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Walked to work via St. Kilda Road today, which is a route I’ve not taken yet. Longer than my usual route, but was still very pleasant, until I had to cross Kings Way, which is a little stroady. Will file this route under “occasionally”.
Aaaaarghβ¦ π«
May need to get a new kettle. In the meantime, coffee machine’s putting in double duties.
Dredging equipment deployed in the Yarra.
Looks like my touch-bar didn’t show up to work today.
Passed by some purple swamphens (or pΕ«kekos for those across the Ditch) on my walk today. About three of them went by going the other way, just going about their business. Such interesting birds.
Got confirmation that I’ve been admitted into a very exclusive group: the cafe regulars Heidi recognises. Fellow members include a few other regulars, the cafe staff, and the lady who runs the milk-bar next door. Initiation involves getting one’s leg sniffed upon entry of Heidi.
Quick trip along the Main Yarra Trail near Heidelberg this afternoon. Busy as always, but was a nice day to be out so not too surprising.
Train line outage is still ongoing. Apparently there’s been a derailment due to pantographs getting entangled in the overhead wires. So the new rolling stock experience continues. Today’s is a brief ride in a Siemens, complete with driver pointing out landmarks of interest.
Got lucked into getting a Comeng train. Haven’t ridden one of these in years. They’re being retired so may be one of the last times I get to ride them.
Making lemonade out of the lemons that is a total outage of my train line by seeing areas of the network that are completely new to me.
Day 22: hometown
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Returned to Tuggeranong for breakfast and a walk around the lake. The morning was quick crisp, and there was plenty of frost on the ground, but it was quite nice in the sun.
Day 2: curve
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Day 1: tree
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Seeing these river tour boats moored like this reminds me of the UK, and all the narrowboats in the canals.
Gallery: Morning In Sherbrooke
A visit to Sherbrooke in the Dandenong Ranges on Easter Monday included a walk along the falls track, a sighting of a Superb Lyrebird, and a brief exploration of Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden.
Hanging with Rico. He’s got a habit of overpreening, which is why he looks a little shabby.
Some more #big-spending going on around here with the arrival of my brand new TVβ¦ remote control. π€
Yeah, I finally got a replacement remote control for my TV. And honestly, doing so was a long time in coming. The old one (right) has been failing over the last few years: with certain buttons, particularly Power and Enter, requiring significantly more force that others before responding. About a month or so ago, the Power button stopped functioning completely, and the only way I could turn the TV on was to use the Netflix button (making that button useful for the first time in years) and quickly switching to AV 2. That, plus the volume, were the only buttons working by the end.
On time arrival at Albury, NSW.
At “Broady 3,” waiting for the XPT to Albury. π
