm only.
Years later I remember being in there with TV presenters with make-up and tissues in their collars, and colleagues who had a habit of drinking , singing, dancing, and waving items of apparel in the air. And that's just the activities I feel comfortable writing about.
Today I saw one person chatted for wearing a cap in the main bar and another asked to sit on the verandah as he had a tank top on.
Times have changed, but it is one of the few pubs in Brisbane that really took advantage of the river and this remains the same.