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Sunday, July 19, 2026

SUN CBR->JINDY


HENRYS
A pretty relaxed start to the day.  Breakfast was very individual. Chris put some muslie in a bowl with water and heated it.  I had a crumpet toasted with butter followed by a second one. 

9:50
We drove out 


Need
Bags to carry boots and helmets.
$30 day entry get boots and
Lunches wraps Jindabyne 
Decide 5th day epic pass


LUNCHES
Wraps
Lettuce
Tabouleh 


Sao
Peanut butter
Smith crisps

SUN: Chris Chicken & Tarizo Carbonara.
MON J&M out
TUE
WED Henry & James.
THU
FRI On road. Need shoes.





Saturday, July 18, 2026

Burley Griffin ParkRun

Burley Griffin parkrun results for event #486. Your time was 00:37:12. Two minutes off your 17mile rocks pb but acceptable given you were coughing up phlegm.

Congratulations on completing your 78th parkrun and your 1st at Burley Griffin parkrun today. You finished in 252nd place, just after a little kid and a grandma, way behind your brothers James Von Stieglitz and Henry Thomson out of a field of 352 parkrunners. You were the 136th male and came 8th in your age category VM60-64. 

Phoebe Antonieff Mitchell took awsome photos.






Friday, July 17, 2026

Tidbinbilla

Henry drove us to Tidbinbilla.

There was a strong video presence on Artimus. It was made before the recent flight but it got me thinking I need to brush up on the current status of space flight and the various launch vehicles. 

This is a monunent to Voyager.
We went to the visitor centre. 














BNE->CBR

2026 SKI JULY
T-Minus
4:00 rise and shine
4:30 Depart Fairfield 
5:00 Arr Airport
6:00 Boarding
6:20 Depart

Fletch drove Phoebe and I to the airport.
After bag drop, we joined a huge queue for security. A very officus woman was giving weird and loud  instructions to the crowd and her work mates. Lots of eye rolling.

In the queue we chatted by phone with Graham and Mel, who were at the virgin end of they'd terminal and eventually gave up on the idea of meeting for coffee. 

Gate 1 has it seems, a better than average support presence - It had three Qantas staff manning a [help?] desk, a newsagent and coffee shop. No queue. 
After a black coffee which I found refreshing but was not too Phoebe's liking, we queued for a bus. In such situations I imagine the bus going rogue and just driving us to Canberra. 
Alas it was straight to the plane. 
On board experience was on par with expectations.  
There's always a catch when you get something really cheap. 
Had to work to fly.
a lovely chat with the pilot.  He's based in Brisbane and this is a lifestyle job. Today only a down and back. 





Thursday, July 16, 2026

SKI 2026 July

2026 JULY
T-Minus
4:30 Depart Fairfield 
5:00 Arr Airport
6:00 Boarding
6:20 Depart BNE for CBR

PACKING LIST
Torch
Phone charger & 2m lead
4 way Power board.
3m extension lead.
Nikko & stickers.



TODO LIST
Accommodation- Booked & Paid
Henry car
Ski hire
Epic pass w ski tube.
Roof rack issue


Tuesday, July 14, 2026

sick

TUESDAY
I've taken the day off work. 
Runny nose,  mild headache, sore throat. 
Monday AM I went to the doc.  He ordered a chest x-ray and this showed i didn't have pneumonia. 

I bought a 4 in 1 RAT test. 
I don't seem to have any of the viruses it tests for. 
I asked chatGPT  to make me a "Man Flu" RAT test



Sunday, July 12, 2026

Sunday

Sunday began with coffee and crumpets (toasted with butter and golden syrup) 

Followed by church at Tarragindi uniting. It's now part of a thing called "southside uniting Church".  We chose this because Phoebe used to attend years ago.   Saw a few old friends I knew. Saw Don R.  Derek was doing the live stream.  Phoebe caught up with people she hadn't seen in years. 

The rest of the day was consumed fixing the window mechanism on Phoebe's car. This necessitated not one but two trips to bunnings to buy tools.  Phoebe reclined keeping an eye on things and playing solitaire.

The day concluded sitting round the fire in the front yard eating steak and drinking wine and the final [sinful 🤣] act - ice cream in the form of mini boysenberry choctops.