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House Renovation

We have completed rebuilding our house. The plan involved creating spaces in which 3 generations of Hursts may live, giving both "seniors" and "juniors" separate living areas, with shared family space. When people ask me "How does that work?", I smile and say: "the same way it works for millions of people around the world".

Or, if you have Sweet Home 3D, here is a source file you can explore under that software: RebuildPlans There is also a Google Docs spreadsheet defining the logistics surrounding the rebuild plans. We also have to worry about flooring on concrete floors, see this article.

General Stuff

• A Wine List cgi program is under development to show what wines we have in our cellar.
• The House Computer and its Documentation detail all the ups and downs of making one's house into an automaton. In the new house we are looking at migrating to Control 4
• My wife and I are currently attending the Fitness First Gym
• Our Chicken page describes the fun and challenges our 5 chickens have given us.
• My Electronics page sets out the various projects underway and completed.
• My Model Railway page describes not only the model railway, but all the computer control around it.
• My recipes - a work in progress
• My Perpetual Calendar ready reckoner
• 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 Sylvester 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 PS. No personal dislike of Microsoft per se. I think Apple are behaving in much the same way now. My dislike is now generalized to proprietary software.

Railway Stuff

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

Meccano Stuff

• 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.

Other Pastimes

Choral Singing

• UNCS (University of New South Wales Choral Society
• SCUNA (Australian National University Choral Society
• MONUCS (Monash University Choral Society
• Monash Chorale

• Ill Wind (by Flanders and Swan)

Walking

The Dropbox files in what follows are uploaded by the Track Sharing via Dropbox mechanism on MyGPSFiles

• 20150413: Dunkeld: ASQ Music Festival
• 20150417: Emerald.
• 20150803: Jell's Park Our regular GOMERs' walk
• 20150907: Grampians: Mackenzie Falls and Zumsteins, Silverband Falls
• 20150908: Grampians: Mt Stapleton, Heatherlie Quarry
• 20150909: Grampians: Kalymna Falls and Mafeking
• 20150910: Grampians: The Pinnacle
• 20150911: Grampians: Balconies, Buandik and Mirranatwa Pass
• 2016016: Jell's Park: Madelaine's to Norton's Lane (Third Saturday Walkers)

Television

• ABC iView
• Dr Who episodes

Church Stuff

• Church stuff has been moved to a new Parish page.

Environmental Stuff

This has now been moved to a separate environment page.

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