The new Australian Ice Skating site is coming along slowly but surely. Basic information is up there… well information about why the site is there at least… and so is the forum! How many members? Well just *me* currently… but this is a specialist site so the numbers will take a long time to grow … More New site on its way.
Londoners vote again for their Lord Mayor tonight… and amazing as it may seem all these years after Maggie Thatchers demise, Red Ken Livingstone is up there amongst the front runners to win. To be fair, no matter how many mistakes he’s made and how many illegitimate children he’s fathered, the opposition is such a … More Turn again Livingstone… ?
Just heard that five people have been killed in an accident on Sydney Harbour, more are injured… not looking good. More later as news comes in! Edit: 8:57 a.m. Reports are coming in that the crash involved a small 22 foot ‘cruiser’ that had been reported missing earlier by the owners. It was carrying 14 … More Accident on Sydney Harbour.
Raise a dollar for the homeless!! Click on the Real Estate.Com link to be taken to a competition page. For each click they get, they donate $1 to the homeless. Can’t see where it sends you must reside in Australia to click either so all of you out in the rest of the world can … More Click for a dollar!!
The soap opera surrounding this poor woman has reopened with the first day in court of her sister (Mercedes Corby) who is claiming she was defamed by a program aired by the ‘Seven Network’ here in Australia. The network aired a series of programmes in which a ‘friend’ called Jody did a ‘tell all expose’ … More Poor Schapelle Corby.
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A couple of guys in a truck turned up to collect her and drag her onto the back of a wagon… strangely enough alongside a newer version of the same model.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
