Notices tagged with sawtell
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#Sawtell is drying out now. On my way home from work today, on the verge of the street where yesterday there was a shin-deep lake that ruined my shoes, I spotted a stranded turtle. It's shell was about the diameter of a tin of peaches.
I stuck it in my shopping bag and carried it round the corner to the nearest creek-cum-drainage-ditch, setting it gently on the bank with it's feet in the water. It wouldn't budge until I backed off a few metres, then it looked about until satisfied that it was relatively safe, leapt into the air, and vanished with a plop into the still rushing, murky-brown water.
At least it won't die of dehydration in the next 24 hours. It was possibly the most useful and satisfying thing I've done in years.
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Slipped out of asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in #Sawtell to catch the last showing of the latest #StarWars. Lots of death and mayhem culminating in group hugs. What more do you want? I'm sure #Disney will carry on flogging the dead horse until the bones are clean, but I'm glad that I saw all first nine mainline features at the cinema on first release. (Bonus nerd points: I saw Return of the Jedi a second time at the Caringbah Drive-in.)
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No ordinary person can enjoy the Pina Colada Song loudly and unironically. The deadbeat divorcees round my manor are certainly exceptional specimens. The ex-wives of #Sawtell must be kicking themselves.
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Bloody tourists bringing their foreign viruses into town. They're not sending their best, you know. There are some bad, phlegmatic hombres among them. We need to build a wall. A big, beautiful, antiseptic, wipe-clean wall. And we're going to set up a water slide on the other side, so that the tourists will pay for it. #Sawtell #holidays
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It's 34℃, according to the #Coffs airport weather station, the sky is Bangkok brown, flecks of ash are drifting by, I'm wheezing, my eyes are stinging, and I am very glad I don't have asthma. #sawtell
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Real, proper, pelting summer-style rain for the first time since moving into digs at 221B Baker St #Sawtell. Familiar but surreal. The palm trees are not so much swaying as angrily thrashing about.
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@tregeagle Know of any restaurants in #Sawtell or #Coffs that would appeal to people with a very 1970s palate? My parents are visiting next month, health scares permitting, and the only times I've eaten out in the last year have been when you've bought a bag of crisps with a round. [Brushes crumbs off belly] Oh, salt and vinegar! Why can I never say no?
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@tregeagle It was classic oven door #weather when I left the air conditioning. Then I crossed the railway line and got the #Sawtell 5℃ discount, and on my windswept promontory it was positively mild. But yes, it looks like it will be a harrowing summer. Blow wind, blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3tKFyux9M
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I don't know whether technically I live on a promontory or an escarpment, but either way, it's jolly windy up here today. #Sawtell
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Somebody in the next block of flats is #listening - loudly - to what appears to be Dire Straits' Greatest Hits. This is offensive on so many levels. What kind of monster wants their entire neighbourhood to sound like a waiting room? #Sawtell
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Cherry red sunrise and a blanket of smoke haze over #Sawtell this morning.
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A week into spring, temperature expected to reach 31℃ in #Coffs today. Starting to think that living atop a windswept seaside promontory may pay off for me this summer. #Sawtell
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Been hors de combat for much of the week due to the minor ailments I gather round to shield me from any major ones, but just had six hours of lovely Sunday pay rate to make up for it. Walking home after dark I had an enormous bat (flying fox) wheeling round me, with a wingspan which seemed comparable to that of a pelican. They're chattering away all round my flat right now. That's a first day of spring for you. Life is good. #Sawtell #work
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My new local. It's a long way back to the bar, but you can't beat that window seat. #Sawtell https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/29185
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@tregeagle Thriving. Just had lunch at that picnic table in the dunes on Murrays Beach, reading one of those books you loaned to me. Which was nice. Now I think I might go for a beer I can't afford. It's sheer hell here in #Sawtell, I tell you.
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Moved furniture across #Sawtell and up a dizzying flight of stairs. Then four hours #work. Still have to make a bed with an aching back, and Kitty currently hiding among the pile of bedclothes on it. But we have a '~/'. Hard to believe, actually.
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And we're back. Or rather we're in a new place. To my right, a splendid view of #Sawtell headland and @tregeagle's ute. Yes, things could definitely be worse. Last stuff to move tomorrow morning, then I'm settled, and can exhale for the first time in eighteen years.
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Some seriously deficient ℃ we've been getting lately in #Sawtell. I've a mind to write the manufacturer. We're supposed to be sub-tropical, but I think the "sub" is being overplayed. Don't know if it's because I've lost some weight or just getting old, but I'm really feeling it this year.
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@tregeagle 1950's #Sawtell beach shack; the original owners were unlikely to even be here in winter. But it's asbestos, so when summer does come, we'll be fireproof.
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Sounds like a live possibility. I'll have to check my work roster this time next week. I'm driving down to Nelson Bay the weekend before to chauffeur Auntie Chez back to #Sawtell. I wouldn't recommend joining us for that one, but I could road test a playlist at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtB_ZfP-Ew
Matthew Davidson
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