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3 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments auspol
Strap yourselves in. Something big is brewing For too long, the political discourse in this country – and let's be honest, across the ditch and beyond – has felt like it's controlled by the big end of town, the lobbyists, and the media giants. The...
10 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
I "Speed Cycled" my new 15 gallon "Tall" fish tank; that is, with water, bio-media, plants and snails from my other, well established fish tanks, the first nitrogen cycle was complete in 3 days vice the normal 3-4 weeks. Then I took the "Dirty Dozen...
10 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
I "Speed Cycled" my new 15 gallon "Tall" fish tank; that is, with water, bio-media, plants and snails from my other, well established fish tanks, the first nitrogen cycle was complete in 3 days vice the normal 3-4 weeks. Then I took the "Dirty Dozen...
22 Dec 2021 7 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry!Part 1: Finding a Moving CompanyPast 2: A Slight Travel PanicPart 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platforms...
27 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Well... it is really hard to believe that this day is actually here. Last night our family watched Encanto in our nearly empty house... whilst I constantly refreshed my email, hoping for the PCR tests to come through! After midnight, the results...
26 Dec 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry!Part 1: Finding a Moving CompanyPast 2: A Slight Travel PanicPart 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platform...
20 Feb 2023 15 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
As my regular readers may know, I have been reading Bill Bryson's Down Under (2001), about his travels through Australia. At various points, he brings up the issue of race relations vis-a-vis Aborigines and white colonists. It makes for pretty upsett...
14 Jan 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
This is my series about trying to find our footing in Australia. It will no doubt be a series of joy and sadness and struggle... Things will turn out alright? Won't they? Part 1: Settling In and Adjusting Well... Australia seems to be quite a b...
17 Jan 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Now that we are out of the isolation period, the bad storm weather has passed and we have managed a few family gatherings and administrative arrival (and departure) things, we are starting to explore and rediscover Canberra. Partly, this is for...
22 Jan 2022 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
After so many years of living in the very flat and under-sea-level Netherlands... it is a bit of a surprise to experience hills and slopes again! The kids are full of complaints when they are going up.... but screaming around and having more tha...
