tesla – 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.

25 November 202527 November 2025

The 9pm All-Electric Douchebag with Peter Anderson

A handsome middle-aged white man looks into the camera. It's Peter Anderson! — *Peter Anderson. (Photo: Supplied)*

I know nothing about cars. I don’t even know how to drive. So obviously my guest today is freelance motoring journalist and editor of The Redline, Peter Anderson â€” because a lot has been happening in the auto industry, right? I might learn something.

10 August 202511 August 2025

Weekly Wrap 793: It began in Mount Victoria…

An Edwardian-era railway signal box photographed late at night. The lower section is brown brick with three arched windows, a flower pot by each. The upper floor is wood, painted cream with maroon trim, and through the windows that run the full length of that floor one can see the brightly-coloured handles of the various levers. On the left a metal staircase leads up to the door., A wooden painted sign reads MOUNT VICTORIA SIGNAL BOX.

My week of Monday 4 to Sunday 10 August 2025 saw the production of a podcast and some work on my websites, as well as quite a bit of sleep. So, an ordinary week. I also made an unexpected trip to Mount Victoria before Monday had even properly begun.

04 August 202510 August 2025

Weekly Wrap 792: I slept a lot this week, so here’s a duck

The location is the circular base of a fountain, a low curved concrete wall holding in some greenish water to its left, and with bland asphalt to its right. On top of this little wall stands a duck with mottled breast, brown head, and wings with striking brown and white markings — and said wings are being flapped vigorously after it’s had a bit of a splash.

My week of Monday 28 July to Sunday 3 August 2025 was the second in a row that included a lot of sleeping. Maybe it’s just the weather, but I don’t know. Anyway, I got a bunch of planning done, and recorded a podcast for the coming week.

20 July 202517 June 2026

Weekly Wrap 790: I’m still thinking about that trip to my birthplace, which was Gawler

Looking across the street at two classic Victorian-era civic buildings. On the left is a two-storey stone building, three windows wide, with a portico at the front finished in white plaster. Across the top it reads INSTITUTE and on the facade there’s the text “In Memoriam 1914 - 1918”. On the right is a shorter but similar building, with a terrace on top of its portico, and a row of four flagpoles. The flags are limp because there’s no wind, and they can’t be recognised. On the top of the facade is a set of arms (featuring a hawk, wheat, and lion, but drawn incorrectly), and the words TOWN HALL. In between them is a hint of modern architecture, namely the glass entry to a new building behind these two. The sky is bright blue with a few fluffy clouds.

Ages back I suggested that my productivity runs to a fortnightly cycle, and perhaps that’s still the case. My week of Monday 14 to Sunday 20 July 2025 involved quite a lot of sleep, but I still produced a podcast and a newsletter — and posted another photo from my recent expedition to South Australia.

14 July 202514 July 2025

Weekly Wrap 789: Podcasts! Three podcasts! (And another view from Granite Island)

A view from a hill on an island. In the right-hand foreground is a pile of massive weathered granite boulders, the upper ones coated in orange lichen where they’re above the salt spray, the lower ones washed bare by the waves. On the left and out to the horizon is the endless ocean under a grey sky. And in the upper right-hand background, running in about a third of the way in from the right of the frame, the distant shoreline ends in a lump of a headland, bare of trees.

My week of Monday 7 to Sunday 13 July 2025 was a podcast-productive week, with three episodes recorded and one of them posted. This was despite losing a couple of days to fighting off a cold or something. Such a good week. But the photo is from last week.