Wednesday 1st May 2013, 1.05pm (day 615)
I’m sure everyone was really annoyed that they had to go sit outside for 15 minutes, I mean, what a tough break, in the harshness of a Queensland mid-autumn.
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Ducks, Brisbane River
Tuesday 30th April 2013, 2.30pm (day 614)
Last day of April, the third full month in a row spent outside the UK, but the last on this current run – by the end of May I will be home. Either way, it’s about time we had some more ducks on this blog. I like ducks, and whatever sub species these individuals are an example of, they arranged themselves rather fetchingly along the Brisbane River bank this afternoon.
Mount Beerwah
Monday 29th April 2013, 1.50pm (day 613)
This is the highest of the Glasshouse Mountains, about 50 miles (80km) north of Brisbane. As viewed from Mount Tiborgargan nearby, and given added mystery by a pall of smoke which hung over these old, eroded volcanic plugs most of the day, courtesy of some scrub-burning I think.
After the goal
Sunday 28th April 2013, 4.15pm (day 612)
My second trip to the Gabba to see the Brisbane Lions, who today won their second game of the season by about 35 points over the Melbourne Demons, who are even less good it seems. Nice day though, nice afternoon. The Demons had just scored here, hence their noticeably perkier shoulders compared to the maroon, blue and yellow-clad Lions, but there was plenty of time left in the game to secure the win.
Taija
Saturday 27th April 2013, 10.45am (day 611)
Taija (pronounce it to more-or-less rhyme with ‘higher’) is from Oakland, California, and has been staying at the Kookaburra Inn these last few days. I took this while we hung out this morning, with her on her way to the airport and eventually somewhere else in this, the sixth-largest country in the world. Like a lot of people I have met on this trip, we were only acquainted a short time, but I think this shot captures her quite well – or more accurately, my image of her.
Little shrunken church, Brisbane
Friday 26th April 2013, 9.45am (day 610)
This is St. Stephen’s Chapel, part of a complex of buildings that comprises the centre of Catholic worship in Brisbane. The main church is to the right, just visible at the edge of this photograph. I like the way this looks like a little baby church, or a kind of shrunken one, too small for the lawn it’s on and the city around it.
A spot to work
Thursday 25th April 2013, 10.15am (day 609)
Well, I do work now and again you know. Spent most of the day sat right here, hiding away in a spot with no wi-fi to distract me.
Block ‘Y’ fire escape
Wednesday 24th April 2013, 4.45pm (day 608)
The weather has been very pleasant indeed for the last 10 days or so. The mugg and rumble of summer is gone, to be replaced by a lovely balmy, Mediterranean vibe. It’ll do me, anyway. Took a lot of photos round the QUT campus and riverfront today on my walks to and from work, and chose this one because it’s such a mundane spot, but looks beautiful in this light.
Macquarie University, Sydney
Tuesday 23rd April 2013, 11.00am (day 607)
A flying visit here today for a meeting, so it can become the fourth Antipodean campus to make it onto the blog after QUT, CSU and (for non-work purposes) Otago, in Dunedin. Something about this shot brings to mind those artificial photos used by architects to show us how these wonderful but as-yet-unbuilt new complexes are going to look if only they could be given the money and the planning permission to create their masterpieces: although those won’t have ‘Graduation’ signs hanging up, presumably, and I feel the walkway to the left intrudes a little.
Breakfast at the Byronian
Monday 22nd April 2013, 10.05am (day 606)
Last morning in Byron Bay. To prove that it isn’t just a beach and a cool sunset, here’s a shot to show it has cafés too. Lots and lots of them in fact. I passed the time in this one while waiting for my bus.
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