The cover – as proposed on Richard’s blog. Is it a book about typewriters? Or just writing. Yeah, I admit it. I’m a typewriter collector. I intended to stop at 3, but then I found myself rescuing a glass key Royal portable from key choppers and it all went up-hill from there. The more blogs…
It had been only three or so months since I’d driven the road between Canberra and Melbourne, but the landscape looked so different. While previously the hills were an eye-piercing yellow, they were now a lush and rolling green. The rains had come and life had exploded which also had the unfortunate effect of increasing…
Rob in front of the ‘red zone’ …. Sometime in the 1980’s. The phone was hung up with a slam rather than a gentle hanging up. It was a 70’s era wall-phone and the give in the plastic immediately bounced the handset back out of the cradle. “Keating is a f***ing prat. He’s more…
So… I’m back in Brisbane. I’ve been back a few days, and while this isn’t a bad thing I’m feeling a little sad about it. Quite sad. But not too sad. There seems to have been a steady flow of little surprises of late. The Typewriters. Let’s get down to business. Firstly, I managed to…
My alarm went off at 3:30 am, and I immediately sprang to my feet (I’m a morning person, clearly). By 4:20 I was on the road to Steve Snow’s place, and by 5am I had his company with me while I drove Ruby the Exxy. It was a cold easter Saturday morning, and we would…
In the last year or so many of the typosphere have noted that there’s been a dramatic increase in the price of typewriters sites like eBay and Etsy. While the market for these machines is growing and typewriters are no longer seen as valueless antiques sitting in the garage, there’s naturally been a steady increase…
Meet the humble Baxter box. In all of the moves that I have made over the years, these boxes would have to be the ultimate for shifting a variety of things. These boxes are used to hold and protect intravenous fluid bags (those clear bags of mostly water you see up on poles which have…
Guzman y Gomez is a Mexican restaurant that is incredibly casual and relaxed, while the food is utterly amazing. The first shop opened up in Fortitude Valley a few years ago, and at the time it was placed nicely along the path I used to take from my old apartment in New Farm, to the…
Brisbane type-in/out Captain Burke Park 11m 9th of March. Bring typewriter – and a camp chair. With the type-out/in Only a few days away I’ve got a couple of things on my mind. Firstly, the weather. Like last year there’s a cyclone brewing off the coast, but at least this time there’s no expectation that…
The Filthy Platen 