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This year we are round-the worlding again, focussing upon the Cinque Terre and Amalfi coasts in Italy, then Jersey, then Seattle, before returning to Australia to undertake the circumnavigation cruise around Australia. Again, the web page where you can read all about it is at my 2012 Round-World and Round-Australia voyage.
In 2012 we did another round-the-world trip, but less hectic than in 2006. Only three major stops: (2 days in Singapore), 2 weeks in France-Alsace, 2 weeks in Seattle, 2 and a bit weeks in Tahiti. Read all about it on my 2012 Round-the-World Page
In 2011 we took a cruise around the North, Arctic and Baltic Seas. Read all about it on my 2011 Cruise Page

General Stuff

My recipes
Our place
My Perpetual Calendar ready reckoner
My Digital Photos
Choral Singing: I have been a member of the following groups
- UNCS (University of New South Wales Choral Society
- SCUNA (Australian National University Choral Society
- MONUCS (Monash University Choral Society
I have done some work on using XML to generate genealogical data for my family. A password-protected directory contains the data (not accessible unless you contact me for the password).
My cat did a very naughty and expensive thing to my laptop. Read my son's account about how Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
Australian Rules Football ( Hawthorn Football Club Member)
Why I dislike Microsoft products

The Railway Photograph Catalogue is a web-based description of my railway photograph database.
I am (or have been) a member of the following raiway societies
- Australian Railway Historical Society: both
  - ACT Division
  - Victorian Division
- Puffing Billy Railway Preservation Society
- Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society
Railway Modelling (HO gauge)

Meccano: as a boy, I had a 9++ Meccano set, which I think is a fantastic toy for encouraging creativity in an engineering context. David Williams has an equally fantastic Meccano Home Page. While I still have the set (in a pair of wonderful cabinets my father made), I don't play with it much nowadays. Sadly, neither did my sons, who much preferred Lego. Sit transit gloria mundi!
Postscript: In Marysville, Victoria (Oz), there is an excellent Meccano Museum with many working models. It's called "Maniacal Mechanicals", in Murchison St (the main street). Worth a visit if you are in the area.

Postpostscript: Alas! "Maniacal Mechanicals" was destroyed in the disastrous Black Saturday bushfires (7 Feb 2009). See this collection of photographs of the place as a tribute.

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