Pope announces that Mary McKillop is to be cannonised this year ...
Tiger Woods says sorry to everyone who will believe him ...
Japs fail at using pepper spray on the Sea Shepherd crew and shoot themselves !
Meanwhile at home I finally found out what is making all that noise late at night in the kitchen , it seems that a large Eastern Water Skink has taken a liking to my dogs' food and is sneaking under the gap in my front door , pigging out and sleeping it off under the fridge , then doing the bolt back out the door at day break !
My brief holiday is now over this week I returned to work , not to bad I'm working on the edge of Cochrone Lagoon at Mc Masters beach , the house I'm painting used to belong to the old postmaster back in the 20's , it's next door to the old post office ( of course )
Some pics from years back at the lagoon
timing...
And what's up with people stealing my shit off my sites ? It's not like I'm uncontactable ffs ! Firstly the Peninsula News helped themselves to one of my stories , sure I've written for them before , but a quick email would have been nice , I would have written up a special article like I have before ... Secondly some kids from Facebook pinched some of my pics and stuck them in a public gallery they own The correct procedure is to ask the site owner if they could use some photos and return the favour by linking back to me the owner. But since they just helped themselves and then had the audacity to argue the point , I demanded they remove them .. ffs !
Had another bash at stop motion animation , takes bloody ages !
I like to follow the exploits of the Sea Shepherd mob each year as they take on the Japanese whaling fleet , this year they have 2 boats , the Steve Irwin and a high tech ocean racer called Ady Gil , the Ady Gil is also known as the Earthrace bio diesel yacht that visited the coast just over a year ago , it's been painted black - the team colour of Sea Shepherd The Japs have wised up this year and have been giving the lads a hard time playing chase the tail in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary ,but on last report they have finally turned the upper hand and are out running the Jap security vessels , better still they have located the main whaling fleet are are now at full steam towards to thanks to a new mysteriious player in the whale wars - Taz Patrol. No one seems to know who Taz Patrol is , it seems that they are Aussies who have aquired a vessel and are mounting their own campaign against the Japs. They have been tracking them since just after xmas and have finally hunted them down only to run low on fuel so they are returning to port , but not before handing over the co ordinates to Paul Watson , Captain of the Sea Shepherd All I can find on Taz Patrol is this Twitter page , they sound like Aussies ...
# Reached EEZ limit. Starting search for whaling security vessel. 10:17 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from web
# Happy New Year to everyone except the whalers. To those scum: head's up, we're coming for ya. 8:18 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from web
# Conditions been difficult recently. One large wave hit side on. The old girl is handling amazingly well. We continue our search. 12:34 PM Jan 1st from web
# Radar Contact!!! As yet unknown vessel 4:17 PM Jan 1st from web
# Whaling vessel found! Nearly 300nm south Tasmania. NOT Shonan Maru 2 visual shows superstructure is one of Yushin Maru class (1, 2 or 3) 7:19 AM Jan 2nd from web
# Fuel situation required us to head back to port soon after confirming contact.Over half way back to port now running at most efficient speed 8:30 AM Jan 3rd from web
They sound almost military and I love the bit about old girl is handling amazingly well sounds like an old war movie
My how time flies , must be all this work , I've had little time to commit to anything lately , too buggered after work , too hot to sit near the p.c ( must get some free insulation ) Speaking of , I dunno whats going on here but someone broke into my brothers house and installed insulation in the ceiling about a week back , no one see who done it despite him being on a main road , I spose he will have to wait to see who tries to bill him or maybe some dodgy buigger has already worked out a way to scam dollars doing this = weird anyway........... Been working at Palm Beach and Paddington for the last couple of months , hence my lack of blogging , a long day heading down the old F3 everyday , but after several years all 3 lanes are now open , hasn't made the traffic flow any better , dickheads still hog the fast lane and the bottleneck at Wahroonga reaches the Big Dipper every day now :| Got bored last saturday nite it was so fucking hot so I downloaded some stop motion animation software and made this lol
Had to have a chuckle a the recent attempt by Vegemite to call it's new blend iSnack 2.0 , massive fail all round as you may have read in the media , it's now called Cheesybite , I thought Cheesymite would have been a natural choice though Anyway I've had enough of the iWankery that advertisers carry on with to sound hip and weblike to the younger set, but really nothing has changed over the years ,every decade has it's buzz word....... The 60's - Fantastic was the most common used term to enhance a product , from cartoon heroes to vacuum cleaners The 70's - Super was the word most commonly used to describe the latest hippest objects of desire like cars and rock bands The 80's - Turbo was the in word , geez there was even turbo disposable shavers , and of course with the demise of the V8 temporarily due to the fuel crisis and recession , every little 4 pot jap car had one. The 90's - Mega was the latest incarnation for this decade , it was street hip with the kids and fast food outlets. The 00's - yes sadly after the ipod there was ifucking everything , still have a chuckle at the iVibe though ......gawd
Well I'm back , finally online again after moving house in the last 2 weeks , as we all know moving house sucks and this occasion was no exception. Firstly I had the flu and no bastard turned up to help me so I spent about 11 hours carting all my shit to the new joint , lucky I had the work ute. After settling in on Sunday night I went to plug into the phone socket and it fell off the wall ! - the fucking thing wasn't even wired up or screwed into place , so after a week's arguing with the Real Estate biatch I finally hooked up on Friday , no ADSL for a few more days tho :| On the bright side my new place is approximately 3 times the size of the last one , slightly more grubbier and expensive , a nice big yard for the mutt who seems to be relaxed in his new surrounds , close the the little midway store on Barrenjoey Rd ( $ 1.50 hot dogs expect to see more of me ) and within reasonable stumbling distance to the Ettalong Pub. Technically I am now on the border of Blackwall , Ettalong and Umina , I have moved away from the bad side of town , no more train noises late at night , nor kids pelting the corrugated iron house across the road with eggs , or abuse from the old skrag who walks her dog down the road with a long neck in her hand.
and before I forget .... A few weeks back this happened to me - I was driving home from Gosford and was sitting behind a truck carrying large sheets of glass , being trained as a glazier as an apprentice I took extra notice of the large panes secured to the A- frame rack on the back of the truck - something didn't look right I thought to my self and then remembering that scene from the movie The Omen , I then shook my head and said to myself why be so morbid , overtook the truck and headed on home. On the way I stopped at the bank in Woy Woy , by the time I got to my street I could see a bit of commotion ahead and slowed down - the glass truck I had been following had dropped it's entire load right on the corner of my street ! I won't tell a lie when I tell you my heart skipped a beat !
Been a tad slack on the blog front lately , time gets by some times. Last few weeks have been a drama as my landlord has decided to sell and I have to fucking move camp. Some of the dumps I have looked at so far are terrible , I'm determined to get a nice place this time , this brothel I live in now is soul destroying. I could even end up in Ettalong , things are that bad lol , I won't live east of O.B road ever again - promise ! I'd really like to get back onto the strip ( Trafalgar Avenue ) my karma is good there.
Computer blew up finally and I was offline for another week , I took it into the shop and expected to wait another week or 2 for it to be repaired. 2 hours later on a Saturday morning the shop guy rings up and informs me the p.c is ready to rock , they even cleaned all of the dog hair out of it ! Big thanks to Albatross Computers across the road from Woy Woy Station - highly recommended !
Small pleasure is the magazine I have began buying called Combat Tanks , each issue comes with a die cast model tank , evidently there is some 100 issues and about 60 or so tanks to collect , I joined the obligatory site forum and smartened some poms up for good measure ( hehe )
10 Points to my boss who decides on the 2 coldest days in fuck knows when , to waterblast a 2 story house on the edge of the cliff at Killcare. /facepalm
Back probably after i move shop and go thru the dramas of waiting weeks to get back online - wish me luck
Apologies to anyone who regularly drops by and has noticed a lack of posts , I'm sure you checked out all my links and old posts anyway ........ Work and the pain in the arse of having to change my business structure twice this year has kept me busy , the time I do make it to the puter is for relaxation only and I've been playing War Rock again ( or pwning nubs as they say ) and visiting Facebook and making silly groups like Bring back Cheese Um Pringles ! , Mirror photos - your camera has a self-timer dickhead ! and the most popular one so far - If you don't like Woy Woy .....Fuck Off back to Sydney ! Over 150 people joined it last week - feel the power lol
Bit of a hiatus on writing new articles for the Peninsula News or doing any local research of walks for now , but that will resume later on.
Some local gossip though from my man in the bottlo ... Evidently there is some mysterious artist person living in the old Masonic building in Woy Woy Town , if you drive by you can see the occasional open window and the erection of steel concrete mesh inside the lower floor. Wonder what he's up too ?
I always wanted to buy the place and turn it into a nightclub , my ingenious idea was to change the lettering on the building facade so it said Sonic Club instead of Masonic - clever eh ? Ah dreams .......
Long ago you could buy Cheese Ums Pringles , you know those fancy chips that come in a cylinder all stacked on top of each other. Then for some reason they stopped importing just one flavour - Cheese Ums , the ones in the orange pack , why on earth they did this I will never know ( unless I mail them I spose ) , years passed and I missed my cheesy friends immensely , sometimes I would try the red packet or the green one in a vain hope they just changed the packaging but alas Cheese Ums were gone...... Then came the age of the internet and I discovered that Cheese Ums still existed in the real world , it's just that they weren't making to our shores. Often I would get confused and ask myself " why why why ? " while wandering aimlessly in the snack foods isle at Coles in Woy Woy , surely this was a cruel and unusual form of punishment A couple of week back I was in one of those cheap arse stores that sell cheap arse crap for 2 dollars , some of these stores also sell out of date or damaged food stock. Then like a beacon I noticed a familiar shade of orange ......could it be ? yes like an Indiana Jones Lost Treasure there they were - a whole shelf full of Cheese Um Pringles Trembling , I examined the container , for I would not be fooled again and get stuck with some weird ass Pringles flavour , the wording was in some kind of Asian language , I scanned the store for an Asian person to translate the text for me ..... no luck there. Surely the orange colour was a standard Pringles colour that bounded all languages and denoted that cheesy heaven lay inside , I bit the bullet and decided that 1 dollar would be have to be invested in my search for the truth. Later that night I opened the can of Pringles and was soon swimming in a familiar euphoria of cheese laden delight that I had not experienced since the mid 90's - nirvana at last ! I have decided to keep the location of such Pringles secret from those who would buy up all of my favourite fare , so just sit there and drool at the supplied photo - you ain't gettin buckelys out of me !
A lack of posting denotes that I'm working in Sydney and don't have enough time or inspiration to do so , basically getting up at 4.30 am daily stuffs you This making me angry , especially more when a dickhead in a White Camry overtakes you on a blind corner on Woy Woy Road , just scraping past a line of 3 cars and lordy what comes by the other way about 5 seconds later - a front end loader with it's bucket down , I hope you realise what may have happened if you were a tad slower , I doubt I would have stopped to help you ( I've had to do this before on the same corner )
and to top things off
Something happened on Bulls Hill on Friday , coming in all the way from Kariong to the top of the hill the traffic was turned back and we had to head down the hill into West Gosford , it took me 1 and a half fucking hours to get home as every man and his dog piles into Gosford at this time of day.
Serenity now ( actually 4 bourbons done the trick )
Time for an update in the last days of my summer break as I slip into my old ways and assume the working position. Christmas was nice and low key, a visit to mum at Branxston near Cessnock where a nice policeman relieved my wallet of 120 dollars for forgetting to bring my license along.
I affirmed to myself that yes my new neighbours were indeed of the feral variety and feel compelled to record the outbursts of F this and F that and place it on Youtube - just like I did to my last foul mouthed neighbour some years back
( Warning: this video contains very very foul language that may upset gentler folk and non residents )
Meanwhile I taught myself to build 3D models for Google Earth using Google Sketchup which is the best 3D design program I've come across , no headaches, just straight into modelling.
For my first model I decided to build the old Woy Woy picture theatre , using this old photo
and came up with this
The idea is to model all the old buildings in the main drag and around town to eventually have a 3D walkthrough of old time Woy Woy , of course you will need Google Earth to view all this. I'm starting off with the more basic looking type buildings as I hone my skills , I intend to build a re-creation of the Alecia Tearooms before the Commonwealth bank cut it into bits and am currently working on the Masonic Hall ( which is looking pretty fucking dandy if I say so myself lol ) You should also be able to download these models from the Sketchup site once I upload them
Big thanks to the folk in Gallipoli Avenue who left this washing machine out on the kerbside , yes it does work fine. Thanks for replacing my washing machine that blew up just before Xmas , another bill I didn't need !
Just when you thought it was safe to enter the water..... Last night I woke up about 11pm and needed a drink of water so I stumble out to the kitchen tap , in the dark I noticed the water pressure was down and turned on the light ....... Lucky I did because I was just about to drink this shit
I seem to have missed the public service annoucement about the quality of our drinking water being crap again ( have I ? ) I thought they fixed it all up ages ago ........ hmm wtf
That weather girl on Channel 7 news keeps annoying me with her hand gestures while she reads the weather , it looks like some kind of part sign language part homie style gesturing thang , anyway you watch her and see for yourself Mind you shes a bit of a spunk but just has damn annoying habit .......
Living in WoyWoy all ones life is like being in a pair of your most comfortable shoes ( or flanno shirt for some : ) There is something about this place that makes it special , a long time ago when the first settlers arrived some sort of local pact was made never to employ convict labour on the Peninsula , it was only to be occupied by free men. Various characters arrived and made their marks , there was a jovial mood among this mixed bunch of settlers as they all contributed eagerly to their new area's development. The oddballs and the heroes gained respect and notoriety equally , there was a real sense of caring for your fellow man that perpetuates to this day ....... I am reminded of a time when I moved out of town north to the Wyong Shire , Lakehaven to be exact one of those new mega hectare suburbs that popped up overnight in the 80's I had met a nice lass and had decided after a year to move into her home up there. Leaving WoyWoy gave me an empty feeling and it felt like I had lost something when I did finally move. While moving my stuff into the new house at Lakehaven , I had driven onto the empty block next door to drop my dog's kennel over the fence into the backyard. While driving off the block I got the old Dodge ute bogged in the soft clay / muddy soil that pervades Wyong, bugger ! So I get the shovel out and set to task and spend quite some time digging , jacking , piling lumps of timber under the wheels and after several attempts I got the beast mobile and scarper onto the tar - much to the amusement of a few local kids and neighbours peering over their fences .... Fast foward 4 years of domestic bliss followed by a sudden return to singledom on Valentines Day 2000 ( that is another story .... ) and I am returning to my old family home at WoyWoy , while moving my stuff back I kept looking at this tasty EH Holden sedan for sale at the end on my street. On one of the last loads back I decide to pull over and check the car out ( maybe this could be the new single mans chick puller mobile I thinks to meself ) "Six thousand bucks for that ! it's got bog in it bah !" I imagine myself saying to the owner if he was there and walk back to the Dodge. I then find myself bogged in the sandy soil out the front of this guys house, part of an old sand dune in my street. I get out and walk down to my new house which was about 8 houses away and grab a shovel and walk back muttering to myself " deja fucking vu or wot " I get to the rear wheels and am about the throw the first shovel when a light table top truck pulls over and the driver leans out the window. " Need a hand mate ? " he asks " Sure do ! " I reply In a few minutes we hook up a chain to the uterus and she is pulled clear , I thank the truck driver and I'm on my way. I think back to the near exact event that happened 4 years ago , shake my head and say to myself " Welcome home "
Hi to Ann Marie from Calvary Funerals your link has been added to the growing local business and links directory
Hi to Kev from the Watersedge Motel in Woy Woy , nice looking site there
To the lady who wrote into the Peninsula News recently about the local ferry service dropping surfers off in the "middle of the ocean" to surf the Box Head breaks , don't be alarmed. These guys would only have to paddle for longer through some dodgy shark infested channels if the local ferry master wasn't so kind as to offer this service. Points awarded to whoever thought of this idea , and lets encourage our youth to do more healthy activities , sitting safe behind a keyboard is not an option I've done the paddle out there myself many times when I was a young fella and still here to tell the tale , in fact no one has ever lost their life out there surfing the break , which is often called the best left hander on the east coast when it is working , the waves are never ending and you can ride a wave for near 500 meters or more in big swells. It can take near 30 minutes to paddle to the break from Ettalong Point , and the same to return , many a time once we made it to the beach we'd just colapse exhausted in the sand and wake up sunburnt a couple hours later I'm sure the Captain ensures the surfers deploy safely into the water and their added bonus is that he will be coming back that way within an hour or so if trouble does arise. Surf on I say
I was listening to 2GO today and a station jingle stated that " we are as coasty as the twin stacks at Munmora Power Station " ........great so it's you dickheads who have been belching out tonnes of pollution in the airwaves A free Pepsi voucher to the marketing section at 2GO Another ad that is getting annoying is the ones for Brentwood Village , harmless enough , but with it's blanket media campaign it's all getting tedious....... You know the ads , the ones about old ducks and rambling gardeners I often have a giggle when the ads come on for different products for the cattle industry on NBN " I must get a drum of that for Chewy " I often think to myself.
