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House Renovation

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

Or, if you haveSweet Home 3D,here is a source file you can explore under that software:RebuildPlansThere is also aGoogle Docsspreadsheet defining the logistics surrounding the rebuildplans. We also have to worry about flooring on concrete floors,see this article.

General Stuff

• A Wine Listcgi program has been completed to show what wines we have inour cellar.
• The House Computer andits Documentationdetail all the ups and downs of making one's house into anautomaton.
• My wife and I are currently attending theFitness First Gym
• Our Chicken pagedescribes the fun and challenges our 5 chickens have given us.
• My Electronics page sets out thevarious projects underway and completed.
• My Model Railway pagedescribes not only the model railway, but all the computercontrol around it.
• My recipes - a work in progress
• My Perpetual Calendarready reckoner
• I have done some work on using XML to generategenealogical data for my family. Apassword-protected directorycontains the data (not accessible unless you contact me forthe password).
• My cat Sylvester did a very naughty and expensive thing to mylaptop. Read my son's account about howEvery Cloud has a Silver Lining
• AustralianRules Football (HawthornFootball Club Member)
• Why I dislike Microsoft productsPS. No personal dislike of Microsoft per se. I think Apple arebehaving in much the same way now. My dislike is nowgeneralized to proprietary software.

Railway Stuff

• The Railway PhotographCatalogue is a web-based description of my railwayphotograph database.
• I am (or have been) a member of the following railway societies
  • Australian Railway Historical Society: bothACT andVictorian Divisions.
  • Puffing Billy RailwayPreservation Society
  • Pichi Richi RailwayPreservation Society
• Railway Modelling(HO gauge)

Meccano Stuff

• Meccano: as aboy, I had a 9++ Meccano set, which I think is a fantastic toyfor encouraging creativity in an engineering context. DavidWilliams has an equally fantastic Meccano HomePage. While I still have the set (in a pair of wonderfulcabinets my father made), I don't play with it muchnowadays. Sadly, neither did my sons, who much preferredLego. Sit transit gloria mundi!

  Postscript: InMarysville, Victoria (Oz), there is an excellent MeccanoMuseum with many working models. It's called "ManiacalMechanicals", in Murchison St (the main street). Worth avisit if you are in the area.

  Postpostscript: Alas!"Maniacal Mechanicals" was destroyed in the disastrousBlack Saturday bushfires (7 Feb 2009). See thiscollection of photographs of the place as atribute.

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 theTrack Sharing via Dropbox mechanism on MyGPSFiles

• 20150413: Dunkeld: ASQ Music Festival
• 20150417: Emerald.
• 20150803: Jell's ParkOur 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 separateenvironment page.

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