This is something for everyone… spread the word… make it a global campaign. E-mail it to all your friends… tell people in work… tell everyone!! Earth Hour The idea is simple.. switch off your house lights (or business lights) for one hour on 31st March 2007 (next Saturday night) to save fuel etc. Join the … More Earth Hour.

Spent the morning in the garden hacking, pulling, weeding, chopping and the like… and this is on just one small part of the garden… just outside the front door. At the moment I’m in the mood for a tidy… so I decided I would start at the front, work over the side, the pool area … More I like gardening.

I’ve been listening to a local radio station called 2CH which specialises in playing *really* golden oldies… Sinatra, Crosby and the like. This is mainly because of the oldies who like that sort of stuff, but also ‘cos I actually like a lot of it myself. However, a part of their music mix is derived … More Cilla Black… not too shabby

As said the kids went off to a Guide Camp for the weekend and a good time was had by both as far as we can tell. Into bed at midnight first night… 3:00 a.m. on the second… geez! Loads of fun falling in lakes, doing archery, sliding across valleys on flying foxes and sitting … More Talking of kids…

Had a really quiet time over the weekend all in all. Despite doing a load of stuff… it seems not having the kids there to stress the wife out made it easier all round. Without them for her to shout at peace reigned 🙂 We did a lot of gardening. We bought replacement pot, mandarin … More Ahhh for a day off.

Apart from excessive sorbitol being a really good laxitive… ooer… it is apparantly a carbohydrate (you live and learn!!)! Now I’m asking myself if I’m allowed to eat the damn Apple Spice treats or not? I’m supposed to be on a low-carb diet and chowing down on something that’s 98% carbs seems a little self … More And Sorbitol is… ?

I used to live on Fisherman’s Friends. That hot searing taste of peppermint and menthol really used to clear my sinuses when I had a cold… strangely a lot of people don’t like them… ah well… their loss 🙂 Anyway, they are largely made up of sugar so are a bit of a no-no on … More Fisherman's Friends

Had a knock on the door this morning and outside was Brett Mirow from J. J. Richards & Sons who handle the waste management for the local council. We had a chat about the problem with the garbo breaking the pot… and that he’d not bothered to apologise or something… and that I was a … More More on the garbo's damage.

Yet again I realise I’ve all bar abandoned commenting on the social machinations of the world at large to concentrate on the micro-behaviours of my family and myself. No doubt there’ve been all sorts of issues out there worthy of comment in here… but lately I’ve been posting them in Australian Opinion to make sure … More Opinion? Where?

Today we are hoping we’ll see the final instalment of the saga of the old man’s teeth. He only has a filling today… we think… maybe two (?) but either way it’ll be good to see the end of it. He says he feels really odd when he’s chewing now. With so many teeth gone … More The saga of the teeth.