The sun arose into a clear sky over Brisbane Saturday, and I awoke rather excited about taking a little trip out to Ipswich. I’m still adjusting to my new job and new hours, but I grabbed an extra shift at work on Friday night that saw me working till about 10pm just to keep…
It was a glorious Sunday morning, but I was feeling in far from magnificent form. I crawled out of bed with aching muscles, and a rather sore head. I was very tired after the week’s adjustment to my new (old) job. I caught up with some of the activity from the Typosphere online, while listening…
REMINDER: Brisbane type-in – 2pm this Sunday at the Museum room at the Breakfast Creek Hotel. Reasing = reading. Urg!
Welcome back to Filthy Labs. Previously in Filthy Labs, we began to assess the effectiveness of a “Wet” Teflon based lubricant spray on the functionality of a previously gummed up typewriter. The machine in question was an Adler Gabby 25, which had been filled with a capricious amount of WD40 by its previous owner. The…
It wasn’t my fault.. Somehow, I killed the romance of Valentine’s day via my blog. Or so the nasty little email said. I first became aware of my ruining Valentine’s day before I received a request to take down my ‘letter’. It was in my blog stats… my blog was getting hundreds of hits to…
Thank you Robert for your lovely Poster! As you can see, I’ve managed to swing the Museum room at historical The Breakfast Creek hotel. The Breakfast Creek Hotel is mentioned in the Midnight Oil song ‘Dreamworld’, and has been a historical centrepoint of Brisbane for well over a century. Feel free to drop buy guys.…
Pardon my miss-use of ‘your’ below :- It may seem twee to be writing about my Valentine typewriter on Valentine’s day, but then again my disdain for my Valentine has been rather well documented. So it may surprise a few people that I revisited the Valentine, which hiding at the back of my collection,…
Hmmm… Redundant phrasing… eat you heart out. I think I need some caffeine. I mean really… who writes without a caffeine hit next to them? And the writer seems to have a few issues too…. Talk about questionable grammar. Anyway. See you soon.
We’re doing ITAM again? Well, why didn’t you say so! Here’s the machine that re-introduced me to the beauty of typewriters. Pardon the late night Monday fatigue grammar and rambling. And the odd side-step into bad poetry. You know… Every time I write on this machine, I’m surprised by how well it works!…
The Filthy Platen 