Anne

Clear pristine beaches are great, but I really appreciate the intermingling of rock formations and sand on the south coast of New South Wales. At low tide, I noodle through the little pools of pleasure and watch the darting shadows of tiny fish.

I found out that it’s called a Southern Old Lady Moth (appropriate) or Southern Moon Moth, Dasypodia selenophora.

thepoint.com.au/new/261023-f... Poverty is eroding Australia’s democracy, with former High Court Justice Michael Kirby warning that the growing divide between the powerful and the vulnerable is creating a vicious cycle of disadvantage and political exclusion.

A beautiful winged creature resting on the awning.

It is a picturesque place, this planned city. View from the Arboretum.

Roses in the Parliamentary Triangle. Rather lovely.

Nesting.

Happy happy Wombat Day to all you curious intelligent & muscular wombats out there. Dig those burrows across Australian grasslands, forests & mountains—we are advocating for your protection. www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaign... wombatecosystem.com/cultural-and...

I loathe her hypocritical guts.

This morning’s task: move a harpsichord. The keyboard institute is full of interesting things.

An echidna day is always a good day!

Oh shit oh shit oh shit

Built in 1975, the building I work in is an eccentric brutalist space. I like it.

Doomsday glacier, now with added doom.

Where’s Batman when you need him?

Spring garden.

A tiny spotted pardalote with his mate. It’s there! Really it is.

Police and ambulance this morning at the crossing where I usually navigate the main road. Some poor soul a victim of distracted driving. A reminder of the daily peril of interacting with cars.

Just finished reading this remarkable story. I laughed and I cried. A beautiful tale.

To every Australian banging on this morning on talkback radio about wanting ZERO migration, I concede. You can have it. As long as you are ok with the high chance of ZERO emergency medical care when you’re sick. ZERO aged care when you’re old. ZERO fresh food when you’re hungry.

"El Nino Digest" Times ("END Times", geddit?) An 8 page round-up of what is happening/about to happen. Front page - from The Climate Brink, a handy impacts map... 1/8

Uh oh

A stormy day. Went for a walk this morning between showers.

Went to an early music concert. Heard a theorbo. Beautiful sound.

Women don't have compassion fatigue. We're exhausted. Our outrage has little effect. Only men can stop this. Good men need to step up. "Sometimes we do need to march. Sometimes anger and grief is what forces governments to listen. Such public outrage can have enormous political force." #auspol #vaw

True to form.

I don’t know when I started greeting insects, but this morning when I found a bogong moth fluttering in the spare room I exclaimed, “hello beautiful!”. I gently enclosed it in a cage of fingers and carried it carefully outside, where it found a hiding place between the fence and the shed.

Pauline Hanson and her party of rorters. Morally and ethically bankrupt.

Got a new floor. Loathed the carpet downstairs - I’m too much of a gardening grub for high traffic areas to be carpeted. I have been living like a squatter. Removalists bringing the furniture back now. One of them is a giant - he can barely fit through the door.

What a brilliant example for little Aussie kids. Even if you grow up in public housing you can still aspire to stand next to a corrupt pathological narcissist, compulsive liar, sex abusing bully who’s destroying the world order, the global economy and the environment, smile and get a selfie

Horrible awful afternoon at work. I have a week off now. Would happily never return. Sometimes I just want to flip the desk over and burn things, but the training module I’d have to do afterwards puts me off the idea.

Oh goody

Broccoli pruning team are back.

Fifty two years today since mum died. I wish there was someone around to give me a hug.

I’m legally blind and on the other side of the planet, but even I can see that’s a rug. #TheThingOnTrumpsHead

NZ 😖

The climate shitshow that has hit the northern hemisphere's summer is coming for Australia. Yesterday, Sydney had a 32C day with violent winds. That's a film trailer for the feature film that is to come. #AusPol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

These are the biggest since 1888.

So exciting! That’s the weekend’s entertainment sorted! @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Margaret Preston (1875 – 1963), Australian painter, printmaker and writer, one of Australia's leading modernists #Womensart

I can’t hold the enormity of death and doom in my brain, so here are invisible jumpers. invisiblejumpers.com/collection/i...

Just around the corner from home. A group of cyclists training for a triathlon. Devastating.

When wrens attack.

Fairy wren pest patrol. Why I won’t spray for caterpillars or aphids.