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Outdoor wildlife is a little more diverse than indoor… thankfully. We still get the usual cockroaches, large and small hiding in the leaf litter but as they don’t do anything except annoy (and occasionally try to come indoors) I tend to leave them be. Likewise the flies are pretty much left to their own devices … More Australian Outdoor Wildlife
Life goes on… and as it does, piles of waste and rubbish are generated. As is the way of the world, the local council responded by reducing the size of the waste bin for general rubbish from 240 litres to 140 litres… I assume this was intended to make us all recycle more of our … More Rubbish Collection: Baulkham Hills
In January 9th I wrote to Samsung (via their web site form system) about the SGH-A501 model we’d bought for the eldest daughter two weeks before Xmas 2006 and which failed over Xmas 2007. They responded a few days ago suggesting I ring their technical support for assistance which I did. They politely said hard … More More on the failed Samsung SGH-A501
I was sitting at the train station this morning, as I do every morning what I take the wife to catch her train, watching would-be passengers coming and going. This morning for some reason what struck me was the huge diversity between one human body shape and another. It was just an idle thought really … More Human beings – human doings
If you hear sounds of cheering from the house later this week you’ll know what’s happened… the kids have finally gone back to school! The youngest will be heading back into Year Three of Junior school and is looking forward with some trepidation to the event wondering who her new teacher will be. She’s expressed … More Kids off back to school this week… yaaay!!
The picture is of two year Noah Cottie who yesterday was bitten by the dog in the background, a 50kg mastiff-staffordshire cross. What’s ‘odd’ is that Noah’s mother said the bites were Noah’s fault for pulling the dogs ears and that she wasn’t going to get rid of the dog. When questioned she said she’d … More Dog bites baby – mother supports dog.
In what is really a disgraceful decision the ICC has bowed to pressure from the almighty dollar and backed down over their decision to ban Harbhajan Singh for three test matches over his calling Andrew Symonds a monkey. Ok there wasn’t enough evidence to ‘convict’ him… there never really was. All we had was the … More India wins – cricket loses.
Hmmm…. not doing so well here I’m afraid. Christmas really hacked my resolve and I allowed myself far too much leeway in what I ate. Apart from having put on nearly 10 kilos I’m finding it hard to regain the resolve I had before the diet ended and get the weight moving in a downward … More The diet.
In some ways we consider our little patch of heaven to be virtually a wildlife preserve. Everyone else I know sprays chemical around their property with wild abandon. The rule seems to be if it moves… kill it. Ok maybe that is a little extreme but it sort of sums up the general attitude, even … More Australian Indoor Wildlife
I thought maybe a list of stuff I intend (or intended) to cover might help both of us. Let’s see… Wildlife in the garden The diet. India and the cricket debacle. Kid attacked by dog – mother backs dog. Eldest daughter off to high school. One species but what diversity. The state of the house. … More Some topics…
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