A quick hello from Bendigo.
….Hotel Shamrock We finished the day at Lake Eppaloch. Which was very beautiful, post storm.
A considerable embarrassment.
High heels, and low-Socio.
This Pacific was the first to turn up. At $35 it was the cheapest in the shop. But not cheap enough for me to feel compelled to buy it. Many of these typewriters were poorly displayed. This Royal, marked at $90 was rather hidden amongst a room filled with beautiful lamps. This Chevron was caged…
Livin’ large… ish… Actually, smaller.
Well, the choice was obvious really. I packed my bags last night ready for my flight tomorrow (I have a dinner to attend tonight) and I slipped in between a some of my shirts my Gossen Tippa. I was very tempted to go with the Hermes Baby, but in the end I didn’t for a…
Off to Melbourne
I have been awfully missing my home city, Melbourne of late. Oh, the pretentious music scene! How I miss thee….. iPad friendly link What am I excited about? The pretentious music scene, old buildings that aren’t being targeted for demolition so they can build a glass-filled shopping centre or casino, the cultural vibrancy, streets where…
A wonderful find that could be a special project.
It was in one of my last years of secondary school that I visited the national film and sound archive in Canberra, Australia. Amongst the movie posters and photos of musicians I saw something that I found utterly mesmerising. It was an Edison Phonograph with a shattered black cylinder attached to it. “This is what…
A happy accident, and a silly accident.
As they say in science: You always learn from failure, but rarely learn from success. And really the only people that will ever tell you otherwise tend to be the kind that shove the word ‘Success’ into almost everything, and charge $1000 for tickets to their ‘motivational success seminar’. However, I digress. I had a…
The lives of Kolibris. (subtitles)
So here we all were, sitting around the typosphere after and Robert Messenger and Richard Polt took their typewriters travelling, thinking just one thing… Link to Junki-it Junction’s Blog. Check out Sue’s blog, and her stuff! My wonderful Kolibri. I took the Kolibri over to John’s place the day after it arrived, and we give…
The Filthy Platen 