Wolf Blass Winery, Barossa Valley.
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Day 1 Barossa Valley
Left Cairns 4:30pm on Friday 27th May 2005 via Virgin Airlines and arrived at a chilly Adelaide around 10pm. Collected our car rental from Avis, who were good enough to upgrade us to a Commodore with satellite navigation. Didn't realise how useful these are! SB* programmed it to get us to Lyndoch (about 1 hour nth of Adelaide), MDR didn't have to worry about maps or anything, the nice voice on the satnav, which we've dubbed ''Sheree'' after SB's maths teacher, plotted our route and told us when to turn and the distances we needed to travel, a wonderful tool for sure.
Mumsy booked a 3 bdrm holiday house called 'Casa Rossa', through wotif. Our thoughtful hosts had turned on the central heating for us. The house is in a vineyard and is just perfect for us, not only centally heated, it has an open fire and heaters in the bedrooms. Mumsy loves the bath too, where she can thaw out when required.
*SB - Sebastian Bluemmert
Mumsy - Marcia
MDR - Marc
Mumsy booked a 3 bdrm holiday house called 'Casa Rossa', through wotif. Our thoughtful hosts had turned on the central heating for us. The house is in a vineyard and is just perfect for us, not only centally heated, it has an open fire and heaters in the bedrooms. Mumsy loves the bath too, where she can thaw out when required.
*SB - Sebastian Bluemmert
Mumsy - Marcia
MDR - Marc
Sunday, March 6, 2005
Internet Radio
I enjoy listening to the radio via my PC. There are many interesting programs on when I'm not around to listen and I've wondered for a while about recording them. Looked through the MS Windows Accessories and there doesn't appear to be any software for recording, except via the microphone. Went to good ol' Google and found the answer in a nanosecond, downloaded Total Recorder from www.highcriteria.com and voila I have the software.
It's very simple to use, had to set-up a recording profile which was probably the hardest bit. Once that was done tried recording but nothing doing. It turned out that as I use Windows Media to listen to radio I needed to download some extra software, did that and I was up and running. I then recorded a 2 hour radio program. Replayed it the next day and it was superb. There are also options in the software to convert the sound files to the format needed for burning to CD etc. This is a great little piece of software that will provide me lots of extra listening pleasure.
It's very simple to use, had to set-up a recording profile which was probably the hardest bit. Once that was done tried recording but nothing doing. It turned out that as I use Windows Media to listen to radio I needed to download some extra software, did that and I was up and running. I then recorded a 2 hour radio program. Replayed it the next day and it was superb. There are also options in the software to convert the sound files to the format needed for burning to CD etc. This is a great little piece of software that will provide me lots of extra listening pleasure.
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie
This book should be compulsory reading for everybody. I first heard about "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom on ABC radio. Morrie was one of Mitch Albom's University lecturers. About 20 years after Mitch left Uni, Morrie appeared on TV after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, which Mitch happened to see. Mitch then started visiting Morrie regularly and wrote about their discussions until Morrie died of the disease. Mitch & Morrie talked about all the big questions in life, ie love, marriage, children, death etc. It is so simply and touchingly written, I was reduced to tears. I found it to be a very "grounding" book that reminded me of what the really important things in life are.
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