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Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · 1d ago

“The man who ate a park” in today’s #TheSaturdayPaper is about William Light’s design for #Adelaide (and the Park Lands). A few years ago I made this (slightly) interactive version of Light’s map.

https://coombe.id.au/1840s_South_Australia/1837_Adelaide_Map_Original_Purchasers.htm

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Mar 06, 2026

#S_T_Gill project bug fix (links to maps). Artworks with ampersand in the title were not linking to #uMap (object name). Replaced ampersand with "and" in webpage html and in uMap content.
Fixed example on 1840s #Adelaide map, "Capt. Frome's & Engineer Barracks": https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill's_Series_of_Adelaide_Views.htm#47

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Mar 02, 2026

Weather is a curious prompter of memory, I find. This morning’s weather a reminder of another place and time … Or maybe it’s just unusual weather that does it.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Mar 02, 2026

“Frog. The Secret Diary of a Paramedic” by Sally Gould (2025)

Ambos. “Life as a paramedic … can be traumatic, gross, dull, hilarious and magical.” A great Australian read. Just finished (from #LibrariesACT)

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D265 Organ pipe structures, Sydenhan – Subject : BASALT – part of VPRS14517, Negatives of Photographs [Publications Branch]. https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/B0CA57E4-5613-11EB-BE8C-99C636FBFD2D

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Mar 01, 2026

@provbot the boys on school excursion sure to remember properties of basalt columns

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Feb 27, 2026

Heard on radio BBC Inside Science in an item on geology and after an item on AI.

“ … because AI had never …”

middle of night brain catches up

“ … a) I had never …”

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Feb 25, 2026

#Tasmania Hidden Treasures Walk to the West #colonialArtAU exhibition in Queenstown 6 March – 10 April. #artAU

https://rst.org.au/search-for-the-lost-piguenits-a-valuable-artwork-could-be-hanging-on-your-wall/

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Feb 23, 2026

fly-past from a flock of corellas in conversation

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Feb 23, 2026

The artist's many signatures.
Applying fresh analysis to a 40-year-old 4-page appendix. New article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill_Signatures_and_Dating.htm
#S_T_Gill #catalogueRaisonne #artHistoryAU

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Feb 23, 2026

I've noticed #TroveAU has recently cut over to using #StateLibraryNSW *new* catalogue. The new catalogue is great. (I transitioned my project.) #ozGLAM

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Feb 05, 2026

#Canberra #LifelineBookFair is on again at EPIC, today and over the weekend. I’ll be there carrying for the voracious reader. https://www.lifelinecanberra.org.au/books/bookfair/

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Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Jan 27, 2026

Absolutely bizarre thermometer graphic used on #ABCTV news tonight. Check the number scales both left (C) and right (F) in the #Canberra edition. No AI please! #ABCNewsAU

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They should heritage list the Belconnen mall carpark. #Canberra

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Like, Belco mall is basically as old as I am. It’s been through a lot of changes. The two concrete multi-story carparks attached to the original building are still essentially the same as they always

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The Wikipedia page for Belco mall has some critical information. “2009 - Construction begins on the replacement of the mall's original Travelators.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Belconnen #

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social

Canberran. Partner. Father. Retired systems analyst, designer & developer. Original research on colonial artist S.T. Gill 1840-1853. Gardens : vegetable, native. Following more hashtags than accounts. Portrait (detail) : by Phillip England (TasmanianTintype), gift of my daughter.

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@david_coombe_cbr@aus.social · Nov 27, 2025

@troberts@theblower.au … and then there’s the red footbridge that is now repurposed next to the Molonglo River. #Belconnen https://citynews.com.au/2013/red-bridge-back-regulation-grey/

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