Saw something being filmed at Richmond station platform 1 today. When a train pulled in, a woman in a suit walked along beside it in front of a camera, several times until the director looked satisfied and they packed up and went home. Probably an advert or something.

Also seen at Richmond station, posters for the Melbourne Theatre Company with the slogan “You’ve got to go!”, kinda funny since the accompanying picture shows two people standing next to the public lavvies at the town hall. ‘Cos hey, if they’ve got to go, that’s a good place to do so.

I’m totally sold on the concept of the washing line. The ol’ Hills Hoist works a treat in fine sunny weather like this. Dammit, even one day last week when it was cloudy and drizzly (but breezy too) the washing all dried super-quick. But my two tips are: (a) hang everything inside out, lest you get a faded patch as happened on Jeremy’s pyjamas the other day (either he hasn’t noticed or doesn’t mind…) and (b) take care hanging up stuff in the dark, especially when you spin the line around to get to the next section and there’s a bit of cord partly hanging down and it’s dark and you can’t see it and suddenly gggllllaaaarrrgggghhhhh…

The Australian 2004 Blog Awards are on, and happily this humble diary has been nominated in a couple of categories by some poor deluded fools who think it’s worthy. I’m certainly not holding my breath on winning any of them, because there is some staggeringly good competition among the other nominees. But I’ll certainly be cruising past some of them and putting in my vote. Take a look — some great reads.

By the way I still need to do some fiddling with the new blog format. Previous/Next links are missing, the trackbacks don’t work, and there was some weird-arse bug that kept messing up the Tintin post. No matter, it’ll get there eventually.