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Each time the Olympic Games appears on the horizon people climb on the bandwagon to use the publicity of the games to highlight their own special causes. In the case of Tibet of course there is *real* reason to protest regardless of the even and one can’t complain about the efforts being made to bring … More Same old 'Olympic hoo-ha' all over again.
Yup, After it’s months of slow decay at the front of the house the old car has finally been removed. A couple of guys in a truck turned up to collect her and drag her onto the back of a wagon… strangely enough alongside a newer version of the same model. In return for the … More Gone, gonnie gone gone…*
Just found this ‘green moth’ hanging on the base of the screen door. As usual I’ve no idea what the thing’s name is but it’s quite attractive nonetheless. It has a very ‘verdigris’ look about it which was quite attractive. Probably this will represent the last of the wildlife for this year. We still see … More Last of the wildlife for 2008?
Despite several attempts to find someone to repair the Magna left behind by the daughter and son-in-law when they left I’ve finally had to admit defeat. I’ve organised for a wrecker to come tomorrow to collect the thing and crush it. It’ll be a wrench to see it finally go because apart from a small … More Sometimes you just have to admit defeat.
Continuing on this theme of the daughters birthday, we come to the film we saw which was ‘The Spider Wick Chronicles’. I’ve not read the books, and haven;t seen any trailers for the films… so knew nothing of the plot and therefore what we were letting ourselves in for. Once we’d seen the film and … More Spiderwick Chronicles – film 2008
Having had lunch at the The Black Stump we set off to the picture house. Since the place was next door to the restaurant it wasn’t hard to find and in we trooped. The cinema is one of those owned by the Reading Cinema Group. Whether this is pronounced ‘redding’ or ‘reading’ (as in reading … More Reading Cinemas – Rouse Hill (again).
The eldest daughter turned 12 yesterday and instead of the usual party we suggested it might be nice for just the four of us to go out for a change. We’d intended to go down to Canberra for the weekend but we’ll leave that for later in the year perhaps. Instead we let her choose … More Yesterday – not too shabby?
As mentioned the daughter told us she’d like to go out for a meal as part of her birthday outing and for lunch she wanted to visit a branch of one of what used to be an iconic Australian restaurant chain called ‘The Black Stump’ which we’ve seen in other places but never been to … More The Black Stump – Rouse Hill
My younger brother is living proof that insanity (literally) runs in our family. Despite reaching his half-century he is still amazingly fit regularly doing crazy things like triathlons, iron man competitions and the like. Yesterday he was supposed to be running a marathon but we’ve not heard from him yet so I’ve no news about … More Marathon task.
The sister sent me this clipping out of the Daily Mirror from the 8th March 2008. You have to wonder what goes on in the minds of some of these bureaucrats. Council orders pensioners to take down fence it put up A BARMY council has ordered an elderly couple to tear down a fence it … More More bureaucratic madness.
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