Stuff

What are the odds…

Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony - June 20, 2008 - 10:44pm

…that when Boychild did his ukulele number in the school music concert last night, the kid immediately before him (guitar*) would belong to a well-known Melbourne blogger (and a regular read of mine?)

I tell you, *waving arms*, what are the odds, people!

*Epiphone, cherry red vintage style copy. Guitar playing bloggers- Shaun? Jack? eat your hearts out.

Invasion of the Bloggy snatchers

Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony - June 24, 2008 - 8:59pm

When I checked the Balcony this morning, the latest post was missing. After first-line technical response (aka blinking sleepily and refreshing the page) I realised it really was not there. Logging into the site admin, I found the post in its usual listing, but with a whole heap of HTML added: a bunch of links to the usual V1@gr@, “buy tickets” and similar nonsense. Read more »

To Thor, God of thunder, and whoever the gods of lightning, hail and rain are.

Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony - May 3, 2008 - 11:24am

I appreciate the torrential downpour (complete with hailstones the size of oranges and a celestial lightshow) yesterday, I really do. You know we need the rain desperately - last month had the lowest rainfall on record, and governments both State and Federal are starting to get serious about water policies.

But did you have to do it just when Boychild was lining up for the “zone” 11 y.o. cross country, being the first time he’d ever qualified? Hah?