The following is from a Live Journal blog post I made on the 19th September 2005, via the user name royalderwent.
We were lucky enough to borrow a video camera off my brother which he obtained from school. The reason for borrowing the camera was that I am still to own my own, [...]
Several years ago, I started a paranormal investigation of an old, abandoned mental asylum in New Norfolk, Tasmania – Willow Court, also known as The Royal Derwent. Once the largest mental asylum in the Southern Hemisphere, it was closed down ward by ward towards the end of the 90’s as new changes were made to [...]
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I love Photoshop. While I may not be a pro at designing the newest and coolest ad campaign, I do enjoy playing around with it, manipulating my photos and art to come up with something amazing. But the first time I used Photoshop, I was overwhelmed by the possibilities. Not knowing where to start, I [...]
We were driving home last night when we saw this on the back of a car – “Proudly Sponsored By Centrelink.” For those Non-Australians who aren’t in fits of laughter thinking, WTF? Centrelink is Australia’s welfare agency which financially supports many of our citizens using tax payers money, from pensioners to parents, from students to [...]
This morning we awoke to some new additions to our family. Our mice – Misa and Moo, had 11 tiny little pink pups. Unfortunately, 1 did not make it, but the surviving 10 seem to be doing well.
Female mice come into heat every 3 – 5 days, with their pregnancy lasting around 21 days. Litter [...]
Once again it seems like it has been forever since I last posted, thanks to a lack of Internet access, being in between dwellings and that chaotic phase of the year we call Christmas. Life has been so flat out of late, I am surprised that everything I see and experience doesn’t just whirl [...]
When my parents moved into their house (built in 1915) back in 2005, Mum had a feeling there was something a little strange going on. Quite often you would walk through the house and catch the scent of a perfume that no one was wearing, or you would hear footsteps coming from an empty room.
One [...]
