I wondered when the saying “Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is–” (this varies) was first used. The Internet will tell you it’s in the James Bond novel, Goldfinger (1959), in the form “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action”, and that is no doubt what popularised…
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Something of a conflict: I like visiting the weekend markets but not so keen on the 4 hour round trip involved in getting to the nearest one. It goes like this: Leave home and catch the bus that goes past about 10.56 am into the city. Arrive in city about 11.10 am (the same time…
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This is a handy summary for estimating the time of death, for when you need to know such things. I don’t know where it originally came from but I found it here. For all the web sites that have such information, and there are many, they don’t usually provide handy summaries like that. That was…
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Or picking a picture, so here’s the Tasman Bridge.
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Finally renewing driver’s licence. Posting off paperwork to uni. Being able to pick things up off the floor (bah to stupid muscles). Editing edited scene of WIP. (New work pattern. Might be more productive.) (Image: river somewhere between Sheffield and the West Coast.)
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Did some tweaking of website. I added thumbnail images to the Recent Posts (see, on the right there), tried to work out why Top Posts is obsessed with Lefroy, and changed the images at the top to my postcards, like I have on the home page for the website. Have to see how that looks…
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Feel like I’m not making much progress with this rewrite. Well, I’m not. 300 words done is a Good Day. Gah. Yet, second draft has over 10K words. So it might be slow progress, but it is progress. Also I know more about what I’m trying to write about, which helps. (Random image: Sunset from…
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The London Metropolitan Police, on which the Australian colonies tended to bases their own police systems, established a detective branch in August 1842. Now the first mentions of detectives connected to police in Trove newspapers (i.e. an Australian context) are: Were, therefore, persons trained, to foot-tracking in England, they would become great adjuvants to our…
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That’s what I was looking at when I decided to go to bed 🙂 (From Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Islands to Ice, 2008).
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