Please tickle my belly… #ossTonga #Tonga #oceanswimsafaris #Pacific #Swim Images by Karen Thomas oceanswimsafaris

Sundee trek up Mt Talau… #ossTonga #Tonga #oceanswimsafaris #Pacific #Swim Images by Marty Kendall/Karen Thomas oceanswimsafaris

Photographiatrix Marty Kendall prepares to shoot her own impressions from Mt Talau… #ossTonga #Tonga #oceanswimsafaris #Pacific #Swim Images by Martini Farleigh oceanswimsafaris

What do you do on a Sundee when pretty well everything is closed? You skylark… #ossTonga #Tonga #oceanswimsafaris #Pacific #Swim Images by Louise Hunt oceanswimsafaris

A more spiritual setting for the ocean swimmers’ salute, which is apposite… #ossTonga #Tonga #oceanswimsafaris #Pacific #Swim Image by Martini Farleigh oceanswimsafaris

Swim day,… #ossTonga #Tonga #oceanswimsafaris #Pacific #Swim Images by photogriatrix Marty Kendall oceanswimsafaris

In England right now, out in the West Country, and on the morning telly they have a lady in the studio with a chook on her lap. She was there to talk about chooks as pets. The male host took off his mike and tried to get the chook to coo into it. They’re a wacky lot, them poms.

As ok as you’ll ever be.

#City #Life #Sydney

Basil Fawlty is running a restaurant these days… theguardian.com/business/2024/…

This is the kind of stuff we really need to know about our idols (not personally one of ours, however)… theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

A few years ago, I was staying at a hotel in YEG for an event. While waiting in the lobby for my partner to come up from the parkade I started chatting with a super sweet, older couple who were in town to volunteer with Habit for Humanity. They were so sweet and genuinely 1/

A noice, Chewsdee read… ‘I am Muriel’… Well, not us particularly, but you’ll see what we mean… #MurielsWedding theguardian.com/culture/2025/a…

Haven’t seen enough of these in a while…

At last, someone who can explain what that feminist space flight was all about… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Anzac Day, 2025… Front row middle is Uncle, cousin Ree to his left, behind left is moi (hat and sunnies), cousin Anthony next to me. This day is for family. To Uncle’s right is lifelong family friend Don Harrison. History afoot.

Whenever a pollie says, ‘(our) policy is clear’, just remember what this means. It means ‘We don’t have a policy’. It’s one of those weasel phrases they use to cloud/muddy an issue. #AusElections

this is so gorgeous

Max Chandler-Mather will go down in history as the Andrew Jones of his times (look him up, youngsters)… smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Whom we’ve been swimming with today in French Polynesia…