Anthony Malloy

38.5 degrees, now that’s getting warm. What a shame to have it on a public holiday too when it’s just too warm to take the three young un’s out and about with any degree of comfort. We did, however, get going early and went for a stroll around Williamstown and a coffee before the heat of the day really hit. We even managed to get out to the block to check how it’s going, but as it was 30 degrees by 11.00am we decided to then head home and spend the rest of the day relaxing indoors.

(More photos of our walk around Williamstown this morning)

I’ve been a digital music fan for years. I burnt my 600 odd CDs years ago and I have been downloading music since I read about these amazing MP3 thingies that could reduce a song a manageable download over dial up, and 28K dial up at that.

However there are few artists for whom I’d still go to JB and purchase the CD. Paul Kelly, New Order, Deb Conway and up until today Billy Bragg. I think I’ve finally switched to downloads only now. You can get most music without restrictive DRM on iTunes, I only seem to listen to music while at the computer or on the pod in the car and I have a spare dock for the iPod hooked up to the DVD player if I want to listen that way.

I think the only exception to the new download rule may be Paul Kelly but if Mr Bragg is download only now then even the mighty PK may fall come his next album.

We watched a movie with family and friends.

Happy 2nd anniversary my love.

You’ll find him at shop#3, South Melbourne Market.

I love my coffee, I really do. I even named my business Between Coffees so trust me when I say this guy ‘gets coffee’. He  always smiles, remembers who you are, keeps his machine scrupulously clean and never ever makes a disappointing coffee. Go in the morning, grab a calzone and a latte and then come home to email me thanks.

 

Inspired by Richard’s brilliant photos of Bert.

I had a day off today for some appointments. Some were good (see On The Dotted Line) and some not so good but any day is good when it includes a morning coffee with your wife.

We moved one step closer to our house today – we signed the contract to build. Half an hour of initialing pages and signing plans and we’re all set. They have 30 days to get the building permits, then another 30 days to start the building process. We’ve now paid for 3% of the house, which by my calculations is about two roof tiles. From here on it’s pretty much sit back and deal with things as they pop up, everything by and large is now in the hands of the good people at Henley. Oh, and the cool thing – we got to sign our docs on the 29th of Feb!

It’s an exciting time, but everything still seems like such a long way away. Next milestone will be pouring the slab and it’s probably then that I’ll really let myself believe that we’re going to have our own, new, house.

For the first time since the twins came along the entire family (yes, all 6 of us) went shopping this morning. It was great to get out as a family again, and all of the kids behaved themselves magnificently. Nicest moment was when the previously mentioned coffee guy said “it’s nice to see you all here”.

Now that Jen has been introduced to the delights of South Melbourne Market I’m going to have to keep an eye out for both her and Andrew Highriser when shopping.

And here I was thinking it was us who had Tom under control. I realised today as I trudged out the front to pick him and bring him in that the smart feline has it all figured out. Why bother wasting vital napping energy by walking to the back door and coming when you can train dad to come out, pick you up and take you inside?

That’s one smart cat and one not so smart owner.

Two things that made me smile yesterday.

1. The Coffee Guy

Normally I go to South Melbourne Market on a Sunday morning to do our grocery shopping and the last thing I do is grab a couple of coffees from the pizza guy to take home (along with donuts for the kids). I was in the area yesterday afternoon and as we needed a lettuce I dropped in to the market to get one.

It was 3ish, time for a coffee, so I walked around to the pizza boys for a takeaway. The young guy who makes the best coffee looked at me and said “hey, it’s not Sunday morning!”. When you consider I don’t go every week, and have been going less often lately, and the hundreds of coffees he’d make each day I was impressed.

2. Indy Is Back

No American readers, not the cars. Indiana Jones, the man in the hat, is back. When I first read about the new film I was worried they had pushed the series one film too far but after watching the trailer (see www.indianajones.com) umpteen billion times yesterday I can’t wait. Nanas be on notice – you’re baby sitting the weekend this is released.