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mjd: …aaand now the police are back. I'm sensing a developing rhythm to the evening. First Avenue #Sawtell, ladies and gentlemen. Absolute pinnacle of the #Coffs lifestyle. Imagine: I could be living some squalid life in a city. What? And give up all this?
mjd's status on Saturday, 27-Jun-2020 06:30:19 EDT
…aaand now the police are back. I'm sensing a developing rhythm to the evening. First Avenue #Sawtell, ladies and gentlemen. Absolute pinnacle of the #Coffs lifestyle. Imagine: I could be living some squalid life in a city. What? And give up all this?
mjd: Knocked back #work today because I just physically needed the day off and some quiet. So of course F-bomb Freddy's going off again. Only 2pm and already shouting foul-mouthed abuse at people, to an incongruous soundtrack of laid-back 70s adult contemporary folk-rock. Roll on, post #Covid-19 real estate bust; need some cheap, obnoxious-bogan-free lodgings. #Aloha #Sawtell
mjd's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2020 00:39:47 EDT
Knocked back #work today because I just physically needed the day off and some quiet. So of course F-bomb Freddy's going off again. Only 2pm and already shouting foul-mouthed abuse at people, to an incongruous soundtrack of laid-back 70s adult contemporary folk-rock. Roll on, post #Covid-19 real estate bust; need some cheap, obnoxious-bogan-free lodgings. #Aloha #Sawtell
mjd: Been print-to-file-ing long reads for sitting on #Sawtell beach with a bottle of wine. #LockdownHobo God, I love a nice print style sheet! (And hate sites that won't render their main content without #JavaScript.) #CSS
mjd's status on Monday, 11-May-2020 20:59:30 EDT
Been print-to-file-ing long reads for sitting on #Sawtell beach with a bottle of wine. #LockdownHobo God, I love a nice print style sheet! (And hate sites that won't render their main content without #JavaScript.) #CSS
mjd: F-bomb Freddy has been in fine form today. Effing up a storm since dawn, then took a defiant swim in the #covid19 closed communal pool. Now it looks like he's seen off yet another visiting former cellmate with the traditional "You 'eard me! Fark orf out of 'ere!" farewell. Ah, the #Sawtell lifestyle! #Aloha
mjd's status on Wednesday, 22-Apr-2020 01:56:02 EDT
F-bomb Freddy has been in fine form today. Effing up a storm since dawn, then took a defiant swim in the #covid19 closed communal pool. Now it looks like he's seen off yet another visiting former cellmate with the traditional "You 'eard me! Fark orf out of 'ere!" farewell. Ah, the #Sawtell lifestyle! #Aloha
mjd: An emotional roller coaster day. Midnight. Silence. The surf. My gurgling fridge. My Sony Walkman tinnitus. A freight train. Chirruping bats and geckos. Resisting the urge to switch on some entertainment noise. #Sawtell
mjd's status on Saturday, 18-Apr-2020 10:37:37 EDT
An emotional roller coaster day. Midnight. Silence. The surf. My gurgling fridge. My Sony Walkman tinnitus. A freight train. Chirruping bats and geckos. Resisting the urge to switch on some entertainment noise. #Sawtell
mjd: Defrosted the freezer today. Genuine fun. Closest thing you'll get to snow in #Sawtell. If you have a fridge that isn't crap, you are really missing out.
mjd's status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2020 06:01:33 EDT
Defrosted the freezer today. Genuine fun. Closest thing you'll get to snow in #Sawtell. If you have a fridge that isn't crap, you are really missing out.
mjd: The temperature is dipping down towards a mild 20℃, so the aroma of long-dormant chimneys once again wafts over #Sawtell. Only this year… Do I detect a hint of toilet paper kindling?
mjd's status on Saturday, 11-Apr-2020 02:40:00 EDT
The temperature is dipping down towards a mild 20℃, so the aroma of long-dormant chimneys once again wafts over #Sawtell. Only this year… Do I detect a hint of toilet paper kindling?
mjd: Grey day. Somebody in the next block of flats is playing the William Tell Overture on the accordion. I didn't expect that. #Sawtell
mjd's status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2020 01:23:08 EDT
Grey day. Somebody in the next block of flats is playing the William Tell Overture on the accordion. I didn't expect that. #Sawtell
mjd: F-bomb Freddy's dominance display ended in a torrent of bitter farking, once Mayor McWheeze emerged from his lair to lock horns. The young buck bowed, the CDs now lie still, and both have retreated to their corners to lick their wounds. Peace has descended upon #CellBlockAloha, but for how long? #Sawtell
mjd's status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2020 05:22:00 EDT
F-bomb Freddy's dominance display ended in a torrent of bitter farking, once Mayor McWheeze emerged from his lair to lock horns. The young buck bowed, the CDs now lie still, and both have retreated to their corners to lick their wounds. Peace has descended upon #CellBlockAloha, but for how long? #Sawtell
mjd: F-Bomb Freddy is broadcasting again this afternoon, accompanying some corporate rap and techno with his own less-than-unique country-style whoops and hollers. Can't even seek refuge in the pub, as it's shut. #Aloha #Sawtell
mjd's status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2020 02:03:57 EDT
F-Bomb Freddy is broadcasting again this afternoon, accompanying some corporate rap and techno with his own less-than-unique country-style whoops and hollers. Can't even seek refuge in the pub, as it's shut. #Aloha #Sawtell
mjd: Just been down to the chemist shop. #Sawtell cinema, pub, club, op shop, etc. all closed for the duration. Medical centre, bakery greengrocers, convenience store all operating with sticky tape crosses on the floor and/or seating 2m apart. #flattenthecurve #putthatlightout
mjd's status on Sunday, 29-Mar-2020 21:17:55 EDT
Just been down to the chemist shop. #Sawtell cinema, pub, club, op shop, etc. all closed for the duration. Medical centre, bakery greengrocers, convenience store all operating with sticky tape crosses on the floor and/or seating 2m apart. #flattenthecurve #putthatlightout
mjd: Thank Yeshua the Nazarene, the festival of lazy, loping, stoner rhythm guitar is finally over. I demand noisy neighbours with better taste! #Sawtell
mjd's status on Thursday, 12-Mar-2020 05:40:28 EDT
Thank Yeshua the Nazarene, the festival of lazy, loping, stoner rhythm guitar is finally over. I demand noisy neighbours with better taste! #Sawtell
mjd: #Sawtell is drying out now. On my way home from work today, on the verge of the street where yesterday there was a shin-deep lake that ruined my shoes, I spotted a stranded turtle. It's shell was about the diameter of a tin of peaches. I stuck it in my shopping bag and carried it round the corner to the nearest creek-cum-drainage-ditch, setting it gently on the bank with it's https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/86263
mjd's status on Monday, 10-Feb-2020 02:29:54 EST
#Sawtell is drying out now. On my way home from work today, on the verge of the street where yesterday there was a shin-deep lake that ruined my shoes, I spotted a stranded turtle. It's shell was about the diameter of a tin of peaches. I stuck it in my shopping bag and carried it round the corner to the nearest creek-cum-drainage-ditch, setting it gently on the bank with it's…
mjd: Slipped out of asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in #Sawtell to catch the last showing of the latest #StarWars. Lots of death and mayhem culminating in group hugs. What more do you want? I'm sure #Disney will carry on flogging the dead horse until the bones are clean, but I'm glad that I saw all first nine mainline features at the cinema on first release. (Bonus nerd points: I https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/85737
mjd's status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2020 07:48:09 EST
Slipped out of asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in #Sawtell to catch the last showing of the latest #StarWars. Lots of death and mayhem culminating in group hugs. What more do you want? I'm sure #Disney will carry on flogging the dead horse until the bones are clean, but I'm glad that I saw all first nine mainline features at the cinema on first release. (Bonus nerd points: I …
mjd: No ordinary person can enjoy the Pina Colada Song loudly and unironically. The deadbeat divorcees round my manor are certainly exceptional specimens. The ex-wives of #Sawtell must be kicking themselves.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2020 03:50:34 EST
No ordinary person can enjoy the Pina Colada Song loudly and unironically. The deadbeat divorcees round my manor are certainly exceptional specimens. The ex-wives of #Sawtell must be kicking themselves.
mjd: Bloody tourists bringing their foreign viruses into town. They're not sending their best, you know. There are some bad, phlegmatic hombres among them. We need to build a wall. A big, beautiful, antiseptic, wipe-clean wall. And we're going to set up a water slide on the other side, so that the tourists will pay for it. #Sawtell #holidays
mjd's status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2019 16:42:22 EST
Bloody tourists bringing their foreign viruses into town. They're not sending their best, you know. There are some bad, phlegmatic hombres among them. We need to build a wall. A big, beautiful, antiseptic, wipe-clean wall. And we're going to set up a water slide on the other side, so that the tourists will pay for it. #Sawtell #holidays
mjd: It's 34℃, according to the #Coffs airport weather station, the sky is Bangkok brown, flecks of ash are drifting by, I'm wheezing, my eyes are stinging, and I am very glad I don't have asthma. #sawtell
mjd's status on Friday, 08-Nov-2019 01:12:04 EST
It's 34℃, according to the #Coffs airport weather station, the sky is Bangkok brown, flecks of ash are drifting by, I'm wheezing, my eyes are stinging, and I am very glad I don't have asthma. #sawtell
mjd: Real, proper, pelting summer-style rain for the first time since moving into digs at 221B Baker St #Sawtell. Familiar but surreal. The palm trees are not so much swaying as angrily thrashing about.
mjd's status on Monday, 04-Nov-2019 23:04:42 EST
Real, proper, pelting summer-style rain for the first time since moving into digs at 221B Baker St #Sawtell. Familiar but surreal. The palm trees are not so much swaying as angrily thrashing about.
mjd: @tregeagle Know of any restaurants in #Sawtell or #Coffs that would appeal to people with a very 1970s palate? My parents are visiting next month, health scares permitting, and the only times I've eaten out in the last year have been when you've bought a bag of crisps with a round. [Brushes crumbs off belly] Oh, salt and vinegar! Why can I never say no?
mjd's status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2019 22:56:59 EDT
@tregeagle Know of any restaurants in #Sawtell or #Coffs that would appeal to people with a very 1970s palate? My parents are visiting next month, health scares permitting, and the only times I've eaten out in the last year have been when you've bought a bag of crisps with a round. [Brushes crumbs off belly] Oh, salt and vinegar! Why can I never say no?
mjd: @tregeagle It was classic oven door #weather when I left the air conditioning. Then I crossed the railway line and got the #Sawtell 5℃ discount, and on my windswept promontory it was positively mild. But yes, it looks like it will be a harrowing summer. Blow wind, blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3tKFyux9M
mjd's status on Monday, 07-Oct-2019 07:32:09 EDT
@tregeagle It was classic oven door #weather when I left the air conditioning. Then I crossed the railway line and got the #Sawtell 5℃ discount, and on my windswept promontory it was positively mild. But yes, it looks like it will be a harrowing summer. Blow wind, blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3tKFyux9M
mjd: I don't know whether technically I live on a promontory or an escarpment, but either way, it's jolly windy up here today. #Sawtell
mjd's status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2019 01:29:19 EDT
I don't know whether technically I live on a promontory or an escarpment, but either way, it's jolly windy up here today. #Sawtell
mjd: Somebody in the next block of flats is #listening - loudly - to what appears to be Dire Straits' Greatest Hits. This is offensive on so many levels. What kind of monster wants their entire neighbourhood to sound like a waiting room? #Sawtell
mjd's status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2019 04:40:44 EDT
Somebody in the next block of flats is #listening - loudly - to what appears to be Dire Straits' Greatest Hits. This is offensive on so many levels. What kind of monster wants their entire neighbourhood to sound like a waiting room? #Sawtell
mjd: Cherry red sunrise and a blanket of smoke haze over #Sawtell this morning.
mjd's status on Friday, 13-Sep-2019 19:21:39 EDT
Cherry red sunrise and a blanket of smoke haze over #Sawtell this morning.
mjd: A week into spring, temperature expected to reach 31℃ in #Coffs today. Starting to think that living atop a windswept seaside promontory may pay off for me this summer. #Sawtell
mjd's status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2019 21:43:07 EDT
A week into spring, temperature expected to reach 31℃ in #Coffs today. Starting to think that living atop a windswept seaside promontory may pay off for me this summer. #Sawtell
mjd: Been hors de combat for much of the week due to the minor ailments I gather round to shield me from any major ones, but just had six hours of lovely Sunday pay rate to make up for it. Walking home after dark I had an enormous bat (flying fox) wheeling round me, with a wingspan which seemed comparable to that of a pelican. They're chattering away all round my flat right now. T https://microblog.mjd.id.au/notice/77946
mjd's status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2019 06:50:25 EDT
Been hors de combat for much of the week due to the minor ailments I gather round to shield me from any major ones, but just had six hours of lovely Sunday pay rate to make up for it. Walking home after dark I had an enormous bat (flying fox) wheeling round me, with a wingspan which seemed comparable to that of a pelican. They're chattering away all round my flat right now. T…
mjd: My new local. It's a long way back to the bar, but you can't beat that window seat. #Sawtell https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/29185
mjd's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2019 01:04:58 EDT
My new local. It's a long way back to the bar, but you can't beat that window seat. #Sawtell https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/29185
mjd: @tregeagle Thriving. Just had lunch at that picnic table in the dunes on Murrays Beach, reading one of those books you loaned to me. Which was nice. Now I think I might go for a beer I can't afford. It's sheer hell here in #Sawtell, I tell you.
mjd's status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2019 02:00:55 EDT
@tregeagle Thriving. Just had lunch at that picnic table in the dunes on Murrays Beach, reading one of those books you loaned to me. Which was nice. Now I think I might go for a beer I can't afford. It's sheer hell here in #Sawtell, I tell you.
mjd: Moved furniture across #Sawtell and up a dizzying flight of stairs. Then four hours #work. Still have to make a bed with an aching back, and Kitty currently hiding among the pile of bedclothes on it. But we have a '~/'. Hard to believe, actually.
mjd's status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2019 05:37:21 EDT
Moved furniture across #Sawtell and up a dizzying flight of stairs. Then four hours #work. Still have to make a bed with an aching back, and Kitty currently hiding among the pile of bedclothes on it. But we have a '~/'. Hard to believe, actually.
mjd: And we're back. Or rather we're in a new place. To my right, a splendid view of #Sawtell headland and @tregeagle's ute. Yes, things could definitely be worse. Last stuff to move tomorrow morning, then I'm settled, and can exhale for the first time in eighteen years.
mjd's status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 21:19:16 EDT
And we're back. Or rather we're in a new place. To my right, a splendid view of #Sawtell headland and @tregeagle's ute. Yes, things could definitely be worse. Last stuff to move tomorrow morning, then I'm settled, and can exhale for the first time in eighteen years.
mjd: Some seriously deficient ℃ we've been getting lately in #Sawtell. I've a mind to write the manufacturer. We're supposed to be sub-tropical, but I think the "sub" is being overplayed. Don't know if it's because I've lost some weight or just getting old, but I'm really feeling it this year.
mjd's status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2019 06:32:24 EDT
Some seriously deficient ℃ we've been getting lately in #Sawtell. I've a mind to write the manufacturer. We're supposed to be sub-tropical, but I think the "sub" is being overplayed. Don't know if it's because I've lost some weight or just getting old, but I'm really feeling it this year.
mjd: @tregeagle 1950's #Sawtell beach shack; the original owners were unlikely to even be here in winter. But it's asbestos, so when summer does come, we'll be fireproof.
mjd's status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2019 08:18:15 EDT
@tregeagle 1950's #Sawtell beach shack; the original owners were unlikely to even be here in winter. But it's asbestos, so when summer does come, we'll be fireproof.
mjd: Sounds like a live possibility. I'll have to check my work roster this time next week. I'm driving down to Nelson Bay the weekend before to chauffeur Auntie Chez back to #Sawtell. I wouldn't recommend joining us for that one, but I could road test a playlist at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtB_ZfP-Ew
mjd's status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2019 05:30:53 EDT
Sounds like a live possibility. I'll have to check my work roster this time next week. I'm driving down to Nelson Bay the weekend before to chauffeur Auntie Chez back to #Sawtell. I wouldn't recommend joining us for that one, but I could road test a playlist at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtB_ZfP-Ew