Mike's Blog
Blog URL http://mikepickard.wordpress.com
Located Northcote, Victoria Australia
Tags melbourne, beetle, green, blog, posterous, flickr, twitter, northcote, westgarth
Personal blog of a New Melbournian.
Latest Blog Posts
- Ancestral Australia on Oct 14, 2009 in australia family Genealogy pickard
I received some photos via email today of some distant paternal ancestors who moved from Yorkshire to Australia, a long, long time before I made a similar move from London. They show the family on their way to Southampton (where they caught their shi...
- Waving, Not Drowning. on Oct 13, 2009 in Uncategorized
OK, so now I’ve got a Google Wave account; only I don’t know anyone else who does – so I’ve got no-one to ‘wave’ at. Anyone want an invite ?
- Today’s Horrorscope. on Oct 7, 2009 in Uncategorized
Pretty darned spooky for those ‘in the know’… Wednesday, Oct 7th, 2009 – You are willing to accept the limitations placed on you by someone else today. You don’t feel a need to fight back or negotiate additional freedom.
- Something In The Post on Sep 28, 2009 in Cars beetle bug volkswagen vw
A whole bunch of parts arrived from CIP1 yesterday and were sitting at work for me when I got in this morning. I have rear gravel guards spare fuses a new horn ring a hubcap puller a pair of new sunvisors (with mirror) two new outside door scraper...
- Of Bugs and Master Cylinders on Sep 28, 2009 in Cars Days In beetle mastercylinder volkswagen vw
Been having lots of ‘wtf is this thing?’ type fun with my Beetle lately. I’m quite keen to rewire the horn button to the steering wheel – like a proper car – and have been investigating what the current wiring does and...
- A Quick Makeover on Sep 27, 2009 in Photos photography website
My wordpress blog underwent a brief makeover yesterday, prompted by an external link coming in to my site at armcurl.com. The link comes from a magazine website and names me as a contributory photographer, so it made sense to me that if people were g...
- High Vibes 2009 on Sep 20, 2009 in Days Out Melbourne Music Photos australia darebin highvibes melbourne northcote
Wandered up to ‘High Vibes’ this afternoon. It’s less than a ten minute walk from my house, so it would have been rude not to. My expectations were, like the sun, high; I love (good) music and the event promised a closed main stre...
