I find it hard to believe… but police have confirmed it… but paramedics in Sunderland found a 22 year old man with severe injuries on Bonfire Night (Nov 5th) after he tried to launch a rocket from his backside!! There are times you have to wonder how stupid people can be… and then something like … More Is that a rocket in your pocket?

Ahh… the joys of gardening… remind me… are there any?? I hate mowing… and strimming… and strimming… and mowing. And of course the twenty pounds of doggy chocolate littering the back garden is making the task *no* easier… ewwww. Oh yeah… I hate weeding too. Especially after the heat and rain have worked their magic … More Gardening…

Federal Health minister Tony Abgot has ruled out giving his daughters the life saving cervical cancer vaccine. In Australia 270 women each year die from the disease and around 40 women are operated on for the disease. Seems Tony Abbot requires that the drug be free on prescription or as part of a national campaign … More Who'd be Tony Abbot's girls?

Maybe I can get back to working properly now. The series I got hooked on is finally over. I expect it’ll come back over and over as theings do on satellite… but there are no more series to come. Was there resolution? Was there closure? Not really… tho the last few lines did sort of … More Well… Dead Like Me… it's gorn.

So Donald Rumsfeld, aka Dr Death has finally gone. He is no longer ‘Secertary of Defence’ now Shrublet has finally let him go. In a way it’s almost funny. One of the prime objectives was to remove Saddam Hussein the so called “Butcher of Baghdad”… which they’ve done. Saddam is now to die. But think … More Rumsfeld Resigns.

No idea how… but the kids managed to wreck the car this morning. Not exactly ‘wreck’ I suppose… just jam one of the sliding doors with a seatbelt so that I can *not* open it. Apart from the inconvenience of not being able to use the door… it means I’ll now *have* to take the … More Kids – who'd have 'em?

Has anything really improved in the Middle East?? Osama bin Laden is still wandering free doing his thing without let or hinderance as far as anyone knows. The moderate Sunni’s have lost ground dramatically, and the far more aggresive Shi’ites are in the ascendency. An unholy alliance between Iraq and their old foe Iran now … More Saddam to die – so what?

It has been revealed that NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Milton Orkopoulos was arrested and charged this morning at 7:30 a.m., with 30 sexual offences allegedly committed between 1997 and 2005. The charges include six of homosexual intercourse involving boys aged between 10 and 18 years, and 12 of supplying a prohibited drug. In addition he … More Labor Scandal

We’re waiting on another interest rate rise at around 9:30 this morning… should cost us a lot of money… maybe $100 a month or more. If so that wipes out tax breaks and other rises we’ve had. In fact… I think it’s time to bite the bullet and downsize the transport. It’s nice to have … More Are you interested?

Long ago and far away, once or twice a year, my parents… well my mother (and sometimes my grandparents)… used to drag us down to the docks in Cardiff where we’d board what I thought at the time was a huge ship. It would take us to Saundersfoot and similar utterly pointless seaside resorts where … More Bring back the paddles.