I’ve adjusted my site settings to stop comments being made on posts that are more than one year old. It’s a neat WordPress feature that you can stipulate a finish date for comments. I’ve previously allowed open commenting indefinitely, but sometimes strange remarks come through on issues that I’d either forgotten about or no longer [...]
Pax Hill Kindergarten
This is the Pax Hill Kindergarten class of 1971. I’m the serious-looking kid in the back row, second from left. I can’t remember anything from kindergarten, but recognise four of the boys in this photo and one of the girls.
Self portrait from a mobile phone
There haven’t been many photos taken of me over the past four years. I’m not very photogenic and I tend to be on the other side of the camera, more often than not. I don’t mind this picture too much. I took it myself with the JasJam mobile phone last Friday while waiting between Maggie’s [...]
Wearing a tie in the outback
The picture shows me at Alice Springs in 1988, aged 20 or 21. I wrote a story about how few people wore ties to work compared with the southern states, and I became the photo model. The story was well-received, as I recall. I only spent a few months in Alice Springs. I liked the [...]
