The Skater & her Dad?

Was considering making up yet another blog called something like ‘The Skater & her Dad’ and load stuff onto and into it that is related to figure skating… and *more* importantly the youngest daughters development as a skater (if any) and of course pictures of her!! 🙂 I’ll not be creating a link to it … More The Skater & her Dad?

Another day…

Another day dawns… or did several hours ago. The chaos yesterday is forgotten… except that everyone in NSW has to continually check whatever clocks they use in case they are computer controlled and think Daylight Saving has ended. Here it ends next week, but nobody told the computers! 🙂 Anyway, I digress as usual. Was … More Another day…

Let me entertain you.

Better yet… let someone else do it! We’ve been watching a few ‘old movies’ recently and enjoying them immensely. We watched “Mrs Henderson Presents” with Dame Judi Dench opening the now defunct Windmill Theatre… great stuff if a little sanitised. Also sanitised but still watchable was “To Sir with Love” with a youngish Sidney Poitier … More Let me entertain you.

Tia for two?

Hard as it is for me to reconcile the two images below, nonetheless they *are* both the same woman! I’ve never seen Naomie Harris anywhere other than in her role as Tia Dalma in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean” movies so when I came across these pictures I just had to add them to the … More Tia for two?

Oh Crap!

The old man sends me cuttings from the hard copy media about this and that. Mostly they are informational and useful, but occasionally they are also quite amusing. One such arrived a little while ago and I reprint it here… for reasons of which, I’m sure most of you will be aware. I can’t tell … More Oh Crap!

Almost 'D-Day'.

Not the ‘D-Day’ of old… but a more personal one. Tomorrow is 29th March and tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. is the start of the latest ‘Hills Biggest Loser’ Competition, and I’m in it! Don’t expect to win… but I do hope to get most of this weight off. Had I continued the diet and exercise … More Almost 'D-Day'.