bluesky – Stilgherrian

19 July 202620 July 2026

The 9pm Half-time Bingo Card Update 2026 with Snarky Platypus

Photograph of an old-fashioned bingo card from Milton Bradley Company against a background of wooden bingo stamps stained with red ink, and in the top right corner an inset showing a platypus. — *Main image by* Rudonni *via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company,* photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic *license. Platypus inset photo by Taronga Conservation Society Australia / Chris Wheeler. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.*

Back at the start of the year, my good friend Snarky Platypus and I created a bingo card for 2026. A set of 25 things that might happen. Well, we’re half-way through the year, so let’s see how we went.

12 May 202426 May 2024

Weekly Wrap 728: Wet weather fails to dampen my enjoyment of social activities

A photo taken at night. An ambulance surges through water, with spray coming up a metre along its side.

My week of Monday 6 to Sunday 12 May 2024 was both busy and wet, the latter being due to the rain rather than anything I did. See the photo above for evidence of how Sydney’s drainage systems can’t cope. And of course I turned One Million Years old. Kinda.

07 January 202412 January 2024

Weekly Wrap 710: A quiet start to 2024, and an old sunrise

And 2024 begins! Around two decades ago I used to photograph the New Year’s Day sunrise at Bronte Beach in eastern Sydney, or do some other ritual thing. The photo above is from 2005. However my week of Monday 1 to Sunday 7 January 2024 was just a quiet one at home, mostly.

17 December 202317 December 2023

The 9pm Chia Seed Protein Pudding with John Birmingham

*John Birmingham is haunted by the cover of his latest book. (Photo: Supplied)*

The summer series takes a disturbing turn this week with one of our favourite guests, author and columnist John Birmingham — who admits to eating something that I simply do not understand.

26 November 202328 November 2023

Weekly Wrap 704: Working gently in the background and encountering the Pigeon of Dignity

A grey and white pigeon is perched on a postbox, looking quizzically into the camera lens.

The highlight of my week of Monday 20 to Sunday 26 November 2023 was really stupid. I ended up in The Media™ again, this time because I’d posted on the socials about Microsoft’s Bing Search telling the world that Australia didn’t exist. So, so stupid.

19 November 202327 November 2023

Weekly Wrap 703: This week’s magpies, last week’s flower, and a podcast about China

I had a great week this week, Monday 13 to Sunday 19 November 2023. Settling into regular podcast production again has felt good. The magpies have been plentiful and boisterous. And I generally got a lot done.