I sense another noisy night - #railway #machinery #nightworks

Filling in some unvisited streets of Huntingdale and Oakleigh East, including an infill of dead-ends on the site of a sold-off high school. Discovered that the Ferntree gully road service lane is bidirectional, I never knew that. Chilly wind, spring doing its up and down thing

Mostly Cloudy, 14°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 62%, Wind 6m/s from WSW - by Klimat.app

Dahn sarf wiv number one son. Very windy. 100 days to go

Cloudy, 15°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 63%, Wind 7m/s from NW - by Klimat.app

the morning family battle blocks/Finska game is turning the back lawn to a mud pit

potted three assorted succulent cuttings that we brought home from a visit to the parents in law

Take it to the limit… of the 5 ㎞ from home isolation boundary. Nine suburbs; Hughesdale, Oakleigh, Huntingdale, Oakleigh South, Clayton, Murrumbeena, Carnegie, Caulfield East, Caulfield North. Amusingly, only about 3m of Huntingdale!

Overcast, 16°C, Feels like 16°C, Humidity 78%, Wind 4m/s from NNW - by Klimat.app

A windy afternoon, lots of people relaxing a in a bit of a over-this-whole-covid-thing kind of way. Perhaps not as much masks or separation as is required, and as for the kids with the lemonade stand selling cans in the park - how the hell do they get away with that?

finally mowed the lawn, and mangled the lawn mower on the concrete thing in the lawn, then spent half an hour beating the blades back flat

Family ride around to drop off jigsaw puzzles, up the Stanley street cliff, through the park, along the creek

half an hour of careful weeding, a bucket full of onion weed into the green bin…. hopefully with all their corms

One does not simply buy bread… actually yes, one does

Overcast, 16°C, Feels like 16°C, Humidity 73%, Wind 4m/s from NE - by Klimat.app

A wetlands visit, a cleanup, found a raincoat chucked under some bushes and a pouch on a track by the pond. Both stink from smokers, both full of ciggie packets and rollies. Get in the bin

Overcast, 18°C, Feels like 18°C, Humidity 69%, Wind 2m/s from S - by Klimat.app

onion weed, oxalis and some nasty looking clover-like burr plants, the lawn is not at its best right now!

Lazy meander around, a cool damp day. I spy with my little eye… a dumped fridge, tv, two washing machines, two mattresses and a large dead carp. Different wetlands, same POK! frogs. Current earworm; “Heaven”, Talking Heads

Overcast, 15°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 68%, Wind 4m/s from SSE - by Klimat.app

Still surfacing after all these years, #marksense and #punchcards from decades ago

Noticing the announcements last weekend as “internet time” ticked over 1600000000, sparked a thought about the numbers and their display and a pun on “prime time”. When is the time a prime? How would I display it? A quick query on wolfram alpha and the next few primes are available: 1600000009 | 1600000019 | 1600000021 | 1600000069 | 1600000091 | 1600000097 | 1600000099 | 1600000153 | 1600000163 | 1600000177 | 1600000183 | 1600000187 | 1600000223 | 1600000307 | 1600000319 | 1600000321 | 1600000331 | 1600000343 | 1600000357 | 1600000403.

To the wetlands, hear the POK! frogs, see the hordes in the parks and playgrounds, feel the chain fall off every time we push, pray it’ll hold together until I’m allowed to visit the LBS

Overcast, 21°C, Feels like 21°C, Humidity 49%, Wind 5m/s from NNW - by Klimat.app

Getting near Daylight Savings Time, the blackbirds[1] are calling ridiculously early in the morning, before first light

[1] Common blackbird

Widdershins around the triangle. By the end of the year all Melbourne’s spoonvilles will have spread and joined up and formed one mega-spoonville

Clear, 16°C, Feels like 16°C, Humidity 60%, Wind 1m/s from S - by Klimat.app

View from the home office a month later, same #window, same world

Another sunny spring afternoon, plenty of people out and about as the playgrounds are now open and we’re allowed out for two hours now. No bunyips

Sunny Sunday afternoon, parks and paths packed, roads deserted, bike is falling apart, entire drive train is well past replacement date

Red brick and blue sky #suburbia

planted the "Australian Wildflower Everlastings" seeds into a poly box

A couple of days with rain and there are fungi popped up all around the two dead birch stumps

planted Cam's bean seedlings out into the garden, the science experiment is over

Rainy Saturday morning shopping; bacon, mussels, chicken & bread. No candlesticks

Overcast, 15°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 62%, Wind 4m/s from N - by Klimat.app

Convinced Cam to sleep inside tonight – he's been camping in the garden for two weeks!

Up the creek, lots of frogs, then home view an architectural smorgasboard of Jordanville’s houses. Eek, what’s that, an o-Bike has resurfaced in Oakleigh

Mostly Cloudy, 19°C, Feels like 19°C, Humidity 51%, Wind 6m/s from N - by Klimat.app

Spring time in the front #garden

Warm sunny afternoon, paths and parks are packed. Met the bloke who sleeps rough in the wetlands park & the bird hide full of smoking teens again. Nearly got wrapped in someone’s big-game fishing dog lead, hate those things

Clear, 20°C, Feels like 20°C, Humidity 54%, Wind 3m/s from NE - by Klimat.app

twitter quote re. RUOK

“r u ok?” idk mate the planet’s on fire, there’s a plague ravaging the population and both the government and opposition are 100% on board with doing sweet fa about it. not feeling great if I’m being honest.

Around an uninspiring loop went an uninspired rider

Partly Cloudy, 15°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 57%, Wind 5m/s from S - by Klimat.app

cheapy K-mart totem-tennis broke this morning, exactly two months old, bought on [2020-07-09 Thu]

Sundown bunyip hunting, zoom decompressing, brain recharging ride

Third time in a week that I visit and the bird hide in Glen Iris wetlands is full of kids smoking, it’ll be full of their fag packets when I go past next time… I just know it

Finished reading…

Gently rolling afternoon ride, trying hard not to exacerbate painful spasming ITB.

Parks & paths are packed, masks, mostly not. Sunny day, I think people have run out of care factor

Clear, 19°C, Feels like 19°C, Humidity 50%, Wind 5m/s from N - by Klimat.app

pulled another seemingly endless mass of ropey grass out of the garden beds, it really is the only thing we can grow reliably

finally cut down most of the dead, and decomposing, east-most silver birch, getting in before it comes down in a storm

constant twinges and spasm in my left ITB, been going on for days and driving me crazy

almost all the grape hyacinths are out now, the one full hyacinth died back a while ago