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I'm sad to hear you've been feeling blue. I bet your mood is not helped by the general atmosphere of mourning across the country this week.

Wonderful to hear about your positive and constructive morning. I'm going to follow your links and reflect on your progress in the daylight hours. Now, though, it's 2am and I've been up for 2 hours with a teething baby. So tired of waking up tired.

Missing you and been thinking of you this birthday week.

xxx

PS Silly question, but is this blog in the public domain?!

moony monday

i am not sure if was jamie oliver's mulled wine recipe, the excitement of the tour de france sprint off, or just way too much dessert before bed but i really only managed four hours sleeplat night. yes darling em i thought of you and your weeks on end of sleeplessness. i got up several times after trying to fight it, tried yoga and some warm milk - and ended up curled up on the couch at 2am while matt talked me through the finer points of pelatons and cycling. at six i just got up, dried off my very own bike seat, wrapped my hands up in mittens and cycled in to work. the moon was so big and low and full in the pre dawn sky it was simply breathtaking - or was that just the cold?

this is my walk to work...

...past the familiar facades of sutherland street, perhaps a moment to smell the roses, a left down hope street until the funny corner with the spirally tree and the fat green chefs, past the construction workers already busy in the crisp cold day, under the pontian club sign where soon enough the footpath will be filled with the old, smoking, greek men who call this club home, another left onto victoria street past my new local (though not yet my favourite) and towards ray for a coffee before hitting sydney road, heading city ward and finding my desk in the wee corner of the monolithic merri street factory...

a little bit of me and my dinosaur

I have spent the better part of my day in the belly of a monolithic dinosaur called Hermes. Born about ten years ago in the bowels of HV's techno depths, ole Hermes was intended as an internal cataloguing database to capture all the sites and places of import registered or under review. Its roll out late last year has been largely underwhelming for consultants. I think I have spent more time with Hermes this year than with anyone else I know. I am writing wee rudimentary descriptions of water assets - 'tall tower, ripple cladding, hedge row lined circumfrence' and so it goes.

I did however stumble across this picture today... a little bit of fieldwork joy in the old O'Shannassy water catchment area..