Despite being legally married overseas, the ATO has deemed it illegal for two gay men to submit a joint tax return as other married couples do. This is quite simply because same sex marriages are not lawful in Australia. The oddness of this decision tho is highlighted by the couple having been able to submit … More Being gay is a taxing time.

The wife booked the dentist… yippee… I think. Unfortunately it’s on the weekend or she’ll have to take a day off work… and Ray isn’t there on weekends… well who can blame him really? So, upshot is I can’t see the guy I know. Serves me right for nagging I suppose 🙂 I wonder what … More More on dentistry

I’ve been tidying up, as I do occasionally, and when I was moving furniture around I realised I don’t like having so much furniture in this room… it is *far* too cluttered for my liking. Can’t do much with it as the oldies can’t get upstairs to what is our normal ‘living area’. Still, it … More Our house.

I just discovered a hole in one of my lower teeth… right side. This of course means a visit to the dentist. Now I quite like our local dentist Raj… well I like him as a guy… but… well he’s a dentist and I have bad memories of dentists!! I suppose in the old days … More Dentists… a necessary evil.

Odd how your eyes get drawn to something once your mind is tuned in that direction. I was just reading how research groups are working hard to produce a true purple tomato packed with anthocyanins. Research has shown how useful anthocyanins is as an antioxidant, but tomatoes also carry large amounts of lycopene which can … More More on anthocyanins

Quiet this morning with nothing to write about… or right about… I say that cos I’ve nothing left to say… gawd I *must* be bored 🙂 I have a few things to do. Gardening front and back. Cleaning top and bottom. Well ok I suppose I have an enormous amount to do… but I’m a … More Tum te dum te dum

About eighteen months or so ago we had a foster child and her sister stay with us. The older girl made a friend at her school and when the girl moved on the friend carried on coming down to play with my eldest daughter despite being 3 years older than her… aged around 11. Time … More Strange how kids change.

I spent a large chunk of last night munching on grapes… bloody fabulous ones too! Imported from the USA… small, red and seedless. I think the variety was Red Flame (?). I must have eaten nearly a kilo… and at $15 a kilo it wasn’t a cheap snack by any means. Most of me figured … More A little more diet stuff

The diet isn’t 100% effective yet… I’m still trying to cut everything out but it isn’t so easy 🙂 On a theme… I’m sure some of the problems are caused by a food intolerance. Yes last time the pneumonia caused a lot of problems and I ended up eating crap again, but I was already … More The diet.

Ouch… ! Went to the docs a week or so ago with the wife. While she was there I asked him about some itchy pimples I had on my shoulder. Aha… says he… shingles! Weird, thinks I… doesn’t shingles cover the stomach, chest and back? Apparantly not… well not always anyway. Seems the virus travels … More Shingle Bells