Corn chips / ventilation holes There was one year in my childhood where corn chips feature heavily in my memory. I was voted by my peers to be the classroom lunch monitor. I don’t know what this person would have been called in …

Finally made it to #Dili, #Timor-Leste, after my curiosity since primary school.
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Seventeen / Shipwreck This blog is a bit of a mess. It’s not chronological, as you have undoubtedly discovered. If that drives you crazy, then don’t worry, me too. This is not because it serves any dramatic purpose, lik…

A current issue has helped to lift my mind out of the winter darkness and back to summer in #Queensland
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Cheeky / footpath We were almost bequeathed a dining table by our departing Fijian neighbours, back in my final year of primary school. They were moving back to their small community in Fiji from New Zealand, where …

Preparing for another #Fiji trip has made me think back to an earlier visit to #Suva this year. irrelephantconflounder.home.blog/2025/06/04/c...

Plume / sparrow This will never be a travel blog. Even though I have been travelling a fair bit for work in the last year or so. Even though I like to sightsee and learn about new places. Even though I really like…

Continuing with the #Japan theme from my previous blog post: a day trip to #Unzen from #Nagasaki
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Lotus root / physics People often look at me in utter bewilderment when I tell them that I can remember my very first shower ever. I was five years old and it was the holidays before I started primary school. My grandp…

The conference (and the trip) that eventually led me to BlueSky. Moments of light and dark in this long-delayed description of my trip to #Nagasaki, #Japan
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Great life choices @shanemparker.bsky.social! :D