Lightly roasted crap at $50 a cup… sounds like heaven eh?? On some Indonesian Islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi lives a cat like creature called the luwak. Apparantly this is some sort of civet that loves the taste of the ripest juciest fruit of the coffee plant. Sadly for the cat… maybe… it can’t … More Who's up for a cup of crap??

Well if you like fish with your chips I’d suggest you make the most of it while you can. Dire warnings are being made that fish stocks will have collapsed as soon as 2048 and commercial fishing as we know it will cease. Pollution habitat destruction, global warming… and insane wasteful fishing methods are all … More Want some fish with those chips?

The daughter got a B+ in her first flute exam. She’d have got an A was it not for playing a sharp instead of a flat for the first note of the test… ooops. Still… on the the next one. Maybe she’ll actually *practice* next time?? Maybe?

We’ll be off soon for the eldest of the little ones to take her first flute exam. She’ll fly through it of course… but she’s still nervous. 🙂 The youngest has ‘Charlie’ for the weekend. Charlie is a stuffed toy dog that the kids are given in turn. They take him with them wherever they … More Today's the day.

The wife took delivery of a Toyota Prius a couple of weeks ago, She has driven it to and from work through city traffic and down motorways – she loves it. I know Kyte uses one at work as well… and I think she’d like to own one as well… but you’ll have to ask … More Toyota Prius – car of today.

Not sure if I’d written about the dogs yet… I probably have but it’ll be so long ago we’ve all forgotten… I expect.Anyway. We have two dogs… one is an 11 year old female Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler the other is a male black Labrador called Stupid. We think he’s probably 4 years … More Going to the dogs.

Well now… here’s a thing. I went back to see the ‘diet doctor’ for the first time since I came down with pneumonia in June and took the wife along for moral support and so she could get a clearer picture of where he and I were coming from. I’ve been getting pretty flaky memory … More Hey tiddley AD…. HD

Odd how prescient that film was… It has a US Diplomat raising the son of satan… and here we are with Dubya running the world… strange really how life imitates art. It’s almost enough to make me a true believer. I’d thought this was a novel thought… but it looks like it’s nothing new… which … More The Omen

Kids were out tonight. The little one in a Halloween Party at Guides, the elder one walking the streets with a friend knocking on doors annoying people demanding candy… and getting it!! Me? I had a book… and a car… so did a bit of kerb-crawling for two hours . How I wasn’t arrested for … More Halloween again

Yup, as regular as clockwork, in late October in Sydney… well in fact lots of New South Wales… the whole area turns purple. It’s around this time of year that the Jacaranda blooms. It’s a native of South America but you’d never know it by the numbers of trees that suddenly explode into full flower … More It's 'that' time of year.