This is a reasonable picture of Michael shaping up for a header during his soccer tournament at Warrnambool today. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 is a good all-round camera with a 10X optical zoom. It’s not ideal for sport, but if I take enough photos I usually capture one that’s okay. Michael’s team finished second in [...]
Visiting Warrnambool
I’m currently in Warrnambool, about 200km east of Mount Gambier, for a junior soccer tournament tomorrow. I have all four of the kids with me; Juliet couldn’t make it because of work. We decided to arrive the day before the tournament and have a look around, rather than rush the trip in one day on [...]
Melbourne
I managed to spend some time in Melbourne during my flying visit to Victoria. Melbourne is a great city and its public areas have improved immensely since I was a child 30 years ago. Docklands is now an attractive cosmopolitan residential and dining precinct where there was once shipping. I walked from my hotel in [...]
Mt St Gwinear
I’ve returned from a few days visiting Victoria. I caught up with my parents at Moe and made a short trip to Mt St Gwinear. Western Australia doesn’t have any alpine country and I miss it. I haven’t been to the Stirling Ranges yet, but they’re as close as it gets in this state and [...]
James and Elizabeth Gorey
This is the story of my great-great grandparents, James and Elizabeth Gorey, taken from a book published by Dr John Gorey in 1991: Both James and Elizabeth were born in Co. Kilkenny Ireland, but there are no records to hand certifying the exact dates or places of their births. At the time of James’ death, [...]
