The Bassett family site
Occasional observations, questions and perhaps even a few answers
We were blessed by a lovely gift (each) for our birthdays this year―two hand-drawn pictures from Charlie, (one of) our extremely talented granddaughter(s). I like them so much that as well as posting them on our fridge 😊 I’ve scanned and combined them into the image above. We’re going to use this as the logo …
I’ve been seeing quite a few newsfeed headlines of late discussing the pros/cons of employees returning-to-office (RTO) based working—implicitly in the post-COVID environment. They seem to basically all fall onto either one or the other sides of the argument PRO: the articles/arguments FOR returning to the office generally seem to centre around vague statements about …
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I’ve been thinking about how our travels are recorded (and displayed) on this site. The way we’ve done it for our first three years seems to work OK, but does feel a little at odds with our “no fixed address” life. I have two main concerns with it: As such, for 2026 we’re going to …
I’ve noticed just recently—I guess brought out by some days of driving on open, fairly flat roads—a significant portion of drivers that appear unable to plan and execute a general overtaking manoeuvre. We normally choose to travel at about 90 km/hr where road conditions permit; this gives us a reasonable balance between fuel consumption and …
[This has annoyed me for years, but I’ve only just realised that I have to get the ranting over-and-done-with before the new bypass road is completed and opened and these signs are no more!] The picture above depicts my “favourite” love-to-hate example of completely and utterly incorrect use of language on a road sign. It …
At church last Sunday—the last one of 2024—the preacher suggested that it was appropriate to reflect on our year and invited us to rate it our of ten. He suggested a few example ratings to get us started: This got me thinking: I certainly have no argument with looking back or reflecting on the year …
If you’ve not visited or travelled much into some of our country’s slightly more remote areas you might be tempted to think of the Australian “outback” as being fairly visually homogeneous; merely unending vistas of red dirt or similar. Having just completed about 4100 kms or so in a loop out from Sydney through Central-West …
As you might realise, we’ve spent a good deal of our life in Granville: originally this came under Parramatta Council, more recently it was with Holroyd. In both cases there were robust recycling schemes implemented for household garbage, covering such materials as paper/cardboard, most metal items and plastic milk/drink bottles. We worked fairly diligently at …
Leaving aside the song from the 1960s musical/film Sweet Charity, watching the comings and goings at a couple of showgrounds this trip has got me wondering: what pace do people live at that drives them to only stay at a place for a single night? I know we’re only really new at all this caravan …
This is a fake post, not really a real post at all; although it is actually pretty random. It’s whole purpose in life is to have it’s creation date faked to older than a year ago to allow me to test some post selection coding. Once it’s done that, I will probably disable or delete …