The Pool Room

The Pool Room: where all the good stuff ends up

  • Megan Gets Induced

    After a bit of a detour to skirt around the bushfires ravaging the NSW coast, we admitted Megan into the Royal Hospital For Women at Randwick (Sydney, for the foreigners). They began the induction process at about 8pm – I left for my room at Coulter House shortly after that so we could both get…

  • Kiama Christmas Lights

    Christmas icons – a gum tree festooned with lights, and an Aussie flag. Three characters found in the gardens. Sights around Jamberoo:

  • Carols in Kiama

    Neil and Emma. Little Bradley wouldn’t stop dancing at the start of the night, even when we were trying to line him up for a portrait with Emma and Ryan. He was a bit more co-operative when Dad picked him up. Ryan keeping Granddad busy. Portraits of the couples: Megan and Darren, Angela and Chris,…

  • Quoted By Joel Spolsky!

    I just noticed that Joel Spolsky has used a quote from my site in his advertising for CityDesk. Cool! If you maintain a web site, I highly recommend it.

  • Extension Plans

    The plans for our renovations have finally been drawn up ready for submission to Council. Below are the old and new elevations of the house: Front View We’re moving the front door downstairs, next to the garage doors (hidden behind the brick wall in the picture below), with an internal staircase. The main bedroom will…

  • Sunflowers

    Why do sunflowers always reach towards the sun? There are two schools of thought: It’s due to differential growth of the stem. There’s a growth-regulator that builds up in the shaded side of the sunflower’s stem, making that side grow faster than the sunny side. This causes the stem to bend towards the sun. Go…

  • New CityDesk Article – Index Pages

    I’ve written a new article on using CityDesk, Index Pages. I also modified the Folders article after swapping tips with Terry Kearns – having a file named Index in each folder of the site makes it confusing when editing them. Now I just use the keyword “(Index)” to identify articles that are topic indexes, and…

  • New iMac For Grandma

    Today I organised the purchase of a second-hand iMac for my Grandmother. She’s outgrown her old Mac II, and now wants to join the rest of us on the internet. It wasn’t too bad a deal, either – $820 for a 350 MHz G3 with 128 Mb RAM and a 6 Gb hard disk.

  • Renovation Plans Are Ready

    We got our renovation plans back from the draftsman tonight. They look great – the living area of our house (excluding the garage) will go from 100 square metres to 182 square metres! Finally somewhere to keep all our crap!

  • Tumbling Compost Bin

    I’ve been wanting to buy one of those commercial tumbling compost bins for a long time now, but they cost over $300 bought new. You’d have to make truckloads of compost for that price to be worthwhile! Time for some miserly cunning. When buying bales of lucerne from the feed store at Albion Park Rail,…