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A photo of the (fake) Christmas tree at my parents' place. It's pretty big, probably close to 2 metres tall, and covered in lights and decorations. Christmassy without veering completely into "explosion in a Christmas shop".

A photo of my Christmas haul: eleven paperback books (mostly scifi), a Fender "Telepath" wireless system for being able to play guitar through my amp without needing a physical cable, and the Ahriman miniature from Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. The art on the front is a Space Marine in ornate red and gold armour with a kind of Egyptian feel going on.

A photo of two kookaburras sitting on the fence of the neighbour's back deck.

Happy Chrimbo, fediverse! The theme of this Christmas was "books". Plus unexpectedly a miniature from my daughter!

We also got to watch the local kookaburras hanging out on the neighbour's back deck.

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Posted on 25 December 2025, 18:44

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red (and very rapidly greying) beard and short (and receeding) hair, sitting in front of the babby model of Roland's electronic drum kit range. Behind me are two people busily still playing music, one on bass guitar and the other on a full-size keyboard.

A photo of the MASSIVE Christmas tree in the middle of Martin Place in Sydney's CBD, it'd have to be at least two storeys high. There's a barrier around the bottom of it and a cherry picker part-way up it to the right. It's lit up though, primarily in tiny purple lights.

Jam session success! We mostly did improvisation and got some seriously excellent grooves going. I asked how my drumming was afterwards (one of the people there is actually in a band, though I have no idea how serious an endeavour it is) and they said "Really good!" 😁 Feels good, man.

And you can tell we're getting into Christmas season, the enormous Christmas tree in Martin Place is very nearly finished. We were out getting a coffee after lunch and there was a guy up in a cherry picker putting the huge balls on that were a significant fraction the height of him.

Also one of the people started playing the intro riff to Tool's Schism so now I'm listening to Lateralus on the trip home.

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Posted on 20 November 2025, 20:15

A photo of my Christmas presents: a Boss Katana Go headphone amp, Shure SE215 noise isolating earbuds, a little wooden holder for my guitar picks, and a bottle of "Lucky Sod" liqueur that says it's honeycomb and sticky toffee mixed with Irish whiskey.

A photo of sliced roast beef, roast potatoes and pumpkin, and a chicken leg sitting on a white dinner plate.

A photo of a black vinyl record on a turntable.

Hope everyone has had an excellent Christmas! Got some good presents, had a delicious roast lunch, and listened to Alice In Chains on the record that the seventeen year-old asked for as a present, haha.

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Posted on 25 December 2024, 14:52

Yessss, it's that time of the year again.

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Posted on 24 November 2023, 11:24

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, it's a sunny day with cobblestone streets and obviously-Mexican buildings, and there's a massive Christmas tree in the middle the section where a road is splitting apart. On the other side of the road is a huge yellow building that I think is a church.

Another screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, showing my red Datsun 510 with big rims zooming along the road in the middle of the desert, there's lots of cactii and scrubby bushes on the side of the road.

Haha, Forza Horizon 5 is getting into the Christmas spirit as well: there's a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the city, and various other places have big candy canes lining the side of the road.

In related news, still having a ton of fun in my hotted-up Datsun 510.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 22:34

A photo of the box of Games Workshop's new Warhammer Underworlds box, "Gnarlwood", and four Boss guitar pedals. The Underworlds box has artwork of a guy in furs and looking very shamanic, and the guitar pedals are the DS-1W distortion, DD-3T digital delay, GE-7 equaliser, and Reverb RV-6.

Christmas loot! Hope everyone's had a good one.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 13:47

A photo of a pile of presents wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper sitting on the floor next to a white pedestal that has a teeny little fake Christmas tree with lights and tinsel and decorations on it. The tree is probably not even 50 centimetres high in total.

Present wrapping: done. Presents: deployed. (Technically they're under the Christmas tree, right?)

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Posted on 24 December 2022, 14:41

A photo of a little fake Christmas tree in a pot, maybe thirty centimetres high. It's covered in tinsel, balls, and Christmas lights, and there's a little statue of Queen Amidala from Star Wars that my mother-in-law bought me one year next to it, solely because she's got a big red gown on and looks festive.

Christmas tree is up*! Also, festive Queen Amidala.

Where "up" means "taken out of the cupboard and plugged in".

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Posted on 1 December 2022, 19:43

A photo of a small automatic-turning spit roaster sitting on the floor.

The other Christmas present I forgot to post (because we didn't bother wrapping it or bringing it anywhere) was from Kristina: a little spit roaster! Very keen to take it for a spin.

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Posted on 28 December 2021, 11:07

A photo of five novels, the latest edition of Games Workshop's "Warhammer Underworlds" game called "Harrowdeep", a cylindrical container with a bottle of whisky in it, and a box of "aged" Earl Grey tea.

Christmas haul! I'm REALLY keen to try the whisky, it's from India and is a blend of Scottish and Indian barleys.

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Posted on 25 December 2021, 17:42