Eric Riddler
eriddler.bsky.social
Eric Riddler
@eriddler.bsky.social
Art and photography tragic from Wallumedegal Country (Western Sydney)
Sigh, the forgotten ye olde worlde days of “we can only play what’s in our videotape library”… sending empathy back across the years to the VH1 librarian, getting to the last shelf with only the Bonnie Tyler clip on the trolley, hope fading away with each tape’s track list…
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Unwelcome thoughts of non-stove-related ways of seeing a blue flame… maybe he’d had extra sauerkraut earlier and the subsequent flame was the same intense blue as his eyes… awww, you romantic fools, you…
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Only Australians of a certain age will get this but “you can’t impress me, I’ve been to Constantinople, too”

youtu.be/EVOIg_lHRzk
Redgum - I've Been To Bali Too (1984)
YouTube video by Antipodean Music
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“… I never could get the hang of Thursdays…”
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We should light fork handles in his memory…
October 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sorry, autocorrect insisted on “it’s” over “its” and I posted before I noticed it
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I can’t help thinking that they’re still fuming that Brexit (in particular it’s “let’s go back to the Empire and pretend nothing happened to the Commonwealth’s industry after 1973” selling point) didn’t kick start the Leyland Force 7 back into production…

www.goodwood.com/grr/road/new...
The best Leyland car that never was | Axon’s Automotive Anorak | GRR
Force 7 is Leyland's Aussie muscle car, of which just nine still exist...
www.goodwood.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Your description rang a bell, so I looked and found a White Wings ‘Instant Breakfast’ on Trove:

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...
Advertising - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 31 Mar 1971
Paragraph operations are made directly in the full article text panel located to the left.Paragraph operations include:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110346048?searchTerm=“Instant%20breakfast”%20powder
September 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
September 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM