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ok so technically it's not a beer.  In fact it doesn't taste like butter *or* beer - it's very sweet, and the foam bubbles!

Butterbeer, Hogsmeade


Meantime, England

Sakara Gold, Egypt

Stella, Egypt

Maccabee

Badger, Badger

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Saw this amazing mushroom growing on a nature strip the other day ..

Mushroom


A while back DC put me onto a BBC podcast - "A History of the World in 100 Objects" which is all about world history told through 100 objects found in the British Museum.  It's a cool podcast, but even cooler when I realise they're talking about objects I've seen!  Next time I'm there I'm going to try and find more of the objects.

So it's kind of appropriate that tonight I mention that it was exactly eighteen months ago today that we were at the British Museum :)
So we were watching DamCam all day yesterday.  And Mark Sullivan's tweets.  The old Cotter Dam disappeared underwater, and the new one looked like it was going to overflow.

So I had to go see of course :)

New Cotter Dam overspill

New Cotter Dam overspill

New Cotter Dam overspill

New Cotter Dam overspill


Scrivener was also going hard

Scrivener Dam overspill

Scrivener Dam overspill


This was Ginninderra Creek yesterday morning.  Normally this creek is about a metre wide.

Ginninderra Creek Flooding


And a wombat.  Cause it's cool.

Wombat


So this is Canberra's latest piece of public art - Keizo Ushio’s “oushi zokei, dream lens for the future”

Oushi zokei


At first glance I'm like "Hey! They copied the one in Japan!"

Dream lens, Kobe

Except as it turns out, it's by the same artist!  

I think I like the one in Japan better - it has three twists instead of the one we have here.

Dream lens, Kobe Dream lens, Canberra

And a few more of both, just for fun

Dream lens, Canberra


Dream lens, Canberra


Dream lens, Kobe


Dream lens, Kobe


Even got myself on the RiotACT.  Again.  :)  
Typical of Canberrans though, everyone having a whinge about it.  Which is sad because this piece of art is *cool*!

Television Tunes

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Whoops.. while looking up some stuff for our trivia night, I ended up on Television Tunes.. and spent the rest of the night there listening to old tv show themes.....
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