Wildlife rescue
Whilst riding around the east coast of Tasmania in 2023, Danielle and I were shocked by how bad the roadkill situation is in Tasmania. One of the inexorable truths of bicycle touring in a country such as Australia — lots …
Getting Out There
This blog is dedicated to my adventures in the great outdoors, fishing trips, hiking routes, camping, etc. as well as a collection of thoughts and interests. It’s not all outdoorsy: there’s plenty of politics, work/coding, football and other random rants thoughts I have.
Latest posts
If you’ve ever Google’d the humble HTML <b> tag, and read more than three of the results returned, you’ll have inevitably come across the hordes of self-righteous knobs on StackExchange berating people (especially those …
Why caravans are “The Enemy”
When my partner Danielle and I are out riding our bikes, we have a few shorthand ways to alert each other to various dangers, some of them obvious, some of them little in-jokes known only to us
Transitioning from Wordpress to Hugo
I have, for the past few years, run a little personal blog on Wordpress called “Getting Out There”. Over the years I’ve hosted it at different hosts and domains, and added to it much the same as one might build extra …
A nice relaxing birthday fishing session
Fish, sunshine, old friends, and a sad visit to my Nan's final resting place
I’m in Brisbane, Queensland for the Matildas vs. Nigeria football match on Thursday night, as part of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. As today is my birthday I decided to take the day off work and spend it fishing and …
Melbourne to Brisbane by train for the Matildas
The FIFA Women’s World Cup is in full swing and this lucky little bugger has tickets to the Australia vs. Nigeria match in Brisbane on 27 July. To make a real journey out of it, I decided to opt for the overnight express …
Earlier posts
Sneaking away mid-week for an Eildon fishing session
With everything in my life being so busy lately, I managed to get away for a sneaky mid-week overnight fishing trip on Tuesday afternoon, returning last night.
2022: What a year so far! 😮💨
Since starting the year working for the Starlight Children’s Foundation, I’ve been very happy, and very busy in equal measure. We might only be in mid-April but it feels like a very long time.
My Melbourne commute to work
One of the great benefits of my new job at the Starlight Children’s Foundation is the location of the Melbourne office: right on the Yarra River where Church Street becomes Chapel Street, in a commercial hub of the city …
I got the job! Working at Starlight Children’s Foundation
Remember that job interview I sat in December in Wodonga? No? Well, I did, and I got the gig! I’ve started working at the Starlight Children’s Foundation as a digital marketing producer.
- Roaming around Wodonga/AlburyCycling
- So where the hell ya been?!
- Pure joy in getting back on the road again!Cycling
- Planning a tour of the Apple Isle: Tasmania 2022Cycling
- Bored and hunting some local stockiesFishing
- “Tell ‘im he’s dreamin’!” Dealing with lockdown boredom by prepping for EuropeCycling
- Listening to and thinking about Kris Kristofferson, and other country legends I hope to see live one day, before it’s too late 🎸🎵💬🎨Music
- The Good the Bad and the UglyFilms
- First half-century in the bag!Cycling
Latest tours
- Australia
- Victoria
29–30 Mar 2024
East Gippsland Rail Trail
A quick-and-dirty Easter tour through the rolling Gippsland hills to the Snowy River.
- days
- 2
- km
- 129
- m climbed
- 938
- Australia
Currently reading
The Return: Fathers, sons and the land in between
page 148 of 280
In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar’s father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime’s most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballah Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is “persistent and cunning.” This book is a profoundly moving family memoir, a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power.
Publisher’s blurb