Evening Cats

Snug in front of the heater.

Hi SK !

Hi SK. If you're ever in the neighbourhood, drop in ! We're still in the same spot.

Smoky Subiaco

Being perennially tardy in reaching Subiaco stadium, I'm never there in time to see the bouncedown for Dockers matches... until last night, when the spectacular firework show created smoke that took minutes to clear.

Top Ten Novels of 2015

My continuing addiction to Candy Crush has reduced my reading rate somewhat, but I've still discovered enough material to publish my interim top ten for 2015, in descending order.

1. Phases of the Moon: Stories from Six Decades (Robert Silverberg)

2. The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)

3. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)

4. Insomnia (Stephen King)

5. Coming Home (Jack McDevitt)

6. Proxima (Stephen Baxter)

7. Lamentation (C.J. Sansom)

8. The Tommyknockers (Stephen King)

9. Beyond the Hanging Wall (Sara Douglass)

10. Startide Rising (David Brin)

Flower

This unidentified spiky flower grows on a tree in my garden.

That's the sort of detailed botanical description that decades of watching Gardening Australia has given me.

Zzzzzzzz.. Another Beach Scene

Spinning Around

Spinning around 180 degrees, here's the scene at City Beach before the storm.

More from the Beach

The rain was 10 minutes away now.

Stormy City Beach

I got to City Beach just ahead of the cold front hitting Perth this afternoon.