Ahhh… nice to be here in summer. All the traditional stuff happening… the flies, the scent of barbecues and Aeroguard permeating the air, the flies, the power cuts, the flies… so nice 🙂 Was quite windy today so maybe a power line came down or a branch dropped on one… power came back quickly tho… … More Summer is icumen in

Following up an initiative begun last year by her father Steve, eight year old Bindi Irwin has appeared in a TV commercial advertising a fundraising deal struck with the Sunday Telegraph. Next Sunday a green ‘wildlife warrior’ bracelet will be available at newsagents for $1 with the presentation of a token printed in that days … More Wildlife warriors on the move

A pharmaceutical company in Norway has warned ‘members of the modelling industry’ *not* to use one of its products. The story runs that ‘models’ have been reducing the look of puffy eyes by applying haemorrhoid cream. My take on this is that by issuing the warning… along with the reason… the manufactureres are making sure … More Money in piles…

So I managed to pretty much get to this evening without too many problems. Walked to the local shop to get dinner and only had water and a banana when I got back so was comfotable enough. Dinner lately has been an al fresco affair. I fiire up our natural gas barbie and chuck whatever … More Food glorious food.

Since the ‘sister site’ to this blog is called Australian Opinion you might be interested to know why I have two domains whose names sound so similar. Simple story really. For several years, the Australian Opinion domain belonged to a guy called Ron. I met Ron 10 years ago or so while we were both … More So why pick this domain?

Chris Tolkein has spent 30 years working on editing the last of JRR Tokeins great works “The Children of Hurin”. Sadly, for those who think the tale of the ring is the be all and end all of Tokein… there is no Gollum or Hobbit to be seen from one end to the other. I … More Tolkein Rules

Strange thing medicine. All the medical advances of the past 100,000+ years really don’t mean much. In a very real sense, all we’ve learned to do is delay the inevitable… to just stall the grim reaper for a little while. One other thing we’ve learned though is to improve the quality of what life we … More Medicine – what is it good for.. ugh?

I’ve managed so far today to live without much to eat. I’ve had two carrots, some custard and a glass or two of water. I also managed to stagger up to the shops in 30 degree heat in order to buy tonights dinner. Of course this has left me *very* hungry so I’m considering making … More Lard Lad revisited

Well it’s official… I’m a fat old git. I’ll be 59 in a few days and the diet has failed utterly. I’m even heavier now than I was when I started the diet last year. It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that I *am* actually addicted to something in the food I’m eating. Something … More Scoreline: Fat 1 ~ Lard Lad 0

Looks like the drought is coming on strong once again. We had good falls of rain a few weeks back which really brought the gardens on but it looks like they’re drying out and plants are falling over again. Not at my house tho! We are lucky enough to be on a recycled water system … More Water shortages – drought beckons again