A gorgeous bluesky on a lovely autumn afternoon. I love this time of year.

This old gas stripping tower is along the Brisbane river in West End. The tower was used in the removal of tar and ammonia from raw coal gas. Made in 1912, it’s heritage listed and the only one of its kind left in Australia.

A reddish brown cylindrical tower at the bottom of a grassy bank. A platform surrounds the top of the tower and narrow steps are visible. There are large trees across the top of the grass bank and a clear rich blue sky behind the trees and tower.

🍷 Friday night plan: takeaway, then a glass of wine and catching up on some tv shows.

If you start now and watch seven episodes a week (including specials) you will have completed all of the 2005 onward episodes of Doctor Who before the 60th special airs in November. 📺

The circle of life:

Me this morning “I need to go to bed early tonight”

Me after dinner “I might just read for a bit then go to bed”

Me now “wait, it’s 11:20pm?! I need to stop reading. Will have to try to go to bed early tomorrow night”

🐈‍⬛ A rainy morning and the cat is asleep on my lap. Unplanned day off? Y/Y

Meet Floyd.

An eight week old bundle of energy and adorable that has just become part of my brother’s family. 🐕

A small pup sitting on green grass looking quizzically at the camera. His body is tan with a white underbelly and paws. His fur is black around his eyes with a line of white going up from his nose separating them.

Heading to Mackay, Queensland, for Mother’s Day and my brother and niece’s birthdays. On an Alliance Fokker 100 as they fly a number of routes on behalf of Virgin Australia now.

Quite a few people barely getting cabin bags in the overhead locker as they’re not as deep as the Boeing that Virgin uses.

Watched the first two episodes of Silo. The set is exceptional and the cast are great. It’s based on a book and I must admit I’m thinking it probably would’ve been much better turned into a movie instead of a ten episode series. 📺

A polar blast delivering a single digit cold snap to most of Eastern Australia is the perfect reason to pull out some fandom winter gear a little earlier than normal.

Tonight, my feet will be kept warm by hand knitted woollen TARDIS socks and my head by a police box beanie.

Blue socks knitted to resemble the TARDIS from Doctor Who. “Police Box” is in white lettering inside a black band near the top and white squares underneath are the windows.A blue beanie resembling the TARDIS from Doctor Who. A black band has “Police Box” “public call” in white capital letters inside. Underneath are white squares in two 3x2 grids representing the windows.

“Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue.”

Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg