I'm just this guy... y'know? :)
It’s ‘visitor’ time again. The youngest daughter has invited a little girl over… for the weekend! Her name is Dunya and we know next to nothing about her except she has to avoid eating anything ‘pig derived’ like pork, ham, bacon etc. On first meeting she seems to be very much like the youngest… so … More Visitor Time.
Uncomfortable reports are surfacing around the globe about ‘confirmed’ DNA testing that ‘shows conclusively’ little Madeline McCann missing now for over 4 months was given sleeping tablets in a sufficiently high dose to kill her! The DNA that produced these results is said to have been found in the boot of the hire car the … More Did McCann do it?
I’ve been spending a lot more time at the gym lately in case you’ve been wondering where all the posts have gone. I try to go there after dropping off the kids and stay for two hours. Yes it takes up a chunk of the day but I’m sure the end result will be a … More Li'l ol' time waster me. 🙂
The wife surprised me yesterday by relating some ‘fact The Phantom had passed on when he was here a few years back. According to the wife at least, he said in order to find ‘North’, you look at a crescent moon, draw a line from tip to tip and extend it to the horizon. Where … More The Crescent Moon
I’ve little sympathy for the Bali Nine directly, other than the usual human concern for them. They knew what they were doing when they tried to smuggle drugs out of Indonesia. They knew the penalties included a death sentence and were prepared to take the risk. They lost. On the other hand I have tremendous … More Who'd be parent to a drug mule?
Most people will never have heard of Clare, but she died today after losing her struggle against skin cancer. Clare used a tanning solarium around 20 times in her early 20’s but three years ago was diagnosed with a particularly malignant form of cancer. She was operated on, but the cancer returned and yesterday it … More Clare Oliver dies
Two hours in a gym at my age and weight isn’t easy and I’m not even certain it’s good for me 🙂 Still, I suppose I could feel a lot worse than I do right now.
As lots of you know, I have two more kids in the UK, a daughter and a son. While I often refer to my daughters here in Australia as ‘eldest’ or youngest, both of my kids in the UK are a lot older than them. Of course distance is a killer when you want to … More Charmed I'm sure.
Feels strange here today. The eldest daughter has gone to Canberra on a trip with her school for three days, the youngest is in school so no real change there, they’d be out of the house anyway. The *real* change is that the wife has gone back to work. True she was only home for … More Quiet here today.
So did the receiver/transmitter thingy work? Nope. The connection on the back of the Foxtel box is a D coupling… whereas on the transmitter… it’s a standard AV triple wire thingy. This means a visit to the shop to buy a converter. Grrr…. More later once I’ve bought one! 🙂
