Yup… I’ve finally reached the penultimate number in this decade… will I be here to reach the next one? Watch this space… I make *no* promises… but I *do* hope I make it 😀 Actually ‘happy birthday’ has been right so far. Got up this morning as usual and forgot totally… then wife and kids … More Happy Birthday to me…!!

There are tales galore about spiders biting peoples backsides when they used the old outdoor dunnies. Sort of made sense in their way. The old earth latrines attracted flies… so were a good source of food for spiders… so they made their webs where the food comes from… well you get the drift. Today we … More Remember the song about the spider in the dunny?

One of the problems with living in paradise is that you get a little blase about things in general, for example we *expect* the weather to be perfect! And of course it is mostly. And yet we complain constantly. It’s too warm, too cold, too windy, too dry, too wet… whatever. I think maybe the … More Nice day again.

A first in infamy… Iceland has decided to reopen it’s ‘legal’ whaling business by killing a protected endangered species. Words fail me.

My father is 86. He was born in Highgate, London. He left in order to take up employment in South Wales before the war… and married my mother at (roughly) age 22. From then on for the past 62 years of so we have a record of who he is, where he’s been and what … More Long ago and far away

Anyone in Australia who has arrived at this page would find us very appreciative if they could visit their local blood donation centre as soon as possible. The Australian Red Cross has only 36 hours supply left and is urgently seeking donors. If you could turn up with a friend that would be even *more* … More Donate blood now!

It was 1966 and I was 18 and a week away from my birthday. On the radio I heard a report that one of the coal tips that littered the valleys of South Wales had collapsed without warning and sent a wave of slurry down onto the town below. As reports filtered through it became … More Aberfan remembered.

Well the Democrats have at last managed to lose their only real remaining political asset. Having dumped their leader in a treacherous back stabbing move some years ago the party’s fortunes have slumped slowly in the polls. The problem was simple. She was far and away the best thing that happened to the party since … More Who got the Stott?

AnArmidaly grandmother who was unable toget an appointment with a dentist for 6 weeks decided to pull her own tooth. She grabbed a pair ofpliers… drank a bottle of wine… and pulled. She said the pain was worse than the toothache but she went ahead anyway and once it was out the relief was worth … More Just one yank.

Monty Python star Terry Jones has developed bowel cancer. His surgeons hope they’ve found it in time to sort him out. We wish him the best for a speedy recovery.